{"id":2660,"date":"2013-07-26T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2015-10-28T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:14:19","slug":"whats-the-best-way-to-capture-email-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/26\/whats-the-best-way-to-capture-email-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s The Best Way To Capture Email Addresses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The money is in the list<\/strong>. \u00a0That’s what all successful Internet marketers will tell you. \u00a0And what they are referring to is your mailing list; the email addresses you capture from visitors to your website.<\/p>\n

But what’s the best way to capture these email addresses? \u00a0Is one way superior to another…or are they all generally the same? \u00a0To find these answers I ran a simple test. \u00a0It went like this.<\/p>\n

Three popular methods for capturing email addresses were tested:<\/p>\n

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A. First we have the lightbox popup. <\/strong> It’s the popup you were probably hit with when you accessed this page. \u00a0With it, the background darkens and a window appears in the middle of your screen. \u00a0You have two choices; enter your email address or close the popup.<\/p>\n

B. Header or Footer popups. <\/strong> These less intrusive popups will appear at either the top or bottom of a web page. \u00a0The visitor can ignore them and continue on the site, close them or enter their email address.<\/p>\n

C. Sidebar Form.<\/strong> This is where a small opt-in form appears in the sidebar of a web page. \u00a0The visitor can ignore it and continue on the site or enter their email address in the form.<\/p>\n

For the test, the criteria was simple and universal for all methods. \u00a0All \u00a0methods displayed the same headline, text and offer<\/strong> (give me your email address and I’ll give you 47 free video lessons).<\/p>\n

Next, each method was rotated naturally over time, where ultimately each method was exposed to 20,000 unique visitors. <\/strong> That means over time, method A was shown to 20,000 unique visitors, method B was shown to 20,000 unique visitors and method C was shown to 20,000 unique visitors.<\/p>\n

Got it? Good. Now onto the results.<\/p>\n

Method A (Lightbox Popup) –<\/strong> 34% of visitors entered their email address<\/p>\n

Method B (Header\/Footer Popup) <\/strong>– 8% of visitors entered their email address<\/p>\n

*Note – Header popups were shown to 10,000 visitors and footer popups to 10,000 visitors. \u00a0The header version slightly outperformed the footer version<\/em><\/p>\n

Method C (Sidebar Form) – 3% of visitors entered their email address<\/strong><\/p>\n

*Note – A squeeze page style method was not tested since those are typically not used on content-rich sites<\/em><\/p>\n

The numbers are pretty startling, aren’t they?<\/strong> But keep in mind there is a trade-off with Method A (Lightbox Popup). \u00a0And that trade-off is these style of popups can annoy visitors. \u00a0So it all depends what your bottom line is.<\/p>\n

Finally, I’m sure people will want to know what particular brand of software is best for creating these types of popups. <\/strong> And the answer is…whatever works best for you.<\/p>\n

They all do the same thing (more or less). \u00a0Remember, it’s the method that makes the difference, \u00a0not the software used for the method. \u00a0So just choose the software that works best (and doesn’t break) your web \u00a0pages.<\/p>\n

Personally, I didn’t\/don’t use anyone’s software to create my popups…they were all created\/coded in-house.<\/p>\n

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The money is in the list. \u00a0That’s what all successful Internet marketers will tell you. \u00a0And what they are referring to is your mailing list; the email addresses you capture from visitors to your website. But what’s the best way to capture these email addresses? \u00a0Is one way superior to another…or are they all generally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[906,907,904,905,903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}