Savvy marketers understand the power of mailing lists.
This is because a a list of email subscribers gives you instant traffic and access to repeat buyers.
Marketing studies show that, on average, 50%-80% of visitors to a website will leave and never return. That’s a lot of money to leave behind. In addition to this, research shows that it takes an average of seven exposures to your business before prospects will make a purchase decision. It’s vitally important, therefore, to find a strategy that will help you interact repeatedly with your visitors.
How can you do this, however, if most visitors leave and never return?
The answer, of course, is to get visitors to give you their details while they’re visiting your website, so you can build a relationship after they have exited your website.
Building a list is absolutely essential when it comes to building a successful online business. A great list of responsive subscribers has the potential to become your most reliable and constant source of profit.
If you sell one or more products on your website, or your business relies on traffic, then building a list is essential, because it is the key to having access to repeat visitors and building a relationship.
Now … there are many different ways and effective strategies to build a list, but until very recently, it was very difficult to find one solution that gives users access to just about all of the most effective methods available for capturing visitors’ email addresses on a website.
Thrive Leads – List-Building Plugin For Conversion-Focused WordPress Users
Plugin Description
The Thrive Leads mailing list builder for WordPress lets you build a list of subscribers fast using a wide range of opt-in forms, split-test different offers, boost your conversions, and get traffic on tap, without leaving your WordPress dashboard …
As mentioned earlier, there are many ways and effective strategies to build an email list, and almost all of these methods and strategies require using opt-in forms.
What makes Thrive Leads different from all other email marketing solutions is that Thrive Leads comes with some of the most effective conversion and list-building strategies built into their plugin.
Thrive Leads WordPress list-building plugin is developed by Thrive Themes, a conversion-focused WordPress theme developer. As such, the plugin was developed to help WP users not just build a mailing list, but build a mailing list faster.
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Plugin Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Leads to build a list of subscribers quickly and get traffic on call on your site:
It’s A Plugin For WordPress Users
Thrive Leads WordPress list builder eliminates the need to install multiple plugins on your WP site. This not only reduces possible plugin conflicts, but the “lean and clean” nature of the plugin keeps your website’s loading speed down.
Very Easy To Install
Thrive Leads is really easy to install. Simply upload it to your Plugins folder via your admin account and activate.
Really Simple To Use
The Thrive Leads plugin makes it very simple to set up one or more opt-ins, use their pre-designed form templates and start collecting email addresses. No technical skills or design skills are required at any point.
In order to get the most out of the Thrive Leads plugin, you will want to make use of the advanced targeting, testing and reporting features. If you are a complete beginner, allow 20-45 minutes to learn how to use all of the functionality in the plugin. Fortunately, ThriveThemes provides extensive training content, case studies as well as a support team that is available to help answer any questions you have.
Every Kind Of Form You Will Ever Need
With Thrive Leads, you can begin to capture subscriber details using pre-designed templates, and every type of form you will ever need.
For example, you can use the Thrive Leads plugin to build unblockable “pop-up” opt-in forms …
Display slide-in forms …
You can use Thrive Leads to place in-line opt-in forms anywhere within your content, or the middle of your posts using a simple shortcode …
Insert a form into the sidebar widget area …
You can insert two-step opt-in links that open a lightbox form when visitors click on a content link …
And even add ”sticky” ribbon forms to your site that shows at the top of the screen and remain “sticky” as the visitor scrolls down the page …
As you can see, Thrive Leads combines every type of subscription form you need in one single plugin …
Thrive Leads also lets you add ‘smart’ Exit Popups that display opt-in forms with exit intent technology, which allow you to capture visitor details when they exit your site.
And it gets even better …
Thrive Leads Features
Thrive Leads offers many features to website owners. Here are just some:
Fast And Simple To Install And Configure
Be up and running in no time. As already mentioned, the developer provides extensive training and tutorials, case studies, webinars, plus a support team.
This tool not only combines every type of opt-in form you need into a single plugin, as you’ve just seen, but it also lets you run all your list-building strategies from your own dashboard.
Built-In List Building Strategies For Boosting Conversions
Thrive Leads integrates all of the list-building strategies you need to optimise your conversions into one easy-to-use plugin:
Design & Deploy
The plugin comes with dozens of professionally-designed and web optimized opt-in form templates that can be fully customized to suit your needs, with no technical skills required.
Simple “point and click” technology and a visual editor allows you to easily create, modify and customize your forms …
A/B Testing Engine
Split testing is the fastest way to double or triple your conversion rate and accelerate the growth of your list.
Thrive Leads comes with a powerful A/B testing engine that makes it easy to test a whole range of variables, including the following:
Test Opt-In Form Designs And Content
Thrive Leads lets you test different opt-in form designs and content, and provides an “automatic winner” feature that automatically eliminates the test variations that aren’t performing, and display only the highest converting campaigns after enough data has been collected.
You simply begin testing and the plugin takes care of the rest, automatically helping you increase conversion rates over time.
Test Multiple Form Triggers
Thrive Leads lets you customize when and how your forms should appear to visitors.
