The Importance and Value of Landing Pages | Nik Sharma | Sharma Brands | Bonus Episode
On this episode of Honest Ecommerce, we have Nik Sharma. Nik is widely known as “The DTC Guy,” a Forbes 30 Under 30 member, AdWeek’s Young & Influential, and a resource that brands and investors turn to for growth. We talk about the push and pull sections of landing pages, why landing pages provide a higher conversion rate, the easiest way to create landing pages, and so much more!
Honest Ecommerce · Chase Clymer with Nik Sharma
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Show Notes
Nik Sharma is widely known as “The DTC Guy,” a Forbes 30 Under 30 member, AdWeek’s Young & Influential, and a resource that brands and investors turn to for growth.
Nik is the active CEO of Sharma Brands and HOOX, where clients include Feastables, Chamberlain Coffee, Roc Nation, Everlane, Jim Beam, Poo~Pourri, and more.
Before entering the eCommerce world, Nik worked on social media strategies for A-list celebrities, including Pitbull, Priyanka Chopra, and MAGIC!, to natively increase distribution and increase fan interaction and engagement for the purpose of driving album sales.
In This Conversation We Discuss:
- [00:00] Intro
- [01:11] Nik’s timeline in Ecom
- [02:06] Landing pages and why you need them
- [04:27] Why brands don’t use landing pages
- [04:57] How you should approach landing pages
- [06:48] Higher conversion rates with landing pages
- [08:50] Landing pages are just one piece of the puzzle
- [09:19] The importance of a sales angle
- [12:02] The equal amounts of “push and pull sections”
- [13:23] It can take multiple CTAs to make customers act
- [13:47] Differentiating sales from conversion events
- [14:37] How conversion events help ad platforms
- [17:17] Scenario: Consulting a $1M brand to go 5 -10X
- [18:41] The Office’s definition of merchandising
- [20:31] Reduce the complexity of your offers
- [20:59] Landing pages for high AOV brands
- [21:55] Determining if email is for retention/acquisition
- [22:40] Parsing out content through different channels
- [23:24] The easiest trick for landing pages
- [24:13] Building out landing pages for mostly education
- [25:43] DIY landing pages and other platforms
- [27:52] How Nik got his passion from landing pages
- [29:38] The idea and model of HOOX
- [31:05] Where to find HOOX
Resources:
- Subscribe to Honest Ecommerce on Youtube
- Branding services are designed to grow, operate, and advise DTC brands in the digital landscape to meet their full potential sharmabrands.com
- Landing pages that unlock more efficient advertising spend hoox.co
- Follow Nik linkedin.com/in/mrniksharma
- Subscribe to Nik’s newsletter - nik.co/subscribe
- Follow Nik on Twitter - @mrsharma
- The only landing page builder to combine 10 years of conversion data with the power of AI unbounce.com
- Shopify pages without the dev time replo.app
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