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Re:Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button by jemka on Friday October 21, 2011 @11:53AM (#3140313)
>But you know what's even better? Let them try it without signing up,

Why would I try something I don't care about? The point still stands. Get them to care before you have them DO anything.

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Re:Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button by gcb on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:05PM (#3140388)
Because you were unimpressed by the text explanation but mighty be amazed by the actual "stuff".
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Re:Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button by jemka on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:37PM (#3140544)
That's hindsight. What's going to convince me to take time out of my day to try the demo to be amazed by?
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Re:Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button by andrewflnr on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:14PM (#3140942)
Curiosity? The potential that it could help you? If it's easy enough to try, as in effortless and risk-free, you might well be tempted to give it a shot.
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Re:Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button by jemka on Friday October 21, 2011 @03:25PM (#3141249)
>Curiosity? The potential that it could help you? If it's easy enough to try, as in effortless and risk-free, you might well be tempted to give it a shot.

Those are compelling reasons for an extremely small percentage of first time visitors. Most just pad your bounce rate.

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