I gotta tell ya, this blog comment magnet is the coolest tool I’ve seen in a long time. There are a lot of tools out there, and some of them are pretty ingenious. I love programs like Market Samurai and Traffic Geyser, and Firefox plug-ins like “Screen Capture Elite” and “Google Global”.
But seldom do I actually promote products. In fact, over the last 2 years I’ve only promoted 3 products. I did so for the P90X Beachbody folks for a while, but with all the informercials they didn’t really need any help. And then I’ve been a huge fan of GoBrevity (which you can read about here) and SiteBuildit. Those are two great services.
But then today I came across the Maxblogpress Subscribers Magnet, which for some reason I call the blog magnet tool. This is a WordPress plugin that does the work of 3 other things and also does a few things that nothing else can do. I’m going to list out a few things it does, but I really want you to go to their site and see the video.
Just seeing it is enough.
So, should you enable these things, here’s what it can do:
- Add an opt-in floating light box to your site – with a time delay if you want. (Also available in aWeber).
- Add an opt-in form to your sidebar (which is available free with WordPress Plugin)
- Add a “subscribe me” button to the comment form at the end of each blog post (not sure if that’s available elsewhere)
- AUTOMATICALLY fills in the name and e-mail address of your visitors when they arrive at the site. That means they only have to press the “subscribe button”.
- Add an opt-in box to the beginning or end of every post
- Add a floating footer bar at the bottom of screen with newsletter opt-in form embedded
- Silently subscribe anyone that leaves a comment on your blog. They’ll then automatically get a “thank you for leaving a comment” e-mail, along with the “confirm your subscription button.
- Fully customize everything – and it works with AWeber, 1shopping cart and most other opt-in box providers.
I’m not sure if that’s enough or not. The plug-in costs $147, but now you can finally have an e-mail capture strategy, design and tool. Truly an amazing tool – one I’m proud to help promote.
I urge you to check out this sales page of theirs: http://danmorrismarketing.com/blogmagnet – and see for yourself. If you’re a local business and you’re driving traffic to your website, this is the best hands off method to help capture that traffic.
Check it out . . . and take a look at their form below.
I agree. I wasn’t sure if you could find the “name autofill” somewhere else, or the silent subscribe – but you can definitely find the rest. The problem for me would be the coding. As I’m typing there is a “I’d like to get your Weekly Notes” button I could click and then be subscribed. Figuring out how to make that happen otherwise, would take me some time.
I’m pretty sure most, if not all, of those things can be done for free with either plugins or slight code tweaks, but 147 for a managed all together package isn’t too bad. It certainly saves a lot of time hunting down things and playing with code if you’re not feeling techie.