How to create a simple Landing Page (for Lead Capture, Coming Soon announcement, Waitlist signup, etc.)

Whether you are announcing something new, capturing leads, delivering a lead magnet or enrolling people onto a waitlist, you can do it all quite simply by creating a landing page or lead page in ShinePages.

You can create these as simple PAGES within your website - or you can create them as FUNNELS.

Note: You may choose one method over the other based on whether you want these pages to "live" on your main domain (your website) or on a separate domain (in which case, set them up as a funnel).

In either case, you will follow the steps below to ensure your page has the following critical "Elements of a Landing Page":

- Eye-catching image or background

- Headline or hook that speaks to your ideal audience

- Simple lead capture Form widget - with no more than "name" and "email" fields. 

STEPS TO SET UP A LANDING PAGE: 

1) Add New Page in your website 

(or Add new Funnel or "step" within a funnel - please see more detailed info on Funnel Steps below)

2) Choose from the various "Landing Page" / "Coming Soon" (or other) Category Templates to start from.

OR begin with a blank page template and build from scratch by "Adding a Block" selecting form the pre-built blocks or create your own by selecting from the "Widgets" to ensure your Landing Page has the basic elements of images, text and most importantly a FORM Widget. 

3) Hide the Header and Footer if building on your website or within a Funnel "nested" beneath your website.

4) If you want to collect leads on this page - ensure that your chosen template page has a Form Widget on it (or drag the Form Widget to the page from the Widgets Menu on the left side of the Builder.) 

The way that contacts will get added to an Email List, Tagged appropriately and sent to the correct "next step" (ie: Thank You page) ALL happens within the Form Widget's "Settings". 

Adjust the Settings of your Form Widget as needed.  To get to the Settings - click once anywhere within the form on your page. Then click on the gear icon from the popup menu to access settings. 

Once in the Settings Window: 

-Name your Form

-Choose the Action upon Submit (ie: show a simple Thank you message or direct them to another page or a PDF download upon "submit")

-Connect to Email Marketing 

-Set a Tag for contacts

Please see the Full article on Form Settings for more info.

You can also edit the form fields and the form styling here in this mini menu.

5) Edit your Page Settings by clicking on the gear icon (settings to the right of your page) in your Pages List - the click on "Show Settings".

In "Page Info" add your details.

In "SEO Info" - add your details. Please see this article for more info: Page SEO

6) If you'd like to use this page as a "coming soon" page on your website - set it as the "Homepage" temporarily.

Follow instructions as per Point 5) and click on the "Set as Homepage" button as per below image.

With this option - you would just share your main website domain / url on social media etc.

- Also check out this article with more info on: How to set any page as the "Home Page

7) If you don't want to set it as your website "Homepage" you can "Grab the Link" for this page and share it by: 

Clicking on "Preview" within your page

Click on the "Show in New Tab" button

Grab the URL in the browser (everything before the ?)

See our short tutorial below:

Please see these articles on applying the above to a FUNNEL:

• How to Add a Funnel to Your Account
• How to Create a New Funnel Step / Page