5 Unique List Building Tips
Studies reveal that almost 90% of the visitors to any squeeze page are merely curious onlookers. They neither have any interest in your subscription nor do they have any intention to buy your products. They are basically casual browsers, who have reached your site searching for something else. No matter what the studies say, I believe that every visitor to a squeeze page is a potential subscriber. You just need to work a little harder to convert these bystanders into your patrons.
Keep in mind that the first impression is the last impression. Hence, spare no effort to make your squeeze page mesmerizing, interesting and entertaining. The excellence of your squeeze page should compel the visitor to stop, navigate and subscribe before leaving. Here are 5 invaluable methods to make your squeeze page out of the ordinary. Use anyone of them to make sure that your list grows speedily and consistently.
Survey
A survey is principally a comprehensive view about some topic of interest. By adding a survey, you not only spice up your squeeze page, but you also get a chance to read the mindset of the people visiting your site. Make sure that the topic of your survey is closely related to your newsletter. Try to make it controversial to generate interest. Last, but not the least, ask your readers to email you their opinions.
Polls
Poll is a good way to investigate the behavior of the buyer. Moreover, it helps to break the ice and start a conversation. Create an interesting poll related to your business, and add it on your squeeze page. At a later date, you can even transform the poll results into an article for your newsletter.
Questionnaire
Questionnaire is an ideal way to awaken the visitor’s hidden desires. Include questions that stimulate the reader to think about the things missing in his life. Furthermore, your questionnaire, on the one hand, should stir the soul of the reader and, on the other hand, should encourage him to share his innermost thoughts and problems with you. When a person opens up, it becomes easily to communicate with him, and a questionnaire can help you in this direction.
E-Course
There are so many things that people, in general, plan to do to make their lives better. Sometimes shortage of time, and at other times paucity of funds prevents them from fulfilling their dreams. By including some interesting e-courses, you can give such enthusiasts an opportunity to fulfill their desires. Out of the numerous e-courses available on the Internet, select only those that are related to your newsletter.
For instance, if your newsletter is about health care, then a weight-loss e-course would be much more relevant than a language e-course. In order to persuade your prospects to sign-up, give out the e-course either at a highly subsidized price or absolutely free of cost.
How-to-Guides
People are always in search for information that has the power to weed-out all the problems from their lives. By including a good how-to-guide in your squeeze page, you can attract the casual onlooker’s attention instantly, and even convince him to join your opt-in list. Remember, to ensure that your how-to-guide revolves around the topic of your newsletter.
til next time…
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Jeff
Now that’s some great information all of us could take to heart and use to better communicate with our visitors. Thanks so much for taking the time and making the effort to keep us so well informed. I’m sure going to give your ideas a go on my site at mcrsk.com
Take Care
Willis
Hi Jeff,
How’s things with you, sorry it’s been a while since my last visit.
Was just reading your last post and that sounds like a great tool. I have been watching a load of videos on ppc recently and it does take up a load of time.
Thanks for thr tip, off to check it out!
Speak soon
Mark
I usually find offering a free report on my squeeze pages works the best
Hi Jeff,
A couple of comments I can add (from my own painful experience) in the early days:
1) Host landing page images on Amazon S3. Your images will load so much faster when they’re hosted on Amazon which makes the page load faster and gives you more opportunity to make the first impression within the 5 seconds you’ve got.
2) The OFFER is the most important part of a landing page. The highest converting landing page in IM history is commonly cited as a landing page that solved a dating problem for men. The reason it converted so well is because the traffic was highly qualified (slightly desperate men) in a situation where the offer stirred the pain and presented a solution when they most need it.
Offer something more than just an eBook. And don’t offer MRR or PLR, especially in the IN niche. Marketers have seen them all before and you’re only building someone else’s business by magnifying their brand. People know who originally made the eBook and who just inherited and passed it on second hand. Use something like software or a full video course to entice the user. I’m currently working on this myself at the moment. I think you should offer something that users would happily pay for.
Thanks,
Wayne
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Thanks for the comment Wayne.
I know a lot of people store their images on Amazon S3 but I never understood how that’s supposed to make your page load faster. I may be wrong about this but you’re just storing your images on another server instead of your own. How does that make your page load faster. Now logically speaking you’d think that it would take longer to load because now the browser has to go out and retrieve information from two servers instead of one.
Now this of course is different for everyone depending on who your hosting company is and what your bandwidth limits are. I always thought that most people that use Amazon S3 do so because of all the videos they have and they use way more storage space than images. Also if you have a high traffic site where people are constantly watching your videos then I absolutely agree that Amazon is the way to go because you will quickly exceed your bandwidth limits of your hosting company. But for just images, I don’t agree.
Later,
Jeff Sargent