RE: Exiting a site MkII

Check out Intel's site. They have a little pop-up that says something about
a satisfaction survey, to click here, to participate when you are done with
the site. The box then minimizes itself, and you can call it up, later. It
does not really know when you have left the Intel site, but when you close
your browser it will be there.

Some of the adult sites us a similar arrangement for their add, The pop-up
box comes with the first screen, but it comes up under the existing window,
so that you only see it when you are closing your browser.

This is not exactly what you want but how can you control when or where
someone leaves your site?

Perhaps you need to include this sort of stuff with your welcome message,
and forget the exit message.

Elias

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of tom simmons
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 18:27
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Exiting a site MkII


Hi all again,

Just to say that I have had a couple of responses to my earlier query about
pop-up windows appearing as you vacate a site, and these responses implied
they are less than appetising!

I _definitely_ know what they mean by this, and it was a response I was
kinda expecting.

What I want is a way of getting reliable information about how any
advertising campaigns I use are working,  ie. online/real world classified
ads, opt-in email, webrings, search engines etc.  I need to know this to
make the most of my advertising budget!

As a consequence I was thinking of some way of asking visitors to fill in a
simple, maybe click-one-check-box, kind of questionnaire, a "how did you
hear about this site" question.  Hence the "before you go..." pop-up window.

I am using a visitor counter from thecounter.com which gives me basic
details like browser, operating system, and even a confused attempt at
telling me where the visitors linked from.  But what if the visits are not
from an existing hyperlink, ie. the person jotted down my site address on a
piece of paper...then my counter is useless.

If the consensus is that these kinds of pop-ups are unsuitable, and the bane
of surfers world-wide (I'm probably the first to vote a yes to that) then
what else can I do?  A link on the site to a questionnaire page will surely
not get a high response...

Any further suggestions or any views on the best form of advertising?

Thanks again,
Tom.

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