Experienced marketers understand the power of mailing lists.
This is because a a list of email subscribers gives you traffic on tap and access to repeat sales.
Marketing studies show that, on average, 50%-80% of web visitors who leave will never return. That’s a lot of money to be leaving behind. Research also shows that it takes an average of 7 interactions with your business before prospects will make a purchase decision. It’s crucial, therefore, to interact repeatedly with your visitors.
How can you do this, however, if most visitors never return?
The answer, of course, is to get visitors to give you their email address while they’re still on your website or blog, so you can build a relationship after they have exited your web site.
Building a list is an essential aspect of building a successful online business. A great mailing list has the potential to become your most valuable asset.
If you sell one or more products on your website, or your business relies having a constant source of traffic, then list-building is essential, because it is the key to repeat visitors and relationship-building.
Now … there are many different ways and effective strategies to build an email list, but until recently, it was very difficult to find one cost-effective and simple solution that takes advantage of all of the most effective methods available for capturing email addresses on your website.
Thrive Leads – WP A/B Testing Mailing List Builder
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, improve your conversions, and get traffic on call, working directly inside your WordPress dashboard …
As stated earlier, there are many ways and different strategies to build an email list, and almost all of these methods and strategies involve using lead capture forms.
What makes Thrive Leads different from other solutions that allow you to collect email addresses is that Thrive Leads comes with a range of flexible and powerful conversion boosting technologies and list-building strategies already built-in.
Thrive Leads list builder for WP is developed by Thrive Themes, a conversion-focused WP theme developer. As you will soon see, the plugin was developed to help WP users not just build a mailing list, but to build a mailing list faster.
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Benefits Of Using Thrive Leads
Here are just a few of the benefits of using Thrive Leads to build a list of subscribers fast and get traffic on demand on your site:
It’s WordPress
The Thrive Leads list-building plugin for WordPress eliminates the need to have multiple plugins installed. This not only reduces the possibility of problems resulting from plugin conflicts, but the “lean and clean” nature of the plugin keeps your site’s loading speed down.
Be Up And Running In No Time
Thrive Leads installs like every other plugin. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your admin user account and activate.
Really Simple To Use
With Thrive Leads, you can easily set up one or more opt-in forms, use their pre-designed 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 implement all of the advanced targeting, testing and reporting features. If you are a complete beginner, allow 20-40 minutes to learn how to use all of the plugin’s functionality. Fortunately, ThriveThemes provides extensive training content, webinars and a responsive support team that is available to answer any questions you have.
Every Kind Of Opt-In Form Your Business Will Ever Need
With Thrive Leads, you can begin to capture subscriber details using pre-designed templates, and every type of opt-in form you need.
For example, you can use the plugin to add “pop-up” lightboxes …
Insert opt-in forms that slide in from the edge of your screen …
You can use the Thrive Leads plugin to add great-looking opt-in forms anywhere within your content, or the top of your blog posts using a simple shortcode …
Insert a form into any widget area of your website …
You can insert 2-step opt-in links that open a lightbox form when visitors click on a link …
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 the page …
As you can see, Thrive Leads integrates every type of opt-in 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 provides many features to web site owners. Here are just some of these:
Quick And Easy To Install And Implement
Be up and running in no time. As already mentioned, the plugin developer provides extensive training content and tutorials, case studies, webinars, and a dedicated support team.
This list-building software not only integrates every type of opt-in form your business needs into one single plugin, as you’ve just seen, but it also lets you run your list-building campaigns from your administrator login.
Integrated List Building Strategies For Boosting Conversions
Thrive Leads integrates all of the list-building strategies you need to optimize your conversions into one easy-to-use plugin:
Design And Deploy
Thrive Leads provides dozens of professionally-designed and web optimized form templates that you can fully customize to suit your needs, letting you build conversion-boosting opt-in forms with no coding skills required.
Simple “point and click” technology and a drag-and-drop editor allows you to create, modify and customize your forms …
Powerful A/B Testing Engine
A/B testing is the quickest way to optimize your conversion rate and accelerate the growth of your list.
Thrive Leads comes with a powerful A/B testing engine that allows you to easily test a whole range of variables, including:
A/B Test Designs And Content
The Thrive Leads plugin lets you test different designs and content, and provides an “automatic winner” feature that automatically eliminates the test variations that aren’t performing, and continue showing only the highest converting tests after enough data has been gathered.
