Even if you're a genius in directing traffic to your site, traffic alone won't make you any money.

If your visitors leave without making a purchase, your traffic is as useful as a fork is to eat ice cream. And unfortunately, only a very low percentage of online visitors buy something on their first visit.

That's why you will have to make sure to draw them back to your site, establish a trusting relationship and remind them of the great products you're selling.

How would you do all this?

Use The Power Of The Signup form. The signup form is one of the most critical elements of your website because it gives you the tools to turn a visitor into a prospect.

The moment visitors complete a signup form, they give you the permission and the ability to start a dialogue - a long-term relationship that will hopefully translate into sales down the road. That's why it's so important to design a signup form that attracts your visitors enough so that give you their name and email address.

It needs to offer value and create trust. Designing a signup form might not be as exciting as creating animated Flash movies or experimenting with different website designs, but it is lot more critical to get right.

Signup forms are a very important online marketing tool and usually form the gateway through which revenue is generated. We've seen signup rates go up by 8% just with simple tweaks to the design of our signup forms.

We'll share these tweaks with you in this tactic and show you how to design a killer form.

Designing Forms that Convert Well

1. Keep Your Forms Short and To the Point Shorter forms generally get higher completion rates. So strip your forms down and ask for the absolute minimum amount of information you need from your visitors. For subscription forms this is often just a first name and email address. Sometimes you might want to ask additional questions to gauge customer views or collect marketing data. In this case you need to be very careful. Is the additional information worth the drop in sales you might create from expanding the length of your form?

2. Mention Your Privacy Policy People are often reluctant to give out their email on the internet. Stating a privacy policy in simple terms can often boost form completion rates.

3. Watch Your Submit Buttons Be careful not to create any obstacles to the completion of a subscription. This is an unwise thing to do. How often would one need to actually clear a form this simple and start over? The problem with the clear button is that a significant percentage of users who are in a hurry will click on that button, see their data get lost, and then give up in frustration. Remove all CLEAR or RESET buttons. They don't help and can create problems when clicked on by accident. To improve the form above we would also suggest renaming the SUBMIT button to something more meaningful. Never stick with the default text "Submit." Change it to something like:
·"Subscribe Now for Free Training"
·"Get Your Free Report"
·"Claim Your Free Audio"

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