Saturday
20Dec2008
Pay Per Click Advertising and Lead Capture Pages
Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 02:01PM In internet marketing, the most crucial step in the sales process is capturing your lead's contact information. Good contact information increases your odds of lead conversion. When starting an advertising campaign, consider these tips to get the most effective results.
A very effective method of internet marketing is pay-per-click advertising. The cost varies with each search engine and the more prominent search engines are usually more expensive. However, there are smaller search engines that cost less per click. Once your ad copy is written and published, you next step is to create a good landing page.
A landing page, also called a lead capture page, is a one-page website that is used to capture a prospect's contact information. Designing your own unique landing page is essential to building and working your pipeline of qualified prospects that will eventually lead to sales, repeat sales, cross-sales, and up-sales. Your working pipeline of leads is your key to success in the realm of internet marketing.
Connecting your advertisement to your landing page is essential to lead conversion. In addition, write your ad copy with your lead capture page in mind. Does the advertisement flow with the landing page? Does your landing page provide appropriate information with a call to action?
Landing pages are extremely important to your campaign. Lead conversions can double, even triple, with a few stylish updates to color or fonts. These seemingly insignificant updates can have a dramatic impact on your bottom-line.
BlinkWeb is an excellent, free internet marketing tool that allows you to create a professional website using a pre-designed template. Creating your own high-quality, custom website is a cinch with BlinkWeb's drag-and-drop functionality. You can add opt-in forms, create order buttons, and even monetize your site.
Consider personalizing your landing page with pictures, videos, or testimonials. Personal branding is important in online sales because it gives the lead something to connect with that is sometimes missing in internet marketing. If your website is branded and your ad copy flows with your landing page, you will be more successful at converting leads.
Once you've finalized your landing page, use split testing, dynamic landing pages, and everything you can to get the most out of your hard-earned advertising dollar. Track what works and what doesn't and make changes as you go. You will eventually get to a place where your online advertising and lead generation is fully-streamlined. Get started today and build a better business tomorrow.
About the Author:
David Loren Sullivan is a professional business coach and personal mentor. Mr. Sullivan also composes an online business blog dedicated to helping people succeed online with opportunities that create income and allow them to work from home. Visit David's blog for more home-based business tips and tricks for using pay per click advertising.

