ConvertKit Landing Page Tutorial | How To Create A Landing Page For Free

what's up simon here back with another video and in this video i'm gonna show you step by step how to create a landing page for free using convertkit so this is the landing page that i'm gonna show you how to create in this video it's a landing page where i give away a free checklist in exchange for an email address giving away something for free is one of the best ways to get new leads and grow your email list and that's exactly what you can use that landing page for and the cool thing is that with convertkit you can create an unlimited amount of landing pages on their free plan so if you don't already have a convertkit account you can use the link down below in the description to get yourself a free convertkit account and once you're logged in we'll get started on our landing page okay so the next part is for the people that want to create a landing page to capture the information of their subscribers so a one a one page website that's just for capturing leads so to do that we're going to go to the top again to the top left and click on landing pages and forms then again click on create new and this time we're going to create a landing page so click on landing page and just like with the forms we have some different templates that we can choose from again as an example i'm going to create a landing page where i'm giving away something for free like a lead magnet and what i'm giving away is a free youtube optimization checklist so the closest thing that would come to this would be like the ebook templates where people are giving away a free ebook so i'm just going to click on ebook to kind of limit my options here a little bit and then i'm going to ch choose one of those templates you don't need to choose the same one that i am choosing you can change you can choose anyone that works best for you but i'm just going to choose this one on the bottom left here the peers template so i'm going to click on choose and that brings us to our landing page editor where we can change the entire design so we can make it look like we want to now i'm going to go through the right side tabs here and kind of adjust my landing page like this so the first thing that i'm going to change is some let's i'm just going to go from the top down so the heading font i'm going to change this from this to um to another one i'm going to do roboto roboto condensed and we're going to change the body the body and text font as well which is this one here to just roboto let me try again one roboto okay now um i want to change also the color of of those yellow dots in the background to red because the theme of youtube is rather red than yellow so change that to red okay cool now i want to change the background so i want to remove the background image that they have already put in here for me so i'm going to click on remove image and that will remove the image and just leave us with the color now i want to change to a dark to a dark gray just like this okay looks good to me now you can also change the border radius which is this radius right here i'm just going to leave it at 10 pixels okay um next thing we're going to actually change the content of this page so i want to change that image to the cover of my youtube checklist that i'm giving away so i'm going to click on that image click on replace and then that brings me to a page where i can upload the image that i want to put here so what i usually do is i create a mock-up or i create just a cover of my ebook or of my lead magnet whatever it is and i upload it and put that on my landing page so i'm gonna change choose that here and where is it okay i'm gonna choose this one here upload this one and once it's uploaded i can choose it and that should replace it okay so now instead of this image we have the cover of the youtube optimization checklist that i'm giving away now let's change uh this the clio kind of autograph here i also want to change that so i just want to remove that so click on it click on the bin on the right side and that will remove it then i'm going to change the title to free youtube checklist now i also want to change this uh this color that is in the background of this text so i'm gonna change that here also make yeah actually i want to remove that entirely so i'm just going to make it white so that it's removed now i'm going to change that text to where can i send the checklist to so they understand that they have to type in their email address so that you get this checklist and now what they can insert here is just their email address what i want to do is i want to also ask for the name because then i can personalize my emails more so i can say hey tim um how's it going something like that instead of just hey there it makes a little bit more personal so to do that i click on the plus sign here then i drag that on the top and i um go to the right side and make the custom field to first name just change that everything else i'm gonna leave it like it is and that's it now the button i'm also change the text of the button i'm gonna say something like send send it now and this little text on the bottom i respect your privacy and scroll unscripted anytime you can also change that like no spam unsubscribe anytime something like that or just leave it as it is then i'm going to change the color of the text to also kind of a red because i'm going to i'm going to keep i'm going to keep that red theme kind of going here change that to red and that's basically it so let's check how looks like click on preview here and that is how our landing page will look like good i'm going to save it real quick save and publish cool now i'm going to change some more settings so this was the first tab here the styles tab we already went through that now the second one is the gear icon here and this is where i can actually choose a domain