I watched a video of Frank Kern that someone posted up here. I took the advice and moved my sign-up form above the fold. My sign-ups went from 2 or 3 a day to around 8 or 9 a day. Huge difference! Plus, I noticed I had a mispelling...ugh. How amateur! Anyways, sometimes a few tweaks can make all the difference in the world. Now I can't wait till I can afford some real split-testing software...
Try putting a yellow outline around it (like I do), or some other flare to bring attention to it. It works great, I get about 10 optins a day... and... WHY do you not capture names!?!? the {!firstname} command is like... vital.
I know, you busted me out on this before and I have just been busy enough I haven't done it. I will fix it...I promise man!
Just put the opt in in a table and you can just change the table's background. That's like 2 clicks in dreamweaver. The code that's on my squeeze is