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Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson

Ask Us ANYTHING! 🛠️ FIX Your Landing Pages in 5 Minutes | Ep. 470

Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson

GURU Media Hub

Entrepreneurship, Education, How To, Business, Marketing

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Stop losing leads just because your landing page looks like work. Jay Schwedelson reveals the psychological triggers that make people click submit, including a simple image trick that bumps conversions by double digits. He also opens up about the "woo woo" morning habit that keeps him sane, even if it involves hiding in the bathroom.

Best Moments:

(02:45) How repeating your email's hero image on the landing page subconsciously builds trust

(03:50) The exact percentage of leads you lose for every single extra field you require

(04:29) Why splitting long forms into multiple steps can skyrocket your completion rate

(05:25) The specific spot to place a testimonial that drives a 15% conversion lift

(06:45) One navigation mistake that kills focus and why you need to delete it right now

(08:50) Jay’s 10-minute morning ritual that happens before he ever looks at a phone screen

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Do This Not That, the podcast from marketers. We share quick tips, things you can do right now, and then we add a little bit of chaos at the end of every episode. We also keep it short like this intro. Let's check it out.

0:16.5

We are back for Ask Us Anything from the Do This Not Not That podcast all week long, we get in questions.

0:24.1

And if you want to submit a question, you can go to jswettleson.com.

0:28.0

There's a button that says podcast, another one that says, ask us anything.

0:31.5

And we get the wildest questions.

0:33.5

We get any work questions.

0:34.7

We get in ridiculous questions.

0:35.9

We love getting them.

0:36.6

So please submit them.

0:37.9

But we're going to tackle one work question and one ridiculous question right now.

0:42.4

So let's do the work one first.

0:44.4

We got a question from Gabrielle from Charleston, South Carolina.

0:50.4

You know, I've been to Charleston.

0:51.5

I love Charleston, but I only get so much from people that are from there. I feel like there's like one really good street in Charleston. And then there's like a couple of these side streets that are okay and whatever, but there's like this one really good street. And then I'm like, what else do I do around here? I don't know. So if you're from Charleston, tell me I'm wrong. Maybe I just missed it or something.

1:11.9

Who cares? What am I talking about? Gabrielle, what is your question? Jay, our abandon rate on our

1:18.3

landing page forms is crazy high. Any tips to improve conversions that are easy to do. Yeah, you know,

1:26.3

this is really a common thing because I don't know why we think that it's okay

1:32.3

when someone clicks through on a social media post or ad or a search ad or they click

1:37.8

through from an email and they go to an offer page, a landing page, whatever you want to call

1:43.3

it, that, you know, on average, 95% of the

1:47.1

people don't convert, that you're happy if you get 5% of people doing the thing, right?

1:53.2

You send down an email saying, hey, register for this webinar.

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