to um to host this with this um this landing page on i'm going to show you how to do this in a second but first i'm going to create change the success message here to um check your email to confirm subscription to check your email to to download the youtube checklist because that makes more sense okay now i'm gonna go to this icon here and the same thing with the form if you have watched the form part um is where we are where we want to send an immediate email to everybody that that signs up here so what will happen when somebody signs up with their name and email address is they will be sent an automatic email with whatever they requested here so i want to send them an email with a button where they can download that checklist and with convertkit it's very cool that they they make it very easy for you to set this up so and what we want to do is send an incentive email that's the way they call it here to make people to make to make people actually double opt in so they have to click on a button so they double opt it in so that they actually confirm that they're a real person and that way they can download whatever they requested here you can also auto confirm new subscribers so that they don't need to double opt-in but because we're giving away something that they have to click on a button to actually download what we're giving away we can just um use the double opt-in so that you don't get any fake email addresses which will increase your open rates which will increase your delivery rates okay so keep it like that tick there no tick there then change the email contents click here and then what i want to do is send it from simon learn passiveincome.com that's the email that i have verified in the beginning of the tutorial and then i'm going to change the subject to um here's your youtube checklist and then something like uh download okay i'm going to change that text again maybe take some time to actually craft a proper email here i'm just going to type in hey um here's your youtube checklist then i'm going to change the button from confirm your subscription to download you can also change the color maybe make that green okay now i'm gonna change that to talk to you soon simon but make it personal to you okay so i'm gonna click save and that's saved that's cool now what i want to do you can you can either direct them to a specific url to maybe your dropbox folder or you can just upload the file to your convertkit account so i'm going to do that so i'm going to click on download choose the file so i'm going to choose now the optimization checklist that i'm giving away choose that file that's right here open and now that file will be uploaded to convertkit so people it will be hosted on convertkit and that's it okay now our our landing page is actually done so let's again save and publish and now when i want to send somebody to that landing page so they can sign up for email list i'm going to click on share and that's where i see the link so this is what the link looks right now let's just try that out click to copy then copy that into our browser and that's how it looks like now let's quickly see if it works i'm going to type in that name i'm going to type in one of my email addresses infogram gmail.com send it now and you see success now check your email to confirm your subscription okay now um i'm going to quickly do that go to my email here okay so now i'm in my email and here's the email that i have just received here's a youtube checklist then i can click on the download button which will automatically confirm my subscription to the email list and here's where i will be sent to which is the convertkit website and there's my youtube checklist that people can just right click save as and then they can download it like that so everybody's happy okay now let's actually check if this person that i've just added is actually on my list so i'm gonna click on subscribers here open that in a new tab and here's the new subscriber that i have just added so it actually works a landing page works now if you actually want to host that landing page on your custom domain um then you have to do a couple of steps more so if you want to do that i'm going to show you how to do that now so it doesn't say it doesn't say fabulous painter 823 ck page it actually says something like content dot medics media dot com or whatever your website is okay you can change that which is more professional in which is what i recommend but you have to do some more steps now um the way we do that is we we need to choose a custom domain here but as you see we don't have a custom domain yet so we actually need to create a custom or to to point the custom domain to convertkit so the converted converted can assign that landing page to that domain so the way we do that is we go back to our to our convertkit dashboard then go to the top right and click on account settings then we're going to click on custom domains and then we're going to add a domain here and i assume you already have a domain if you don't have a domain yet um you need to get one otherwise it doesn't work but i assume you have one here so what i usually do is i host them on a sub domain because let's say this is my domain right here medicsmedia.com and the thing is if i host it on matixmedia.com then i can't do anything else with that website so um if you actually have a blog called maddoxmedia.com then i would highly suggest that you actually create a subdomain to uh for your landing page so something like um content.medicsmedia.com and that way your your blog website your main website won't um get messed up by you pointing that to convertkit so that's what we're going to do now we're going to create a subdomain and then we're going to point that subdomain to convertkit so i'm going to name that subdomain content at medicsmedia.com and then which landing page would like to use as your homepage