David Leigh

One of the things I’m trying from Immediate Edge is a method that is supposed to boost email sign ups. I’m testing the method (I won’t reveal what it is - you should have joined Immediate Edge) on a website that for me is part fun and part SEO/internet marketing test bed with a miserable sign up rate of just 1 percent.

In fact the code as provided by Immediate Edge didn’t work, so I wrote some code to achieve the same thing at the weekend and finished off this afternoon. I’m split testing this method with what I had before and the early results are interesting; every sign up since I made the code live are from this method.

Once I have some worthwhile data I’ll post the results.

Update: October 4th

I messed it up to start with and so reset my stats yesterday. Initial results from less than 24 hours are:

Immediate Edge method: 4.3%

Without Edge method: 2.4%

Aweber generated form: 1.5% (as used previously, 1% long term)

The 3 different forms are being rotated evenly and it is very early days, however the Immediate Edge method has taken the lead - it’ll be interesting to return to this after more significant numbers.

A few hours ago I was bitching about Stompernet, but to keep the balance I now have to say that I’ve received an email to say that the long awaited stage D of SIMPLE has now launched.

I’ve received a few emails lately from StomperNet about how this next year is going to be so great blah blah blah, tons of ideas, great faculty blah blah blah.

Unfortunately I will never ever sign up for StomperNet because  of my experiences with StomperNet SIMPLE. We were promised new content in August, but we’re still waiting.The stuff we were supposed to get in September also failed to materialize.

I’m paying $97/month for this - it’s not going to break the bank, but constant over promising and under delivery is not the way to go if you want to hold on to any kind of reputation and I’d rather spend that money on something useful. I’ll see if there is any improvement in October, but after that I’m out of it.

The people they have on board couldn’t be better, but why are they going out of their way to piss customers off?