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If you don't mind the Google branding that shows up, and all you want to do is collect emails and URLs, you can embed a Google Form in your document and have it collect the info for you. After you create the form in Google Docs, go to the Form menu and choose "Embed form in a webpage". Copy the link into your landing page, and you're done.

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I had thought about that...but I DEFINITELY hate that Google branding.

I tried Campaign Monitor though, like matthewphiong suggested and it seems to be working out really nicely.

We'll see how things go.

Agreed on the branding. When I saw your post I knew it had been done before but didn't know how to do it, so I threw the link into a bare HTML page to see what it would look like.

What about doing your own form and data store, via Heroku or something similar?

Good luck with your launch!

I had thought about all of that pedoh...but to be quite honest, I have so many other stuff on my head - just trying to finish up everything for the launch - that I really wanted to at least get that onto a service that does it full-time.

I have dealt with forms before, and they can be a real PAIN. I also don't want to have to deal with any issues of mishandling data because it wasn't done properly, etc.

So it looks like Campaign Monitor might be the way to go.

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