Traffic Regenerator: An Offensive Marketing Tool
Check this site out: http://www.trafficregenerator.com
Have you ever been to a site which makes it difficult to leave? It pops up windows at you? Peels back the corner of the page with a message for you to stay? Offer enticements to stick around?
Might that have been a porn site?
Most likely…
Well, the sleazy tactics of the porn merchants are now being marketed as legitimate business tools for internet marketers to use in their efforts to get people to stay on their sales letter pages.
I guess it’s not good enough to have compelling prose, a unique and enticing offer, a video which really draws you in to the product…
No, you have to use desperate tactics like implementing Traffic Regenerator so that morons who don’t know how to close out a window will be hooked back in to the page, and somehow compelled to buy the product in question.
Go figure.
I’m an internet marketer and have been one for the past 12 years, but I’m ashamed to be affiliated with people who market sleazy approaches like this.
All I can do though, is to do my marketing cleanly and ethically, and be able to look at myself in the mirror in the morning knowing that I’m doing the right thing by my customers.
Nuff said about that…
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I came across this last week, being touted as a huge breakthrough (blah blah blah). I had similar impressions to yours, with two primary reasons I won’t be using it:
1. It’s rude. I don’t like to treat my visitors like that. Heck, I don’t even like to launch a link in a new window because I feel like the reader should get to decide how their windows behave.
2. It really doesn’t seem like it would be effective. As you pointed out in your video, it seems highly unlikely that someone is going to (favorably) change their mind about a site because it harassed them…
This is on my avoid list.
Well said, Sarah…
I would add to that, you’re treating your prospective customers like they’re idiots… and if they are, and fall for techniques like that, do you really want them as your customer?
Thanks for commenting!
Andy
As the owner of an online travel site, I can totally relate to this. I know that if I had a flashy presentation with women in bikinis, it would be more in keeping with the type of graphics one would expect from a vacation company. I keep my site mediocre as I search for appropriate travel agency type graphics (not easy), and I believe it will payoff.
I just visited a great site and was dismayed to see he had this system up on it… does not fit the sense of who the guy really is.
I am glad to find you all… both this comment to see others agree with me re this software and this blog… I’m going to explore it.