Have you heard of AlternativeTo? It’s a free service that helps you find better alternatives to practically any web-based software, desktop computer software and mobile apps. The best part is that all recommendations are crowd-sourced which makes the data trustworthy.

As of today, GetSiteControl has been listed as an alternative to 87 apps and services!

We’ve designed GetSiteControl to be a one-stop solution for all your website visitor engagement needs. And we are happy to see that members of the AlternativeTo community agree with that.

Today we’d like to talk about exit intent technology and show you how you can use it to improve your website’s conversion rate. Exit intent popups are an incredibly popular marketing tool and that’s because they are very effective. Unlike traditional popups that jump right at you as soon as you open a page, exit popups are less intrusive and do not interfere with website browsing. And they still do the job!

So, what’s an exit popup?

An exit popup is a modal window that’s shown to website visitors right before they close the page. The technology is based on mouse movement tracking and triggers the popup when the visitor’s mouse is reaching to close the tab or browser or to go to another site. You’ve probably seen these popups many times. They offer discounts or free shipping, invite you to subscribe or share the site on social media, offer free downloads or ask you to leave feedback. There are so many possible ways to use exit intent technology and today we are going to share five examples that you can easily implement on your own website using GetSiteControl tools.

Happy 2017!

Today we’d like to announce an exciting update for those of you who prefer to use live chat to communicate with your website visitors. GetSiteControl Chat widget can now be integrated with Slack! Slack is a team communication tool used by thousands of teams and millions of users. If you are not yet familiar with Slack, check it out!

Connect your Chat widget and you will be able to chat with your website visitors directly from Slack.

• Receive real-time Slack notifications about new chat conversations
• Reply to your website visitors directly from Slack
• Use Slack mobile and desktop apps to chat from anywhere

Christmas is well and truly on its way. Is your website ready? Are you preparing any special holiday offers and discounts for the visitors of your website or online store? If yes, then we have something for you to help you promote all those sales and special offers.

We have added two sets of new festive images for all your holiday promotional needs - Santas, deer, snowmen, christmas trees and other Christmas-themed images are already in the gallery in your dashboard. You can easily create a Promo popup with a festive image to promote sales, discounts and special deals.

Did you know you can add animated GIFs to your GetSiteControl widgets? Well, you can! Add your own custom GIF or choose one from the gallery to create fun animated popups that will surely grab your website visitors’ attention.

Add a GIF to your Promo widget to create cool-looking popup notifications or promotions like the one that popped up when you opened this page. If you want to see it again, click here.

Click here to see another example of a Promo widget featuring a GIF from the gallery. If you want to use one of the premade GIFs, simply open your widget, check the Add image check-box and then click on the Choose from gallery link. There are more than 40 GIFs to choose from. Just click on one of them to see a live preview in the preview window.

We are thrilled to announce that we have just hit a major milestone as the 100,000th GetSiteControl widget has just been created! Here is a huge thank you to all of our users for helping us grow. Here’s to 100,000 more!

We’ve just released a bunch of new features! We are working hard on providing you with more ways to manage the data collected with your widgets and more flexible behavior options. We will discuss each of the new features in more detail below, but first here is the gist:

• New integrations
  • Infusionsoft
  • GetResponse
  • MailerLite
  • iContact
  • ConvertKit
  • VerticalResponse
  • Mailjet
  • Drip
  • EasySendy
• Advanced field mapping
• Advanced scheduling (displaying widgets within a specific time range, e.g. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
• Webhooks (some coding skills required)
• Display widgets on a button click or a link (some coding skills required)

Now, let’s talk about each of these new features, what they are for and how they can make your life easier.

GetSiteControl has now officially joined the big Zapier family! Zapier is a web automation tool that allows you to easily move data between your web apps. It means that you can make Zapier send the data collected with your GetSiteControl widgets to any of the 500 (!) applications. You won’t need to write any code, just choose the two applications you want to be synced and let Zapier do the work.

Start automating GetSiteControl tasks using Zapier.

How does it work?

Using Zapier to connect apps is very easy. All you need to do is select the two apps you want to connect and then select a ‘trigger’ and an ‘action’ to create a rule that says ‘do this if this happens’. Triggers and actions are simply events. They can be things like a “new email” or a “new contact”. A Zap (that’s how they call an integration between two apps) combines triggers and actions — whenever the trigger event occurs, Zapier automatically completes the action for you.