"Chat Recovery" Programs - Intelligent Discussion?

Jake,
Long time no talk. You had asked me about this in Vegas a year or 2 ago and I will say now what I said then. Anyone that tells you that it is a good idea to have an Allie bot is trying to pander to you for business. Allie is your brand and you do not want anyone or thing out there diluting that by trying to be her. Further why would you want to offer interaction with your product before they join. That is one of the perks of joining. There is allot of companies out there that can offer recovery tools. Allison has some great points about a static system and further I agree 50% is to much to pay. One of the reasons VAA was started was due to the fact these mainstream companies trying to move into the adult market who don't know how paysites really work since they never ran one are asking way to much. We wanted to make a solution like this economically feasible for the average program owner. We charge the lowest flat rate per sale and even offer month lease pricing if you want to avoid paying per sale. Hit me up webmaster at virtual adult agent dot com if you want to talk further.

if you want to offer a discount
do it yourself with your own page
and keep 100%

just my

that's why we don't offer any discounts on signup. Our sites are worth the $24.95 we charge, period.

One thing to consider is that, in terms of affiliate programs, exit chat solutions generally rely on someone else's traffic. They have no traffic of their own, so they rely on the work you, and your affiliates, have invested. They intercept the surfer along the tour/join page, even if the potential customer checks the join page just to see prices, then clicks the back button to resume the tour. Personally, I find this type of behavior parasitic in nature.

Some affiliates will not mind having their links and/or cookies intercepted and/or modified, others certainly will.

One good thing with most of these programs is that you can enable or disable these links for specific affiliates or create an exit free tour that affiliates can choose from -- one that suppresses these exit bots.

The type of implementation should be given consideration if affiliates are part of your business model.

I always find the exit discount irritating. If the site can afford to drop the price by a third to still get a sale then the price should have cheaper to start with. The double layer ones that for example take $59 item and drop it to $39, then drop it again to $19 are particularly insulting.

On the other hand, i often hunt for discount codes but see using them as price minus code = true price, whereas price without code = naïve idiot price.

I also think however that if someone has closed the payment page, they are basically going, so even an insult that results in a sale is good. If they didnt close the payment page and made the sale, then they never got the insult ;)

Both Exit Chat and Intellichat provide a great service - test them out and see.

Does anyone have any new updates regarding their experience with any exit chat solutions? Anyone end up doing split tests and are willing to share their experiences?

Seems like if you had a big site with traffic you'd do good by popping a live webcam girl (non nude even) to talk to all of the potential customers in real time in a group room.

It really depends what your site is actually worth.. People go hay wire over this topic when drinking beer.

What's your gut and instinct telling you is going to enforce the lowest amount of communication and such conversions.