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Nice post, and the home page is well designed but it's hard to tell what the product does without a screenshot or walkthrough of some sort. It sounds reminisce

Nice post, and the home page is well designed but it's hard to tell what the product does without a screenshot or walkthrough of some sort. It sounds reminiscent of HelloBar although you say in your post that it isn't like HelloBar at all - bad sign. I'd also recommend saying explicitly a few of the customers you're targeting e.g. bloggers, companies with large audiences etc etc. Good luck!

farmdawgnation 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback man! And yeah, I guess part of our problem with the Hellobar comparison is that we're solving a problem they've been solving for a small subset of their users for awhile. They're really optimized for "I have a user on a page, and I want them to go to X." X could be a product information page, or a page to add their email to a list. We're optimized for "I have a user on a page, and I want them to put their email on my X list so they can get my updates." where X is the name of your email marketing service. That distinction means we can get some tighter integration and a few more UX brownie points for that use case than would make sense for Hellobar to implement.
- rubinelli 13y ago
  A more apt comparison would be https://www.getdrip.com/ https://www.getdrip.com/ by Rob Walling (one of the organizers of Microconf) although that is still in closed beta.
- Felix21 13y ago
  Aha. If passive email is what your product is for then you need to: 1. make the bottom bar slightly bigger 2. allow me to be able to add a picture of the lead magnet im offering 3. the bar should slide up after after 1-2 seconds This will result in a 3x bump in conversion(if i remember correctly), when compared to the side bar opt in form on most blogs, so if you were getting 50 subscribers a day, this will increase it to about 200. You are essentially a saas version of http://instantslideup.com/ http://instantslideup.com/ and your target audience is BLOGGERS.
  - farmdawgnation 13y ago
    Thanks for the ideas. We've had all of these ideas come up before. 1 is a clear possibility in the near future (or possibly the ability for it to be configurable) and 3 is configurable by the user (I also want to add a scrolling trigger to it as well, but that's not on the schedule yet). The one that's the most problematic is the image. I've struggled with a way to implement such a feature and avoid it from being gimmicky-looking. Or, rather, some up with mechanisms to prevent the user from making it look gimmicky. I'm open to any ideas/suggestions around that.

farmdawgnation 13y ago

Thanks for the feedback man! And yeah, I guess part of our problem with the Hellobar comparison is that we're solving a problem they've been solving for a small subset of their users for awhile. They're really optimized for "I have a user on a page, and I want them to go to X." X could be a product information page, or a page to add their email to a list. We're optimized for "I have a user on a page, and I want them to put their email on my X list so they can get my updates." where X is the name of your email marketing service. That distinction means we can get some tighter integration and a few more UX brownie points for that use case than would make sense for Hellobar to implement.

rubinelli 13y ago
A more apt comparison would be https://www.getdrip.com/ https://www.getdrip.com/ by Rob Walling (one of the organizers of Microconf) although that is still in closed beta.
Felix21 13y ago
Aha. If passive email is what your product is for then you need to: 1. make the bottom bar slightly bigger 2. allow me to be able to add a picture of the lead magnet im offering 3. the bar should slide up after after 1-2 seconds This will result in a 3x bump in conversion(if i remember correctly), when compared to the side bar opt in form on most blogs, so if you were getting 50 subscribers a day, this will increase it to about 200. You are essentially a saas version of http://instantslideup.com/ http://instantslideup.com/ and your target audience is BLOGGERS.
- farmdawgnation 13y ago
  Thanks for the ideas. We've had all of these ideas come up before. 1 is a clear possibility in the near future (or possibly the ability for it to be configurable) and 3 is configurable by the user (I also want to add a scrolling trigger to it as well, but that's not on the schedule yet). The one that's the most problematic is the image. I've struggled with a way to implement such a feature and avoid it from being gimmicky-looking. Or, rather, some up with mechanisms to prevent the user from making it look gimmicky. I'm open to any ideas/suggestions around that.