[gloves]

Every one of these has me tearing my hair out. Good post!

Being a marketer myself, I'd love to know what people see as a solid alternative to pop ups asking for emails? It's a difficult balance to maintain between making it obvious what you want someone to do, whilst maintaining high quality content.

Something like a scroll up box in the bottom right corner I think could represent a happy medium, but would be interested what people had to say.

[onlito]

Thanks! It looks like the scroll up boxes are the latest trend and they are probably less annoying since they are no interruption. The "welcome gates" are another trend but basically they just completely hide the content you intend to view. I guess I'd prefer the unintrusive 'end of the blog post' sign up box that promises added value. Promoting your newsletter on Facebook and Twitter every once in a while can also work.