21 Things Your Checkout Page MUST Have ($7 million dollars later!) — Transcript
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- 0:00okay friends we're going to get right
- 0:01into it in case you don't know me my
- 0:02name is Maria went I've made over $7
- 0:05million over the last four years selling
- 0:08courses I'm going to show you proof of
- 0:09that in a minute and I have done
- 0:11basically every version and iteration of
- 0:13checkup Pages you can possibly think of
- 0:15so I know everything that should be on a
- 0:16checkout page I know everything that
- 0:18should not be on a checkup page and what
- 0:20I'm going to do is I'm just going to
- 0:21take you through um one of my checkout
- 0:23pages and just kind of show you like
- 0:24what we put on the page what we don't
- 0:27put on the page and you're just going to
- 0:30see this all in action so I'm going to
- 0:31show you first of all um proof of income
- 0:35here this is my Sam card dashboard um
- 0:38this is so I've I've been in Sam cart um
- 0:41since like I think I said 2018 um but
- 0:44I'm just going to show you the last
- 0:45couple of years here so you can see here
- 0:47obviously we're like only halfway
- 0:49through 2024 and we're having a freaking
- 0:52fabulous year so far um 2023 very solid
- 0:562022 very solid 2021 also very solid um
- 1:002020 was the first time we hit the
- 1:02million doll run rate so I had my first
- 1:04seven figure month which is like 880,000
- 1:06or above in May um so still pretty
- 1:09pretty freaking solid um and obviously I
- 1:11think we're on track to make like over
- 1:13$4 million this year which is super
- 1:14exciting so obviously I think I know a
- 1:18thing or two about checkout Pages which
- 1:20is what I'm going to show you here um
- 1:24so basically what I'm going to show you
- 1:27is top to bottom we're going to go
- 1:28through my entire page talk top to
- 1:30bottom and then I'm just going to share
- 1:32with you um things that are important so
- 1:34we're going to take it from the top and
- 1:35go down um and first thing that I want
- 1:38you to pay attention
- 1:39to is the concept called above the fold
- 1:43so in case you don't know there's this
- 1:44concept of this thing called above the
- 1:45fold which is anything that is like
- 1:49above the scroll um and it used to be
- 1:52from back in the day when there was a
- 1:53newspaper the good headlines would be
- 1:55above the fold of the newspaper it's
- 1:57basically the most important information
- 2:00in this first visual chunk so we have a
- 2:02headline which is the name of the
- 2:03product if you go to another
- 2:07one you can see here like we follow this
- 2:09model pretty pretty closely um but
- 2:12that's the name of this product that's
- 2:14the name of this product and then we
- 2:16have a um just sort of like a what we're
- 2:19here for or like what you should know
- 2:21like an aspiring sub headline um and in
- 2:23my case here with this with this course
- 2:25that I have it's a very popular course
- 2:28um if you have have 100 Instagram
- 2:30followers you should be making $50 to
- 2:31$100 a day and so if you're not
- 2:33something's wrong we need to fix that
- 2:35and a lot of people are just completely
- 2:37underutilizing their Instagram profiles
- 2:40and so I know that for most people
- 2:42seeing this will'll be like dang I have
- 2:44100,00 or I have 100 Instagram followers
- 2:46but I'm not making that money so it's
- 2:47hitting a paino um that I know will
- 2:51apply to a lot of people so you got your
- 2:52headline and your sub headline then you
- 2:54have your image if you are selling a
- 2:56digital product you have to have a very
- 2:58strong mockup image and the image Imes
- 3:00and the layout or the formatting of the
- 3:02text is going to be a theme that you see
- 3:03come up over and over and over and over
- 3:06again because when I look at the average
- 3:07landing page I see minimal images poorly
- 3:10designed mockup images I do have mockup
- 3:12images you can use I'll put those in the
- 3:13description for you um but I will also
- 3:16see blocks and blocks and blocks of text
- 3:17which are equally terrible so one gray
- 3:21headline two very solid subheadline and
- 3:25then we have three an image then we have
- 3:28a um you need like a another headline or
