Discover a proven copywriting and design formula that can boost your landing page conversion rates, orders, and sales 50% ... 100% ... even 200% more - in just a few weeks -- and at virtually no extra cost.
It's the surest way to turn even a mediocre micro-site into an online "money machine" - and bring in thousands of extra dollars in Internet income every month of the year.
Dear Internet Marketer:
What's hot in Internet marketing today?
If you pay attention to the trade publications, it's viral marketing ... online video ... contextual advertising ... social networking ... widgets ... blogs ... and RSS feeds.
Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but all of the above are just different means of driving traffic.
They won't make you a penny online unless you are able to convert all that traffic into sales.
And the most effective way of doing that is to create a killer landing page ... and drive your traffic to that site.
The success or failure of a landing page is measured primarily by a metric called "conversion."
The conversion is simply the percent of unique visitors to the landing page who actually purchase the product being sold there.
Conversion rates on a landing page can range anywhere from less than one percent to as high as 25 percent or more.
For instance, if two out of every hundred visitors to your page orders the product, you have a 2 percent conversion rate.
The revenues in your Internet marketing business are directly proportional to the conversion rate.
** So if you are an INTERNET MARKETER, you can make much more money simply by improving your landing pages to incrementally increase your conversion rates.
Even a small boost in conversion rates can mean a big boom in your bottom line.
If your online business has annual revenues of $100,000, increasing the conversion rates of your landing pages 25% can put an extra $25,000 a year in your pocket!
And, if you know the secrets of writing and designing winning landing pages, you'll be a better judge of the pages your copywriters and Web designers create for you.
You can even write your own landing pages, saving thousands of dollars in copywriting fees!
** If you are a FREELANCE COPYWRITER, writing landing pages is the single most lucrative assignment on the Internet today.
A beginning copywriter can easily charge a couple of thousand dollars to write a long-copy landing page selling an information product.
Top freelance copywriters, with a track record of writing landing pages that maximize conversion rates, can charge anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 for a single long-copy page!
But when their pages boost your conversion rates, they'll quickly pay for themselves in increased orders and sales.
Anyway, a few months ago, I gave an intensive seminar in how to write winning landing pages to a group of Internet marketers who paid on average $2,000 each to attend.
And, my presentation was professional videotaped. It's an excellent recording.
Now, I've edited, added to, and updated this video to create a home study course just for you - Write and Design Winning Landing Pages.
That means you can "attend" my popular landing page seminar - as often as you like - without even leaving your home!
Unlock the secret to making gobs of cash online
In Part I, "Write and Design Landing Pages That Sell," you'll discover techniques I use to create landing pages to sell all kinds of products - from software and memberships, to e-books and investment newsletters - landing pages that generate conversion rates of 10% ... 14% ... even 33%.
On this first DVD, you will discover:
- The 7 landing page "hot spots" - the areas of your landing page that can make the most difference in how much product you sell.
- How to select the right visual images to display on your landing page.
- Boost conversions by matching the landing page copy to the copy that drove visitors to it with the "online connectivity" method.
- How long should landing page copy be? The answer may surprise you.
- Metrics that track landing page performance and profitability ... and how yours measures up.
- How a simple change in order button color increased conversion rates up to 27%.
- 3 hyperlinks you should place at the top of every landing page - and why.
- Overcoming visitor skepticism with a powerful "credibility pre-head."
- Why a 2-column landing page layout is a better design than the traditional one-column landing page.
- Writing powerful landing page headlines and subheads - and the functions performed by each (they're not the same).
- What the prospect needs to see in your lead if you are to convince her to read further.
- The right place on your landing page to introduce your product (hint: it's not the page you think).
- Must you use testimonials on your landing page ... and if so, how many do you need?
- Writing powerful bullets that make readers eager to order your product.
- Use content sidebars and "the principle of reciprocity" to drive visitors to your shopping cart.
