Designing Website Forms that Convert Leads

Category: Marketing | Posted date: 2020-04-27 07:32:28 | Updated date: 2020-04-27 07:42:01 | Posted by: Jesza


Your website form can be the nexus of website visitors connecting with you. Making the right decisions of your website form can make a huge difference in how many of your website visitors do connect with you. Here may be a guide some ways to improve your



Your website form can be the nexus of website visitors connecting with you. Making the right decisions of your website form can make a huge difference in how many of your website visitors do connect with you. Here may be a guide some ways to improve your form to convert more leads.


Don't ask for too much from your form.

Did you recognize that for every additional field that you add to your form you'll lose 10% of potential form submissions? does one actually need to understand all the information that you are asking for in your form just to create a primary connection?

Many case studies have shown dropping a couple fields doubling and tripling the amount of leads that they receive - so if your leads doubled or tripled would that be worth having to wait for the second connection to get that particular data? So reduce what you're asking for in your form to only what you absolutely need.

 Often, which will just be a name and email. Some fields are more volatile than others - it's generally shown that changing a phone number request to email will increase 5% of conversions because people are easier receiving an email than a call .

Often once you ask for an excessive amount of information, the user will either not complete the form or provide false data. So don't invite too much from your form, and you might get a lot more requests from your website.

 

Give a sense of quick and easy.

While there are many ways to offer a way of quick and easy - one among the best ways is to put a progress bar at the highest of your form. This lets the web user see how far they have to go and can encourage them to get through it by this quick and straightforward sense. Another tip is to have it not start at 0%. If you begin at 25% before they even start, it makes them feel invested before they need even invested - and again gives a way that they're almost done.


Don't be all like... formy.

One of the simplest bits of advice that I can offer you is to make your form not look like a form. this can be done by making it more of a visual experience using images and it also can be done by making it appear as if a website tool rather than a signup form.

Many websites are using push button images instead of selecting dropdowns or radio buttons. If not this - I highly recommend using images within the form to improve the user experience.

Many websites use the impression of a tool or audit while capturing email addresses for leads and potential clients. this is an excellent way to lure the web user into walking through steps to find what they're looking for while you're collecting information about them, then somewhere in there collecting at least an email address for future marketing campaigns.

 

Buy them a drink before you ask for their number!

While it's going to seem logical to first ask for personal information like name and email because that's the most valuable information to you, this is similar to walking up to someone you've got never met and asking for a number. Might work sometimes but you'll have greater success if you ask a few friendly questions first. Wait until they already feel invested in the form before you invite an email address or phone number, but confirm you receive it before you provide the value the client is trying to find (like a listing of properties found from a real estate search they queried).

You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make them drink.

Make sure you lead the web user to your form. you will want to attenuate distractions and you'll do this by employing a lightbox or graying out the other content, or maybe as simple as removing additional page elements on your form page. you'll also use borders, contrasting colors, and shapes to draw the eye to the form. a professional tip would be to use directional cues like arrows to point towards the form, or maybe faces with eyes watching the form to draw the eye.

 

Give Social Proof.

One of the keys to converting leads is to realize trust. If you can offer text or images that gains trust you'll increase the amount of web visitors that become leads. this is often especially important here on your form page where they're making their final decision about whether or not they will reach out to you or not. Providing copy such as "x number of individuals have downloaded this software." or "trusted by 100,000 people" or maybe something like "no download required" gives the user a way of calm and trust which may push them to complete the form.

 

Keep It Simple Stupid.

I recall my highschool art teacher had a sign on his desk that said KISS - keep it simple stupid. it's something I often remember in many aspects of web design, but especially in form design. Making a simple and easy process it only getting to make less people abandon the shape before completing it. Single column forms convert quite multiple column forms, and each month mobile usage goes up this becomes more true.

Use radio buttons instead of dropdowns so the user can see all the options before having to click anything.

Don't be so restrictive about the formatting of the content. Asking for date or phone number only in certain formats results in errors... Ask yourself how often you are willing to retry a form that you are filling out that isn't easy to use.


Don't lock the doors.

You can lock the doors to keep spammers out by using a captcha, but you'll find yourself locking out potential clients also who haven't any interest in filling out captcha boxes. While there are captcha boxes which will be easier to use, if you're anything like me - you get anxiety once you see those characters show up on a form. Is it case sensitive? Is that a five or an S? What order are these alleged to be in? Captchas are the worst. you'll use this tactic instead if you wish ... but definitely don't add a captcha on your lead forms.

Verbiage matters.

While you'll spend less time working on the wording of your form titles and tags - this could be one of the places you should spend more time. this is the selling moment. If you were helping a client in your store/office would you switch the charm off when it got close to the sale moment? Consider your verbiage. Be conversational. Explain what value they're receiving and how absolutely fantastic it'll be and the way it will change their life. From your placeholders to your call to action button - this is uber important.

 

Get the submission.

Make sure your call to action button is making it virtually impossible for them to seem away and click off the page. Make that button color contrast, make the verbiage entice (submit doesn't do it for anyone), and confirm that button is as wide as all the fields are on the form - don't take the most important element and have some teeny tiny button off to the side.