A while ago, Oli Gardner came to Learn Inbound in Dublin (great event here) to speak about landing pages. You know, he's the founder of Unbounce so he sure knows a lot about them. He and his team gathered quantitative data from about 50,000 Unbounce landing pages and did a lot of conversion experiments. That amassed to about 1,000,000 little pieces of data on the perfect landing page (or Frankenpage), some of which I want to show you today. 

You see, a lot of my partners and customers at HubSpot ask about how to create the perfect landing page or how to optimise existing ones for better conversion. This blog post solves exactly that. 

Taking a step back, for those of you who don't know what a landing page is, it's basically a page on your website with a very clear offering that is of interest to your website visitors (ebook, template, consultation etc) and a form that they need to fill in order to avail that offer. It's an exchange of value - you give them something, they give you their contact details in return. You can see some examples on the HubSpot Academy by clicking on Landing Page. 

Let's get to the data now!  

What Makes Up The Perfect Landing Page

It's almost Halloween and pretty much everyone is talking or writing about it.

So I thought some newsjacking wouldn't be such a bad idea. (If you don't know what newsjacking is, take a look at this extensive piece.)

I also know that you love facts and infographics so I think you'll like today's post.

Now, Halloween is a scary time not just because of zombies but because we realise that the year is almost over. That's particularly worrying for marketers and agency people who are looking at both closing the year successfully with clients but also setting a thoughtful plan for the next year. 

Creating such a plan, though, requires research and informed decisions. 

The way we make informed decisions is by analysing the data, looking for trends and figuring out what the future of marketing might hold. 

That also includes not being scared to try new things and retire things that don't work. 

Every year HubSpot runs a pretty serious research into the state of inbound marketing. This year is no exception but we also added sales not just marketing as a research topic. 

The major finding in our 8th annual survey is not just that things are changing, they always do (and they better), but that things are changing at an insanely rapid pace. And most importantly we think that they are changing in the right direction. 

In five years only, marketing and the way we do business are going to be completely different. Why? Because the world is adopting inbound. It's becoming more authentic and less interruptive. 

As Brian Halligan says, 

Inbound means transforming how we do business to be more helpful, more human, more empathetic. It ... is about matching the way you market and sell with the way people actually want to shop and buy.

So it's not just about marketing, it's about everything we do as a business that needs to be is 100% customer-focused rather than marketer or seller-focused. 

I run a webinar a while ago for a group of my HubSpot customers on how to get more conversions with inbound marketing. 

It's a difficult topic but an important one because everyone who's doing inbound marketing wants to generate leads. 

A lot of companies create content and put landing pages out there hoping to get some good conversions out. But publishing just something and hoping for the best doesn't work. You need a proper strategy behind this. 

Another common challenge is staying up-to-date with everything new in the world of marketing and digital and keeping up with your customers and their constant change in behaviour. 

So today, I want to share with you those slides that will offer you both strategic and tactical tips on how to increase your inbound marketing conversions. 

But before I get to the deck, I want to summarise the key points for you. 

The one thing my customers struggle the most with is content. 

There are three big reasons for this: 

• They don't create enough content (the usual excuse "we don't have time").
• The content is not ranking ("we publish twice a week, but we are getting so little traffic"). 
• The content is not converting ("we write a lot but very few download our content offers on the landing pages").

Of course, the one big thing that solves for the latter two (I am not even going to pay attention to number one) is your buyer persona and making sure you are creating content for the right audience and promoting it there where your audience really is. With strategy you fascinate. 

But there's one other thing that marketing people often forget. Content is not just words. The internet is flooded with so many blogs, LinkedIn articles, Medium articles, magazines and newspapers. All words, words, words.

However, text may not always be the right approach. In a crowded world of information, you need something to stand out. And words don't always do the trick. You might need to get a bit more creative to attract people to your site. (I'm guilty of the words, words, words addiction too...)