I have been asked this question repeatedly by many, hence I decided to record a small video and demonstrate to you how you can do this fairly easily.
Making the index page a static page is an option in wordpress, there are a tons of websites on the internet with the information on how this can be done.
To see the video CLICK HERE
It will prompt for a user name and password. Go ahead and register as the registration is FREE.
Remember you can create long sales pages, squeeze pages and quick/dirty opt-in pages using this feature. While long sales pages would need some deisgn work, you can create an opt-in page fairly easily by embedding the HTML code from your autoresponder( 1shoppingcart & aweber provide this feature) into a static page and make it the index page.
Wish you all the best.