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Hi Jim,

I really hate the pop up that blacks out everything on your web site when I am trying to read your article.

I think that it is a great way to chase visitors away.

Hi, Jim.

I agree with James about the pop up on your site. I will go further and voice my annoyance about ALL pop ups. The really bad ones pop up/overlay the site keeping me from reading what I wanted to read, viz., the site itself - not the pop up. I immediately delete the pop up without even looking at it. So whatever was for sale there is forever lost - until the next time I’m foolish enough to log onto that site. The really bad pop ups are the ones that don’t have any way to exit from them and then follow you down the page so you are forced to pay attention to them. I just click off the entire site. There is no way I would purchase anything from any idiot that hid his sales message with a permanent pop up. I’m beginning to click off any site that has any pop up at all. If I was interested enough in the site to log on to it, then it was because I wanted to read the sales message. I don’t need or want some stupid pop up interfering with my reading. A pop up just about guarantees that that site owner just lost my custom.

LOL - I understand not liking *some* popups… but they’re also a great way to make money… unfortunately, this ain’t no charity people… I’m here to help AND to make money

If you want quality, popup-free info?

Join www.thenetreporter.com

Jim

Greetings
Do you have a link to a survey building site?
Regards

An easy one that I like to use is
www.OneMinutePoll.com

Another popular one is
www.surveymonkey.com - though I’ve not used that one.

Jim

You have a typo on your article. You have on-size-fits-all and should be one-size-fits-all!

Thanks

Here’s my take on Jim’s popup…

Jim has unwittingly done me a favor by adding a popup, there are some useful health benefits involved:

1) The extra energy involved adds up over time. If I spend half a clorie in closing a popup and close ten popups per day, at the end of the year I’ll have spent 1800 colories (the equivalent of half a pound of fat) that I wouldn’t have done so if the marketers hadn’t used popups.

2) The extra exercise involved in closing a popup might allow my heart one extra beat before it finally retires. That’s around one hour or more per year my heart will beat if I close 10 popups per day.

3) By closing the popup in a calm dignified manner means I get to practise self control. Let’s face it, getting angry over the popup is stressful and might cost two heart beats from my hearts limited number of beats. By allowing myself to get worked up over popups and closing them in a violent jerky manner could cause muscle tissue damage and doing this for 10 popups per day could reduce my life by up to one hour per year.

4) If I act on the information from the popup I will be able to afford a treadmill and get the opportunity to walk off 100 calories per day. That means losing up to one pound in fat per month and allowing my heart to beat for a lot longer…

I’m all for popups they are beneficial (all that fat loss means I can drink more beer without gaining weight - might not help the heart though), besides the simple act of closing a popup is a small price to pay for the valuable information underneath.

Keep em coming Jim - your articles are great!

Jim,
I understand “this is not a charity”. I’m here because I bought your product. I like your information and style.
However, are you aware your pop-up blocks the entire page
and the only way I can find (on my screen) to get out of it
is to close the page completely. I literally could not read your page ever! I can’t figure out how to get to the page I want to read - so I just leave completely.
That seems like a bad thing for you. I don’t need what the pop-up offers. The truth is I ignore more & more of your emails since this started . Today was the first time somehow after clicking out of the pop-up repeatedly I finally got to stay and read your article.
View this as a survey response from a buying customer-
soon I will delete out of your email list permanantly
rather than fight a battle with the full page pop-up monster!

Hi Dacid,

Thanks for the feedback… I’ll take it into account

Jim

I agree with the pop-up thing. You MUST have an option to close the pop-up if we have no interest.

I am turned off by anything anyone JV’s with the lady who shares my first name!

I, too, must make similar decisions, but hope my audience perceives more service than sales in the information I so generously give away!

I agree with the major points of the article - just by asking people what they want, you can get them thinking about what you offer them in better terms, especially if you USE their input to create the product.

Regarding the popup debate, I don’t mind popups as long as they are relavant and don’t block the page the second I get to it. As mentioned above, if a popup comes up too quickly, it gets deleted without being seen. On the other hand, if it waits long enough for me to at least start reading the page, then I’ll take a look at it. Even better, if it waits until I’m DONE reading the page (exit popup), that’s even better.

Of course, if we’re wanting to complain, there’s all those 2-line paragraphs that could be consolidated into ‘real’ paragraphs.

Hi,
If I type content into Microsoft Works Word Processor it tells me that it is a Works Document (*.wps) - does this mean that it is not an html document and I can therefore bypass transferring it into notepad before posting it on Mozilla ?
Second question ( is that allowed ?) - in order to save costs I want to use DVD covers that I will generate for the product I will be selling via my minisite - can you point to a good cheap/free source for producing these ?
Regards
Lawrence

Hey Jim,

Enjoyed your article and as far as the pop up goes, I’m standing in your corner on this one. Not everyone’s a fan of them, but they do work well.

Jason
http://www.ReverseFunnelSecret.com/

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