Great information.

I have also come across another such bar by viper chill and it is called viper bar.

Although i haven’t used any of them yet, i would soon.

Any one who would like to look up viper bar as well can do so by following the link below.

www. viperchill.com/viperbar/

It is quite fascinating how such a tiny bar could make so much difference!

but i am going to try it

Using the old Feedburner subscribe in the sidebar at top I onlu acquired 39 email subscribes in 2+ years, so 4 in less than 24 hours is looking promising.

Thanks for the motivation to get serious about getting email signups.

Steve

Travis, one of the problems with A/B testing is that there is no such thing as a “one size fits all” result.

The primary reason why Hello Bar doesn’t publish “best practices” on color, etc, is because the color that works on one site might be the worst possible color to use on another site.

For example, let’s say you have a primarily blue website. If you used a blue Hello Bar, the visual differentiation would be minimal, and the bar probably wouldn’t convert nearly as well as it would if it were a disruptive color like orange.

When placed in a sea of blue, orange is extremely effective; however, when placed among reds and yellows, orange is much less differentiable.

Now, with color out of the way, the Hello Bar boils down to a single, simple A/B testing environment that you control: the copy you use to engage people.

Finally, yes—it’s not too hard to create your own version of the Hello Bar, as it’s just a little bit of code. However, the big draw of Hello Bar is all the additional stats; it would be much harder to get information like this if you rolled your own Hello Bar.

I think it can be a powerful tool but for a newbie like me (who doesn’t want to do a ton of A/B testing out of the gate), a simple best practices guide would go a long way.

The other question I have is this…what would prevent someone from just creating their own Hello Bar instead of paying for the Pro version of this tool? What makes it so unique? It is, after all, just code, correct?

TravisVS