Dec 14 2008
How Dumb is Dumb?
Have you ever had the experience of viewing a website and when you leave, a pop up claims there is a live agent waiting to give you a discount?
Just for grins I clicked the cancel and tried a conversation with one of these pseudo live agents and they are robots indeed. If you look closely you can find a link on most of them to offer you the same service and a few minutes on the resulting website will quickly disclose the truth.
It just makes me wonder how stupid we seem to marketers that deploy these robots. The websites that furnish them claim a high percentage of deals ’saved’ but just can’t swallow that.
Would you insult the intelligence of your prospects by taking this step?
What annoys me the most is when you visit a link and find that it is one of the MLM or pyramid schemes and you navigate away from the page, you get the pop-up saying you’ll get a huge discount if you’ll buy now. This type of marketing doesn’t work for me at all. I wonder if it ever really works.
Very true,hate any pop up asking to stay when i clicked to go.
Makes me feel hijacked. Hate it
Congratulations, I’ve never taken the time. I feel so annoyed even when the pop-up cones on.
Karen
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