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Grow Your Customer Lists with Web Prompts for Email and Phone

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4 pointsjmadler6 comments

This website is the 101 of what to do to make me leave immediately. We all know the end goal is more spam to generate more sales. Worse, in some instance, those info will be sold.

"Web prompts are one of the most effective ways to easily grow your audience" > I completely disagree; in my case, probably the most effective way to make me lose interest in what you do, instantly.

"Follow up with visitors who initially dismiss your prompt." > In case you didn't leave first time, we are giving you a second opportunity to close that tab and never come back again.

Visitors who actually want to get notified from you will find the way to do it without the need of a popup harassing you to provide personal information.

If there's anything I've learned in the past 10 years is that there must be a gigantic mass of people using the web/smartphone without any hint of self-determination.

Anecdotally I see it in relatives that they're often hopelessly at the mercy of what their screen says. This is who gets targeted with this nonsense.

There's some truth to this. I think folks on Hacker News and in the Tech space broadly ought to remind themselves that they are power users, and their preferences are not representative of all users.

There's a fine line between excessive and helpful communications, and it's different for every person.

Hopefully we'll be able to be more intelligent about this to accommodate your preferences, but for now we're building for to empowering our customers to decide how to engage their users.

It's great to be able to build customer list and loyalty for multiple channels via a single prompt. This also personalizes because the channel they opt-in for is likely their preferred communication channel.

That's the vision, though it's not quite where we're at today. Once users have the option to subscribe to updates in the ways they want, and for the specific kinds of updates they want, we'll be in a much better place.

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