Speaker: We are back for ask us anything from the Do This, NOT That! podcast all week long. We get in questions. And if you wanna submit a question, you can go to jayschwedelson.com. There's a button that says podcast, another one that says, ask us anything. And we get the wildest questions. We get in Word questions, we get in ridiculous questions.

Speaker: We love getting them, so please submit them. But we're gonna tackle one word question and one ridiculous question. Right now, so let's do the work. One. First we got a question from Gabrielle from Charleston, South Carolina. You know, I've been to Charleston. I love Charleston, but the, I only get so much from people that are from there.

Speaker: I feel like there's like one really good street in Charleston. Then there's like a couple of these side streets that are okay and whatever, but there's like this one really good street, and then I'm like, what else do I do around here? I don't know. So if you're from Charleston, tell me I'm wrong. Maybe I just missed it or something.

Speaker: Who cares? What am I talking about? Gabrielle, what is your question? Jay, our abandon rate on our landing page forms is crazy high. Any tips to improve conversions that are easy to do? Yeah, you know, this is really a common thing because I don't know why we think that it's okay. When someone clicks through on a social media post or ad or a search ad, or they click through from an email and they go to a, an offer page, a landing page, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker: That, you know, on average, 95% of the people don't convert that you're happy if you get 5% of people doing the thing, right? You send down an email saying, Hey, uh, register for this webinar. You get, take all the clicks, and then you get a a thousand clicks, and then 95% of them don't convert, and you're like, that's not.

Speaker: That's horrendous. Or you're selling a pair of socks, somebody clicks on the socks and then the 95% don't convert. That's horrendous. Alright, these people took that action. They were interested in that thing. What is it on your landing pages that you are doing or not doing that's actually causing people to not want to actually do the final step in the thing that they just said that they were interested in?

Speaker: And there's these little things that are so easy. Number one, this one's so wild, and no one realized. Is this. So let's say you're sending out an email campaign, okay? And in that email campaign, doesn't matter if you're a business consumer nonprofit marketer, doesn't matter. In that email campaign, you have a hero image.

Speaker: Let's say it's a picture of me. Hello. It's me waving a big picture of me waving. Okay? When someone clicks. On that email and they go to the destination page for maybe it's a webinar for me. Okay? Something like that. If you have the same primary image that is in your email or that is on your social post, the same primary image, if you have it in the social media post or email, and then it reappears on that landing page, okay?

Speaker: Believe it or not, your conversion rates will go up by over 10%. On that landing page, and it's in the subconscious, so we get a little bit more comfortable because we say, oh, I just saw this picture in the email. I was interested in it. I click through and here's the same picture. I'm in the right place.

Speaker: Just that simple action of having the same primary image, whether you're a business or a consumer marketer, it doesn't matter. It helps to actually calm people's nerves and it converts really well. Now they're on the page, and now you have all these fields. The problem is we ask people for a lot of information.

Speaker: Every additional must fill field, required field that you have on your landing page, you'll actually lose about 8% of people that might actually submit on that form. So you really need to think if everything that you're asking for is actually required. Because if you don't need to require it, then don't require it.

Speaker: Now, in general, the number of fields that you have on that form can be a big turnoff. When someone gets to a page and there's nine, 10 fields, forget about it. It looks like work. You know it does. You know, you don't wanna engage with that immediately. It's garbage. Anything more than eight fields, I tend to think six fields.

Speaker: But, and the data shows anything more than eight fields. You need to go to a multi-step form, you know, step one, step two, step three. And when you go to a, a, a multi-step form and you have more than eight fields, your conversion rates go up by over 30%. Then if you don't. So you have to think about, is it visually boring when you have all of those fields?

Speaker: Now, the other few things you have to think about is that right near the button, right near that submission button, okay? Where you're closing the deal, you know, buy the thing, subscribe for the thing. Download the thing, register for the thing, right near that button. You wanna do two things, number one. You wanna have some kind of testimonial.

Speaker: Literally you just need one testimonial for your business. Doesn't matter what is right near the button on the left of it, or right below it, it's gonna say The most comfortable socks ever exclamation mark. You put it in quotes, or, uh, this software saved our team 50% in our time. Whatever you need a closing argument when you have that testimonial.

Speaker: Right near that submission button, it will actually also lift your conversion rates by over 15%. 'cause it gets the person that last piece of validation that they need. The other things that you always wanna have on that destination page are logos. Whatever cool logos of companies you've worked with, companies you partner with, put them on that page.