- A simple sentence you can add to your guarantee that increases conversion rates up to 21%.
- Generate more paid orders by offering free bonus gifts. It still works. Here's why.
- The "just say what it is" technique for selling products that you believe most of your visitors really want and need.
- Make your landing page copy stronger with a track record and a big idea.
- Using the "story lead" to engage your reader and keep her reading.
- Generate more readership and response to your online sales letter by arousing curiosity.
- Produce more sales from your page by asking for the order with the "drop in the bucket" method.
- Do question headlines work? This one generated a 9.2% conversion rate.
- Generate more clicks to your sales pages with landing page "freemiums."
- The "Ginsu Knife" strategy for overcoming price resistance when selling expensive offers online.
- How to convince skeptical prospects that the claims and promises you make are in fact true.
- The problem/solution formula for writing strong online sales letters.
- Quick and easy ways to make your landing pages more visually appealing.
- Where to place "order now" buttons and hyperlinks on your landing page. It's NOT just at the end.
- Build your e-list with a "name squeeze" landing page and "free-on-free" offer.
- 10 rules for writing landing pages that sell. Ignore them at your peril.
- And more....
In Part II, "Using Landing Pages in Your Online Marketing to Make More Sales," you'll learn how to integrate the landing pages you've created into a powerful money-making Internet marketing campaign ... one that quickly converts traffic and online subscribers to sales and customers.
On DVD #2, you will discover:
- How to make $200,000 a year online working on your Internet marketing business only an hour a day.
- The "Agora Model" for successfully selling information products online (actually, it can work for any product ... services too).
- Most programs make Internet marketing way too complicated. Here are the only 5 things you need to succeed in Internet marketing.
- Why you should not waste your time learning HTML design, Front Page, or any other technical skill ... and what you should concentrate on instead.
- How to write, format, and distribute a free e-newsletter. No programming required and takes less than an hour a month.
- How to get your online subscribers to help you create your next information product - for free.
- Model template you can use for writing and producing your own text e-newsletter. Just follow the format and you'll never pay a designer to format your newsletters ever again!
- Avoid violating CAN SPAM laws by including this important "opt out" language in every e-mail you send to your list.
- How to dramatically increase your online revenues by adding more "slots" to your promotional schedule.
- 12 ways to build a large and profitable online subscriber list.
- Double your opt-in conversion rates with a "free on free squeeze page" and a $100 free gift offer.
- Create terrific free bonus reports with almost no effort from content you already own. Here's how I do it.
- An easy list-building technique I used to get 986 new online subscribers within 72 hours -- at zero marketing cost.
- 14 popular information products that consumers buy online by the truckload.
- How my first e-book generated an 11,744% return on my initial investment in 3 years.
- 10 often-overlooked sources where you can get great content for creating information products to sell on the Internet.
- How I turned a 72-cent profit per order on a product I sold offline to an $87 profit per order by selling the exact same product online!
- How to use keyword research and discovery tools to evaluate whether there is sufficient demand for your product online.
- The "copycat" shortcut to Internet marketing success. Perfectly legal and ethical - and it can put you months ahead of schedule.
- An e-mail that took me 5 minutes to write and generated $7,449 in profits in a single week.
- Increase e-mail click-through rates by using a number in your subject lines.
- Create more powerful online copy by reaching your prospects on an emotional, not just an intellectual, level.
- 4 ways to maximize your ROMD - return on marketing dollars - for your Internet business.
- And so much more....
"Just wanted to let you know I'm really enjoying your landing page seminar," says Martha Conway. ""I'm finding a lot of useful information. As a copywriter, I found the copywriting tips to be very useful and a great guideline for landing pages. Plus, since landing pages are the online equivalent of direct mail, who better to learn from than a master at direct mail?"
But wait. There's more.
As a registered owner of the Write and Design Winning Landing Pages home study program, you also get free unlimited access for a full year to my password-protected web site, www.thelandingpageguru.com.
