Will this work as a popup email opt-in box?

[notageek]

I have over 100 visitors a month to my website, and many visitors stay quite a long time. However, my products are complicated and choices are too many to be sales-conducive.

I would like to force an email collection with a pop-up opt-in box. This would allow my customers to receive gradual exposure to my products by email marketing. It would make little difference to my sales on my site, because no one buys anything anyway.

I found a closed 2007 thread at Post No. 6 at this page: http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...reating-Popups, which I quote below. I would like to know if this is still something that would work in Zen-Cart version 139h or higher.

go to your original zen-cart download folder, to the "docs" folder and read the "JScript Override How-To" (who knew there were these great files right here in the folder???)

for quick reference, here is what that says:

Site-Wide jscript's
jscript*.js files -- to be "linked" by your site

Any file in the includes/templates/{template_directory}/jscript/ directory with the following filename format will be loaded globally on every page of your shop:
jscript_{unique_name}.js
(where {unique_name} can be anything you want)


Effectively, the file will be loaded as if you had inserted the following into an HTML page:

<script language="javascript" src="includes/templates/{template_directory}/jscript/jscript_{unique_name}.js"></script>
jscript*.php files -- to be "included" in your HTML content sent to the browser, inline.

If you need to control the content of certain PHP variables inside jscript code on the page, OR if you need to include several <script>...</script> tags, use a jscript_*.php file instead.
However, in this case, you DO need to include the <script .... > and </script> tags in the file.


Page-Specific jscript's

For page-specific operation, put the file under the /includes/modules/pages/{pagename}/ folder.
jscript*.js files -- to be "linked" by your site

NOTE: jscript_*.js files must not contain any <script...> .... </script> tags. They should contain ONLY the contents that are to go "between" those tags.
jscript*.php files -- to be "included" in your HTML content sent to the browser, inline.

If you need to control the content of certain PHP variables inside jscript code on the page, use a jscript_*.php file.
However, in this case, you DO need to include the <script .... > and </script> tags in the file.
so, to apply this instruction to our situation:
1. download and rename the two script files you can get off that website to:
jscript_add-event.js and jscript_popup.js

2. place them in the correct folder, as described above

3.code your links in the footer (or wherever) as described in that website, should be something like this:
Code:
<ul id="bottomMenuStyle">
<li><a href="http://www.hsus.org" rel="popup console 820 700
noicon"><img src="http://www.customk9design.com/catalogzen
/includes/templates/darkness/images/humanesociety.gif"
alt="Humane Society" width="290" height="55"/></a></li>



<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/organic
/?from=sfx&uid=0&t=353570" rel="popup console 950 700
noicon"><img src="http://www.customk9design.com/catalogzen
/includes/templates/darkness/images
/organicfirefox.jpg"width="115" height="55" border="0"/>
</a></li>
</ul>
note the following:
1. create a ul, and list your items
2. should have a href to site, then that "rel=" code... you can change the dimensions from what the site creates originally (i started with 800x600 then modified based on the link)
3. i have mine linked to an image (this is optional)
4. if not linking to an image, just have your text here:
rel="popup console 950 700 noicon">CLICK HERE FOR BLAH</a></li>

because of how zen cart is set up, it should auto call those jscripts as long as you name them correctly and put them in the correct folder as described above. you DO NOT need to input any code at the top of the page, or anything like that.

TOO EASY!!! (advice by Customk1)

There are a number of Wordpress popups which are having success in obtaining opt-ins, so, much as I dislike popups (I always click them off), this seems like a strategy that might build a list slowly so I could educate my visitors.

I am also considering using the RSS feed module. However, I am thinking no one would click on that either, without a bribe to opt in. According to the Wordpress users, a popup does build a list, at least if you offer a bribe such as a free report or video.

Thanks for any ideas.

[schoolboy]

I have over 100 visitors a month to my website, and many visitors stay quite a long time. However, my products are complicated and choices are too many to be sales-conducive.

I would like to force an email collection with a pop-up opt-in box. This would allow my customers to receive gradual exposure to my products by email marketing. It would make little difference to my sales on my site, because no one buys anything anyway.

I found a closed 2007 thread at Post No. 6 at this page: http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...reating-Popups, which I quote below. I would like to know if this is still something that would work in Zen-Cart version 139h or higher.



There are a number of Wordpress popups which are having success in obtaining opt-ins, so, much as I dislike popups (I always click them off), this seems like a strategy that might build a list slowly so I could educate my visitors.

I am also considering using the RSS feed module. However, I am thinking no one would click on that either, without a bribe to opt in. According to the Wordpress users, a popup does build a list, at least if you offer a bribe such as a free report or video.

Thanks for any ideas.

You are not resolving the problem.

If your products are "too complicated" then you must simplify them. The internet must be simple and very fast.

[stevesh]

I have over 100 visitors a month to my website, and many visitors stay quite a long time. However, my products are complicated and choices are too many to be sales-conducive.

I would like to force an email collection with a pop-up opt-in box. This would allow my customers to receive gradual exposure to my products by email marketing. It would make little difference to my sales on my site, because no one buys anything anyway.

These two things being true, I wonder why you're bothering. Any chance we can see the site ?

[notageek]

These two things being true, I wonder why you're bothering. Any chance we can see the site ?

Hi. The site is www.g o k a r a o k e m a c h i n e.c o m (spaced so this forum thread will not come up when searched on google).

I have put a lot of effort into trying to simplify by explaining my products, by articles, category introductions, and by adding links to reviews and demos. I don't seem to have the knack of sales. The keywords are really competitive so the site is not on Google page 1, so have a small volume of visitors, but that should be enough to build an email list. That means I should try to do social marketing, and try to build a list from people who click on the link to my site instead of on an email form on the social site or the website. Therefore, I need some way to basically have a gateway allowing me to collect the email for the privilege of seeing the great information on the site, if the link-clicking visitors really are interested.

In Wordpress sites, there is a plug-in like this, that darkens the page slightly until you give your email address. That type of plugin reputedly is quite successful in building email lists.

I don't suppose a Wordpress plug-in would work, unless maybe I added a Wordpress page to the site for the purposes of entry. Perhaps I should consider that approach for sending people who click my site's links on social media.

I wonder if anyone has taken that approach. That would be a rationale for adding the Wordpress module even though the EZ pages are wonderful for articles.

Any comments are much appreciated. Thank you, Dr.Byte, and Stevesh, for your thoughts above.

[Ajeh]

Hint ... you should really make those youtube links pop in their own window as I went from your site to youtube and played on youtube for 2-3 hours and totally forgot about your site ...

[notageek]

Ajeh,

Thanks for the tip. YouTube is captivating with all the choices. Hope you felt your time on YouTube was well-spent.

Notageek

[DrByte]

YouTube is captivating with all the choices. Hope you felt your time on YouTube was well-spent.

Haha! Nicely played