Anatomy of the Perfect Landing Page: How to Communicate for Results

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Presenters: Schuyler Bogel, Eaglebrook School, and Peter Baron In this session, Peter Baron, WhippleHill, and Schuyler Bogel, Eaglebrook School, breakdown the seven most important characteristics of a successful landing page. Hear how Eaglebrook used them in a series of effective marketing campaigns, and get a tour of onMessage's new landing page module! Walk away ready to fold landing pages into your school's marketing outreach.

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Anatomy of the Perfect Landing Page

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Landing pages

Landing pages are often linked to from social media, email campaigns or search engine marketing campaigns in order to enhance the e!ectiveness of the advertisements. The general goal of a landing page is to convert site visitors into sales or leads.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_page

Landing Page vs Your Website?

Whole School Community

admissionsstudent life

academic programsschool newsathletics...

About us Admission Academics Programs News Support

A Welcome from the

Headmaster

Mission Statement

The Core Skills at

Eaglebrook School

Campus Tour

Facts & Stats

2012-2013 Trustees of

Eaglebrook School

History of Eaglebrook

School

Faculty & Staff

Directory

Employment Opportunities

Directions

School Contacts

The Eaglebrook Hymn &

Hurrah

Dining Hall Menu

Construction at

Eaglebrook: What is

Happening?

Sign in

Welcome

How to Apply

How Could You Do It?

The Essential Sixth Form

Year

Inquiry Form

An Eaglebrook Parent

Speaks

Visitor's Guide

Tuition & Financial Aid

Meet the Office

Eaglebrook School's

Academic Curriculum

Summer Reading

The Copley Library

Secondary Placement

Athletics

Philosophy

Team News

Full Sports Schedule

Directions/Opponents

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Student Life

School Calendar

Eaglebrook School News

Media Gallery

Publications

Eaglebrook on the Web

Brookie Bits News

Why Give?

Online Giving

Ways to Give

Planned Giving

Meet the Office

Social

Goal = Explore & Learn

vs.

Targeted group

reunionannual fund

regional eventadmission open housemarketing campaign...

A focused campaign that leads to...

Conversions

The M.I.R.B.O. Principle(Make It Really Bloody Obvious)

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The 7 Principles of Conversion Centered DesignSource: http://bit.ly/10OxFO0

1. Encapsulation

2. Contrast & Color

3. Directional Cues

Click me!

4. Whitespace

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5. Urgency & Scarcity

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6. Try Before You Buy

7. Social Proof

Social Proof:testimonials (written & video)

school a"liationsrecent speaking engagements

Always be testing

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Option #1: Use the URL for the website home page:

Problem with this approach: How to measure who saw

the ad?

Option #2: Use a Landing Page to bring users to a specific place with special URL

Measuring Success

How about onMessage?

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