How to Set Up a Sales Page

A sales page is a stand-alone page created with one particular purpose in mind, which is to secure sales for your product. This recipe will show you how you can set up a page that will create sales for your product.

Time Estimate

At least an hour or two

Ingredients

1. Logins for the following:
   • Shopping Cart  (Examples: Thrivecart, Ontraport, ClickFunnels)
   • Payment Service Provider - (Examples: Paypal, Stripe)
   • Website
   • Hosting Provider for the Product (Example: AWS)
   • 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. Product
6. Product Cover Image

Directions

1. Create a document to save the important links:
   • Sales Page URL
   • Link to “Thank you for your purchase” page URL
   • Download link to the product
   • URL or form code for the web form
2. Upload product to hosting site - copy link onto the document.
3. Create form:
   • Login to ecommerce or shopping cart service provider
   • Create form with contact information and payment information
   • Save URL or form code to put on sales webpage.
4. Create a thank you page for the product.
5. Create the sales 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 product, a buy button, a call to action, and an image of your product.
6. Copy the webpage URLs to the document.

Taste Test

1. Put your product in your shopping cart service provider in test mode if possible.
2. Go to your sales page and click the buy now button. See if it will lead you to the shopping cart and buy the product from there.
3. You must get an email from your shopping cart service provider about your invoice as well as the download link so you can get what you paid for.
4. If everything is okay, you can activate the product.

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

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.

Ontraport – includes shopping cart and affiliate program

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

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