Paste one embed on your website and every enquiry lands in an inbox that notifies your email and your phone - then becomes a client and a shoot in two taps. Built for video businesses, not generic contact forms.
Name, email, message. That's the whole required list. Every extra mandatory field costs you real enquiries - the couple browsing at 11pm will not fight a long form to give you money.
A budget dropdown with ranges and a 'not sure yet' option tells you what you need without scaring anyone off. People are cagey about budget before they trust you - let them be.
A free date field beats a strict date picker: half your enquiries are 'late September, flexible'. Capture intent, not precision - precision comes on the call.
The number one factor in converting enquiries is response time. Get the enquiry to your email and your phone the second it lands, and make replying one tap - not a login, a dashboard and a search.
If you run more than one brand or site, every enquiry should carry its source. It tells you which marketing works, and it lets you answer in the right voice.
A public form will attract bots within days. Honeypots, timing checks and rate limits stop nearly all of it without a CAPTCHA - because every CAPTCHA solved is a real enquirer annoyed.
Create a form per brand in Cinella, choose its fields with a live preview, add your logo and a line of welcome, and paste the embed into any site builder. Enquiries arrive tagged with their source, ring your phone, and reach your email with reply-to going straight back to the enquirer. One tap converts a winner into a client with the whole enquiry saved to their notes - one more builds the shoot with their date and shoot type already filled in. Spam never reaches you: honeypot, timing checks and rate limiting run invisibly.
As little as possible: name, email and a message are the only fields worth making required. Shoot date, shoot type and budget are useful but should stay optional - every extra required field loses you real enquiries, and people are cagey about budget until they trust you.
Ask, but never require it. A budget range dropdown with a 'not sure yet' option gets you honest answers from the people who know, without scaring off the ones who don't. A required budget field mostly filters out good clients who simply haven't priced video before.
Create a form in Cinella, copy its embed code, and paste it into any page on your site - Wordpress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow or hand-built. It's a lightweight responsive embed that sizes itself, and you can change its fields, heading and logo later without touching your site again.
Yes - each form is tied to a source, so if you run a wedding brand and a commercial brand, each site gets its own form and every enquiry arrives tagged with where it came from. Each form can ask different questions too.
It lands in your Cinella inbox with a notification to your email and phone, and a reply to that email goes straight back to the enquirer. From the inbox it's one tap to make them a client and one more to build the shoot - the details they gave carry through.
A hidden honeypot field, a timing check (bots submit faster than humans can read) and rate limiting. Real visitors never see any of it - no traffic lights, no fire hydrants - and junk gets silently dropped before it reaches you.
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