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How to Create a Landing Page from Scratch Using smoove

Are you wondering how to attract more visitors, and more importantly, how to turn them into your customers?

If that’s the case, the tool you’ve been looking for is the landing page. Essentially a web page, it has a sole purpose of capturing a visitor’s information through a lead form. This is done by offering them something useful and valuable such as product sample, discount, consult, trial or any product or service you’re selling, in return for contact information.

To create a top-notch landing page for your small business you need to stay focused on a single objective that matches the ad your visitors clicked on to reach your page. A product or service-specific landing page will help you get more subscribers, so don’t hesitate to create multiple landing pages for multiple goals you may have!

The good news is that businesses nowadays can design and publish landing pages themselves via a simple landing page builder and save both money and time usually spent on hiring professionals.

smoove’s landing page builder is simple, smart, and effective tool designed to advance your marketing campaigns and capture your visitor’s contact information easier than ever.

smoove's landing page builder

How does it work?

Small business owners love building landing pages with smoove as it doesn’t require them to be experts either in design or in digital marketing. It is specially designed for people who need a simple and fast tool to support and execute their marketing campaigns.

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smoove enables you to simply design your landing page by using its modular template system, add a registration form and define which list of the subscribers it will be directed to.

Its core features such as drag-and-drop interface, simple web forms, pre-designed templates and numerous smart hacks (such as CTA buttons, social media buttons and more), make your landing page simple, effective and most importantly – easy to build.

Customize your pages for your audience

Every online ad you create should provide a landing page focused on a single offer. Knowing this, you should drive your customers attention by providing them with tailored content and a compelling form that is both simple and effective.

smoove’s simple drag and drop interface offers all this and contains smart blocks with pre-designed boxes for new paragraphs, titles, images, articles and web forms.

Along with forms, bullets and menus, its interface also has smart blocks for CTA buttons, social media buttons and YouTube videos which can make your landing page look like it was done by a professional! You can also manually change size, style and colors of other elements of your landing page in seconds.

All of these elements are easily added, customized and removed and you will be surprised how much time you can actually save. Your only job is to copy your contacts and your content and let smoove do the rest.

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Designing your landing page

You should always keep your users focused on a single objective on your landing page by removing all the elements that could drive them away from its primary purpose. Distractions can reduce the conversion rates, so you should always declutter your landing page by dismissing all the unnecessary links, ads and buttons.

Along with colors and fonts that match your ad and/or your website, your landing page has to have visible and compelling headlines, visible CTA and simple forms where your customers can leave their contact info. This task can be time consuming and complicated, so many small business owners are opting for online templates which can guarantee a success of your campaign.

The landing page can also be created in full screen which can have a strong impact creating wow effect for visitors.

landing page builder

smoove’s landing page builder also has a bunch of ready to use, beautifully designed templates that will give your landing page a professional look. This way you will not only set up your landing page in minutes, you will also have a strategically designed and ready-to-go tool to support you marketing campaign right away!

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Simple web forms and Clear CTA buttons

smoove’s landing page builder offers different web forms and buttons that are customizable and easy to use. Smart web forms enable you to obtain the exact information you need from your landing page visitors and make the conversion easy and effective.

Simple web forms

smoove enables you to change the size, layouts and number of fields in a form and customize the text in your forms and buttons.

Call-To-Action

If you want to convert your leads and bring them to your website, you need to make sure that your Call-To-Action (CTA) button is clearly visible and compelling to click. With smoove’s drag and drop interface this is faster than ever. Just drag and drop the button box to your landing page template, customize it with a compelling headline such as “Get your free sample now” and get those new subscribers.

compelling CTA headline

More Relevant Content

smoove’s smart functionality enables you to include more relevant content in your landing page and gives your business instant credibility.

Use features such as smart links in your buttons  as a multifunctional trigger. With the “smart link” option you can use actions such as adding a visitor to a defined list, add or replace a certain data related to a contact and more. With these actions, you can start or impact a visitors buyer’s journey right away and always give them the most relevant content.

Trigger settings

smoove also offers the possibility to connect several different landing pages and automatically create a “Thank you” page.

Thank you page

Or try smoove’s countdown, where you can create an immediate CTA in case you wish to sign-up your customers to a specific event.

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Also, you can mobile phone number to your landing page for an immediate reach-out, which is very effective in case you are running a mobile campaign. The great news is the Waze button works here as well.

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Keeping Conversion at the front of mind

Personalized landing pages account for several times higher conversion rates. To put it in simply, the more relevant your landing page is to visitors, the more likely they are to convert.

Via smoove’s advanced & automated text options and personalized fields module you’re providing only relevant content on your landing page and keeping conversion the focus of everything you do. You can now personalize your content simply and easily, while smoove does the rest of the hard work for you.

The personalisation fields module will help you learn more about your customers and efficiently use the information they provide. You can add as many personalisation fields as you like, according to your needs, such as interests, special requests for preferred content choices.