- 3:32like sub headline so it's four I'm just
- 3:34going to like tally mark this cuz I want
- 3:37to um know how many should be on this
- 3:40title of this YouTube video so so far
- 3:43we're at four um so I think what's
- 3:47really important at this stage
- 3:48immediately under the image is that um
- 3:52you speak to why it's relevant right
- 3:55now and in my case I feel like a lot of
- 3:58people like what's actually is that
- 4:00Instagram made an algorithm change and
- 4:02they basically took away reach from
- 4:04bigger creators like myself and gave it
- 4:05to smaller creators which is really cool
- 4:08if you're a smaller Creator and so
- 4:10having some sort of time sensitive sub
- 4:13headline I think is really important
- 4:14above the fold and then a call to action
- 4:17which takes them to where they can put
- 4:18their payment information
- 4:20in um okay so then I have this little
- 4:22thing here it's some this is going to be
- 4:24number five um or I guess that's number
- 4:27six which is um some kind of social
- 4:30proof meaning I know what the hell I'm
- 4:32talking about I
- 4:34know here's why you should listen to me
- 4:37um and I prove my income all over the
- 4:40place so if you go to mar.com prooof I
- 4:42have income proof everywhere I make
- 4:44videos on this YouTube Channel showing
- 4:45my bank statements like I'm the queen of
- 4:47transparency so I have nothing to hide
- 4:49in the income Department area um and so
- 4:52um this is a really solid social proof
- 4:55thing for me I think it's really really
- 4:57important if you want to make a lot of
- 4:58sales that you have to be teaching from
- 4:59a place of I know what I'm talking about
- 5:03um or at least like here's how you can
- 5:07feel comfortable to trust me is for me
- 5:10as a business coach obviously it's like
- 5:11do run a business that's successful so
- 5:13that's why I put that there but the
- 5:14seventh or the sixth section is um very
- 5:18compelling social proof you'll see
- 5:20screenshots are a big deal
- 5:23here um and then this is like a
- 5:25secondary so I'll just put like seven
- 5:27screenshots um this section here is a
- 5:30secondary um social
- 5:35proof it's basically saying the same
- 5:37exact thing broken down into a different
- 5:40way of saying it right where it's like
- 5:42okay
- 5:43um I make $4,000 every single day from
- 5:46Instagram which is very similar to I
- 5:49made
- 5:50$700,000 in six months um but this one
- 5:53has different screenshots and it just
- 5:55basically supports that section section
- 5:57there then right away we're in into case
- 6:00studies um we have case studies all over
- 6:02for this passive income um thing I will
- 6:05put that in the description as well
- 6:06you're going to have a lot of resources
- 6:07in the description by the time we're
- 6:08done um I think that case studies are
- 6:12really important especially as you have
- 6:13more and more students go through really
- 6:15take the time to do case studies um
- 6:17there are a lot of I think there are a
- 6:18lot of work to collect but it makes such
- 6:21a difference in creating trust which
- 6:22ultimately is what creates sales so this
- 6:25is my student Katie we take a summary of
- 6:27the testimonial because not every is
- 6:29going to read this big fat sentence or
- 6:31this big fat paragraph So we take the
- 6:33main points highlight what's most
- 6:36important and then have a call to action
- 6:38to buy so um you'll see here as we
- 6:41scroll through the page there's lots of
- 6:42testimonials because that creates trust
- 6:44which is really important this here is a
- 6:47very very important section this section
- 6:50answers objections
- 6:52now it's really funny how we do this
- 6:56like it's very done on purposely where
- 6:58it's like creating passive come with
- 6:59Instagram requires no and then no need
- 7:02to re see your face that word no and the
- 7:04Red
- 7:05X feels really redundant but when when
- 7:08we ran
- 7:10tests it was looking like because people
- 7:12don't read very well it was looking like
- 7:14we were saying creating passive income
- 7:16with Instagram requires the need to show
- 7:18your face requires previous experience
- 7:20requires additional cost which is the
- 7:22opposite of we wanted to what we wanted
