Savvy marketers understand that building a mailing list is one of the best things you can do for a business online.
This is because a a list of email subscribers gives you traffic on demand and access to repeat sales.
It’s a well-known fact that, on average, 50%-80% of web visitors generally will leave and never return. That’s a lot of money you’re probably leaving behind. Also, 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 look for a strategy that will help you get repeat interactions with site visitors.
How can you do this, however, if most visitors leave and never come back?
The answer, of course, is to get your visitors’ email address while they’re still on your website or blog, so you can continue communicating after they have left your site.
Building a list is absolutely essential for building a successful online business. A great list of targeted contacts has the potential to become your most valuable business asset.
If you sell one or more products on your website, or your business relies on traffic, then list-building is essential, because it is the key to accessing repeat visitors and building a relationship.
There are many different ways and strategies to build an email list, but until very recently, it was very hard to find one solution that integrates just about all of the most effective methods available for capturing visitors’ email addresses on your website.
Thrive Leads – List Builder For WP Users
Plugin Description
Thrive Leads WP list builder could easily become the ultimate list-building plugin for WordPress. It lets you build a list of subscribers quickly using many different types of opt-in forms, test different offers, boost your conversions, and get traffic on tap, all from within your WordPress dashboard …
As stated earlier, there are many ways and effective strategies to build an email list, and almost all of these methods and strategies use subscription forms.
What makes Thrive Leads different than all other lead capturing solutions is that Thrive Leads comes with a range of unique conversion boosting technologies and list-building strategies already built-in.
The Thrive Leads WP mailing builder is developed by Thrive Themes, a conversion-focused WP theme developer. As such, the plugin was developed to help WordPress users not just build a mailing list, but to build a mailing list faster.
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Benefits
Here are just some of the many benefits and advantages of using Thrive Leads to build a list of subscribers fast and get traffic on tap on your site:
It’s A Plugin For WordPress Users
Thrive Leads WordPress mailing builder eliminates the need to have multiple plugins installed on your WP site. This not only reduces the possibility of problems resulting from plugin conflicts, but also keeps your site’s loading speed down.
Easy Installation
Thrive Leads is quite easy to install. Just upload a zip folder containing the plugin to your Plugin folder via your dashboard and activate.
Very Simple To Use
The Thrive Leads plugin has made it very easy to set up one or more opt-ins, use their pre-designed form templates and start collecting subscriber details. No technical skills or design skills are required.
To get the most out of the plugin, you will want to make use of the advanced targeting, testing and reporting features. If you are a complete beginner, allow 25-60 minutes to learn how to use all of the functionality in the plugin. Fortunately, ThriveThemes provides extensive tutorials, case studies and a dedicated support team that is available to help you out.
Every Kind Of Opt-In Form You Will Ever Need
With the plugin, 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 it to display unblockable “pop-up” opt-in forms …
Insert forms that slide in from the corner of your screen …
You can use the plugin to place in-line opt-in forms anywhere within your content, or the middle of your blog posts using a simple short code …
Insert an opt-in form into the sidebar widget area …
You can insert two-step opt-in links that open a lightbox when visitors click on a link inside your content …
And even add ”sticky” ribbon forms to your site that display at the top of the screen and remain “sticky” even while the visitor scrolls down your page …
As you can see, Thrive Leads integrates every kind of opt-in form you need in one single WP 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 better …
Thrive Leads Features
Thrive Leads offers many features to WordPress users. Here are just a few:
Quick And Simple To Install
Be up and running in minutes. As already mentioned, the developer provides extensive tutorials, training content, case studies, webinars, and a support team.
This tool not only combines every type of opt-in form you need into one single plugin, as you’ve just seen, but it also lets you run your list-building strategies directly from your own WP dashboard.
All-In-One List Building Strategies To Maximize Conversions
Thrive Leads integrates the following list-building strategies into one easy-to-use tool:
Design & Deploy
The Thrive Leads plugin comes with dozens of built-in professionally-designed and web optimized opt-in form templates that you can fully customize to suit your needs, with no coding skills required.
Simple “point and click” technology and a drag-and-drop editor lets you create, modify and customize your forms …
A/B Testing Engine
Split testing is the fastest way to increase 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 Different Form Designs And Content
Thrive Leads lets you test different designs and content, and provides a “set and forget” feature that allows you to set the plugin to automatically eliminate the test variations that aren’t performing, and keep showing only the highest converting campaigns after enough data has been collected.
You just begin testing and the plugin takes care of the rest, automatically helping you increase your conversion rates over time.
Test Opt-In Form Triggers
Thrive Leads lets you customize when and how your forms should display to visitors.
