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The Fail-Proof Landing Page Formula
Landing pages: A Necessary Evil...
It's so overwhelming to build a webpage from scratch. Looking at that blank slate can be crippling - especially when you're excited about an event or campaign and want it to be successful.
Today I'm going to walk you through a killer formula for building a landing page that educates and excites viewers.
Come back to this whenever you need to build a landing page.
The ingredients:
Take an hour to pull all these elements together before you ever open the backend of your site.
- A pithy, to-the-point, one-sentence statement about your event/campaign
- A three-sentence paragraph containing the 5 Ws of your event/campaign (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
- Three reasons why someone might not want to participate and the three ways you're combatting these objections (Ex: someone may need childcare // childcare is provided)
- Two quotes about the event/campaign from your staff/congregation or previous participants
- One short story related to the development or success of this event/campaign
- ONE way for visitors to take a "next step" (register, read more, etc)
- As many related pictures as you can find
- Bonus points: a YouTube video of you talking about your event/campaign
The recipe:
Take an hour to put it all together. Keep the design simple to support the impact of your message.
HEADER:
Put your one-sentence summary statement atop an image as your header.
BODY:
Offset all other ingredients with an image. Here's my favorite way to format all of these elements...
FOOTER:
Provide ONE clickable button toward the bottom of your page with a link to the "next step" for the viewer.
Not too painful, right? Hopefully this gives you a solid jumping-off point next time you need to create a landing page. Proceed to break these rules creatively - make it your own.
Until next week!
Grace Ungemach
I offer digital marketing education written with ministry in mind. Subscribe to my free, weekly newsletter to learn something new every Friday.
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