You simply start your test and the plugin handles the rest, automatically helping you increase conversion rates over time.
A/B Test Multiple Opt-In 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 present a buy button on your screen after 15 seconds
- Scroll-depth triggers where a message will appear once site visitors scroll down at least 30% of the web page
- Exit-intent triggers that can detect when someone is about to leave the page and presents them with a pop-up form.
Additionally, you can test if forms perform better when displayed instantly, or when a form animates into view (e.g. slide in). You can test multiple triggers against one another to further increase conversion rates.
A/B Test Multiple Opt-In Form Types
The plugin also lets you perform 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.
Test Completely Different Offers
Thrive Leads even lets you test different offers against one another.
For example, you can assign different forms to different email campaigns to help you decide which campaign offers deliver the best conversion results for your business.
(Split-test different offers)
Not only does the Thrive Leads plugin give you tremendous flexibility when it comes to split-testing your opt-in forms, but you can also easily clone an existing form – even make multiple copies, then edit the element(s) you want to test and instantly start running your A/B split test again, and and you can do all this with just a few mouse clicks.
Additional features of the Thrive Leads plugin include:
Smart Targeting Features
You can create hyper-targeted offers for your visitors with three targeting levels (Easy, Advanced, Ultimate). You have precise 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 across your entire website based on certain rules you set (e.g. a widget form on your sidebar on the Front Page only), including which templates, archive pages, etc. or, conversely, where to exclude 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.
Advanced Lead Generation Form Features Supported
Advanced form features supported include multiple fields, checkboxes, radio buttons & drop-down menus.
100% Mobile 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 popular web browsers.
In-Depth Reporting
this plugin gives you access to detailed reports that let you see exactly how your opt-ins and A/B tests perform over time.
Additionally, the plugin provides a “lead sources” report that shows you exactly where your highest converting traffic comes from, allowing you to plan your campaigns strategically to get highly qualified traffic from the best sources.
Seamless Integration With Major Autoresponders And Email Marketing Solutions
If your email marketing solution allows embedding of HTML forms then Thrive Leads with work seamlessly with your system.
Additionally, you can use different lists and different services with different forms, so you’re never dependent on any one solution.
As you can see, Thrive Leads gives users opt-in testing capabilities that extend far beyond what most other list-building tools provide.
Feedback From Users
Below are just some testimonials plugin customers have submitted regarding 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’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
Support
As mentioned previously, ThriveThemes provides extensive training content, webinars as well as a dedicated support team that is available to help users sort out any issues 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 the Thrive Leads plugin.
The software is well-supported, and users get 1-year software upgrades with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, 100% money-back guarantee.
Plugin Cost
Thrive Leads is available in the following editions:
- Single Site License – The Single Site option allows you to install & activate the plugin on 1 single domain. All plugin features are included, plus Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included. Price = $49.00.
- Unlimited Sites Edition – The Unlimited Sites license lets you install & activate the plugin on unlimited domains that you own and operate. All plugin features are included, and Free, unlimited updates, with 1 year of support included. Cost = $97.00.
- Agency License – The Agency edition allows you to install & activate the plugin on all websites 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 Thrive Leads depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The above reflects the current price when this content was written. This may not be the actual price set by the software developer when you visit the plugin site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Information
Even on an existing site with hundreds of blog posts, you can install Thrive Leads and use the targeting feature to retroactively display more relevant and higher-converting opt-in forms all across your entire site.
For ”how to” videos showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support 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 email list, the only way to increase the speed your list grows is to run A/B tests and then analyze your performance to find out what works best for your business. Thrive Leads makes available to WordPress users a very powerful tool that, until recently, only marketing pros had access to, and at great expense.
With Thrive Leads, you have 100% control over exactly where and how your opt-in forms display to visitors, and intelligent reporting that helps you improve your subscription rates. There are other opt-in 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 enable the user to create and insert pop-up forms into 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, visit the plugin website: Thrive Leads – Mail List-Building Plugin For Faster WordPress Conversions
By the way …
We use Thrive Leads here on WPCompendium.org. Check it out for yourself …
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