Speaker: It makes it look like, oh yeah. I wanna buy it from them. I wanna work with them. Look at all these other companies they've interacted with. It is a form of social proof by putting these logos on there and people need that last step, that last validation piece. The last one is awards. I don't care if it's an award.

Speaker: When you won a bowling trophy when you were nine years old. Okay. It actually doesn't matter what awards your company has won, but whatever the award is, stick it on that destination page. People need to know that you are legit, that other people think that you're legit and nobody actually pays attention to what the award is.

Speaker: It could be a local award for people with the best toenails. It doesn't matter. You want it on that page. And then the final thing is if you have a navigation par navigation bar on your landing page, that's ridiculous. This is table stakes. No landing page can have a navigation bar where it takes you all over the place.

Speaker: Stop letting people click through elsewhere. Take your social sharing links off of your landing page. Are you trying to get people to follow your Instagram page or your LinkedIn page, or do you want them to buy the thing? Subscribe to the thing. Download the thing. Ooh, I get worked up always. All right.

Speaker: Those are kinda like the ways I would be thinking about improving your landing page. Let's get into the ridiculous question. So we got a question from Logan, from Huntsville, Alabama. Now Logan, I don't know if you're a man or a woman, but Logan, I love that name. My daughter's name is Logan, and I like it because nobody asked.

Speaker: Like you, there's very few female Logans that are out there, so that's why her name's really cool. Also, Wolverine. Uh, side note, I didn't name my daughter after Wolverine. The, you know, Marvel X-Men hero, but, uh, Wolverine's real name is Logan, who knew me 'cause I'm a loser. Anyway, um, okay, Logan, what is your question?

Speaker: Jay? I would love to know your daily routine. Oh, all right. That sounds like a weird question, but Sure. I actually do have an odd routine a little bit because I really, um, okay. So I'll tell you exactly what I do. Not that you care, but I'm gonna overshare. Here I go. Um, I try in the morning really, to get my day off on the right foot, because if not, I, I spiral.

Speaker: And I think all these negative things when I wake up. So first off, I wake up really early. It's really sad. I cannot sleep in. I want to, I can't. I set an alarm, but my alarm never goes off. I wake up generally about 5 45 in the morning. I know how gross that sounds. Um, I wish I could sleep later. I just can't.

Speaker: And then I get up and believe it or not, I know this is very woo woo and you're like, really? I don't look at my phone or whatever. I, um, I go into my bathroom, so I don't wake my wife and I have these headphones in my bathroom. And then I do a meditation. I do every morning, believe it or not. I start my day out with a 10 minute meditation.

Speaker: I use the Peloton app. Uh, there's a lot of, there's a lot of YouTube meditations, whatever. And I do these different meditations and I don't look at my phone. Um, I just hit plan the meditation. I try to just kind of. Get going. This sounds so ridiculous. I'm gonna get shredded for this 'cause it's so, like, really?

Speaker: You're so whatever. Woo, woo. Then there's a window, uh, in my bathroom and I look outside, although usually the sun is not up yet, but I look outside for like a minute or two. Try to take that all in, try back, okay. The day's getting going, okay. Then I go ahead and I put on gym clothes and there is a gym about.

Speaker: About a half a mile from my, from where my house is and I walk to the gym. I don't like going to the gym. I go to the gym. Okay. I do my thing there, uh, about a half an hour in the gym and the whole walk is about a half an hour total. And then I come home and then I head off to work. And that is how I start my day because I, I, if I don't start my day like that.

Speaker: Then what happens is I get outta bed, I look at my phone, I see all these slacks and emails. Everybody wants to beat me up. All this bad stuff is happening. All this stuff's happening around the world, and I really get into a negative zone and everything is bad. So I, I have been very intentional about trying to start my day off.

Speaker: Um, this way it's worked really well for me. Um, and so that's what I do. That's my routine. And I don't know, what did I just talk about? I don't know. Hey, listen. Um, I got a book coming out, Stupider People Have Done It. It's coming out in April. All net proceeds are going to V Foundation for Cancer Research.

Speaker: If you wanna get the book, just go on Amazon or whatever and look for Stupider People Have Done It by me and you can order it and then you're gonna help kick cancer's butt. Also go to jayschwedelson.com. I am taking on a handful of new, uh, consulting clients. It's gonna be fun. We could work together. Just go there, drop me a note on the form that you find there and, uh, yeah, keep it real.