How to Use Scripts



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Scripts are small pieces of code you install on your website
to do very specific tasks, following a visitor's actions.
The most common scripts for Webmasters are Javascripts
and CGI scripts. Though they can perform many other useful
functions, they are used best to gather information about
the customer's shopping habits.

For example, you can have a script that will pop open when
visitors first arrive at your site inviting them to join
your newsletter and receive a fr'ee course on a related
subject.

You can have a script come alive asking your customers why
they didn't purchase when visiting your sales landing page.
It can make a fallback sales offer or give them a fre'e item
for telling you their main reason not buy.

Scripts can also be used to give you a more personal way
of contacting your customer by activating a sound file with
your voice. You can show your customers an up-front,
human presence that will make them closer to you. They'll
feel they know you better going by the sound of your voice.

Care should be taken with scripting such as not to over
do it. Most folks will not come back to your site if they
have to tango with 3 or 4 scripts just to leave! Scripts
shouldn't ever be used as 'nag screens.'

The speed and delivery action you set to the particular
script you're using will have a bearing on the response rate
you harvest. For an entry script, it's best if you let your
visitor settle in and then g-e-n-t-l-y offer it to them.
The point is not to startle and irritate them!

The use of some scripts can also have a negative effect on
your business, such as the scripts that constantly reset
the clock on a time sensitive offer. You visit a particular
website and are introduced to an offer telling you it's
only good for that day until midnight. Should you come back
the next day, there it is again! Perhaps it should be called
an 'auto-lie' script!

The drop-dead worst offender is the 'countdown' script.
It works like this: When a visitor goes to the sales landing
page and doesn't buy, the script comes on and makes a
fallback offer good only for the next 5 minutes or whatever.
It will then proceed to remind you every few seconds of the
approaching END of the countdown!

If at all possible your scripting should be cookie driven
so that your returning visitors don't have to deal with the
same thing again. You can setup your script to only
activate once per visitor, using the identity of the cookie
in the customer's computer.

Good scripting applied in a strategic way can increase your
sales and give you more meaningful information about your
customers, giving you an edge on the competition. It should
be used with restraint on key areas of your website to
enhance your relationship with your customers.

Scripting can be considered a specialty. Should you feel
it's more than you can handle, it's best to pay a seasoned
Pro to do it for you. It's not all that expensive and will
pay for itself in no time.

Here are sources of scripting I use:
http://www.javascript.com/
http://www.scriptarchive.com/

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by Francisco Aloy

(C)2004 Francisco Aloy




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Lately I've taken to subscribing to many newsletters and the "free" programs being offered by internet marketers - think Frank Kern, Yanik Silver et al. - and people like Aaron Wall and Shoemoney and that Brian fellow over at Copyblogger.

If you, like me, receive some of these emails, you may have noticed how their sales methods have taken the typical long web page sales pitch and turned it on its side. They've spliced it into emails and videos and feed that info to us in a much more interactive and entertaining manner then the long winded sales pages of old.

So this morning while trying to convince my 21 month old son to go to the park (that's right, to convince him to go to the park) I found that the usual things were not working. That is when it hit me.

Parental persuasion ala Frank Kern

Please note that I have not met nor do I know Frank Kern, and I am only singling him out because his name stuck with me. I suppose this parody below could be recognizable to Jeff Walker's children as well. One last note, I have found the free info they give away as they get you to the offer/pitch/monthly service to be quite valuable.

  • Dad: Hey son, want to go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings?
  • Son: No!
  • Dad: Oh, did I mention that I found some extra strawberries, your favorite fruit? I figured you would want them and washed some for you. Want to go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings and have some strawberries?
  • Son: My car...? No!
  • Dad: We can take the little soccer ball and some balloons. We know you like balloons so we bought some extras last night. Want to go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings, with the ball and the balloons and have some strawberries? You don't have to do anything, just have fun!
  • Son: Balloons...? Where's my car? No!
  • Dad: Hey listen. Its 8:00, the street cleaner will pass soon. If we go now we can also see the street cleaner! You love the street cleaner and if we don't go now who knows when he will pass again.. Maybe never! Want to go downstairs and see the street cleaner, then go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings, with the ball and the balloons and have some strawberries?
  • Son: Street cleaner...? Balloons...? Where's my car? Hmm... (asks for shoes, walks over to the car...) No!
  • Dad: Listen. If we go down now, we can stop at the bakery. I'll order an espresso (you love the noise from the espresso machine!) and get you some toast and jam (I'll pay; you get this fre.e!) and we can sit at a table outside and watch the street cleaner. Then we can go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings, with the ball and the balloons and have some strawberries? And one last BONUS: we can stop at the fountain and throw in some rocks!!

    Look, if you don't have fun doing this, later I will take you to the pool.
    YOU CAN"T LOSE!!

  • Son: (getting up on the car...) Yes! Lets do it! (makes some vroom vroom noises with the car).

Father and son head down the elevator out to the bakery. Son demands the water fountain in the park so we head straight there, where strawberries are eaten and some rocks thrown in. Then he says "casa" (hey, we live in Spain) and demands to go home. We stop to watch the street cleaner pass by and head home, not having visited the swings, played with the balloon or balls or had breakfast at the bakery.

(Okay, so in the end I also pick on we folks who buy these things - be they live the internet lifestyle products or self-help books - and don't implement them to the fullest :)



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