Popups have been on the internet almost from the first moment that commercial companies started to promote their brands online. At first they were intrusive and popups have had a bad reputation in the past, but they’re now seen as an important part of the online marketing game.

Key Takeaways
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Popups are vital in online marketing, serving for email signups, discounts, and more, not just intrusive ads.
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To add popups: log in, choose a Shopify popup app, install it, and create your popups.
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Personalization and proper timing of popups are key to enhancing user experience and conversions.

 

Why Add A Popup On Shopify?

Adding a popup to your Shopify store is probably one of the most important things you should do. They can be used for a variety of reasons that can help grow your business through email signups or by offering discounts. This can be used to improve conversion rates or help marketing in the long term.

It is now standard for most websites to utilize pop-ups, so visitors should not find them intrusive anymore.

What Can You Use A Popup For?

There are numerous applications for a popup. These include:

Email Subscription: subscribe people to your email marketing list. Then you can send them offers and news about your brand in the future in order to bring them back to your store.

Abandon Cart Recovery: Get customers to complete a transaction on your store by giving them a discount code or free gift.

Customer Service: Tell customers they can call you to get some more information, useful if customers have been on your site for so long.

When Can You Use A Popup?

Popups can be used whenever someone is on your site. You can set popups to display at any point and can set rules to ensure only the right people get the popup. For instance, you can get a popup to display on the cart/checkout pages only when the person goes to exit the page. This popup could offer a discount code to get the customer to complete the transaction.

Or you could get a popup to display after someone has been on the site for 30 seconds, asking them if they would like to receive the latest news, tips or other information from you.

Most popup apps allow you to have multiple popups on your store. So you can customize your campaigns based on the behaviors of your customers.

How To Get Popups On To Your Store

It is fairly easy to get a popup app on to your store. You can follow these simple steps to add popup functionality to your store.

Step 1 - Login To Your Shopify Store

Using your login credentials, login to your Shopify store.

Step 2 - Shopify Apps

We recommend either using Vitals (which offers more than 40 functions) or this app, Personizely, as popup solutions. Alternatively, you can find your own popup solution on the Shopify App Store. When you’ve found the app you want, click on ‘Add App’ and follow the instructions there to add to your store.

Step 3 - Start Creating

Start creating your popups.