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How to build a landing page (Startup Handbook)

Julian Shapiro · julian.com Free Intermediate

Julian Shapiro's deeply practical framework for landing pages, including the desire-minus-friction conversion model, a canonical growth resource.

  • Purchase rate = desire minus (labour plus confusion)
  • The hero header must be fully descriptive; visitors have short consideration spans
  • Show the product in action and test copy on both outsiders and insiders

It answers 4 questions

  1. What should actually go on my startup's landing page?
  2. What are the rules of good marketing copy?
  3. Why isn't my landing page converting visitors into signups?
  4. How do I write a headline / value proposition that grabs attention?

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