I'm separating this from my diary thread so that I can get a bit more exposure here...so I was advised that with my existing budget I should start doing email submits instead before going into any rebill stuff again.
I am playing around with polls revolving around celebrities / current events, then to email submit etc. But so far I simply didn't have any success. Does anyone know whether this is still supposed to be a feasible method?
I created around 5 or 6 polls and put an email submit behind them and then promoted the poll pages on various forums that were relevant to the poll topic - I didn't want to launch some PPC stuff for them before getting an idea of my potential CTR. Though in the end I did put up a PPC campaign for a single poll up on Content - good Adwords stats, around 100 clicks, maybe 10 clickthroughs and zero conversions.
So basically my CTR is horrid - for all the polls I did. Averaging 10-15%.
People just have to click yes or no for god's sake! Is it because forum people are generally more wary and instantly see the marketing in all of it - meaning that PPC traffic would turn out entirely different (though it didn't for me yet)?
Maybe it's the way my polls look? Here's a sample one: Was Michael Jackson Murdered?
Or is it because my "prize" is too untargeted for my traffic? But still, why don't people bother enough to just click 'Yes' or 'No' - I'd understand if they were bailing at the offer page, but not on my LP...
And yes, I'm aware of the whole scrubbing/shaving issue of course. But I always thought I would be scrubbed only once I am *getting* some decent conversions.
Any thoughts?
I am playing around with polls revolving around celebrities / current events, then to email submit etc. But so far I simply didn't have any success. Does anyone know whether this is still supposed to be a feasible method?
I created around 5 or 6 polls and put an email submit behind them and then promoted the poll pages on various forums that were relevant to the poll topic - I didn't want to launch some PPC stuff for them before getting an idea of my potential CTR. Though in the end I did put up a PPC campaign for a single poll up on Content - good Adwords stats, around 100 clicks, maybe 10 clickthroughs and zero conversions.
So basically my CTR is horrid - for all the polls I did. Averaging 10-15%.
People just have to click yes or no for god's sake! Is it because forum people are generally more wary and instantly see the marketing in all of it - meaning that PPC traffic would turn out entirely different (though it didn't for me yet)?
Maybe it's the way my polls look? Here's a sample one: Was Michael Jackson Murdered?
Or is it because my "prize" is too untargeted for my traffic? But still, why don't people bother enough to just click 'Yes' or 'No' - I'd understand if they were bailing at the offer page, but not on my LP...
And yes, I'm aware of the whole scrubbing/shaving issue of course. But I always thought I would be scrubbed only once I am *getting* some decent conversions.
Any thoughts?
