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João Romão Março 13,2015

How to add a top bar to my website? Introducing GetSocial’sWelcome Bar

Exciting news! By now, if you’re a GetSocial user or reader you know that our vision is to build a social mediaApp Store for all of your needs, from awareness to conversion. We’ve been working hard to quickly deploy newapps that can help you achieve your goals faster and easier. Last week we launched the Big Counter so you canget more shares from your visitors.

Our vision is to build an App Store for all of your #socialmedia needs, from awareness to conversion.

Today I’d like to introduce you to GetSocial’s Welcome Bar. But first, some context. We interact a lot with ourcustomers and receive around 30-50 emails each and every day from you. Feature requests, feedback, and ideasaccount for almost 80% of them while the rest is support. This not only allows us to get immense quantity (andquality) of feedback but it also allows us to get to know our customers’ websites and this means understandingwhich tools you use and how you use them.

One pattern we started seeing was the use of welcome bars in many of those websites. And there wasn’t aspecific provider which had the majority of usage share. People just had tons of welcome bars provided bydifferent providers, some free and some paid. With that (and our goal/vision) in mind, we decided we should stepin and help our customers. So we quickly built the feature and added it to our app store and, of course, there’s nocode required.

So, I’m proud to introduce our new feature: the Welcome Bar. You’ll find this feature in our app store under thefollowing card:

Getting started is very easy and the results, inmy biased opinion, are great. If you’re readingthis on GetSocial’s blog you’ll find our ownwelcome bar installed at the top of the page.Neat, right?

In our app store, click on ‘Configure App’ andyou’ll find the Welcome Bar builder. It’s firstsection is all about look & feel. You have a livepreview of the changes you’re making. Chooseamong your favorite color and decide on thesize. Here on the blog we’re using the largeoption.

The second section is all about personalization. Here’s where you define the copyright of your welcome bar. Thefirst area relates to the description, which is the text to be displayed on the top bar. The button label is the call toaction you want to provide. This can be a link to another blog post, another website or any other url you decide.After this, you’ll just need to define the target URL, which is the address your visitors will be redirected to oncethey click the button. We also provide an option for you to allow your visitors to hide the welcome bar.

We hope that this feature helps you get more traffic and more conversions. We’ve already seen the benefits of itby using it here on our blog.

Please feel free to contact us with your feedback and feature requests. The feedback you’ve been giving us so farhas been incredible and I’d love for you to keep that up! Our vision is to build an app store for all your socialneeds and we’re counting on you to help us achieve that.