Pop-Ups Drive Customers Away

Media Buyer ^ | 7/28/05

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Seventy percent of consumers said they were unlikely to purchase from, or even return to, a Web site that has pop-up advertising, registration log-on pages, software installation, or slow-loading pages, E-Commerce Times reports.

A study, commissioned by Hostway, a Chicago-based Web site hosting service, found that approximately 35 percent of visitors to commercial sites said pop-up ads were their number one pet peeve.

More than 24 percent of the respondents said they were extremely or somewhat likely to complain to the company when they were exasperated by a site.

[Sofa King]

"Once the conversation degrades to assertions of stupidity, it isn't worth continuing." You've repeated the exact same flawed logic three times now without bothering to address the enormous hole shown to be in it. If you don't like your statements being called stupid, then don't make stupid statements. Better yet, just refrain from posting to me again period, since it doesn't look like you have the discretion necessary to make that call.

[Big Giant Head]

Cool. Ping. Check out the post I replied to.

[listenhillary]

I use Firefox, but I still haven't given up Explorer. The google tool bar gets most of them. Drudge and Intellicast have thwarted google's pop up blocker, so I just stay away.

Hey! Put some pics up on the clan site sometime. I put some up of the recent conflagration. Going down tomorrow to help clean up.