FLG Business Technology

Some of our clients are Lead Generation businesses, and many of these companies do business with each other.  Before today, email addresses were unique to the entire system, rather than being unique to an individual business.

From now on, the same email address can be used to identify a user or partner within multiple companies using FLG 360.  So the introducer partner ‘email@domain.com’ can be a lead introducer to 1 or many lead generation companies using FLG 360.

Also in today’s update, improvements to the search leads feature that makes the user experience smoother when successively viewing a lead then returning to the search leads list.

FLG 360 now supports receiving leads by SMS.  Your prospects can now text <Keyword> <Name> to our shortcode number 6xxxxx and a lead will be registered with the mobile number that the message was sent from.  Just choose a suitable keyword and we’ll link it to your lead group.

You can also set an action so that a text message is sent in return to confirm the lead reference number and give the prospect your contact name and phone number for immediate follow up.

Users will know that there’s 3 ways to get leads from a Web form into FLG 360:

1. HTTP Post – set the HTML form action to your FLG 360 domain and set form fields to redirect your user depending on whether the form is correct or missing items.
2. XML Post – use a scripting language such as PHP/ASP to post XML data to FLG 360.
3. iFrame – copy and paste a small piece of code and a form magically appears on your site. This is what we’ve been improving!

Although the iFrame method has always been ridiculously easy, it’s never been very customisable. As a result many opt for the HTTP Post method when the iFrame would be perfect if only the look of the form could fit in better with the look of the page.

Well, now it can! The CSS layout of the form has been simplified (there’s only 7 selectors in the CSS), and you can now upload a customised stylesheet into your file library for referencing by the iFrame.

You can upload multiple customised stylesheets too, so each of your iFrame forms can look completely different, this is great for if you want to modify iFrames to go on your introducer’s sites or across several of your own sites.

This is our new blog!  Launched today along with a new product specific site for 360 (http://www.flg360.co.uk).

I’ll be posting regular updates here particularly about developments with FLG 360, and also about more general business software subjects now and again.