Would this work??

efeezy

efeezy

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So in an effort to stop having my PPC campaigns for my EPN sites slapped like a whore, I've come up with a new idea. What do you think of this gem.

Say I'm promoting Motorola phones. Create a quality landing page with nothing but content and all the other BS that G wants you to have. Just a nice page that "appears" to be a product page for which ever Motorola phone I'm promoting. Specs, photos, reviews..all the shit....but no links to purchase any product or any ebay links whatsoever. So here's the kicker.

The landing page will have some bold text that says something like...

"We're Sorry but this item is currently out of stock..Enter your email below to be notified when it becomes available at an even lower price."

People will enter their email.. Part 1 complete.

Now, I set up an auto responder that shoots back an email saying

"Thank you. We will let email you when this item is available later this week. Please visit our partner store www.blblblblblbl.com for other great deals on Motorola phones." Part 2 complete.

I now have their email address (nice) and gave them a link to my EPN site where hopefully they'll be impatient enough to go and buy one of the Motorola phones I have conveniently listed there.

I'm thinking might be a decent way around the google slap down, but still promote my ebay sites, and collect email addresses as well.

Could this work?? Is this a shitty idea? Thoughts.
 


Rajuthan said:
To avoid that make it a really low price, offer free shipping, etc...
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That's what I'm thinking....make some kick ass offer that doesn't even matter, since I'm never going to actually email them when the "product is in stock".
 
Test it and see. Even if it doesn't work, you are definitely thinking in the right direction and will eventually figure out some other awesome way to work around getting your epn sites slapped.

When you definitely get it to work, don't tell anybody else (except me) ;)
 
@ferrishilton Who knows..it might work. Or it might be complete shit.

This is the best idea I've had in weeks...could be the answer who knows. If I wasn't so fucking tired I'd jam this baby out tonight and see how it works. Tomorrow it is!
 
There are holes all over the place. If you're paying for the traffic, I doubt you'd be happy with the bounce rate something like this would have.

Also, If you're going to do it, don't just give them your url in the email ... shoot them directly to a "related products" page.

You might actually have more luck saying "this product is available, email for purchase details". At least then they won't get back click happy.
 
like erect said: traffic leaks abound. but if you're able to market multiple times to that group (people who have entered their email), then you might be on to something.

from your other threads i assume you're trying to figure out how to get traffic to your money site in the least expensive way possible. those would have to be some pretty cheap clicks for someone to follow this path to you getting paid:


search product > click on ad / go to your site > enter email correctly > receive email > click on money site link in email > click ebay link on money site > bid & win.

that stretch from going to your site and clicking an ebay link becomes seriously compounded in this model. bold indicating what someone would have to do additionally in what you are proposing from a typical search or ad click.
 
I agree that the path to the final sale is longer than I would like. Maybe having the product page in the auto response email is the way to go. That way they enter their email address and boom..they looking at the product they were interested in in the first place. Even if I use something like Cforms in Wordpress, after they enter their email I can redirect them to a page with the products, and I don't think the Google reviewer is going to go so far as to find that page...I hope.
 
I don't think it will work. If I am shopping for something and see it is out I am not going to put in my email address because I want the product bought NOW. So many purchases online are impulse buys so you don't want to send people to your page and not have the product available. It also makes the brand of your website look bad as people want to shop at places that always have things in stock and ready to ship fast. Just look at Zappos and how they did it.
 
bprimeelite said:
I don't think it will work. If I am shopping for something and see it is out I am not going to put in my email address because I want the product bought NOW. So many purchases online are impulse buys so you don't want to send people to your page and not have the product available. It also makes the brand of your website look bad as people want to shop at places that always have things in stock and ready to ship fast. Just look at Zappos and how they did it.
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This.
 
Try it out and see if it works, no harm there. Plus, you will get a pretty decent db to work with in the future. However, it is true that a lot of people may not trust inputting their email address if the product is not available and send people shopping elsewhere.
 
Wont work. You'll probably have the an email submit rate of 0.1-3%. Then a conversion rate of 1-6% of that. So basically, you'll most likely lose over 95%+ of your would be purchasers.
 
You'll need to design the page to get a really good hit to email submit ratio to have a shot at it working. So hopefully you can lose a few hundred bucks in testing.
 
Ok. That way to pull this off would be to have an undeniable deal sitting on the homepage, with a big friendly email submit box

This is something so great, but still believable. Just make something up, but not F.REE cause people dont believe FREE

have them input their email to access the deal. Not sure how great of conversions you will get though.. . . . . (this would be the deal killer)



So then you get them in your auto-responder. What I would do then is have the auto-responder redirect them to the rover link
so you get them at ebay and cookied.


only hitching point is EPN doesnt like blank referrals in their links coming in, and probably wont like it either you sending 1000's of cookies with a refferal from getresponse or something, so you will need to have a self-hosted auto-responder with the redirect.
 
Virtual Banker said:
So then you get them in your auto-responder. What I would do then is have the auto-responder redirect them to the rover link
so you get them at ebay and cookied.


only hitching point is EPN doesnt like blank referrals in their links coming in, and probably wont like it either you sending 1000's of cookies with a refferal from getresponse or something, so you will need to have a self-hosted auto-responder with the redirect.
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a method that just begs for a ban from ePN.
 
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