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I just did that this morning. I probably should have been an easy conversion. I went directly looking for a certain kind of thing. I was in a state of feeling
by mumblemumble 5y ago
I just did that this morning.
I probably should have been an easy conversion. I went directly looking for a certain kind of thing. I was in a state of feeling frustrated about not having that thing. I found a company that seemed initially promising. But, as soon as I found out that I would have to give them my email address in order to find our more about their service, I just closed the browser tab without a second thought.
I didn't have a conscious reason for doing so at the time, but, in retrospect, it's probably because I strongly associate that kind of aggressive conversion funnel with a poor - oftentimes even emotionally abusive - offboarding experience.
- PaulKeeble 5y agoIt became a bit of a pattern recommendation on Hacker news to do this and I think its ultimately wrong. Make it easy to minimally sign up but it has to come along with some reassurances too and if there isn't enough information up front about what the thing is and what will happen to that email address it turns into an anti pattern and a big warning sign.
- ufmace 5y agoI agree that there's a really annoying trend where seemingly every website constantly spams popups to try and get your email address. Or browser notifications now. No, there's zero chance I want your news site or blog to constantly spam my email or notifications with updates. If you can't be bothered to put a website up saying what your site or service is about, I definitely don't want to get email about it.
- b112 5y agoI can't even believe 99% of these sites get any real sales / draw from their spam regardless. I'm convinced it is all "monkey see, monkey do", they read some reddit post, and it mentioned marketing 101 aka email emails!!, and so they need to spam.