Sales letter page - better to have a separate site for it?

Depends.

If you can purchase a domain congruent with your product, that will be a real plus in the minds of your prospects.

For example, a dog training product. howtotrainyourdog.com would be good.

Otherwise, just use the current domain.

VL

The answer of your question depends on your blog niche. If you are creating a sales page which falls in same niche of your blog then it's better to create sales page with your blog because you able to lots of advantages like instant traffic, sales, subscription as you hit the publish button your sales page.

And as far as creating it separately is concerned you can do it if your sales page don't fall in your blog category.

Here's another question, too. If I'm going to do this all within the existing membership site, would you just use Digital Access Pass to do all the email correspondence? This client doesn't have an AWeber (or any other autoresponder) account yet. Just for simplicity, it might make sense to use the existing system for now, yes?

As Einstein said, "Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler."

@dogreene,

To take advantage of all the marketing and SEO efforts, it is better to put them all on the same domain.

If you want to keep things separate for simplicity, you could have 2 or even 3 separate blogs on your web site (or even on sub-domains)

1) http://YourSite.com/ - main blog with a theme like OptimizePress for squeeze and sales pages
2) http://YourSite.com/blog/ (or blog.yoursite.com)
3) http://YourSite.com/members/ (or members.yoursite.com)

Or you could combine "blog" and "members" into one blog in case you feel 3 WP installations are too much to handle. And you can use pages and sub-pages to separate out the blog and member content. Like...

http://YourSite.com/blog/members/
http://YourSite.com/blog/members/module-1/
http://YourSite.com/blog/members/module-1/week-1/

And so on.

One advantage of keeping the "blog" blog and your "members" blog separate, is that you can trick out your "blog" blog with any theme, social plugins, seo plugins, etc. And that would prevent any conflicts with any theme or membership plugins (like DAP) you would be using on your "members" blog.

>> If I'm going to do this all within the existing membership site, would you just use Digital Access Pass to do all the email correspondence?<<
Absolutely. No need to get an Aweber account unless you have a strong and specific reason for doing so.

See http://DigitalAccessPass.com/documen...dap-vs-aweber/ that explains the benefits of using DAP as your email system.

Hope this helps.

- Ravi Jayagopal