5 Unique Landing Page Strategies The Competition Isn’t Using… Yet.

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Suppose outdoors the field with regards to your touchdown pages (Source)

If you would like consideration, you have got break expectations.

For as some ways you may optimize a touchdown web page, the reality of the matter is, your guests anticipate a certain quantity of “sameness” from websites like yours.

That’s an issue. As a result of while you mix in with others in your class, your messages aren’t absolutely heard. Fortuitously for you, I’ve rounded up 5 distinctive touchdown web page methods that may provide help to break your customer’s guessing machines, and open them as much as what issues most – the content material.

1. Video Watch Web page

In case you’re a enterprise who continuously publishes video, it might not have occurred to you {that a} weblog’s “reverse chronological” publishing fashion, is probably not essentially the most person pleasant for somebody fascinated by testing your entire movies.

The “Video Watch Web page” touchdown web page technique attracts it’s inspiration from websites like Netflix & Hulu whose major focus is making giant alternatives of video simpler to navigate. In actual fact, if there’s something it is best to do with this web page, it’s to get your guests to the video as quick as doable.

Taking design cues from websites like Hulu, similar to eye-catching cowl artwork, or sideways scrolling by a class can enhance views to present content material.

For Hulu, bettering the video navigation in a massive redesign in October of 2012, helped the corporate to interrupt 1 billion views in Q1 2013.

This article on Engadget particulars key parts Hulu centered on throughout the redesign, together with:

  • Concentrate on simply discovering most well-liked content material
  • Greater Paintings
  • Simply navigate from class to class
  • Spotlight on New Content material

However you run a enterprise, your movies are supposed to generate leads, proper?

Relying on the dimensions of your video library, it’d make sense to ship your video content material (+ bonus supplies) over an electronic mail autoresponder.

Your electronic mail then hyperlinks to single video touchdown web page which highlights a major name to motion like “join your free trial” or “purchase now” automating a lot of your lead nurturing course of.

Going again to the primary “video watch web page”, displaying the opt-in kind might be executed by constructing it into persistent navigation, a devoted popup, within the video’s description or strategically positioned in between video classes.

Additionally, if it is sensible for the web page, together with robust social sharing name to actions may enhance the general virility of your Video Watch Web page. Upworthy demonstrates the social sharing name to motion completely.

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Beneath is a mockup from a redesign of my very own web site on “Video Watch Web page” would possibly appear to be:

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2. First Log-On Welcome Web page

After your customer indicators up on your paid supply, as an alternative of sending them instantly into the services or products, allow them to know a little bit bit about who’s behind the scenes.

This web page by Litmus does simply that.

Understanding that you could be really feel a little bit on edge after handing out your bank card particulars, Litmus doesn’t ship you straight into the product.

As an alternative, instantly after checkout, you’re greeted with a video of numerous smiling faces, saying “Hello I’m ___” who you be taught by the top of the video, are the client help crew.

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And whereas it’s not the first focus, the inclusion of different excessive profile shoppers on the left assist to present a way of reduction that you just’ve simply made a great funding.

These will not be minor particulars simply to make new prospects really feel fluffy both. Litmus presents a free 7 day trial, and this mixed with a smart autoresponder series is meant to cut back the quantity of churn from “free trial” to “paid subscriber”

Although Litmus declined to touch upon how this has affected their churn, Moz.com employed a similar method in a a lot bigger technique that result in an additional 170% enchancment in conversions.

3. Useful resource Web page 2.0

Initially, once I wrote in regards to the resource page on ConversionXL, I featured websites that listed their major assets as textual content primarily based hyperlinks.

Nevertheless, after inspecting the resource library right here on Unbounce, it occurred to me {that a} textual content solely method not solely does an enormous disservice for visible learners, but in addition is a large wasted alternative for bettering on associate and affiliate alternatives.

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In case you’re formidable, take design cues from the Google Play book store, iTunes Books, and Amazon Books to make the Useful resource Web page 2.0 a library of trade particular content material, curated by class and content material kind.

Affiliate entrepreneurs may curate prime webinars, ebooks, and programs, all by one portal web page, permitting customers to have a visually compelling hub for trade particular services.

In case you’d fairly persist with your personal materials nonetheless, you would repackage previous weblog posts into superbly designed .Pdfs and showcase these on the useful resource web page. After clicking on the specified e-book, your customer is ready to obtain by coming into their electronic mail handle or paying with a tweet.

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That’s what Unbounce does, and to this point it’s been extremely effective.

4. About/Contact Web page 2.0

Okay, so on most of internet sites, what do you discover on the about web page?

A fast blurb in regards to the firm mission, an introduction to the crew, possibly a contact kind?

Whereas these are nice, when you cease there, you would be lacking out on nice alternatives to attach with extra of your guests.

