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To Promote Pages With Pop Up Offers Or Not To Promote Pages With Pop Up Offers?

by Jon Tees
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As an affiliate if presented with the option of promoting a page that has pop up offers (ads that come up and entice the visitor to purchase the product at a discounted price as they are trying to leave the site.) or promote a page without such offers which would you choose and why?

In this scenario the vendor is giving you an option they have a sales page with the pop ups and the same page without them it's your decision in regards to which one you are going to promote but technically you could promote both of them if you wanted to.
#offers #pages #pop #promote
  • Profile picture of the author creditbuilder
    There is nothing more that turns me off from a site that has pop-ups... that's one thing i don't like about people who post products on clickbank... i refuse to promote them because people i redirect there will get peeved and unsubscribe from my list.... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep your website original and interesting and trust your visitor... have some faith in them. If they want to leave, pop-ups only remind them why they never want to return versus checking you out again... but i am just speaking from personal experience and hope it helps. Best of luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author OldLodgeSkins
      Pop-ups are usually not welcome... I believe most visitors would simply discard them. That is, if they're not purely blocked.

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  • Profile picture of the author Garish Wasil
    If the pop up offers a discount to the service/product then its not that annoying. Its always good for the buyer to get some drop in price ?

    However, promoting some other product through popup is not cool in any way.
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  • Profile picture of the author dardar
    Popup's have a place,reduction in price,is a nice Popup.
    But I feel the same as everyone else here,they drive me nuts.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      "Pop-up offers" are one thing.

      "Exit discounts" are a completely different ball-game.

      I have no overriding objection to pop-up offers, but I don't think I've ever promoted one with an exit pop-up discount.

      When I see people using those, charitable optimist that I am, I like to assume that they're doing so as part of a methodical split-test, and that it will therefore be pretty temporary.

      For me, two things are for sure: first, not so many people buy the ClickBank products I'm promoting at their first visit to a sales page - most of the sales are made to returning traffic; secondly, nobody returning to a sales page of the type you're referring to will ever pay the full price!

      Some will be lost, of course, because people (understandably, when they see the exit discount) feel that "if that's the real price", the vendor was trying to exploit them with his originally-attempted higher price. Which obviously offends people. And then some more will be lost just because they never return to pages with pop-ups.

      But there you are: some vendors really are gullible enough to imagine, without adequate long-term testing of their incomes, that if they make an "additional" 15% of sales through an exit pop-up, they're getting something they wouldn't otherwise have got, and "therefore" making a net profit on it. (Is it only because people imagine so, that other people manage to sell them these things at all?). Sometimes, quite unaccountably, it doesn't occur to them at all that many of those "extra 15%", and many others, too, would have returned and paid the full price, and that all that money's now being lost instead.

      I don't know whether I'd continue to promote a product I was already promoting if the vendor added an exit discount pop-up. Maybe I would, if I'd already done all the work for it. I'd start by asking the vendor if he'd please make available another version of the sales page without the pop-up. Some will, perhaps - it should take them only 5 minutes to do so, after all? If you don't ask, you won't get ...
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Pop-ups are extremely annoying.

    When I click the close button it generally means I wish to exit the site, not stay there while I am bartered into purchasing the product.

    Anything that doesn't float well with me I don't promote, I need to believe the product, and believe the entire sales pitch too.

    That said, I do understand that split testing shows exit popups increase conversions, I just find it slightly unethical, don't you?
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