As with any process that involves more than an occasional glance, there
is a very specific squeeze page system that, once understood, can create
multiple streams of income for you. If your niche or focus changes, this system
can be easily manipulated to capitalize on changes in the Internet marketing
arena.
To start with, all your traffic, regardless of how you get it, needs to
be sent to your squeeze page. Once your customers get there they will have
whatever options you provide for their selection. This is where you wrap your
focus around your customers and move them to where you want them to be.
Your only
job for your squeeze page is still to get the email
addresses from your visitors, with no distractions, like links to anything
else, not even your affiliate links. If there is an opportunity to click off
your squeeze page and follow other interesting links, your customer is gone and
you have nothing to show for their visit to your page.
So no
links except the opt-in form. Don't try to sell any of your other products from
your squeeze page – just get the opt-in.
Some
marketers believe that you need some graphics on your squeeze page or your
smiling picture of you sitting at you computer. Others think you should
restrict your squeeze page to mostly text, your benefits and call to action.
Why not
try both? (on separate pages – called a 'split test') If you use Aweber they
have the facility to automatically display two different pages automatically so
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Quite a
few squeeze pages have golden seals with a single word inside, like
"Hurry!" or "Guaranteed!" Those words are designed to create
a sense of urgency in your visitors. Almost all will have an attractive,
colorful arrow or two to send your eye right to the opt-in box.
It is a
commonly accepted practice to have at least one headline on a squeeze page,
along with some sub-headlines or bullet points that can be read, 'above the
fold', or without requiring the reader to scroll down to finish. Some marketers
swear by using a 100-word limit on the
squeeze page text, with the opt-in box being visible. The final text on the
page should be below the opt-in box and assure your visitors that you will not
share their information.
Next asked question is probably "How Do I Get Them To Sign Up?"
The answer to that is to offer your visitors something of value, a video
showing them how to do something, a high quality eBook relating to their niche
or a stash of fresh information that they need, in exchange for their email
address.
These
techniques are used both offline and online and have been a very successful
marketing staple for many years. When companies like major food corporations
run contests for the best recipe or some business is launching a new product
and runs a naming contest, for example, your email address will be required to
enter or to see if you are a winner.
Some,
like music or book clubs, will give you a load of free books or CDs and will
require your email address when you register for the membership. If you've ever
signed up online to get free samples of something, cereal, dog food, beauty
products, you have been exposed to a squeeze page.
Though this discussion has been focused on
the squeeze page as a single page, it really is a complete system with several
components that are related.
Each
component within that system stands alone, but is critically focused on making
you money.
Remembering that although every component in your squeeze page system is
designed to grab that email address, your system could include an OTO, ("One-Time Offer.")
If you've bought anything from an Internet marketer, you probably were
shown an OTO while waiting to receive a download link or confirmation.
So the process goes like this – you sign up for the free eBook or video,
then you're taken to a thank you page which also has a One Time Offer –
something that you won't see again and is presented as a great deal.
Some marketers suggest it's also an early way of telling your new
subscriber that you're going to try to sell to them from time to time, and they
should get used to it !
This page should have a separate offer that your new subscriber will see
only once and be priced so reasonably they will have a difficult time refusing
to buy it. Most marketers provide several free bonuses to go along with the
OTO. The only purpose for this page in your system is to add extra income to
your original offer and it has proven to very successful.
Once you get the subscription or sale, your Squeeze page system should
re-route them to a thank you page, giving you an opportunity for an up sell.
Since they have already followed your call to action by either subscribing or
buying your product, you can add a few related graphics advertising your
affiliate products or with links to your own products. Some include another OTO
on this page, but that is your decision.
Let's take a look at some of the physical characteristics of successful
squeeze pages, along with several useful guidelines that will keep you from
making costly mistakes. Your purpose is to create a squeeze page that converts
a high number of visitors into subscribers or buyers.
Your
#1 Concern: You have to make sure there
is a real market for your
products or services in your target niche. That means you have to identify what
your market wants to know and is willing to pay to get it. Selling products or
services that no one wants is a grand waste of time and money.
You have to know WHO will buy your products.
- What the members of your niche
want
- How you will reach them with your
offers (market to them)
- If they will buy what you offer
or even like what that is
- The size of the membership
- What marketing methods will get a
response
- How much they will pay for your
products
You can
find out WHAT your market wants and is looking for with any of
several keyword search engines or tools. A keyword is the term being entered in
the search engines to help your potential customers find the sites they want to
find. A Google search for keyword tools will point you toward quite a few. A
simple search on "keyword search" (no quotes) turned up pages and
pages of hits.
