Tips for more opt-ins

p.s. I've been a web developer for many years, so don't be shy with technical details

Try to get TARGETED traffic to your squeeze pages. If your list is for I.M. then you need to focus on getting traffic from people that are interested in IM. How do you do this? Making a signature hyperlinked to your squeeze page is a great idea. Just remember to add value and to be a helpful person, not a spammer or you will get banned. You can also build a blog about your IM story and direct the traffic from there to your squeeze page, and you can do a bit of article marketing. Personally my favorite way besides forum marketing is Squidoo. Read about making a squidoo lens and create it about your niche.

Repeat your CTA. Have calls to action above the fold, right below the content, and possibly elsewhere on the same page.

Use spacing and contrast to your advantage. Make your CTA stand out. Put all your emphasis on it.

Orange is the best color to use for CTA buttons. You can use mozilla- and webkit-specific CSS keyframe animations to add a cool glowing effect to your buttons, which in my experience improves the conversion rate. Best font colors to use for buttons are white and blue.

Use directional cues to guide the user's attention to your CTA. Photos with the eyes pointing towards the CTA and arrows work well. The nice thing about arrows is that even complicated, curved arrows with gradient backgrounds and shadow effects are easy to create with pure CSS.

Use images to convey ideas, but avoid using images to present text. The one surefire way to improve conversion rates is to split-test everything constantly, so you want your text to be actual text.

Use clear and concise headlines, descriptions, and copy. Focus on the benefits. Copy is vastly more important than design. The design should be designed to serve the purpose of the copy.

Use solo ads to send traffic to your squeeze page. Solo ads gives higher opt-in rate than any other type of traffic. For list building, solo ads will be the best method.

Do you have a squeeze page up?

Drive targeted traffic towards your squeeze page. You
want to focus on conversions and your optin rate.

Grab a book on copywriting. That's going to help you
write a much better squeeze page.

Winston Tian

This is what is working for me:

1) Really SIMPLE opt-in pages. Less is more.
2) Ask only for their email.
3) Targetted traffic: don't be afraid of using paid methods (sometimes it's cheaper than free traffic methods).
4) This one is a little controversial: from time to time use single opt-in. Test it, see if it's worth the "pain" on your niche and with each traffic source.
5) Use the photo of a good looking person that doesn't look like you took it from iStockPhoto. Better if it's your own picture. So, place the pic on your opt-in page. I use mine, cause I look cute :-D (LOL)

Hope that helps!

- Alfredo

Use solo ads for the fastest results buddy!
It's gonna cost some money but building a list with
solo ads is definitely something I would highly recommend
you learn to do right away.

What niche are you targeting, and is it something you are passionate about? The biggest mistake people can make is choosing a market based on profit.

Start a blog about the topic and get at least 2 opt-in forms in place - top tight and bottom of every post. Also make sure that what you're using as the lead magnet is something that people in your niche actually want.

e.g. In IM another report promising instant results is pretty lame, so make this the best you can.

Others have covered the basics for you main squeeze. Simple one page site with big opt-in box and a strong headline that explains everything in < 5 seconds. Adding a picture of yourself will build trust, and avoid the use of blind salescopy.

Over deliver on what you promise, and just use your personality when broadcasting and following up.

Want to ask you few questions..

1) Do you know how to build a lead capture page
2) Do you know how to set up your autoresponder code in your lead capture
3) Do you know how to ready your follow up message for your leads
4) Do you know when to send your follow up message and when to send your sale message..
5) Do you know how to build relationship with your list..

This about 5 question is really important before you think of any business..

If you don't know how to build a website or lead capture page than learn it today than go to the next one.

Don't worry about marketing and so on, once your base is ready than you can learn about marketing and so on..

So make your base ready first for the market..I hope this helps..