Muse testing - landing page creation

[FrozenCanuck]

Hi all,

How are you creating your landing pages right now to test a muse? I have very little experience with HTML and I'm not sure what the right way to go is for creating that landing page with fake "order entry" where you do not capture any actual credit card info but then lead the "customer" to a thank you page.

Does anyone have a lesson to explain this to the novices? Does anyone have a real live example they can share other than PXMethod?

I'm particularly interested in the details of the page construction. Tools, techniques, etc.

Thanks for any help.

[OneOfEm]

Here's a sales page tutorial (funny read, too): http://www.clickhereyouidiot.com/

Luck!

[neuromancer]

Here's a sales page tutorial (funny read, too): http://www.clickhereyouidiot.com/

Luck!

OK that long copy sales letter killed me.

[FrozenCanuck]

Oh geez, that was too FREAKIN' hilarious. I absolutely hate those sales pages where you must "act now" because that special offer won't last another 24 hours, the author of the e-book is just being ROBBED at that price!

Seriously though ... I plan to make my landing pages a LOT more straight forward and honest (no "it's a 24 hour special" bullcrap).

What I'm after is how to actually design these things ... tools, etc? I know very little about HTML. Or let's just say that the HTML I know is like my 3 yr old saying she knows how to colour inside of the lines (yes that is Canadian spelling folks, I'll throw in an "eh" for good measure).

[Bostonjohn]

Funny Stuff!

[Peter Bowen]

If you are going to do any html (long sales letters or not) I think you're best off with an editing program of some kind. I use rapid weaver (mac) but there are many others out there that do similar things.

[Mike Rhodes]

I use DreamWeaver - but it takes a long time to learn well enough to make pages that don't look like a kid did them in 1997

Creating a landing page is a perfect job to throw up on RentaCoder.com (elance is a litle more expensive)
Or hire a Virtual Assistant for a month (about $500-700) and get them to not only research other sites, create a page & opt-in, but maybe also write some auto-responder messages for you (& set them up!), setup 1ShoppingCart.com for you
Or write your free giveaway eBook (10 tips to ...)

As a huge believer in the 80/20 rule, I strongly believe you should only do the 2 or 3 things that you do really really well (& love doing) and outsource the rest.
It may seem as though you can't afford to - but you'll massively speed up your income-generation activities when you outsource the boring bits that are needed to make it happen (whatever they are for you)

Mike