Creating an eBook as a Lead Capture Prize

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You’ll have seen the first Unbounce giveaway that we’re utilizing to generate leads for our upcoming product launch. It’s an eBook known as “101 Landing Page Optimization Tips“.

In case you didn’t know, we’re a brand new startup firm that’s quickly to unleash a brand new touchdown web page service (WYSIWYG editor, A/B testing, reporting and many others.), so proper firstly we sat down to think about methods to assemble some related and focused gross sales leads.

As we’re focusing on advertising sorts which have an affect/impression/position to play within the use and creation of touchdown pages, we figured {that a} information to constructing higher touchdown pages was an applicable matter.

Oh, however find out how to be completely different?

Differentiation is crucial in in the present day’s data economic system. There are a great deal of weblog posts, articles and books on the market on this topic, so our objective was primarily based on 2 necessities:

  1. Be opinionated: Opinions and management are keys to success in all walks of life. I don’t suppose any of us right here at Unbounce are afraid of being mistaken – we welcome a wholesome debate. However there comes a time when it’s important to place that stake within the floor and say “Hey, that is what I feel. You down?”
  2. Make it large enough: Produce a amount that’s noticeable and authoritative. 101 seemd to be a big sufficient quantity, coupled with the ingrained affiliation that 101 has with studying (in North America not less than).

So, after establishing that we’d write an eBook with 101 suggestions in it, we have been left with a query: How will we provide you with 101 suggestions with out spending a whole week on it?

The Course of

At 12pm on a Tuesday, we gathered on the residence of one of many Unbounce co-founders (COO Jason Murphy), the place I facilitated a brainstorm. Utilizing traditional IDEO model inventive company methods, I posed a sequence of questions and as a bunch we recorded our concepts on sticky notes that quickly crammed all the room.

After 2 hours of coloured squares we known as it quits. I snuck off to my typewriter (okay, totally loaded Macbook Professional) and scribbled, wrote, jotted, deciphered, re-interpreted and manufactured the 101 suggestions for our first eBook by the point the solar rose the following day.

Briefly, we did it in lower than 24 hours.

In relation to the enterprise of enterprise, it pays to go the additional mile to provide one thing that folks shall be pleased to alternate cellphone numbers for.

Oli Gardner

Unbounce Problem

Obtained eBookz?

When you have touchdown pages with lead gen varieties, that provide free eBooks, then share away my mates. Add them within the feedback with an outline of what they’re and the way they will profit folks. (For the file, I don’t imagine in “nofollow” so your hyperlink shall be value one thing).