“You expect me to believe popups can be useful?”
In a word, yes. Although it may seem counterintuitive because “everyone hates popups,” there is truth to the statement that popup e-mail opt-ins can be useful for certain businesses. Perhaps there are people who visit your site all the time, and are active in the message boards and article comments, but somehow have never signed up for your valuable e-mail list. This could be due to ad or banner blindness, a less-than-flawless site design, or a lack of incentive. Regardless, popup e-mail opt-ins could be just what you need to boost your business. For example, popups helped Hesham Fathy from Famous Bloggers increase newsletter sign-ups by around 400%.
In the war for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, voters were left with a difficult choice: political upstart and bringer of change Barack Obama, or former first lady and New York senator Hillary Clinton. Both candidates agreed on most major issues, causing many Democratic primary voters to scratch their heads and care little about the outcome so long as the current administration’s policies would be overwritten.