What's with these popups I'm seeing everywhere?

Push notifications are not pop-ups. They are little messages that appear on your screen whenever a site you are following posts something new or has a webinar starting, etc.

I actually love them. I sign up for them on sites and blogs that I follow so that I can get a notification when they have just published a post or have some other message to send.

I belong to a membership site that I also promote and they always have training webinars that teach new ways to promote, etc. I love getting the notification about 10 minutes before they start a webinar because the webinars are actually fun and I like attending them. So, if I happen to be sitting at my computer, it's convenient to get a notice that one is about to start so I can join it.

Think about the power that gives the folks actually running the webinars? If I feel that way, I'm sure many others do. Their webinars are almost always packed, so obviously they are working for them.

People are also getting fantastic response rates with them. Many people claim to be getting much higher response rates than email marketing with them.

If you have a blog, website, membership site,etc, and you are not taking advantage of push notifications you are definitely missing the boat.

Along with FB Messenger, they are poised to be one of the notification systems that compete with email in the near future as a means of contacting people.

Thanks nicheblogger75

I deliberately made this slightly provocative because I wanted to see what other people thought. I'm glad you find them useful and you tell me people are getting fantastic results from them.

I think it's a bit like squeeze pages. Unless you can actually promise me something that I value in return for my involvement (email address), I'm not going to respond.

I have, actually, responded with 'Allow' to one blogger's Push notification (yes, it's not a popup, but it seems like one). That's because it didn't use the standard text that I highlighted in my original post, but promised something that I actually wanted.

That's the key, isn't it? I mean how many sites do you see which still use the words 'subscribe for updates' on their squeeze requests? So why are we seeing these in Push notification requests?