And How Can A Mini Site Help Me Earn More Money Online?
Have you heard someone talking about mini sites and wondered what a mini site is? The term usually applies to a single page website. Let’s look at some examples of mini sites and talk about what they’re used for.
One Page Sales Letter
When you’re selling one single product to a specific target market, the one page sales letter is the perfect approach. You create one single webpage and you fill it will all of the information your target market will need to make a decision about buying the product.
Sales letters can be short or long — and there is quite an art to creating a sales message that converts lots of your visitors into customers. It pays to study other successful sales letters before creating one yourself.
Name Squeeze Page
Do you have a great free resource to give away? This could be an exclusive article, a special report, a free email course or a recorded interview — maybe even a discount code for use in your web store.
You create a simple ’squeeze’ page that offers them the freebie and tells them all they have to do is submit their name and address. You add some verbiage at the bottom of the page that tells them that you’ll stay in touch with them about future specials.
These specialized name squeeze pages help you to build very targeted email lists to make future offers to.
Affiliate Landing page
Another great use of the mini site is to create single page websites to promote a favorite affiliate product. Rather than send your leads directly to the affiliate website, you send them to a special landing page that you have set up to ‘pre sell’ the lead on the product.
You may also invite them to sign up for a tip sheet or some of other appropriate freebie that will compliment the affiliate product. You can then follow up with them on the product and encourage more sales.
Newsletter Opt In
If you have a newsletter, and of course you need one — you probably have an opt-in box on every page of your website. That’s a good way to promote it on the site.
However, when you’re out and about networking on forums or when you’re communicating via email and you want to promote the newsletter, you will find that a mini site dedicated to recruiting new newsletter subscribers is a great tool. You pick up a domain that matches the name of your ezine and set up a single page site that simply promotes the newsletter and provides the opt in box.
Now you can put this link in the author box of any articles you write. You can leave it in your blog comments, include it in your emails, even add it to your business card.
Do you see how mini sites can be applied to just about any business? They are highly targeted websites that have one single job to do and they do it very well.
A mini site doesn’t have to cost a lot either. Watersweb Hosting offers the Eco250 hosting plan that provides a whole year of hosting for your mini website for just $30.00. This unique hosting package allows you to host multiple websites on the same account; you just split the disc space and bandwidth allotment between the sites. With the space provided you can easily host several mini sites on the one account.
You can also use unlimited parked domain names to direct traffic to your sales letter. This is really useful for grabbing up possible misspellings or variations of your URL and making sure that anyone who types it in wrong still ends up on your mini site.
Are you ready to start marketing with mini sites?
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