Comments on: How to Drastically Increase Subscriber Numbers to Your Email Newsletter

By: Justin Vanhove

Justin Vanhove — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:49:35 +0000

Darren,

I love the way you write blog posts that are supported by real statistics. Furthermore, you show proof of those statistics that engages you more in the article because you actually believe what is being written.

Anyways, this is a great blog post. I offer a free 5 day ecourse on my website. My subscriber rate is a little over 3%. This is suprising considering I am offering a free course on passive income.

What I use to implement it is a “Pop Under”. I use it only on the hompage. Why? I use Site Build It to build and operate my website on. They do not offer the option of putting a pop under or any kind of thing like that on the homepage.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:41:31 +0000

I’ve tried it on my site for the last few days, and though the numbers are not enough evidence yet, the conversion rate is at least 5 times as high as the normal forms!

Of course, you must take into account, that when visiting ANY page on my site, the normal form is shown, while the pop-up-fade-in form only shows once per visitor. Therefore the higher conversion rates. I can’t really expect loyal readers to subscribe every time they visit my page, right? :-).
Furthermore, the pop up only appears after 15-20 seconds, so anyone who only visits for 5 seconds (the non-interested, the digg’ers) will not see the pop-up-fade-in form.

Cheers,

Oliver

By: Eruwan Gerry

Eruwan Gerry — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:03:18 +0000

Hi Darren,
Thanks for the great advice! :)

By: john

john — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:21:03 +0000

>>I go to Aweber to check it out. Try to sign up. Get this message:
>>We are currently not processing new orders online. Please contact customer service at 800.531.5065 or help@aweber.com to order.

Aweber are dishonest profilers.They don’t want foreigners for customers but are afraid to say that honestly. If you are in certain countries you get that phony message. If you go through a proxy you’ll see the message disappears.

Hey, aweber, why don’t you judge people based on their actions not what country they live in? Or be honest and say what you’re doing in profiling and prejudging people?

By: Traci Moore

Traci Moore — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:52:15 +0000

WOW! Those results are amazing… what a huge increase in the @ of opt-ins!! I’m going to have to try it. I had heard of the lightbox pop up from Aweber, what is the other one?

Traci Moore Blogging over @ http://www.tracimoore.com

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:03:47 +0000

We’ve seen the same results on our own sites when we’ve used them and on our clients sites. The key for us has been to make sure that the user only sees the Pop Over (we call them “Floaters”) once upon entry. Once they start seeing them every time they click to a new part of your site that’s when the annoyance comes.

We’ve also found the lightbox effect to work VERY well. The Motley Fool (fool.com) used to use that and had incredibly high conversion rates. Then someone new took over and got rid of most of their conversion architecture but that’s another story.

Good to see a blogger try out what some might call a more corporate and traditional “marketing gimmick” and see that the proof is in the numbers! :)

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:48:11 +0000

I browsed around the photography blog but can’t find any pop-up. Is there a reason why you take it down?

By: James Spinosa

James Spinosa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:05:02 +0000

As always a great post, and this data is rather conclusive given the sample size. I might have to try this out for myself as I just started a newsletter yesterday.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:30:15 +0000

Pop overs can help increasing conversions but the way you have used it makes it more effective. Thanks for sharing.

By: Mayor of Concord

Mayor of Concord — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:14:17 +0000

Very interesting tip. I am going to give this a shot on my local blog and see what the results are like. I’ve been gaining in readers and subscriptions on a regular basis but this may be what takes them to the next level. Thanks Darren.

By: Keral Patel

Keral Patel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:04:31 +0000

Aweber as always. Nice stuff. The graph is really showing drastic changes though :D

By: Curt

Curt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:38:45 +0000

I’m looking forward to the follow up to this. What is your photographer newsletter at now and how long did it take you to get to that point?

By: word

word — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:20:32 +0000

Great information about building your email list using a blog.

By: arif setya

arif setya — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:46:24 +0000

Wow, it makes me more in love with this blog
Nice post i need it.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:33:39 +0000

Ok Darren, I did it and you were dead on. I just installed it today and I can’t believe what just happened. Nice one ;)

Cant thank you enough.

By: Krissy Knox

Krissy Knox — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:30:05 +0000

Well, you can’t argue with success.

On the other hand, I won’t be doing it. I hate pop outs. I think they are too intruisive. I bet your readers just love your blogs so much that they would read you anyway! I am not sure. I am really glad it works for you! Good luck in your success!

By: sudan

sudan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:35:05 +0000

About Email Newsletter, I think it’s very interest & important.
But may be difficult for me and seem spam mail.

By: Make Money Quick

Make Money Quick — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:16:18 +0000

That’s PHENOMENAL. Testing and results is all that matters. I think that you’re predictions are right about this blog and pop ups because of the industry, BUT many of the most successful marketers in IM seem to be using them with great success.

Never Know…lol

Kenney

By: Karl Sultana

Karl Sultana — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:19:13 +0000

Hi,

Thanks, I use aweber to deliver blog broad casts to my blog subscribers apart from displaying the rss field so anyone who wants to subscribe can do so… Aweber feature is very easy to use.

Karl
http://www.outranksmart.com/blog

By: Guide To LCD TV

Guide To LCD TV — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:58:17 +0000

Newsletter is a good way to constantly remind your reader to go back to your site again. I subscribe quite a number of newsletter, end up I mark them as spam instead of read through it.