Write
down the keywords that you think your customers might be using to find sites or
products like yours and enter them in the keyword tool. Use several of these
suggestion tools and keep track of your choices, which should be based on
relevancy to your niche. If you are running a sports site and focusing on golf,
"putting" or "improving your swing" might be good keywords,
while ""making more free throws" or "after the game
snacks" will do absolutely nothing to increase your traffic.
While
that process will tell you what people are looking for, it only gives you your first
insight about your market. Now you have to determine what the
people in your specific niche want and if they will pay for it.
It is
much easier to find your best market if you narrow down your target to the
segment of your niche that needs the most help or could use the most
information. For example, trying to market to people who like to bake, using
the keyword "recipes" will return well over 160,000,000 potential
customers, including those looking for chili recipes or East Indian recipes.
Instead,
using the keywords "peanut butter cookies" drops that 160,000,000 to
552,000, a more tightly focused audience. This is where you think outside the
box to narrow down an even more tightly focused group for your market.
"Cookie
failures" has a followingof 585,000 searchers looking for ways to avoid
cookie failures. There's your market!
People who have trouble making good cookies have a need for solutions and
no-fail recipes. Batches of tasty cookies are universally used for several reasons,
family treats, school lunch boxes, house parties, brand new neighbors moving in
next door and holiday gift boxes, to name a few. There's a few other niche
markets in that lists.
Don't
sell the cookies! Sell the solutions and sell no-fail, easy recipes.
After
that, you can sell an eBook titled, "Melt In Your Mouth Cookies" or
"Cookies To Die For." Those examples should give you a good look at
the marketing technique usually referred to as "The Art Of Selling
Shovels."
If you
belong to forums based on your specific niche, read the posts when members
describe a problem they are having and read the solutions provided by other
members. Ask questions to get ideas about what the niche members need to know.
Provide personal experience with problems you've had and the solution, if you
have one. Forums, if used correctly, are goldmines for ideas.
Regardless of where you are in
developing your specific squeeze page system, you have to develop a razor-sharp
focus and learn to think like a shark. There's untouched markets all around
you. Learn to look for them and recognize them when you see them. This will
require effort, strong discipline, planning and confidence in your own
instincts.
In short – it takes practice, but
after a while you'll see a markets everywhere!
Once you've identified your target market and what drives them to look for information, your next task is
physically designing your squeeze page.
The
first thing any visitor to your page sees is your headline. A blah, boring
headline stirs nothing with your customer and gets the same response, nothing.
A bold, strongly stated headline starts the desire in the customer to follow
your call to action.
Make
your headline a provocative question or statement that arouses curiosity
and makes your viewer want to read on.
Most marketers use a bright red font and at least an 18-point font. Your
headline has to stand out in two ways, your message and your color/font choice.
If it doesn't grab both their mind and their eyeballs, they will click off your
page.
One way to get their immediate attention is to use proven attention attracting
words, like "Secret," "Free," or "Never Before
Seen..." or "New."
Questions
are another good way to attract attention and make the viewer read on down your
page. You want to use questions that make
reader think a little or one that surprises them.
Which headline would make you continue reading?
"Do Ants Annoy You?
or
"Do You Know What's Living In Your Walls?"
Giveaways are standard practice in exchange for email
addresses on most squeeze pages. That gift can be an eBook, piece of useful
software, short report on a topic of interest or membership in a forum.
It should also be
related to your niche to have any real value. Don't make the mistake of just
listing a rehashed piece of PLR
and expect subscribers to fall over themselves to get it. There has to be real
value in your free bonus for signing up and your subscriber has to know that
value or they will not buy it. Make the benefits of owning your bonus visible.
It is important to remember that you
don't want to give away the ranch on your squeeze page. Provide enough
information to keep them interested and curious. Too much information will make
your product or bonus useless. Walk a tight balance here...create curiosity and
tell them where to get the rest of the information on your sales page.
Some marketers think long squeeze
pages are the best format to use to get sign ups. Others believe they should be
short and to the point, with no distractions other than your call to action.
Apparently the short version is the most popular and has forced the creation of
hundreds of graphic, Web 2.0 versions for sale all over the Internet.
The benefit of a short squeeze page, besides maintaining reader interest, is that all of it can be centered
"above the fold" or on the browser page without requiring scrolling
down.
Other techniques used create a sense
of urgency when your message tells your visitors that your offer might
be taken offline at any time and you cannot guarantee how long it will be
available.
Limited time offers fall into this
category and can generate a lot of signups if your call to action is powerful
enough.
Free bonuses normally increase
signups if they are valuable enough to draw subscriptions or sales on their own
merits. The trend with free bonuses has changed some and page after page of
free bonuses, with sometimes as many as 50 bonuses for a purchase. That word, FREE, is
very seductive and can be a powerful tool in your squeeze page system.
Don't forget that your goal is to
drive a continuous stream of targeted traffic to your squeeze page and to
convert a large number of that traffic to subscribers or paying customers.
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