Navigating Paths of Growth and Wisdom: A Year of A Side of Bacon
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You’ve gone through all the trouble and effort of cultivating a killer mailing list. You’ve spent hours (okay, maybe even days!) laboring over the perfect subject line and honing the message so it’ll resonate with even the most diehard TLDNR eyeballs.
And the link is going to send them to your website’s homepage? At the risk of casting aspersions on your decision-making process, haven’t you heard? Landing pages should be the heart and soul of your inbound lead generating effort. Here’s why they work.
To understand the effectiveness of landing pages, it’s important to agree on what one is. So, let’s start with this: A landing page is a single web page where you will capture information about visitors with a lead-capture form.
Landing pages that work do so because they speak only to a specific audience. Often, a landing page is created for a single email campaign or online ad. The offer is specific and refers to the message which brought the visitor to your website in the first place.
Here’s the most important thing to know about landing pages. They’re one-trick ponies. Appropriately named, too. When you land on one, you pretty much can do only one thing. You learn about a specific offer that you can take advantage of in exchange for your contact information.
There are no options to navigate to other areas of the website. There are no links to read about further information. There is nothing to distract the visitor from doing what you brought them to your website to do. Declare their interest by providing you with information to convert them into a customer.
In some respects, a landing page flies in the face of what we’ve come to expect from the online experience. We go to a website and wander as far and wide as we wish. Sure, a certain experience might have been cultivated for us—but we can bop over to the “About Us” page or check out some testimonials whenever we like. Not so with a landing page. It puts the blinders on us. If it’s successful, there’s only one outcome. We provide our contact information and turn ourselves into leads.
As such, these single-function sales machines offer the following benefits:
Landing pages can be deceptive. There’s not much to them, and yet they’re often a marketer’s most powerful conversion tool. Most landing pages have just these elements:
More landing pages = more opportunities to convert visitors into leads. It’s a simple equation, and it’s virtually impossible to overdo it. Ultimately, a people may come to your website hungry to devour the breadth and depth of its content. They don’t need that distraction yet if they’re not a customer.
What they need first is a landing page. So put the blinders on and help them help you sell to them.
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