subject: Steps To Optimize Your Opt List [print this page] If your online business has an opt in page, your opt list is probably the most important part of that business because it compares directly with the amount of potential buyers you can have.
There are a numerous ways of increasing your list and each way gives your business the advantage of bringing in subscribers and therefore buyers. The number one thing you should work on is getting the best results with your landing (opt in) page. This not only refers to getting people to go to your page but also to join your mailing list by signing up.
Below are some of the top strategies for optimizing conversion and growing your opt list:
1. Get tips from the gurus in your niche. - Visit their sites and get ideas for your own here. A technique a lot of marketers use is saving good opt in pages in their niche to what is known as a swipe file and then getting ideas for their own from this.
2. Don't have any out bound links on the page, this gives users less reason to leave the page. Links give users an extra opportunity to leave the page.
3. Give your opt in page a personal touch. By using a personalized writing style you can entice more visitors to join your list. Having your own style is more inticing to users as it is more personal and so makes them more likely to sign up. Users will feel like their search is over and they have found what they are looking for with your advertisement. Give some good suggestions that people who come to your page can use straight away. Get as much as you can out of your pages.
4. Use ethical bribes. - Ethical bribes are good ways to entice visitors to sign up for subscriptions. You can use this strategy and perhaps, choose an ethical bribe that would suit your site's theme, service or product offerings, like free health and fitness e-books or video guides if your audiences are interested in health and fitness.
5. Test and tweak your opt-in page. Not all pages are good to go. You may still need to tweak your page based on your target market or on the current trends and market conditions. Some marketers use the Google web optimizer to do this. This helps allow the best possible opt in rate for the opt list.
