Pippity Review – How to Increase Sign-Ups Without Annoying Your Visitors

On the one hand, you want more sign-ups to your email newsletter or for that special offer on your site.

On the other hand, even though it’s generally agreed that popups can work very well for this, you don’t want to annoy your visitors.

So the trade-off has always been you could grow your list and annoy your visitors, or you could not annoy your visitors and knowingly leave sign-ups on the table.

Until now.

Most Popups Suck… Here’s Why Pippity is Different

Most other popups work based on timers: you show up at a page and they either pop right away (super annoying) or they pop after, say, a minute (still pretty damn annoying). So… no wonder people say they hate them. I’m not gonna sign up for anything without having a clue what the site’s about, so if I just arrived shoving a popup in my face is not a good idea. Likewise, when I’m right in the middle of reading an article I don’t want to be interrupted and annoyed by a popup. That does not make me feel good about signing up for anything. It’s irritating.

The only time I’m mentally in a place to be open to the prospect of signing up for an email list is after I’ve read an article and I’ve decided I liked it.

Pippity is different. Pippity popups have this setting you can turn on (I show you how in the video) where it only pops when the reader scrolls to the bottom of the page. In other words, it doesn’t pop when they’re in the middle of reading anything.

While many bloggers will notice increased sign-ups from using any ol’ popup, you might want to consider how many more you would get if the popup tool you were using wasn’t also annoying the hell out of your visitors.

Pippity is Super-Easy to Use

And I mean, like, ridiculously easy. You pick a template, customize it with easy-to-use menus, hook it up to your email list provider and… that’s it.

You can get all crazy-sophisticated with it if you want to, but you most certainly don’t have to. When I made the video below, I had barely ever used Pippity at all. I did it this way on purpose to show you how easy it is. I essentially went into it blind and was able to get it all set up within minutes.

Pippity works with the following email list providers:

  • Aweber
  • Madmimi
  • MailChimp
  • Constant Contact
  • 1ShoppingCart
  • Get Response
  • Campaign Monitor
  • Graphic Mail
  • iContact

If there was any aspect of this I figured would trip people up, it would be with list integration.

However, that turned to not at all be the case. It was so simple I actually thought I was doing something wrong at first because I thought it just had to be more complicated than just copy and paste my Aweber form code. Needless to say I was impressed. You get to see all this in the demo video I made below.

Pippity Demo Video

Disclosure

Grant, the owner of this blog, has partnered with the makers of Pippity. The links in this article are not affiliate links, however I am an affiliate for Pippity and will provide you with my own affiliate link if you like. Just contact me.

More to Come

Pippity has some really awesome features, like built-in analytics and A/B split testing. I’ll show you those in future videos. I need to let it run for a couple weeks on my site to build up a set of control data first.

Free Trial

You can try Pippity for free for 30 days, so go check it out.

About The Author
Michael Martine boosts your bottom line with a blog with his blog consulting services, training, and products at Remarkablogger. He lives in beautiful Vermont, where he tries to keep the blood levels in his caffeine system from getting too high and spends way too much time on Twitter. Michael is also the brains behind WordPress SEO Secrets.
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LauLau81 131 pts

I am excited to see what is more to come... I enjoyed reading your post and I learned a lot from here especially for increasing sign ups for my sites. This is great! Thank you for sharing your ideas.

goodwillstacy 7 pts

Thanks for the heads up on this plug-in... I hadn't heard of it.

I went to the site to sign-up for the 30 day free trial and am confused -do you know where to find the link for it? Is it right in front of me and I'm just missing it? ;)

I'm really interested in trying it out!!!

GrantGriffiths 78 pts moderator

goodwillstacy The demo is on the site. Here you go http://demo.pippity.com/ua54k3/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pty

CaffeineKeybord 6 pts

I just visited Remarkablogger.com, Michael's blog, the other day and I noticed this unique, non annoying popup - which was timed perfectly because I had just finished reading an entire post. I was curious what plugin was used - Thanks for sharing!

remarkablogger 30 pts

CaffeineKeybord That's exactly what we all hope for: to have our cake and eat it too.

JennyBBones 16 pts

Okay I've been avoiding these things for a long time now even though I'm aware of their effectiveness. Finally it looks like there is an answer to my concerns...this addresses all the aspects of pop ups that can be "distasteful" and I'm going to give it a trial run this week. I shall let you know how it goes. Thanks!

GrantGriffiths 78 pts moderator

JennyBBones Let us know if you have any questions.

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