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.
There aren't any pop ups here at IH. 😊
I've not used them for years now. I think it's really about sticking to principles. Pop ups don't align with who I want to be.
They often don't align with what others want to be either, but they'd much rather have the extra subscribers, even if those subscribers aren't really that interested.
Rant away, it's good to make people more aware of it.
People still swear by popups, and since popups have refused to "die" then it clearly satisfies a need. I wonder if there are better ways to collect emails though.