How To Set Up Your First Squeeze Page
Tagged Under : List Building, squeeze page
If you are starting an online business, or already have one running, it's very important that you are building a list of prospects that are interested in what you have to offer. This is the biggest asset that any online business can have…PERIOD.
To build a list of prospects in your niche there is one very important thing you need to have up on the net, and that's your squeeze page! The main purpose of your squeeze page is to give away a valuable product for free in exchange for your visitors email address. That's it! Don't overcomplicate it.
The details of how your squeeze page looks is not important. What IS important is that you get it up and running fast, and that it's an extremely simple page. All you should have on it is a headline, a few bullet points, and an opt-in form. You could throw in an image or two as well.
Find a template that you can use in wordpress (that's what I use) or search Google for one that is HTML based. Just make sure it is very simple and there is no sidebar, header, or other distractions of any kind.
Now get out your HTML editor or login to your wordpress site and create the page. Use a nice big red headline that grabs attention and shows a big benefit of your free gift. Make a couple bullet points that explain the biggest benefits that your gift will teach the visitor. Then paste your optin box code at the end of the page.
The last thing you need to do is upload it to your site or just hit publish if you're using wordpress. Once it's live be sure to test it by signing up, make sure everything works, and then start driving traffic to it!
It may not convert at 50% when you first put it up, but as long as you split test it you'll be able to slowly improve on it to convert more and more visitors into subscribers. You should also read through "13 Profit-Killing Squeeze Page Blunders" from front to back to learn some of the most common mistakes many marketers make, and how to fix them for max conversion.
I know this was a quick and dirty explanation of how to set up a squeeze page, but the point is to keep it simple and just get it up on the net. The sooner you start driving traffic to it the sooner your list will start to grow. If you don't have a squeeze page done yet, make that the very next thing you do today, you'll be glad you did.
Please let me know what you think and what else you may need help with in the comments below.
Talk soon,
Tyson Faulkner