Each field has its own “targeting” function and it can be shown only if it follows a certain rule. For example, the entire form below would only be shown if a customer meets a certain criteria (based on a data he previously filled out on a landing page). This means customers will never feel they are getting the same thing twice and will be more likely to convert.

targeting function

Don’t worry, it’s mobile friendly

With smoove you can be sure that the content and design of your landing page is always displayed properly across different devices. smoove’s landing pages tool creates mobile responsive pages that look equally great on mobile devices and tablets so you can reach your customers on the move.

Maximise performance of all your other tools with smoove’s Integrations

When a new client registers on a landing page that you have created through your smoove account, his/her details are automatically stored in a dedicated list on the system, but not in your CRM. To resolve this issue, smoove offers two options for integrating your smoove account users info with other systems you may have.

At the landing page management panel, you can find the option “Advanced” which will lead you to different option to maximize/optimize your overall campaign performance.

landing page management

One of the options offered is “External data transmission url” through which you can define to send a contact to an external platform using a little coding. This option enables you to integrate and define the transmission of contacts registered to your page to an external system such as your CRM or other systems.

External data transmission url

To make things easier for its users, smoove also implemented a block named Zapier inside its system which allows the integration of any of your other systems and apps into any automatic process that you may create.

Zapier

With Zapier you define an automated processes to easily send contacts/leads to external CRM tools. To enable this option, you should also have an account with Zapier.

Wrap-up

smoove’s marketing automation platform is specially designed for small business owners who need an easy-to-use system to create and support their marketing campaigns. One of its core features, smart landing page builder, enables you to personalize your marketing campaigns, maximize conversions and establish a strong relationship with your customers.

smoove’s landing page builder is simple to use due to its drag and drop interface, pre-designed templates and smart hacks which will help you set up you landing page in minutes.

Sign up today and start building your landing pages with smoove.

 

How to Include Mobile Campaigns in your Marketing?

Did you know the average person sends and receives more than 40 text messages a day?  And not only that! Did you know that SMS open rates go well beyond 90%, and that around 98% of text messages are read within the first 3 minutes from receiving them?

In fact SMS open & read rate is several times higher than the average email campaign or a social media post can achieve. This means no marketer or business owner should ever underestimate the marketing power of SMS.

SMS is a very powerful tool to communicate with your customers as it doesn’t rely on an internet connection, it’s incredibly fast, can be used to reach anyone with a mobile phone (which is roughly around 90% of adult population). The text messaging option is built into the default operating system of every phone used today and it enables business owners to reach both those with smartphones and with a feature phone (that’s actually what we called mobile phones built before the smartphone era).

Born in the periphery of advertising, mobile campaigns have now become an integral part of every successful marketing campaign. Mobile campaigns are most commonly focused on reaching the audience through SMS (text messaging). With the introduction of smartphones, marketing experts have perfected strategies for mobile campaigns which can now be distributed via emails and different apps.

With so many new ways to reach customers on mobile, SMS marketing remains one of the fastest growing sales-boosting channels in the world of digital marketing. It is constantly being used as a tool to enlarge customer databases and to increase sales, especially if your goal is to reach a large number of people fast.

Results from research on mobile ads conducted in 2016 showed that text-based ads are much more favorable among its audience than other types of mobile ads such as pop-ups, video ads or so called ‘following’ ads which are, for instance, appearing on mobile screens while people browse social media.

Text-based ads
Text-based ads are quite favorable, compared to other formats [Image Credit: HubSpot]

People consider SMS ads to be less intrusive and less disruptive than others mentioned, and the customers are always right, aren’t they?

How to use SMS marketing?

To start using an SMS marketing campaign for your small business, you need to have a database of customers to send text messages to. This database is quite easy to compile such as by inviting customers to text a keyword to a short code number offered by your mobile service provider. For example, if you run a pizza restaurant, you can ask your potential customers to text the word ‘pizza’ to a short code number in order to get a free pizza on their next visit. You can display the code in your email newsletters, on door to door flyers or inside the restaurant itself. When a person opts into your SMS marketing services, they are added to your database of customers and opted in to receive future text messages from your business.

You can use SMS marketing for clarity, immediacy, sales boosting and effective business promotion. The great thing is they are always opened! Frankly, we don’t know if somebody can actually ignore an SMS, we all just want to know what’s inside that little message!

Still, there are some rules you should stick to while creating your SMS marketing campaign:

Don’t make it too long

Keep in mind that an SMS is not an email and that an SMS sent to your customers needs to be short, clear and engaging. Writing too long text messages can result in breaking the text into two separate messages, which can do serious damage to your campaign. Always keep it to one message length.

