No More Long Waits on Companies Support Line - Nevahold.com

ratemystartup.com

3 points·nevaHold··6 comments

Yet another site with a page blanking "pop-up" demanding participation long before you have any opportunity to evaluate what is on offer.

My tolerance of this is zero. I do not read the page - potential audience size -1.

Given the pandemic of these things over the last few years, I thought I was the only remaining person this annoyed by these silly boxes.

I go to a page to read the content, not to be harassed by pop-overs. I see one, I leave.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) the reason these pop-overs are still used is because they still work.

Users are much more likely to perform an action (ex. subscribe to a mailing list) when it is presented to them in a pop-over. (At least that is what my experiences have been)

If you hate them or not, they do work and until the numbers prove otherwise site owners will continue to use them. The decision purely comes down to the best way to increase key metrics.

In full disclosure - I am the founder of http://RateMyStartup.com - The site lists new starts (and uses pop-overs). I would recommend checking out Nevahold.com directly to give it a chance. It really is a cool concept for a startup.

This is interesting, will be following closely on how things pan out

I really can't wait to filter whatever anti-ad spam Nevahold is going to start spewing allover the internet.

I hate the name.

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