I was wanting to build a WordPress “squeeze page” but really didn’t want to have to pay for a “one size fits all” template. So I asked my friend Markus Allen (links to his Stump Markus broadcast) for a suggestion.
He quickly pointed out this site: Start Making Your Own Squeeze Pages In WordPress.
Before I tell you more about it, you might want to consider “WHY” you’d want a squeeze page.
1. Squeeze Pages have one goal… to obtain a positive action. This can mean an email subscription, a purchase, or funneling someone through to another site. To accomplish that…
2. Squeeze Pages minimize distractions for your visitor. They don’t have dozens of navigation links, extraneous links to other articles and stories (like a new site or even wikipedia with related entries). They just get down to business and tell WHY a particular action is the next step from here.
3. Squeeze Pages geared to securing an email address and permission for follow up contact through an autoresponder allow you to develop a client list and usually offer a free report or other “freemium” (incentive) to sign up in hopes of making “back end” revenues.
So many marketers prefer the email to an immediate sale.
But after you have the email secured, there’s no reason you could offer your own version of $7 Secrets (affiliate link) with a “One Time Offer” if they buy… but that’s up to you.
Here’s that site again: Start Making Your Own Squeeze Pages In WordPress. It’s not an affiliate link but you can make a donation (as I did) if you like it as much as I did!
To get started, you have to commit a particular domain to a wordpress theme and you have to upload this man’s theme into your wordpress site through “Install Themes” -> “Upload”.
On the link itself you can check the source code for getting these same effects on your wordpress blog (you download the actual code when you download the theme, but if you just bring it up in your browser the effects don’t show as they do on the web because wordpress is required to make the effects, well, “take effect”.
That will get you started. If I feel like it, I’ll write more about this later. I’m building a squeeze page for a friend now, but the hard part is going to be creating the follow up report and autoresponders! That will be where the real work comes in though it took me several hours of “tweaking” last night get something decent online.
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