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Tactics for growing your audience with giveaways, sweepstakes, waitlists, and referral programs, from the team behind 100M+ leads.

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Send great emails to follow up after a great landing page

Send great emails to follow up after a great landing page

They’ve forgotten about you

Oct 9th, 2012
How to create the best online forms for your landing pages

How to create the best online forms for your landing pages

Most online forms suck

Oct 3rd, 2012
The best landing page lead capture forms money can buy!

The best landing page lead capture forms money can buy!

One of the best features in KickoffLabs 2.0 are the updated lead capture forms. Lead capture forms are used to...

Sep 24th, 2012
iPhone 5 – Learn marketing from todays most popular landing page

iPhone 5 – Learn marketing from todays most popular landing page

I love dissecting how the best companies in the world entice customers online. You can always learn something from the big guys...

Sep 13th, 2012
KickoffLabs 2.0 launches with custom forms, new themes, and a new designer!

KickoffLabs 2.0 launches with custom forms, new themes, and a new designer!

In June 2011, we launched [KickoffLabs](https://kickofflabs.com. In our first month, we made $10 and signed up only 30 customers. Things...

Sep 11th, 2012
How to get your first 989 customers

How to get your first 989 customers

I had a lot of fun doing this Mixergy class so I decided to create a public talk out of...

Jun 7th, 2012
Introducing Magic Contact data for KickoffLabs Landing Pages

Introducing Magic Contact data for KickoffLabs Landing Pages

Magic contact takes customer email addresses and fills in missing data such as Twitter names, Facebook profiles, biography, current employer,...

Apr 24th, 2012
How to create a billion dollar landing page like Instagram

How to create a billion dollar landing page like Instagram

Instagram just sold to Facebook for 1 BILLION dollars. I’ve captured their landing page at http://instagram.com so it can be studied...

Apr 9th, 2012
The Second Conversion Most People Overlook

The Second Conversion Most People Overlook

The Second Conversion

Mar 29th, 2012
Are You Providing a Premium Experience for Your Customers?

Are You Providing a Premium Experience for Your Customers?

Premium or forgettable?

Mar 27th, 2012
Four Good Reasons to Charge from Day One

Four Good Reasons to Charge from Day One

No price, no value

Mar 22nd, 2012
Nobody Cares About You

Nobody Cares About You

Who's a pretty boy?

Mar 20th, 2012
About this blog

What does the KickoffLabs blog cover?

This is where we share everything we know about growing your audience with giveaways, sweepstakes, waitlists, and referral programs. We have been helping brands launch and scale viral campaigns since 2011, and we write about what actually works — not theory, not fluff, just tactics you can use today.

Whether you are a founder building pre-launch buzz, a marketer looking for higher conversion rates, or an e-commerce brand trying to turn one-time buyers into a referral engine, you will find something here. We cover launch strategies, landing page optimization, contest mechanics, email list growth, and the psychology behind why people share. We also break down real campaign examples so you can see exactly how others have pulled it off.

Expect honest takes on what drives results and what wastes your time. We have seen thousands of campaigns run through KickoffLabs, and we distill those lessons into posts you can actually act on.

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