Fieldstack runs a simple giveaway at its booth, "Enter your work email to win a pair of noise-cancelling headphones." No company name field, no job title dropdown, no phone number. Just an email address, because every extra field costs entries.
The setup
- 1The entry form asks for one thing: a work email address. Fewer fields means more entries, and the email domain alone is enough to work with.
- 2The moment an entry comes in, Tragami checks the domain after the @ against a scoring list: known enterprise domains (microsoft.com, salesforce.com, and similar recognizable companies) score highest, business domains that aren't free email providers score medium, and personal domains (gmail.com, yahoo.com, icloud.com) score lowest.
- 3Every entry lands in a live queue sorted by score, so the Fieldstack team can see at a glance which signups are worth a same-day call.
- 4A signup from someone@microsoft.com jumps straight to the top of that queue. A signup from someone@gmail.com still gets followed up on, just not before the higher-priority names.
- 5No job title, no phone number, no extra friction, the domain alone is doing the qualification work that a five-field form used to do worse.
Why this beats a longer form
A longer form filters out casual entrants before they ever sign up, which also filters out real prospects who just don't want to fill out five fields at a trade show booth. One email field maximizes entries. Domain-based scoring recovers the qualification a longer form was trying to buy in the first place.