How to Set Up a Lead Magnet Page

A lead magnet is an incentive that marketers offer to prospective customers in exchange for their email address or other contact information. This recipe will show you how you can set up a page for your lead magnet.

Time Estimate

At least an hour or two

Ingredients

1. Logins for the following:
   • Email Service Provider (Examples: Aweber, ActiveCampaign)
   • Website
   • Hosting Provider for the Lead Magnet (Examples: AWS, Youtube, Vimeo)
   • Cover Image Maker (Examples: Canva, Ecover Authority)
2. Web Form
   • To create a form, you need to have the required fields:
     • First Name
     • Email Address
3. Email Copy
4. Webpage Copy
5. Lead Magnet Item - PDF Report/Ebook or Video
6. Lead Magnet Cover Image

Directions

1. Create a document to save the important links:
   • Link to lead magnet URL
   • Link to thank you URL
   • Download link to lead magnet
   • URL or form code for the web form
2. Upload lead magnet to hosting site - copy link onto the document.
3. Create form:
   • Login to email service provider
   • Create form with first name and email address as required fields.
   • Save URL or form code to put on lead magnet webpage.
4. Create an email campaign or autoresponder for the lead magnet:
   • Copy and paste the email copy into the email sequence including the time delay.
   • Send a test for each email to verify the links, typos and images.
5. Create the lead magnet webpage and the thank you webpage. Copy paste the web copy you’ve prepared in strategic positions on the webpage. There must be a heading, a body containing the benefits of getting the lead magnet, a web form where prospective customers can opt-in and give their name and email address, a call to action, and an image of your lead magnet.
6. Copy the webpage URLs to the document.

Taste Test

1) Go to the Lead magnet webpage and submit name and email address on webpage.

2) Ensure that the thank you page is received.

3) Verify that the first email in the campaign is received and download link is working.

Icing on the Cake

1. Start marketing your sales page.
2. If the client wants you to create their own procedure for this, then create your own procedure. If you have specific instructions from your client, make sure you also document that.

Resources

Active Campaign  – Email Marketing, Email Segmentation, Subscription Forms, Dynamic Content, Split Testing

MailerLite – Good platform to start with for email marketing

Aweber  – Get everything you need to be an email pro

Ontraport – includes shopping cart and affiliate program

ClickFunnels – Comprehensive landing page and funnel builder and includes shopping cart, email and affiliate program.

Optimize Press – Marketing site creation made easy… OptimizePress is the new way to create high converting landing pages, sales pages and membership portals.

Elegant Themes – A collection of premium WordPress themes for the price of one, including the Divi theme.

Gravity Forms – Easiest tool to create advanced forms for your WordPress-powered website

Optimize Press Theme – The new way to create high converting landing pages, sales pages and membership portals.