and then i'm going to choose that landing page that we have just created so pierce landing page is what what the name is going to click on save and now we have to create some a records so-called a and point them to those ip addresses to make convertkit be able to actually set up the custom domain with the landing page now depending on your hosting provider you have to you have to actually log into your hosting provider and do that now so my hosting provider is bluehost so i'm going to show you how to do it with bluehost but if you have another hosting provider just go down to the description of this video and you should find a tutorial for the main hosting providers that are out there i'm just going to leave some links there that you can use there or just type it in youtube maybe somebody else has made a tutorial with an other hosting provider so i'm going to go to bluehost right now which this is my bluehost website or my bluehost account so i'm going to click on domains on the left side and then i want to use this website here medics media go to the drop down arrow here click on sub domains and then i'm going to create a new subdomain so i'm going to choose the medics media here i'm going to name that content and then i'm going to create this subdomain let it load for a second okay so now the subdomain is created we're going to create a return to subdomains and what i will need to do now is i'm create those a records so i'm going to click on um go back to domains then i'm going to go to the drop down again and i'm going to click on dns okay so now i need to i need to add those a records so i'm gonna scroll down and i'm gonna look for a so those are the a records then i'm gonna i'm gonna drop down to show all and first i'm going to delete the a record that this sub domain content at medicmedia.com is pointed to so i'm going to go down and look for content i've already found it it's here so and i'm gonna delete this one so i'm gonna go to the dropped and to the three dots here make sure you actually you actually um choose the right one go to the three dots and then click on remove confirm and now i'm going to i'm going add the new a record so i'm going to click on add a record and here's where we need to add this so we're gonna go back to our convertkit account and here's what we need to put there so the host will be content so i'm gonna put in content here now if you are pointing or if you're using a main website if you don't use a subdomain if you use a main domain you um you you don't have the content that you can put here so what you can put here is just an add sign so if i would have um used just madxmedia.com as a domain for my landing page i would just put the add here but i'm going to use a subdomain so i'm going to put in content now points2 and now this is the ip address you basically have three that you have to point to because of redundancy so gonna use that 0.2 that ip address then the total time just leave that four hours or even less if that's possible and then click save and i'm going to do that again for the others as well so i'm going to copy the second one as well add a new record again content points to this ip address click save and once again for the third one add record content the ip address and save okay so now we our um now we have saved our a records now to propagate it takes some time so this won't immediately um function so what you can do to see if it worked you can go to whatsmydns.net and then type in your subdomain content at medicsmedia.com and then you see that it is still pointed to this ip address which is the old one that i have deleted because it takes some time to actually propagate now you can it should take between i don't know an hour and 48 hours to propagate and then when it's done you will be able to assign the landing page to that domain so we have to give it some time right now before you actually assign your landing page to that domain you have to click on refresh here so it says verified so right now it is not verified but i'm going to quickly show you an example how it will look like if it's verified okay so i actually only had to 10 minutes i just waited 10 minutes and then i clicked on refresh again and now it's verified so you don't have to wait this long and maybe depending on your hosting provider it takes longer but with bluehost it doesn't it only takes a couple of minutes apparently until it's able to be verified okay so now convertkit can point landing pages to this domain so let's go back to our landing page we're going to click on landing pages and forms on the top left click on that pierce landing page where by the way we can change the name here on the top left change that to youtube checklist and then go to the gear icon on the right side and now choose content dot media which is the subdomain that we've just created okay so let's save and publish and now when we click share that link will be content.medicsmedia.com so you can paste that here and then our landing page should come up okay here it is so now we have the right domain on the top here with ssl as well so convertkit um i already uh make sure that we have ssl so we have that that um connection is secure icon here that's our landing page done all right so that's how you can set up a landing page inside of convertkit this was actually a segment of my complete convertkit tutorial here on youtube where i show you step by step how to build your entire email marketing system inside of convertkit from start to finish so you can click on this video right here if you want to see that entire tutorial also if this video was helpful to you make sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below if you still have any questions also subscribe to the channel if you want to see more videos like this and with that being said thank you very much for watching and i look forward to seeing you in the next video