Save-a-sale type popups - should you use it or not

Hey folks,

I did a simple test with a niche site where I have installed one of those
save-a-sale popups and it didn't increase conversions at all. In fact I felt like
it decreased because of that.

I know this was an awesome concept and still is, but I believe it's becoming too
saturated all over the place.

If you look at clickbank marketplace, almost every sales letter has one of those.
It's annoying after a while (just my opinion)

What is your experience with this? Do you have any real stats showing that it indeed
increased conversions for you?

Pawel

Hi Pawel

I installed a S-A-S popup on one of my niche sites and it killed sales. DEAD. They are just not use to seeing it and are ver skeptical.

But over in the IM niche it works great. It just depends on what you market is and how you have to test it.

Charles

Charles,

When I was looking through the chat history of the virtual sales person
with visitors, I noticed that some people were getting very frustrated trying
the get the answer...lol In fact, some actually got really mad. Now maybe it
was just the niche. I can see how this could hurt your sales though, because your
ratio of returning visitors would drop.

Pawel

That is the same thing that happened to me. People who are not use to seeing this feel TAKEN by the fact that it is not a real person. Even if it tells them they are not real people still get upset.

But in the IM niche and others people have gotton use to it giving them a disocunt so they expect.

I hate them myself but I'm not my target market and they worked great on my last launch.

Thanks
Charles

Hi,

I would say definitely use Virtual Smart Agent.

Dave from VSA really helped me out on the launch.

VSA saved 418 sales in 5 days a 28% conversion rate.

The great thing about VSA is it is a one time fee.

You do not pay per saved sale like Intellichat.

The also have an affiliate program that pays you 50%.

I highly recommend it.

I can get you a deal too...Dave and I became pretty
good friends during the launch.

PM me for more details.

Craig

Hi All,

Just my 2 cents worth....

I have completed research on this topic and it looks very much like sales can be saved if you are selling a IM product, but other niches are less likely to work as well.

People are tending to get frustrated with pop-ups and virtual agents, but if you use them on the right products (eg Craig's Secret Affiliate Code) then you can clearly make an additional 10-20% on total sales.

It will be interesting to see what the next level of technology will introduce (maybe a real person that jumps put of your screen just before you close the page down!!)

Success To All,

Chris Wainwright

Hi Chris

May be you are on to somthing here. You might be able to do that with frameless video.

Charles

Do you think visitors that are 'with it' tend to wait for the VSA? or go straight to the exit button?

At the same time i realise that Craig would have ultimately missed out on over 400 extra sales.

I believe that VSA is saturated within clickbank but you'd have to think the conversions in non-IM niches would be fantastic.

I personally just flip them the bird :P but I only do this as the sites I tend to visit are for 'educational' purposes to see what they use where certain things are etc etc. I guess the research I have been doing has made me become irritable with VSA lol.

For my launch I am going to use an exit popup but not VSA. I am going to go down the route of:

"Thought this was a Virtual Sales Agent didn't you!"

or

"Sorry no Virtual Sales Agent here... just a message from ME the owner!"

Nathan

Why don't you try it on Google Manipulator? Supposedly it works in the IM niche.