Before you get started building your Squeeze Page, you will need a number of things to A); help you create your Squeeze Page and B) make your offer irresistible!
The most important thing you absolutely must have before you get started building a squeeze page is an auto responder.
I mentioned Aweber’s autoresponder service above and highly recommend them.
They offer the best AR service on the web as far as I’m concerned. You simply can not skip this step because without an autoresponder there is no list!
The next most important feature you will need to have is an actual offer that people will happily trade their email address for.
You may want to develop a product, such as a free E-Book, email course, video or a piece of software.
If you don't have the skills or knowledge on how to do this yet let me offer some assistance ideas.
Free Reports
This is perhaps the easiest product to create and offer from your squeeze page.
You can create a free report from scratch, use PLR reports or put articles together.
If you hate writing or don’t have time, you might be interested in James Allen’s Automatic Ebook Machine system where you can learn to whip up great reports in minutes without typing.
If it’s something more advanced, you can always hire a professional writer or programmer to create something for you through Elance or Guru. (11 Secrets to Keep Abandoning Visitors Engaged on Your Site)
Collecting Money
Just giving away a free report won’t make you money. Your money will come from your OTO, your follow up emails, and if you write a report, you can insert link in the pages to products for some extra revenue streams.
So in order to collect your money from sales of your products or affiliate sales, you need an account with a payment or “checkout” service. You may want to consider Paypal, Click Bank, or 2 Check Out. All of these services will allow you to take and to make transactions easily and quickly online.