For example, you can set up:
- Time-based triggers to present an offer on your screen after 1 minutes
- Scroll-depth triggers where a message appears once your visitor scrolls down at least 30% of the web page
- Exit-intent triggers that can detect when someone is about to exit the page and presents them with a pop-up form.
Furthermore, you can also test if the form performs better when displayed instantly, or when the form animates into view (e.g. slide in). You can test many triggers against one another to further boost conversion rates.
Test Multiple Form Types
The plugin also lets you run split-tests against different form types. For example, you can test a lightbox pop-up vs a slide-in form and see which form type creates better results for your business.
A/B Test Offers
The Thrive Leads plugin even lets you test different offers against one another.
For example, you can assign different forms to different email marketing lists to help you determine which campaign offers yield the best conversion results for your business.
(Split-test different offers)
Not only does Thrive Leads give you tremendous flexibility when it comes to split-testing your forms, but you can also easily clone any existing form – even make multiple copies, then modify the element(s) you want to test and instantly start running your A/B split test again, and all of this can be done with just a few mouse clicks.
Additional features of this plugin include:
Smart Targeting Features
You can create hyper-targeted offers for your visitors with three targeting options (Easy, Advanced, Ultimate). You are given granular control over how you target your offers to make your offers highly 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 in your site based on certain rules you set (e.g. a widget form on your sidebar 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 specific “content upgrade” offers for your most valuable posts. Use this feature to create hyper-targeted and extremely profitable lists.
You can even use different lists with different services and different forms.
Supports Advanced Lead Generation Forms
Advanced form features supported include multiple fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-down menus.
Fully Responsive
Your forms and list marketing campaigns will look great on any device or screen size.
Thrive Leads has also been tested for compatibility will all major browsers.
Gain Actionable Insights
the Thrive Leads plugin gives you access to detailed reports that let you see exactly how your opt-ins and A/B tests are performing over time.
Plus, you have access to a “lead sources” report that shows you exactly where your highest converting traffic is coming from, allowing you to plan your campaigns for getting the most highly qualified traffic from your best converting sources.
Seamless Integration With Major Autoresponders & Email Marketing Solutions
If your email marketing service allows embedding of HTML forms then Thrive Leads with work seamlessly with your service.
Additionally, you can use different lists and different services for different forms, so you’re not dependent on any one solution.
As you can see, Thrive Leads gives you a range opt-in testing capabilities that go far beyond any other list-building tools.
Testimonials
Here are just some testimonials plugin users have provided for Thrive Leads:
”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’m loving Thrive Leads so far, Shane! My opt-in forms look a lot more professional now, and I’m excited to find out which ones will convert better in the split tests. I’m also looking forward to your webinar, since I learnt so much from the last one I watched.” Priscilla Shoeman
Product Support
As mentioned earlier, ThriveThemes provides extensive training content, webinars as well as a support team that is available to provide users with assistance.
The plugin interface provides video tutorials that explain exactly what you’re seeing and how to use the plugin. You can also access an extensive library of tutorials, training webinars, case studies and list building strategies, so you can learn how to get the most out of the Thrive Leads plugin.
The software is well-supported, and users get one-year upgrades with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, complete refund guarantee.
Software Price
The plugin is available in the following editions:
- Single Site – The Single Site option allows you to install & activate the plugin on one single website. Includes all plugin features, plus Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included. Cost = $49.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – The Unlimited Sites edition allows you to install & activate the plugin on all websites that you own and operate. All features are included, plus Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included. Price = $97.00.
- Agency License – The Agency license lets you install & activate the plugin on unlimited websites that you own and operate, and on all of your client sites. Includes all plugin features, plus Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included.. Cost = $199.00.
Note: Price details for the Thrive Leads product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the current price when this content was written. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the plugin developer when you visit the website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
Even on an existing site with hundreds of posts, you can install the plugin and use the targeting feature to retroactively show more relevant and higher-converting opt-in forms across your entire site.
For ”how-to” videos showing how the plugin works, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Leads website.
We Recommend
Building a list is an essential aspect of building a successful online business. When it comes to growing a subscriber list, the only way to improve your results is to run tests and find out what really 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 ongoing subscriptions.
With Thrive Leads, you have 100% control over exactly where and how your opt-in forms are shown to visitors, and intelligent reporting that helps you increase your subscription rates. There are other form plugins and solutions for list-building, but the main difference is that other list-building plugins are designed to focus more on some aspect of functionality, such as allowing users to create and add popups to their website. Thrive Leads starts with this kind of functionality, but the real focus of the plugin is on conversion optimization.
As Thrive Themes state 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 full details, check out the plugin here: Thrive Leads – WordPress Mailing List-Building Plugin
By the way …
We use Thrive Leads here on WPCompendium.org. Check it out for yourself …
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