Hi, Enjoy the post. If you find this blog useful, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed so you don't miss out on the nuggets. Thanks for visiting!

I’m not keen on focus groups because they try and predict behaviour and all they’re predicting is intention.

Statistics of actual behaviour I believe are a better indication of future behaviour.

However, despite that I was interested in this survey on Internet marketing tactics.

In particular these were some of the tactics that most annoyed consumers (in descending order of annoyance):

1. Pop-ups
2. Requirement to install software to view the site
3. Dead links
4. Requirement to register and log-on before viewing the site
5. Slow-loading pages
6. Out of date content
7. Confusing navigation and too many clicks
8. Ineffective site search tool
9. No contact information (other than a web form) available

There were 6 other annoying tactics that you can check for yourself.

What was most amazing was that 76% of consumers surveyed said that if any of their pet peeves on a site would prompt them to leave and never return.

In general I agree with almost all the survey. However, properly targeted pop-ups actually increase sales. So it may have been better to word the question “wrongly targeted pop-ups”.

For some time pop-ups were a “no-no” on the web, but as long as they’re targeted they seem to be making a come back. After all if you’re about to lose a browser for ever there’s no harm to you to use the pop-up as a last ditch attempt to interest them in you and/or your site. Is there?

Technorati : Internet Marketing, Marketing tactics, Pop-ups, dead links
Del.icio.us : Internet Marketing, Marketing tactics, Pop-ups, dead links
Ice Rocket : Internet Marketing, Marketing tactics, Pop-ups, dead links
Flickr : Internet Marketing, Marketing tactics, Pop-ups, dead links
Buzznet : Internet Marketing, Marketing tactics, Pop-ups, dead links
43 Things : Internet Marketing, Marketing tactics, Pop-ups, dead links

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!