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Landing page: examples from practice
How a landing page is actually used in the day-to-day of small businesses — concrete processes instead of product promises, including the cases where it didn't work.
In practice, a landing page almost always starts with exactly one process, not with an overall concept. The most common reason for expensive clicks without results is not the ad, but the page behind it. Expansion only happens when the first step demonstrably works in real operation.
01 — Practice
What this looks like in concrete terms
The most common reason for expensive clicks without results is not the ad, but the page behind it.
A typical entry point looks like this: The business names the one process that's most disruptive. Who arrives here, from where, and what should happen.
After launch, you don't expand immediately, you observe. After the first few hundred visitors, you see where people drop off.
02 — Fit
When it's worth it
- The process in question occurs at least weekly.
- It follows rules you can write down — even if there are exceptions.
- Today it's manual work that no one enjoys doing.
- There's one person who decides, not three who need to coordinate.
- You can name what would tell you it worked.
03 — Scope
When we advise against it
- The process is still changing. As long as you're adjusting the process itself, manual work is more flexible and cheaper.
- Exceptions outweigh standard cases. Then you're automating exceptions, and that gets expensive.
- There's no data foundation. Without digitally available source data, the basis is missing.
- Volume is too low. With five transactions a month, no system pays off — not even an affordable one.
- The real bottleneck lies elsewhere. If you don't have enough inquiries, you don't need faster processing.
04 — Questions
Frequently asked questions
How many do we need?
One per offer and target group that is advertised separately. If you sell three services to two target groups, six make sense — provided each gets enough traffic to be assessable.
What definitely belongs on it?
What you offer, for whom, what it costs or at least in what range, who you are, and a single clear next step. Price information scares away less than its absence.
What if the landing page doesn't convert?
Then we look at the drop-off points before we rebuild anything. Usually it's a single section, not the whole page — you find it through measurement, not guessing.
Can you also run the ads for it?
That's a separate service that we also offer. Landing page and ad should match in content, but technically they are two separate work steps.
Does the landing page have to match the website?
Visually yes, structurally no. It may be significantly leaner — often without main navigation, so there's only one way forward.
Can the same landing page be used for multiple ads?
Yes, as long as the promise of the ads aligns. If the offers differ significantly, each ad needs its own page — otherwise the expectation at the click doesn't match.
When can you evaluate a test?
As a rule of thumb, a variant test needs several hundred visitors per variant and at least 25 to 30 conversions, otherwise you're measuring chance. With small numbers, it's more honest to decide based on arguments rather than pseudo-statistics.
05 — Next
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