First, think about the person’s intent. A success in your about web page is the customer saying “Hey, I like what you’re doing. Inform me extra about your self” If that’s not an optimum level of conversion, I don’t know what’s.

Second, not everybody likes filling out varieties. Based on a Harris Interactive Ballot, 77% of individuals need extra dwell help when accessible with on-line purchases, and 54% need extra human interplay with massive ticket purchases.

It’s additionally widespread information that filling out a kind means receiving comply with up electronic mail. The query is, how dangerous are they going to abuse your inbox?

Now that is the half the place I say, “embody a cellphone quantity in your About web page.” and also you roll your eyes. I do know you’ve heard it earlier than, however hear me out.

According to a study conducted by BIA/Kelsey, inbound cellphone calls are 10-15 instances extra more likely to convert than an inbound internet lead. In that very same examine, 61% of companies fee their inbound cellphone leads as “glorious” vs solely 51% giving their internet leads the identical score.

In case you’re like most on-line entrepreneurs I do know, you don’t like to make use of your cellphone quantity as the decision to motion as a result of as quickly as an individual calls in, you lose all of your analytical knowledge. However, you don’t should.

Utilizing a call tracking service like Ring Revenue, you may generate particular cellphone numbers for each person that visits your “About Web page 2.0”.

As a result of the cellphone quantity is restricted to the caller, once they name, their cellphone quantity syncs with Google Analytics, permitting you see which pages they visited earlier than they determined to select up the cellphone.

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Over time, you should utilize this knowledge to preemptively reply questions & overcome widespread objections earlier than they ever decide up the cellphone, creating increased high quality cellphone leads and hopefully extra gross sales.

Bonus: If you wish to take the About 2.0 Web page a step additional, use advert retargeting to show particular advertisements throughout the net, focusing on solely to those that name in.

5. Coming From (Social Media) Web page 2.0

I’ve written about creating specialised touchdown pages for every social media profiles earlier than.

The concept is that by making a touchdown web page that acknowledges your customer’s referral supply, you may add an additional layer of contextual relevance on your customer.

For instance, understanding that Linkedin is more effective at lead generation, your “Coming From Linkedin” web page may embody firm cellphone quantity (don’t neglect call tracking), a slide deck with an organization overview, and a collection of a few of your greatest “why we’re superior to work with” supplies.

For this touchdown web page technique to essentially work, it’s a must to first perceive how visitors from every social community behaves. As a result of Linkedin guests are most definitely fascinated by working with you, giving them extra lead technology materials is sensible. With Fb or Twitter nonetheless, providing an moral bribe or quick access to sharable content material would possibly make extra sense.

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This can be a nice technique for offering higher message match with a social community, and rapidly orienting guests to content material that’s greatest suited from their social community of alternative.

***For Superior Entrepreneurs***

In case you actually wish to get fancy, you may create a single “Coming From (Social Media)” web page, however have the content material areas change primarily based on the customer’s referral supply.

In different phrases, you’d use the identical url for all social networks, however your “Coming from (Social Media)” Web page shows focused content material to guests from every social community.

To do that, you will need to additionally integrate Unbounce with Visual Website Optimizer and use their “behavioral targeting” characteristic. Whereas it might appear sophisticated, making a customer phase is so simple as making just a few clicks.

The concepts are nonetheless the identical as utilizing particular person pages, however with behavioral focusing on, you may swap out headlines, content material areas, and even opt-in varieties focused at every social community customer.

***For Even Extra Superior Entrepreneurs***

Now, let’s say you have been internet hosting a Twitter-themed occasion in a brand new city, and also you wished to encourage Twitter followers from the realm to RSVP for the occasion.

Utilizing behavioral focusing on, create a customized variation in your “Coming from” web page that shows occasion themed info & calls to motion solely to Twitter visitors throughout the geographic area of the occasion.

Now when Twitter customers inside that specified space go to the “coming from” web page out of your bio, they’ll get all of the related info relating to your occasion.

When non-local Twitter followers click on that very same bio hyperlink nonetheless, they’ll see your customary “Coming from Twitter” web page, with out ever having to be bothered about an occasion they received’t be capable of attend.

Utilizing these similar techniques, on-line retailers may check making presents primarily based on the bodily markets the place they’ve the best social penetration. Utilizing a device like Followerwonk for Twitter or your Fb insights, you will get an approximation of your follower’s bodily location.

By creating a proposal like, “20% for our Indiana Fb Followers” you may actually shock and add an additional layer of relevance anybody curious sufficient to click on the hyperlink in your social media profile.

Your Flip

Which of those touchdown web page methods can be the very best for you?

I hope these methods acquired your inventive juices flowing and pondering round designing superb experiences on your guests. I’m wanting ahead to seeing what what you got here up with.

— Tommy Walker