I Want Your Email Address

I gave him my email address. That site amuses me, and I have high hopes of receiving additional amusement via email in the future.

Very nice!!! :)

If I had a penny for every site that follows such a convoluted, tiring, mind numbing and thoughtless way to market one single product with lots and lots of "blah, blah", "more blah, blah, blah", and then "just sign up for free" to sell more stuff...

I really don't understand why marketing something has to be such a long winded story with the hope that at least one of the anchor points would catch the patient reader who somehow has the attention span to read several paragraphs. It's highly irritating and doesn't really help your (marketer's) reputation or that of the product you sell. It's like a long switch case statement in C with no breaks. :D

What could be worse? A site like this that has a popup on page load to get your email address first so that you don't even have the chance to know about the content before thinking about deciding.

P.S.: If this comment seemed long winded, that was intentional. :)

I want to see a followup report on the actual conversion rates...

The one missing thing is a tempting ebook or something that I can only get if I give my email address.

Pretty slick, but you aren't getting my email address! You don't offer anything that necessitates me receiving an email message, and you'll probably just send me garbage, so I'll just come back to your site when I'm ready to do something with you.

You forgot the JS popup to warn about leaving the page.

Is this kind of an experiment? If so, what is your objective?

Edit: So it is an experiment

what happens when you put in an email address?

All web marketing boils down to this.