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Are You Making This Huge Mistake When It Comes to List Building?
If you haven't heard the saying "the money is in the list" you are either not trying to make money online, or you just started today. Building a list is the easiest way to increase your online income, and most beginners fail to start a list. If they do start building a list they just pop the opt in box in the sidebar of a blog and that's a huge mistake.
Only having your opt in box in your sidebar is a huge mistake because there is just too much going on and too many choices a reader can make once they hit your site. They can read articles, click affiliate links, or even click the back button. Too many options leads to confusion and a confused mind never does what you want it to do. If you are trying to build a list you don't want confusion you want the only option to be to sign up to your list.
What is an opt in page?
An opt in page, which is also known as a squeeze page, is a simple web page that has one, and only one, mission. The only thing you want people to do when they land on the page is to sign up to your autoresponder. An opt in page is a short page, generally short enough that people dont have to scroll. It provides a little bit of information about what you will offer to people if they join your list, and then has space for them to enter their name and email address.
If you create an opt in page you will increase your opt in rate in a huge way. We mentioned how many options there are on a regular page and a person with too many choices generally makes no choice at all. Your opt in page only gives them one choice, sign up or click the back button. If you have an interesting incentive for them to sign up they will.
What do I need on my opt in page?
As we said, the opt in page is a very simple webpage. There are only a few elements needed to create an opt in page that converts. The first of which is your free gift or incentive. This is a freebie you offer to people in exchange for their name and email address. This freebie can be a free report, a newsletter, or even a 5 or 7 day ecourse. Whatever you choose, as long as it is directly relevant to what people are looking for it will work. You can create this report yourself or even have one written by a freelancer. You can also use a plr report, or even a brandable report from an affiliate program. It doesn't have to be complicated, you just need to have one.
The second element on your squeeze page is your headline. This is where you grab their attention and make them want to keep reading. This is what lets them know if you what you have is a match to what they are looking for. Here's an example of one of my well converting squeeze page headlines. "Learn from a Giant Squid How to Make Squidoo work for You" Learn step by step how to choose a topic, find great products to promote, set up a new squidoo lens and start making money!..." This is for a 10 day ecourse on how to use squidoo to make money. This site converts quite well because people come looking for how to do squidoo and that's just what this page offers.
A quick list of benefits people will receive from opting in, what they will learn, how it will help them to know the information provided. You can do this in a bullet point list, which makes them very clear and accessible. Make sure you are talking about benefits, from the reader's perspective, how is your information going to help them?
The last thing you need is an opt in box. This is created by your autoresponder service. Add a title and mention your free report or ecourse within the opt in box, then have space for them to fill in their name and email address. Once you've done that the autoresponder will create the code for you opt in box, and all you have to do is copy and paste it into your opt in page.
Yes, an opt in page is just one simple page, with a few elements, but it is also a very powerful tool. If you want to increase the conversion rate from readers to subscribers an opt in page is a must have tool.
About the Author As you can see there are a lot of little pieces involved with internet marketing, if you're a beginner and need the basic nuts and bolts you can get more free internet marketing strategy tutorials like this one from Learnitstepbystep.com
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