- 7:24to convey so by us taking the time to
- 7:26like almost like be a little redundant
- 7:28it really landed the point Point home
- 7:30which is it doesn't require any of this
- 7:32which again are our biggest objections
- 7:34so oh but I don't live in the US it's
- 7:37like well that's fine you don't need to
- 7:38be in the US for this to work or um I
- 7:41don't like being tied to a computer I
- 7:43don't want to do something where I have
- 7:44to be on a computer all the time perfect
- 7:45you don't have to do that with this so
- 7:47This section here this like um answering
- 7:50object objection section is really
- 7:52important and that goes right at the top
- 7:54another important question that people
- 7:56always have is like how the hell does
- 7:57this work so having a how it work
- 7:59section that's going to be number 10 um
- 8:01it's really simple like it's like if I
- 8:02was a bird and I was looking at your
- 8:04whole course as a whole what would I
- 8:06learn well I'm going to teach you how to
- 8:07create strategic reels and carousels
- 8:09that are going to attract buyers the
- 8:11more buyers you attract the more sales
- 8:12you're going to make and the S more
- 8:14sales you make the more profit you make
- 8:15so it's really really simple it's not
- 8:18you don't want to dive into too much
- 8:20technical details here because it'll
- 8:22actually bog people down at this stage
- 8:24what's really important is just like
- 8:26here's the bird's eye view of how this
- 8:27is going to work when you join
- 8:30um and then we have a typo here which is
- 8:32literally on my to-do list which is I
- 8:34ready to follow your tutorials which
- 8:35should say I'm ready but you know
- 8:37whatever again answering number so that
- 8:39is the how it works section which is
- 8:41number 11 and then we have the um a very
- 8:44very very common question this is such a
- 8:46common question I actually made a
- 8:47YouTube video that answers this question
- 8:49which is do I have to show my face in
- 8:51order to make money with Instagram and
- 8:52the answer is no you have to build trust
- 8:55so that's why a lot of faces accounts
- 8:57and reals aren't making money they have
- 8:59built trust
- 9:01um and I show you guys how to do that in
- 9:04this um program as well so that's 12 is
- 9:07like what is the question that keeps
- 9:08coming up over and over again for Mio is
- 9:10this one then we have another very very
- 9:13very important section which is the
- 9:14what's included so we repeat the mockup
- 9:16image and then we have a big fat section
- 9:20and this is again we're selling a a a
- 9:22digital product so people want to know
- 9:24what they're going to get that's the
- 9:25most important question one of the most
- 9:27important questions you can answer so we
- 9:29take take our time with the copy on this
- 9:31so um really one of the things I'm kind
- 9:33of realizing is that most new business
- 9:36owners need so much help with
- 9:38copyrighting like you guys just do not
- 9:40get it and again I didn't get it either
- 9:41I had to learn but this section and
- 9:44learning how to I'm going to do a video
- 9:46on copyrighting because this so make
- 9:49sure you subscribe that's literally
- 9:50going to be my next video is a video on
- 9:52copywriting um and so make sure you
- 9:54subscribe so that you can get a
- 9:56notification when that one comes out
- 9:57because this section we reles on good
- 10:00copywriting if you don't have good
- 10:02copyrighting um it's just this is the
- 10:05part that makes the sale it's the what
- 10:07you get and why you should get it so I
- 10:10talk about my step-by-step tutorials I
- 10:11talk about how to leverage the new
- 10:12algorithm I talk about how to prep your
- 10:14product to go viral I talk about how I
- 10:16make money per real I talk about my
- 10:18Advanced Instagram growth strategies I
- 10:20talk about what to do to make $50 to
- 10:22$100 a day even if you're just getting
- 10:24started so all this stuff is like what
- 10:25you get when you take my course um how I
- 10:28unlocked the meta monetization program
- 10:30so I also get paid not just from the
- 10:32courses I sell through Instagram but
- 10:33Instagram themselves pay me um to make
- 10:36reals and so all of this we go over this