Think about timing

As a business owner you know that there is good time for every purchase. For example, a shoe store owner may have most sales on the weekend and so it’s maybe best to send out an SMS offer with a coupon codes towards the end of the week so that people have it front of mind to use it during the upcoming weekend. Alternatively  a local pizza shop may have the same for the lunch hours so could send their SMS at 11am when people are considering their lunch options. Find the perfect time for your offer and send that text to your customers!

American clothing retailer Lands’ End recently used timely SMS marketing to boost their Mother’s Day sales. The aim of their campaign was to remind their customers that Mother’s Day was close and to drive them to a mobile site to buy gift cards. The company sent two different SMS messages leading up to the holiday to make sure the offer was on their customer’s mind.

By recognizing that the holidays were an ideal opportunity to send out SMS messages, Lands’ End were able to make their campaign very successful by offering a valuable and timely incentive.

SMS marketing needs a CTAs as well

Like any marketing campaign, an SMS campaign also needs to have a clear and visible Call to Action (CTA). Since there is no option for an eye-catching CTA button in an SMS, make sure you invite your customers the good old fashioned way, by using words.

Create a compelling text and add a (shortened) URL to your mobile landing page to let your customers know you have something great for them! If you don’t want to use standard shorteners, you can use some really cool tools that enable you to use your own domain with a brand name in a shortened URL.

SMS marketing and mobile landing pages

When you use SMS marketing make sure you direct the SMS message to a landing page built just for mobile. It should load fast and work both on smart and feature phones so don’t include lots of pictures and many sections with lots of information. A mobile landing page should be as simple and effective as the SMS itself.

Remember people read information quicker on mobile compared to desktop so an optimised page (for desktop and mobile) won’t work. Build the landing page just for mobile by keeping the text short and as concise as possible.

Keep in mind that your landing page CTA needs to be in line with your SMS message CTA. For instance, if there is ‘Click to claim your 20% off coupon’ CTA in your SMS, make sure that the same CTA with the same offer is also clearly visible as soon as your customers land on your mobile page.

When is it effective to use SMS campaigns?

SMS campaigns are used to promote your business, product and services and due to their immediacy and potential to reach customers wherever they are, they’re especially effective in the following situations:

  1. When you need a very high response rate

It’s hard for people to ignore it, so if you want to reach as many people possible, don’t hesitate to send them that SMS with your latest offer!

Just recently, US restaurant chain Hooters initiated an SMS campaign through which they offered their customers a chance to win a trip to the destination of their choice. Offering an incentive such as free trip helped Hooters to significantly enlarge their mobile customers database. Hooters uses SMS in their marketing campaigns quite often which helps them to drive brand awareness and increase their sales.

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SMS is a great choice when you want a high response rate [Image Credit:
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  1. In case of miscommunication

If your customers, for example, wrote their email incorrectly and your newsletters are not getting through, you can easily reach them with an SMS saying “Hi, you probably didn’t write your email correctly. Can you please click on the link (to a form) and change your email?”

  1. For instant marketing solutions

Automated text messaging enables you to reach your customers any place and any time with personalized targeted content directly to their phones.

For example, people who visit a retail store, or see an advert online or offline (such as a poster or a flyer), can text the word “Sale” to a specific number and get an SMS back with a coupon. All of this, of course, after they’ve filled a form with their required details.

To set this automation process up yourself you can use an online tool such as smoove. It allows you to reach your customers via SMS faster and easier than ever.

  1. To make things easier for your customers

Worried that your customers might forget their appointment they made with you days, weeks or months ago? You can use an SMS to remind people about an appointment they may have booked, or a sale you may have on so they don’t miss it. You could also include your address and phone number for easy reach in case they need it.

If you organise events you can create an SMS campaign with a link to a mobile landing page which contains a map of the event and even a Waze button to take them to the exact location of the event.

  1. For last minute communications

With extremely high open rates text messaging is a perfect marketing tool for all your last-minute offers and any last minute changes you may have.

For example, you can use it for a flash sale in your store, or an unpredictable situation such as a last minute change of location for your event or to help your customers navigate through any last minute traffic restrictions. Reaching your customers via SMS is much faster and more guaranteed than doing it with an email or any other form of communication.

Wrap-up

SMS marketing is one of the most important and fastest growing marketing channels for small businesses. It’s fast, reliable, doesn’t require an internet connection and stands as one of the best tools to enlarge your customer database.

Don’t make your SMS too long and think about the perfect time to send it out to your customers. Use short and compelling text with a shortened URL leading to your mobile landing page.

SMS marketing is a great tool to use for instant marketing solutions, to get higher response rate, make things easier for your customers and also for a last minute communications.

By using small business marketing software such as smoove with its automated text messaging service you can now reach your customers in a few simple steps, wherever they are. You can easily create mobile landing pages so when your contacts receive your SMS they can click directly to your mobile content and complete any CTA or forms. And if you want to link your mobile campaign to something else, don’t worry, smoove enables you to link any SMS to any mobile web page you desire.

All you need now is to come up with an idea for your mobile campaign!
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