Thelandingpageguru.com is perhaps the most comprehensive online resource ever developed for improving landing page conversion rates, increasing online revenues, and capturing more e-mail address for your list.
On this exclusive customers-only web site, you will discover:
- The 5-step motivating sequence for writing killer landing pages.
- 10 tips for writing landing page copy that maximizes conversion rates and sales.
- A 12-point checklist for boosting landing page effectiveness and results.
- How to double or triple conversions with Taguchi testing.
- Add thousands of new subscribers to your opt-in list with squeeze pages.
- Little things you can do to boost conversion rates incrementally.
- 5 ways to increase e-mail address capture.
- Business models that work online: Agora Model and Online Conversion Model.
- 12 most common types of landing pages and when to use each.
- Glossary of online marketing terms.
- 38 great ideas for your next landing page headline.
- The 3 most important things I've learned about writing e-mail copy that gets people to visit your landing pages.
- 16 ways to sell more e-books online.
- 8 affordable ways to drive traffic to your web sites.
- How to write, design, and publish a profitable free e-newsletter.
- What web metrics should you measure?
- Get great conversion results with a "press-release style" landing page.
- Free content for Internet marketers from Uncle Sam.
- How to help search engines find your web sites.
- Secrets of writing subject lines that get your e-mails opened and read.
- 8 fundamentals of persuasive copywriting.
- Ask these questions before you write your landing page copy.
- And more....
"The landing page DVDs are first rate." -Gary North
Always current, never out of date
What works online in general - and on landing pages in particular - is constantly changing.
When you order the Write and Design Winning Landing Pages home study program, you get free access to www.thelandingpageguru.com customers-only web site for one full year.
That way, your knowledge of what's working in landing pages, e-mail marketing, info product selling, and online conversion is always current, never out of date.
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Write and Design Winning Landing Pages is a video of my popular live landing page seminar professionally recorded on 2 high-quality DVDs.
The people on the video paid up to $2,000 apiece to hear my presentation. But it won't cost you anywhere near that much to watch it on DVD. And you won't even have to leave home to "attend."
Instead, Write and Design Winning Landing Pages is yours on DVD for less than I charge for just 15 minutes of my time!
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And that's the investment you make only if Write and Design Winning Landing Pages helps you boost your landing page conversion rates by at least 25% to 50% or more.
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In fact, the program can pay back its cost more than 10 times over the very first time you use it to improve the conversion rate on just one of your landing pages.
Even better, if you aren't convinced that Write and Design Winning Landing Pages is the most profitable investment you've made in your Internet marketing business this year....
Or you are unhappy for any other reason ... or for no reason at all ... just return the DVDs and bonus CD (see my P.S. below) within 90 days.
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This CD is a recording of an audio conference I did with Progressive Business Publications.
It's a lively - and in-depth - tutorial on how to achieve breakthrough sales results on your landing pages.
It covers all the key principles of landing page writing and design - including: headlines ... credibility-building ... visuals ... writing strong leads ... making the sale at the close ... guarantees ... premium copy ... page layout ... colors ... and so much more.
The price to attend the conference call was $199. But the recording is yours FREE when you order Write and Design Winning Landing Pages now:
P.P.S. Act now and your FREE Bonus Gift will also include a 54-page e-book, Create Killer Landing Pages (value: $49). It's a verbatim transcript of the bonus audio including hard copy of all of the PowerPoint slides.
In the Create Killer Landing Pages e-book, you'll find:
- Why social networking, viral marketing, online video, and other "hot" Internet marketing techniques don't make money unless you drive all that traffic to a landing page. Page 4.
- Building instant credibility with an above-the-headline testimonial. Page 27.
- A sure-fire method for doubling your online revenues - without driving any more traffic to your Web site or building your e-list. Page 5.
- A little-known writing trick that can turn a ho-hum landing page into a winner. Page 28.