- 10:40is what makes the sale for a lot of
- 10:42people because this is what they want to
- 10:43know they want to learn how do I make
- 10:46money from Instagram well this is I
- 10:49teach you how and then there's a call to
- 10:51action um there's a bonus that I include
- 10:54um at periods of time so sometimes I'll
- 10:56charge for
- 10:57this excuse me
- 11:03sorry sometimes I charge for this and
- 11:05sometimes it's a free bonus um depends
- 11:07on like if I'm feeling it's being an
- 11:09upsell or not if I'm testing something
- 11:11and so right now this is a free bonus
- 11:13that they're going to get where I talk
- 11:14about how I got into the meta
- 11:16monetization program how I qualified for
- 11:18it how much I make from the program and
- 11:20guidance on deciding if this is
- 11:21something you should focus on unlocking
- 11:23or not so it's a very cool thing um and
- 11:25then this is a screenshot of me um
- 11:27getting paid from meta called remittance
- 11:30it's really funny um and then we have
- 11:33another
- 11:35testimonial very easy very simple
- 11:38another so okay hang on hang on hang on
- 11:41that was the bonus section was 14 so
- 11:43this section is 14 call to
- 11:45action we'll just lump these two calls
- 11:47to actions together and call it
- 11:4915 and then we have another testimonial
- 11:52um but we're just going to categorize
- 11:53that with the other testimonial so then
- 11:55here we have second most important
- 11:57question so that's going to be number 16
- 11:59which
- 12:00is if you have your if my first question
- 12:02is like okay am I GNA have to show my
- 12:04face second one is like am I gonna have
- 12:06to invest a lot of equipment am I going
- 12:08to have to have expensive monthly
- 12:09software and the answer again is
- 12:12No this is my literal iPhone and you can
- 12:15see here it's just only gotten worse I
- 12:17don't know if you can even see this on
- 12:17the camera but it's only gotten worse
- 12:19and more broken um and so if I'm limping
- 12:22along with a camera that cannot even
- 12:25physically record in 0 five um you you
- 12:28can do it too like can do too as long as
- 12:29you have my course which shows you how
- 12:32my phone and an Instagram account you
- 12:34can get started so that's an important
- 12:36section another testimonial then we have
- 12:38section number 17 which is really
- 12:41important which is the like preview
- 12:42people like again it's a digital product
- 12:44people like to preview what they're
- 12:46going to get they like to see okay what
- 12:48am I going to get so the video preview
- 12:51is very it just also connects you know
- 12:52connects you to your audience it builds
- 12:54trust it's important more
- 12:56testimonial then I have this is optional
- 12:59um but then I have this video here I'm
- 13:01just going to put this at 18 it's a 20
- 13:04minute training on like deep dive think
- 13:07of it like a mini webinar where it's
- 13:09like okay here's how this all works it's
- 13:12almost like a deeper version
- 13:14of this section here this how it works
- 13:17section um so if this is like okay it's
- 13:20so low on the page people like haven't
- 13:22pulled the trigger yet they haven't
- 13:23bought by the time they get to this part
- 13:25here so let's just have them maybe learn
- 13:28a little bit more about how it works and
- 13:30then they feel more confident that it
- 13:31will work for them and then they will um
- 13:35you know potentially say okay you know
- 13:36now I understand that it's for me so
- 13:39that and then we have another
- 13:40testimonial then we have just a couple
- 13:43things I want to show you on this page
- 13:45where they fill out their
- 13:46information so
- 13:49um it's a repeating of what you get
- 13:51because that's important but then the
- 13:54FAQ section so FAQ section is extremely
- 13:59critical um and by the way this page is
- 14:01built on Sam cart and um these pages are
- 14:04built on unbounce just so you know where
- 14:06they're built um so your FAQ section is
- 14:09where the sale is made for a lot of
- 14:10people because these people got this
- 14:13far but if they haven't like checked out
- 14:17yet it's because something is holding
- 14:19them back and so the FAQ section is a
- 14:23way for them
