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Last Updated: 23 Sep 2023
Looking to improve conversion rates on your website? FOMO and Social Proof notices or popups (also known as nudges) can be very effective.
In this post, I list different solutions that display social proof notices of visitor interactions. The 2 largest companies offering this service are fomo and proof, but there are now many alternatives.
I keep this post up to date and list the different plans and integration available in each platform.
Video Overview
Wants to see some examples of how it works on a website? Here's a video.
List of FOMO or Social Proof solutions
1. SAAS Based
Good for most websites, including WordPress, LeadPages, InstaPage, Shopify, ThriveCart, Clickfunnel or other hosted or self-hosted websites.
LIFETIME DEAL
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INTEGRATIONS Judge.me ThriveCart | |
 $29 to $299/month 14-Day Free Trial
| INTEGRATIONS Airtable Infusionsoft Kajabi |
 Free up to 1K Monthly Visitors (free accounts can have only one active notification at a time), then $18 to $183/month Entry level plan: 10K Unique Visitors
| INTEGRATIONS PageCloud SquareSpace
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 Starting at $17/month or $97/year 1 Domain
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Proof Factor  $29 to $179/month Unlimited Websites
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 Starting at: $5 to $87/month Unlimited Websites
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Alore Demio Google Tag Manager Instapage Jotform Landingi Leadpages Mailchimp MailerLite Mailmunch Mautic Ontraport Webflow Wix Woocommerce WordPress Zapier |
LIFETIME DEAL
Noramally $198 for a multi-site license.
But Now Only $39 (One-time) for a lifetime access.
Promotion is running for a limited time.
- Unlimited notifications
- Ideal for small beginner startup, SMB's, one-page stores, eCommerce, marketing agencies, and makers
- Easily change the information in the widget via Google Sheets
- Build trust with your audience easily
- Increase conversions on your website & store
- Generate more sales on landing & checkout
- Easily edit the design and update info with an online builder for a lifetime
Other notable services
Advantages of using SAAS based products
- Usually Easy to Setup.
- Shows Pictures of visitors.
- Easy Integration with other services.
Disvadvantages of using SAAS based products.
- Some can be pricey with the number of users, Provely has unlimited traffic and notifications.
- Not open-source.
- Limited customization and categorization.
2. WordPress Plugin Based (Dynamic Content)
Good for WordPress-based websites Only. Woocommerce or other WordPress based E-commerce
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4) WPfomify  Starting at $99/year 1 Domain Alexa Ranking : 364.807 |
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3. Shopify App
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For Shopify users, there is a Shopify App called Nudgify from Convertize. For Shopify users, there is a Shopify App called Nudgify from Convertize.     Starting at $5/monthFree Plan available with Branding | Shopify Only |
4. WordPress Static/Manual Popup Plugin
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Very Versatile opt-in tool for WordPress. Starting at $67 one time 1 Domain, 1 Year of support
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What can you display on your widget?
When someone does something like:
- Signed up to your opt-ins
- Purchased a product
- Upgraded a Product
- writes comments on your website
- Reach out too you.
- Your latest ratings
- Your client's achievement
You can be creative, it really should fit your audience and your business model.
Want to have more control?
Thrive Leads solution Details
Thrive Leads on WordPress allows to static notices on your site.
Using Thrive Leads, a WordPress plugin that allows to capture leads on your website and a few other plugins and tools, it's possible to display recent visitor activities on your site.
PROS of Using Thrive Leads
- Allow for manual inserting of messages.
- Fully customizable. You can design the widget layout and content using their editor. Can create CSS in the editor on top.
- Set ad-hoc message instead of visitor actions.
- Show specific message to specific page or post (based on WordPress Post Category or tags, or page name).
- Might Cheaper in the long-run .
- allows to show recent client activity in other places on your site. like on a exit pop-up, widget sidebar or within the text of a blog post.
CONS
Using Thrive Leads
- Only for WordPress.
- Manual Setup.
- For Recent activities, requires other plugins and possible manual coding.
- Might need maintenance.
- By default, Thrive Leads will display the widget one time, it will not disappear and re-appear like it does with the hosted service.
Tools needed
- ThriveLeads to create the opt-in
Features
There are a lot of possibilities in building the solution with Thrive Themes. The slide-in widget allows to show the "widget" in one of the 4 corners of the screen.
- The slide-in widget allows to show the "widget" in one of the 4 corners of the screen.
- Full customization with the Thrive Content Builder of Font, colors and layout. Full support of CSS as well.
- Possibility of categorizing the messages depending on the blog post category or tags
- Possibility of showing the visitor message on other opt-ins, like a sidebar widget and exit intent form, or within your content (see example just here below)
Want someone to help you build it?
If you want to hire us, we have a strong expertise with Thrive Leads and we can help you build it for you. Contact Us.
what about Morevago?
Just added a link.
Why not SocialProve? I am seeing good reviews about them, but I could not see details of it on your review
https://prooffactor.com also works on wordpress and we now have a wheel offering as well.
Hi,
Thanks for the awesome post I bought Provely but don’t how to add Embed code to amember signup page am only seeing the number of visitor popup on my website, not the sales stats can you help me?
Thanks
I don’t know about amember, you can maybe speak to their support. You can speak to Provely support as well, so if there is a way to integrate. The link to Provely support is in the footer of their website.
Hey! Have you checked http://www.crowdy.ai, too?
If you need any help finding the differences and our key features, I am happy to help!
We hope this list was useful. Most of them have a free trial or money-back guarantee and are easy to configure, so trying it is often worthwhile as it can boost conversions.
If you have any stories, comments and other tools recommendations, let me know