{"id":3650,"date":"2014-08-20T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/blog\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2014-08-21T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:58:54","slug":"scroll-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"Scroll Box: For Everyone that Hates Popups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Growing up my mom used to tell me, “Bryan, it’s not what you say but how you say it!”<\/p>\n

I HATED hearing that.<\/p>\n

Such a cliche.<\/p>\n

Turns out…she was right.<\/p>\n

Who knew.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I wrote extensively on using popups to grow your email list (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I got a lot of this in response…<\/p>\n

“But BRYAN I don’t like using popups. They are SO annoying!”<\/em><\/p>\n

First<\/strong>, get over yourself. It’s not about what YOU think is annoying. It’s about what your readers like and use.<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>, if you just can’t bring yourself to install a popup on your site BUT you really want to get more email subscribers I have an alternative for you.<\/p>\n

It’s called a scroll box.<\/p>\n

Take a look at how it works:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Basically, it’s like a popup only slightly more polite.<\/p>\n

Instead of a giant box popping up in front of you as you read the page, the scroll box slides out and doesn’t interfere with your reading.<\/p>\n

My friend\u00a0Noah recently built a scroll box tool aptly named Scrollbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was extremely skeptical of how well it would perform versus my popups.<\/p>\n

He asked me to test it out, so I ran a short 5 day test on it and was very<\/strong> surprised at the results.<\/p>\n

I expected a 1-2% optin rate.<\/p>\n

Pshhh…I couldn’t have been more wrong.<\/p>\n

Over the\u00a0first 5 days I averaged a 5.10%<\/strong> optin rate!<\/p>\n

That was BETTER than my popup optin rate.<\/p>\n

Less intrusive + Higher optin rate = Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve been running it every since.<\/p>\n

Here are my\u00a0results from last week:<\/p>\n

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If you want to install it, go here (Download<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

PS:<\/strong> Have you used a scrollbox before? If so, how did it perform versus your popup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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