Rant: Better customer acquisition methods sans popups
Popups seem very irritating and intrusive, why do websites even put them up?
To gather emails/build up their email list? what if I input a fake email?
Do you dissuade me from doing that by offering me some freebie, discount code, free ebook, or report? What if I don't need any of these free stuff?
Using a one size fits all freebie offer just to capture email addresses seem dumb to me since your website visitors don't belong to the same demographic.
Are there better customer acquisition/email list building/sale funnel advancement methods for website owners that wouldn't seem so intrusive or in your face?
Why use popups at all? Someone please convince me of its usefulness.
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If you input a fake email, there are email validators (like Neverbounce) that can detect that.
Some people just add a small stick email "popup" at the bottom of the page, I think that's less intrusive.
My grouse is this, arent there better ways to collect user information? Why should I input my email address in the first place? I see popups as a way website owners can speak to visitors, some set it to "pop up" when the user is about to exit the website only to ask for just an email address. Are there better customer acquisition/email list building/sale funnel advancement methods for website owners that wouldn't seem so intrusive or in your face?