I would say that there are actually 3 components that you need as a minimum for your sales funnel, for sure 2 of them.


This would be the squeeze page as first to collect emails of your prospects. Then to provide the freebie from your squeeze page you also need a download page. I would not send just a file per mail to the prospects. Having a download page has several advantages:

• when sending a mail with the link to your download page, your prospects learn to click

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What are the Advantages of a Sales Funnel in your Online Business?

• A Sales Funnel will increase your sales revenue
  Let’s say you have a report you sell for $17. You can sell it 300 times, so you would make $5100 in sales. But do you think some of them would also buy a related product for $37 or even $197? I bet some would! So it’s is actually crazy to not have a sales funnel in place for your online business. You don’t need all pages up and running from the beginning,

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You probably have gone through several sales funnels, but might not have been aware of this.

Simply said, a sales funnel is a series of offers that are presented to the visitor / customer and tend to increase in price and value.


Everyone who goes through a sales funnel is supposed to become more and more engaged and would spend more money on the way.



This is how a typical sales funnel works:


On the “front-end”...

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