- The 7 landing page "hot spots." Changing even one can add thousands of dollars in online revenues to your bottom line. Page 6.
- No-brainer copywriting technique instantly attracts the reader's eye to your headline. Page 29.
- How to multiply landing page copy and design improvements to double or triple your conversion rates. Page 7.
- Close more sales online with the "drop in the bucket" technique for overcoming price resistance when selling high-priced products. Page 30.
- Why changing the pictures you show on your landing pages can increase conversion rates up to 19% or more. Page 8.
- Do question headlines work? Answer on page 32.
- Use the Principle of Online Connectivity to maximize conversion rates from pay-per-click advertising and organic search traffic. Page 9.
- Increase traffic to your landing page by offering an online "freemium." Page 33.
- What works best for landing pages - long copy or short? The answer may surprise you. Page 11.
- Proving sales points with graphs and charts. Plus: why prospects believe pictures even if they don't fully understand them. Page 36.
- Measuring key landing page metrics - click-through rates and conversions: what to expect. Page 13.
- The most powerful graphic to use in your landing page banner if you are a university, association, or institution. Page 38.
- Increase landing page conversion rates and e-mail capture with auto-responders. Page 16.
- Add thousands of new subscribers to your e-list with a "free-on-free squeeze page." Page 39.
- How a simple change in color on the landing page design boosted conversion rates up to 27%. Page 17.
- 10 rules for writing winning landing pages. Page 42.
- How to overcome skepticism right up front with a "credibility pre-head" in your landing page copy. Page 19.
- Frequently asked landing page questions - and one good answer to each. Page 43.
- More tips for increasing conversion rates on your landing pages. Page 50.
- The 3 buttons you must have at the top of every landing page - and the purpose for each. Page 20.
- How to capture the e-mail addresses of landing page visitors who leave your page without buying the product. Page 51.
- Determining the optimum number of testimonials for landing pages. Page 21.
- The most powerful technique for writing strong leads in landing page copy. Page 52.
- Boost online revenues with content sidebars, guarantees, and bonuses. Page 22.
- Why you should periodically update your landing page to reflect changing conditions in the marketplace or your industry. Page 53.
- How to generate more orders online with simple landing page element tests. Page 24.
- What to say in your landing page headline when you are selling a product the competition doesn't offer. Page 26.
- And so much more....
Best of all, this strategy-packed e-book on creating stronger landing pages is yours to keep FREE, even if you return Write and Design Winning Landing Pages for a refund!
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Bob Bly is a full-time freelance copywriter specializing in direct marketing. He earns more than $700,000 a year from his writing, and became a self-made multi-millionaire while still in his 30s.A copywriter for more than a quarter of a century, Bob has written promotions for over 100 clients including Phillips, Agora, KCI, 21st Century, Weiss Research, EBI Medical Systems, Sony, IBM, AT&T, Grumman, Crain Communications, McGraw-Hill, Intuit, and AlliedSignal.
Bob is the author of 70 books including The Copywriter's Handbook (Henry Holt) and Business-to-Business Direct Marketing (NTC Business Books).
He has published more than 100 articles in such publications as Subscription Marketing, Direct, Business Marketing, Writer's Digest, and Amtrak Express.
Bob's writing awards include a Gold Echo from the Direct Marketing Association, an IMMY from the Information Industry Association, two Southstar Awards, an American Corporate Identity Award of Excellence, and the Standard of Excellence award from the Web Marketing Association. He also taught writing at New York University.
Bob has appeared as a guest on dozens of TV and radio shows including The Advertising Show, Bernard Meltzer, CNBC, and CBS Hard Copy. He has been featured in major media ranging from the LA Times and Nation's Business to the New York Post and the National Enquirer. He was formerly the advertising manager for Koch Engineering, a manufacturer of equipment for the chemical industry.
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--Joy Contreras, Edith Roman Associates
"Thank you very much for the invaluable advice on our mailing piece. We found your ideas helpful and stimulating, [and] have been able to integrate nearly all of your suggestions into the piece."