- 14:25to get the like like make the Sale close
- 14:30the sale because if they're on the fence
- 14:31and they're reading through the FAQs
- 14:33they're very very close to buying and I
- 14:35think that most people's FAQ section is
- 14:37extremely underutilized it's
- 14:40not it's not fleshed out in a way
- 14:45that like they lose the sale they're so
- 14:47close they get them to the FAQ section
- 14:49you need to understand that if people
- 14:50are going to the FAQ section they're
- 14:51really really close to making the sale
- 14:53you need to thoroughly build out your
- 14:54FAQ section so you can close the sale I
- 14:56think that's what I'm trying to say um
- 14:58the other thing I want to show you is
- 15:00not working for me in Safari but I think
- 15:02it's because I've run enough tests on
- 15:05this checkout page to where it just like
- 15:06won't show up for me but if you go to my
- 15:09page or if I open it up in Safari
- 15:10there's another thing I want you to see
- 15:12here I'm going to move my circle because
- 15:14I'm blocking it hang on just going to
- 15:16move my
- 15:18face just going to move my face
- 15:19temporarily over here so you can see
- 15:21this on the bottom left whenever someone
- 15:24buys and I get a lot of sales but
- 15:25whenever someone buys on the bottom left
- 15:28here in
- 15:30Safari um you can see here it says so
- 15:33and so purchased passive income with
- 15:36Instagram right and it will display the
- 15:39sales from this page every so often
- 15:42right and so I don't know why it's
- 15:43saying six days ago I don't know why
- 15:45because I like did like 20 of them today
- 15:47so that's fine but this thing this
- 15:49software here is really really important
- 15:52um the software is called use proof is
- 15:55it showing up for you I don't even know
- 15:56if it's showing up for you as I'm like
- 15:58looking in the preview is this even
- 15:59showing up for you might not be showing
- 16:01up for you hang
- 16:02on let's see if it's showing up I wonder
- 16:04if it's like a popup and it's not
- 16:06showing up okay well if it's not showing
- 16:07up then I'll just have you what I'll
- 16:09have you do is go to um the links in the
- 16:12descriptions and I'll just like you can
- 16:13see it um it's a very important piece of
- 16:16software that's why it wasn't showing up
- 16:17but it's a very important piece of
- 16:19software it's called use proof um and
- 16:22basically use proof what it does is says
- 16:24hey this person bought 2 hours ago and
- 16:28this person person bought 3 hours ago
- 16:30and what that does is create like almost
- 16:34a fear of missing out and it also
- 16:35removes some of the risks because people
- 16:37are like oh my gosh if this many people
- 16:38are buying it it must be good so there
- 16:41you have it again I build my main
- 16:43landing pages on unbounce and then I
- 16:45build my checkout pages on Sam cart I do
- 16:48not recommend St store okay I've said
- 16:50this before I'll say it again you are
- 16:52losing even if you're using stur and
- 16:54making money I promise you're losing
- 16:56money you're leaving money on the table
- 16:58and so and the reason I don't like stor
- 17:00is because you
- 17:02cannot optimize for conversions and Sam
- 17:05cart was built specifically to optimize
- 17:08for conversions so that is why we are
- 17:11able to very successfully um build a low
- 17:15ticket business that's scaling to
- 17:18multiple millions of dollars a year it's
- 17:20because we've optimized for conversion
- 17:22so where you know an average person
- 17:24might
- 17:25get one out of every 100 visitors to
- 17:29become a sale we get an average of six
- 17:31out of every 100 customers to become a
- 17:33sale and some of our Pages convert at 16
- 17:36to
- 17:3725% which is ridiculous not every page
- 17:40those are our top performers but an
- 17:42average of 6% is three times at
- 17:46least the industry standard so highly
- 17:49highly highly recommend Sam cart um if
- 17:51you want a free trial I'll just link to
- 17:53that in the description as well there's
- 17:54a bajillion resources for you in the
- 17:56description go check that out and and uh
- 17:59yeah let's get you some money let's get
- 18:00you paid
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