For example, you can set up:
- Time-based triggers to show a link on your screen after 35 seconds
- Scroll-depth triggers where a message appears only after site visitors scroll down at least 40% of the web page
- Exit-intent triggers that detect when someone is about to exit the page and presents them with a pop-up form.
Additionally, you can test if a form should display instantly, or animate into view (e.g. slide in). You can test many triggers against one another to further increase conversion rates.
Test Form Types
The plugin also lets you perform tests on different form types. For example, you can test a lightbox pop-up vs a slide-in form and see which form type performs better for your business.
Test Offers
The plugin even lets you A/B test completely different offers.
For example, you can assign different forms to different follow-up sequences to help you decide which offers deliver the best conversion results.
(Split-test different offers)
Not only does Thrive Leads give you tremendous flexibility when it comes to split-testing your opt-ins, but you can easily clone any existing form – even make multiple copies of a form, then edit the element(s) you want to test and instantly start running your A/B split test again, and and you can do this all in just a few minutes.
Additional features of Thrive Leads include:
Advanced Targeting Features
You can create hyper-targeted offers for your visitors with 3 advanced targeting levels (Easy, Advanced, Ultimate). You have granular control over how you target your offers to make your offers more relevant.
For example, you can create a “catch-all” offer to show on all posts and pages or only your blog posts, or define exactly where kinds of offers — even specific designs — will display across your entire website based on certain rules you set (e.g. a ribbon form on your 404 error page), including which templates, archive pages, etc. or, conversely, where to prevent forms from displaying on your site.
You can even create highly relevant offers to display to specific segments of your audience at a precise moment. Use this feature to create hyper-targeted and extremely profitable lists.
You can even use different lists with different services and different forms.
Advanced Lead Generation Forms Supported
Advanced form features supported include multiple fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-down menus.
100% Responsive
Your forms and list marketing campaigns will look great on any device or screen size.
Thrive Leads is also compatible will all major web browsers.
Get Higher Value Traffic
Thrive Leads gives you access to detailed reports that let you see exactly how your opt-ins and A/B tests perform over time.
Additionally, the software provides a “lead sources” report that shows you exactly where your most valuable traffic comes from, allowing you to plan your campaigns strategically for getting the most highly qualified traffic from the best converting sources.
Seamless Integration With All Major Autoresponders & Email Marketing Services
If your autoresponder allows HTML forms to be embedded then Thrive Leads with work seamlessly with your service.
Also, you can use different lists and different services with different forms, so you’re not dependent on any one service.
As you can see, Thrive Leads gives users many opt-in testing capabilities that go far beyond what other list-building tools provide.
Feedback From Users
Below are just a few of the testimonials and feedback users have provided for the Thrive Leads plugin:
”Shane, this new addition to Thrive Themes is great. I have several different plug-ins like this, but this one is really great. It fits perfectly with the themes and is seamless.” David Wakeman
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“I really look forward to more training from the Thrive Themes team. Love the product and want to get better!” Cristina Favreau
Product Support
As mentioned previously, ThriveThemes provides extensive training content, webinars as well as a dedicated support team that is available to help answer any questions they have.
The plugin interface provides video tutorials explaining exactly what you’re seeing and how to use the plugin. You can also access an extensive knowledgebase of tutorials, training webinars, case studies and list building strategies, so you get a ton of help, training and support on how to get the most out of Thrive Leads.
The software is well-supported, and users get one-year upgrades with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, thirty day, 100% refund guarantee.
Product License Pricing
Thrive Leads is available in the following editions:
- Single Site – The Single Site edition lets you install & activate the plugin on 1 single site. All plugin features are included, plus Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included. Cost = $49.00.
- Unlimited Websites License – This license lets you install & activate the plugin on unlimited websites that you own and operate. All features are included, plus Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included. Price = $97.00.
- Agency – This license allows you to install & activate the plugin on all sites that you own and operate, and on all of your client sites. Includes all plugin features, and Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included.. Cost = $199.00.
Please Note: Current pricing for the product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The pricing above was correct when this content was written. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the product author when you visit the product site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the current price:
Additional Plugin Information
Even on an existing website with hundreds of posts, you can install Thrive Leads and use the targeting feature to retroactively display more relevant and higher-converting opt-in forms throughout your site.
For ”how-to” videos showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Leads website.
We Recommend
Building a list is absolutely essential for building a successful online business. When it comes to growing a targeted subscriber list, the only way to improve your results is by running A/B tests and then analyze your performance to find out what works best for your business. Thrive Leads makes a very powerful tool available to WordPress users without technical or cost barriers, such as requiring expert coding skills or subscribing to expensive services.
With Thrive Leads, you have complete control over exactly where and how your forms display to visitors, and the tools to increase your subscription rates. There are other form plugins and solutions for list-building, but the main difference is that other list-building plugins focus more on some aspect of functionality, such as allowing the user to create and add popups to their site. Thrive Leads starts with this type of functionality, but the real focus of the plugin is on conversion optimization.
As stated on their website …
“It’s not just about helping you build your mailing list. It’s about helping you build your mailing list as fast as possible!”
For complete details, visit the plugin website here: Thrive Leads – Mailing List-Building Plugin For Conversion-Focused WordPress Sites
By the way …
We use Thrive Leads here on WPCompendium.org. Check it out for yourself …
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