--Greg Richey, U.S. Capital Resources
"We still are using [the package you did for us]. It still beats all challengers to the control."
--Mark Friedman, Medical Economics
"I appreciate your consulting efforts. You've made our messages sharper."
--Gloria Anderson, The New York Times Syndicate
"Thanks for the great work you did on the pages for the Web site."
--Steven Cwiak, SRW Technologies
"Your Growth Stock Winners insert pulled a 2.32% response. I was very pleased."
--Abbe Pascal, KCI
"Thanks for a terrific job."
--Marc Russman, IBM
"Thanks for your copy on this effort for our client. They were extremely pleased, as were we."
--Bob Young, Sefton Associates
"Thanks so much for the great copy."
--Judy MacDonald, CrossWind Technologies
"Thank you for all your comments on our brochure. It now seems to talk more directly at our audience and get their attention with copy that will get them thinking and acting on our offer."
--Paul Lichtman, Sensory Computer Systems
"My initial mailing was 1,677 letters into 31 states for a 3.28% rate of response. That rate is terrific."
--Dick Barry, Management Consultant
"Many thanks for all your help. Great job! We will of course be coming to you in the new year for further work."
--Jonathan Andresen, Nortel Networks
"As of Friday, we have received 137 responses in less than three weeks ... I believe we have thus far met your prediction. Again, thanks for your help."
--Franchise Manager, Micell
"We are all real happy with your sales letter. Thanks for a great job! Your copy was very much appreciated by everyone."
--Rick Billington, SouthBridge Village
"The difficulty has been crafting a message that would appeal to business who are in different stages without sounding too broad or too narrow. You’ve been a great help in getting us to this goal. You hit the key points we were concerned with right on the head."
--Bob Serling, Informa
"Thanks so much for all of your good and timely work. The client loves the way the brochures have been written, and so do I."
--Joanne Bastane, Paramount Advertising
"I just want to say again that I thoroughly enjoyed working with you. You are a pleasure to deal with, especially given the pressure you were under and frankly, you personify the word professional. Thank you."
--Mary Kostyk, Boardroom Inc.
"I have relied on Bob Bly's marketing advice for the past several years. In the area of business-to-business direct marketing he is truly creative and insightful. I recommend him highly."
--Nancy Pascal, Marketing Director, H.B. Pascal & Co.
"Bob, finally remembered to send you a sample of your great work. Check this out -- wow!"
--Tom Guy, IBM Advanced Business Institute
"I've been around this industry long enough to know that I got seriously lucky to have chosen Bob to work with. Professional 100 percent of the time... just like I like it! I'll pass on winning the lottery... Bob was just that."
--Eric Yauerbaum, Jericho Communications
"Thanks for all your efforts with the September brochure. The copy is strong and compelling. Final layout is attached and it looks wonderful! Again - thanks for everything."
--Marion J. Atwater, Program Director, IBM Palisades
"You did a great job with this package. We’re very happy with how it turned out and how quickly it came together."
--Karen Reddel, Agora Health Publishing
"It's perfect! And I wanted to thank you for quickly turning around the revisions. I'm thrilled to say we're right on schedule for the June 8th mailing. It was a pleasure working with you."
--Anne Kelley, Agora Health Books
"I would like to thank you for an amazing job of researching, understanding, and implementing a strong direct mail piece for Engineered Software. I am very impressed."
--Justin Johnson, Engineered Software
"Thanks for all your great work!"
--Barbara Griffin, IBM Advanced Business Institute
"The Bly package seems to be a success! At day 9 of response to 30,000 names, we're at 77% of break-even with a .46% response."
--Crystal Washington, The Oxford Club
"Potence insert is looking good, currently projected to achieve a 3.64% response with a $60 (three units of purchase) average order."
--Glory Kneass, Drs. Preferred