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Startups, your landing page sucks

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Re: Startups, your landing page sucks

#11
post #8

The irony here is how bad the press42.com landing page is; your value proposition is pretty unclear with your one sentence. Try working on your own landing page before dishing out criticism, (not to say that what you said isn't true).

"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault." - Cervantes

There's only two sentences on the press42.com home page, but despite such brevity, I had zero trouble understanding their value proposition.

Re: Startups, your landing page sucks

#12
I think startups confuse landing page with launch page. A launch page (i.e. ambiguous launchrock page) is to gain interest, quite possibly before you are certain what the MVP will do. A landing page (i.e. signup page) needs to communicate what value you bring to the person signing up. Too often the launch page turns into the landing page without much thought.

Re: Startups, your landing page sucks

#13
post #8

The irony here is how bad the press42.com landing page is; your value proposition is pretty unclear with your one sentence. Try working on your own landing page before dishing out criticism, (not to say that what you said isn't true).

"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault." - Cervantes There's only two sentences on the press42.com home page, but despite such brevity, I had zero trouble understanding their value proposition.

"We allow startups to get the right exposure to media while bloggers are able to filter the stories they get."

So what does this mean for a blogger? Filtering stories I can get? To read? Write?

Startups who are still figuring it out like to use ambiguous blanket statements in order to "capture as much of an audience as possible". They are afraid they are missing out on potential users if don't appeal to everyone.

Re: Startups, your landing page sucks

#15
post #10

Our landing page is suffering from the same disease - anyone willing to help us out, we're missing a marketing person in our team :)

Right now, it's suffering from a 502 Bad Gateway ;).

Yeah, that's me - currently working on some server internals. Will be back soon :)

Re: Startups, your landing page sucks

#16
post #8

The irony here is how bad the press42.com landing page is; your value proposition is pretty unclear with your one sentence. Try working on your own landing page before dishing out criticism, (not to say that what you said isn't true).

Plus:

- They don't link from the blog to the site from their logo. Marketing 101 here, folks.

- Here is their pitch:

We allow startups to get the right exposure to media while bloggers are able to filter the stories they get.

Huh?

- Thier tagline:

The matchmaking platform for startups and bloggers

Unless the business is aiming at selling to bloggers, this line is not quite clear.

- I have to click on an image of a button to find out you have not launched and are just asking for my email. Double huh?

It is obvious there has not been a test run in this landing page. Which reminds me of rule #1 of landing page: Continually Test Everything.

Good luck to the Press42 team.

Re: Startups, your landing page sucks

#19
The Spanish web site I think he's referring to has an English version: http://greenmomit.es/en/ , but the link is buried at the bottom of the page instead of at the top. The sarcasm of the author is a put off for me, like startups in an international competition didn't know about having pages in English.

Criticizing is easy, for example: a media company should know better than using grey fonts over a black background.

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