How to build a landing page on a budget?

[Villain]

I have a client who has asked me to create a landing page for his small business.

Is there a way I can build this without paying $$$? This is a low budget, one-off project. I also have very limited coding ability so I can't easily make one myself.

Maybe I would be better just writing the copy, and telling the client they need purchase their own landing page software or find a programmer to build it for them.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

 

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[borntodominate]

You can get cheap wordpress landing pages. Without spending money you could use a free wordpress theme and customize it.


There are also free html landing page themes out there

 

[Villain]

Okay great. My client doesn't use wordpress at the moment. Will it cause any problems if he installs it alongside his current website?

 

[Even Steven]

If it's a pretty small project, check out weebly.com. You can get a free account that will let you have like 3 pages. It's a pretty simple interface, you wouldn't need any kind of website building experience.

 

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[AllenCrawley]

Without paying money? Why? Aren't they going to pay you for this service?

http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages

 

[OnlineGodfather]

try unbounce.com, very easy to navigate and create landing pages.

 

[Darius]

optimizepress.com

 

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[borntodominate]

Okay great. My client doesn't use wordpress at the moment. Will it cause any problems if he installs it alongside his current website?

Yeah, wordpress is a CMS. What platform is your client on?

 

[borntodominate]

optimizepress.com

so you chose one of the most expensive landing page themes when he asked for free lol

 

[Darius]

so you chose one of the most expensive landing page themes when he asked for free lol

$97 / 3 site licenses = $32 per site

Didn't see the free part before posting.

 

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[Tom.V]

Without paying money? Why? Aren't they going to pay you for this service?

http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages

This. If it's a one-off project, themeforest is going to be the path of least resistance with the most bang for your buck.

 

[Silverhawk851]

Unless you have some web designers willing to do it for you or it's of very miniscule importance, I wouldn't go free on this.

I would try LeadPages.Net , I use it for alot of my campaigns.

It's 67/ month but they give you multiple different free templates that convert very well, and entire marketplace of every type of opt-in, landing page, thank you page, etc that you might need.
Can create unlimited Landing Pages too. Maybe you can charge your client like $200 and have it pay for itself.

If you really need soemthing just free, try www.wix.com , pretty simple and easy to use

 

[Villain]

Having considered all the suggestions I think I will go with Lead Pages. Looks like it would be a good investment going forward.

 

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[Anthony Mathapo]

you cant go wrong with WordPress, also check free one page responsive themes available

 

[HappyFighter]

Create Landing Pages Using Wordpress (from the Elegant Themes blog) discusses paid and free options.

http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/create-landing-pages-using-wordpress

 

[Flora]

I have used weebly with all of my businesses and help friends with weebly. It is something simple that they can learn to do when they want to make a change in page without having to call me every time they need to update. It cost me $49 a year and that included registering the domain name. The tech support at weebly is unbelievably helpful and will help you integrate your friend's page.

 

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[Villain]

Really happy with the number of suggestions here, thanks!

I went ahead and signed up for leadpages.

It's pretty powerful, although the templates aren't completely customisable like I had expected (actually they are customisable, but you would need to code it yourself or outsource).

Unbounce has a drag and drop method and it looks like you can pretty much build whatever you want. It's also a bit more expensive, and I'm not sure if you can export pages like you can in leadpages.

 

[eliquid]

I would suggest using WordPress with OptimizePress, Thrive Landing Pages, or something from ThemeForest

 

[Villain]

How customizable is OptimizePress?

I want to get my landing pages EXACTLY they way I want them...without learning code or getting someone else to do it for me.

I also need to be able to publish on client websites.

 

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[Alan at SE]

We heavily use optimizepress too (see link in footer), its basically a WYSIWYG editor and makes it really simple to create landing pages. There's a slight learning curve and css/html knowledge is definitely good to have.

 

[Andy Black]

+1 for Wordpress and Optimizepress

 

[Semmy]

@Villain I recommend and use exclusively Optimize Press - as you don't have monthly costs like in Leadpages.net - if you host your own wordpress site and install a simple license of Optimize Press and you can create easily landing pages for your clients. You can use dedicated domains and then just cloak them and redirect to your own Optimize Press pages for clients. If you need help with this contact me - if you decide to get Optimize Press I offer people valuable bonuses.

I frequently offer people to have a test install of Optimize Press and play around with a test version - you are invited to take me up on that offer!

 

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[Semmy]

How customizable is OptimizePress?

I want to get my landing pages EXACTLY they way I want them...without learning code or getting someone else to do it for me.

I also need to be able to publish on client websites.

Another option is http://www.artisteer.com - that is the MOST flexible option for Wordpress.

 

[Guest3722A]

Wordpress & Optimize Press.

 

[Andy Black]

Optimizepress even has a marketplace for templates that you can buy: https://marketplace.optimizepress.com/product-category/landing-pages/

I use Optimizepress and Gravity Forms to create lead gen landing pages.

Throw in the free plugin "url params" and you've got dynamic landing pages too. (Which none of the unbounces, leadpages, etc had until recently.)

 

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[Andy Black]

We heavily use optimizepress too (see link in footer), its basically a WYSIWYG editor and makes it really simple to create landing pages. There's a slight learning curve and css/html knowledge is definitely good to have.

That's a great looking sales page in your signature... Optimizepress rocks.

 

[Coalission]

Wordpress might be overkill for this, just go to ThemeForest like someone else said and search for HTML templates, not Wordpress, and pick your category. Find a nice one, upload, modify text/images and you're done.