Run Your Small Business With Online Forms — Formstack May 19, 2016 Webinar Questions and Answers

Introduction and overview

Alex sirota formstack webinar
How to Run Your Small Business With Online Forms
webinar recording

Robin Macrae
LinkedIn, Twitter, Zoom

On May 19, 2016, Alex Sirota presented an in-depth case study of a NewPath Consulting customer that has employed a sophisticated Formstack form-based application to generate substantial revenue and sustain the business. In doing so, he highlighted the Formstack features that enable you to manage business data and processes and demonstrated that one of the largest benefits of online forms:  helping you manage your business processes online and transform your business into a digital workplace.
Alex Sirota image.
The event was a huge success with over 450 registrations, and a recording of the webinar is available online.

At the end of the webinar, there were over 20 questions in the Q&A, and not all of them could be adequately covered. As promised, this blog post will recap the questions and answers including a more detailed walk-through of the more complex questions.

The Q&As are organized in terms of common themes:

  1. Basic functionality
  2. Calculating fields
  3. Prepopulated (prefilled) fields
  4. Integrations | general
  5. Integrations | Google
  6. Security and access
  7. Subscription plans and features

Alex Sirota answered the questions in the webinar and in emails to those submitting them. Robin Macrae extracted the content, edited it for clarity and readability, organized it into categories and rewrote and supplemented the content where appropriate. The text is ~3,000 words.

Do you need help with a Formstack form or application? As Formstack consultants, we have become very experienced with the ways Formstack can enhance and drive your sales, marketing and operational efforts. Book a time for a no-charge half-hour consultation with a Formstack guru, Alex Sirota.

About the author

Alex is a pioneer in using the cloud to meet the needs of small and medium sized business (SMBs) and membership-based organizations. He has a BSc in computer science from the University of Michigan and has worked as a product manager at two Internet startups. Alex is a father of 2 and plays the trumpet for fun. He is the founder and the president of the University of Michigan Alumni Club of Toronto.