AWEBER Has a new Optin Box called Lightbox

I have been a faithful user of AWEBER since I started list building back in 2004. They have been very good to me!

They even have my testimonial on their site, which has given me some good traffic over the years.

They just added a new optin box, which is called the “Lightbox”.

Its an unblockable popup that you can set to fade into a page and black out the page, while highlighting the optin box in the center of the page. So… it acts like a squeeze page on your main sales page, without having to make a landing/squeeze page.

You can also pop or slide the box in to create more effects to be noticed. Play with it some and track to see which lightbox system gives you the most optins. Will it be the Fade, Slide or Pop?

You can also time the pop so it’s not the first thing people see… add a 20 delay, after they read, if they feel you are worth getting their email from, then they just my have “bought you” and want to subsribe to your stuff.

It’s easy to close if you don’t want to optin too, just hit the ‘close’ button and it goes away.

But upon a page refresh or leaving the site and coming back, you’ll see the optin box again. You can also set the popup to only show up once per vistor, visit, or in a certain amount of days, I suppose it puts a cookie on there to not show up until you tell it, like in 4 days or so.

As with anything new to your site, test this type of popup. On Aweber’s blog, people were saying that some lightbox decreased signups while others increased. So do track to make it effective and make sure you save the old version of your page incase you decide to remove it and take it out.

The optin box is 100% HTML too so you can put stuff in there make it look interesting. You can control the size of the optin box if you wanted to… and MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A REAL SQUEEZE PAGE. Try that as a test, might make for interesting conversion eh?

I recommend if you want to try the lightbox, you surf to Aweber’s website and create an account right and test out their great autoresponder tool.