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Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii
Thank you for the courteous reply. However, it makes no sense that sites would want to obfuscate the use of your product. I'd like to know who is using your "seal" so we can compare your product versus their reality. Nothing tricky. Just simple analysis. To be secretive suggests complicity in nefarious affairs since the seal is supposed to benefit the public and not only the site. I would think you would wish to promote clients who use the service which would help to give evidence of the worth of the seal. I like the idea of consumer protection. Thank you fine, sire.
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Here is a more detailed response that you may find helpful....
Personally I'd love it if every user of my product wanted to shout their use of it from the rooftops... but it isn't my place to do that for them (and frankly, GFY is about the last place I would expect anyone to do that sort of thing these days). You won't find a large mainstream insurance company posting on GFY that they are using WebsiteSecure.org trust seals. You also will find a fair number of site owners unwilling to share something they feel gives them a competitive advantage.
Usually the only 'downside' of using the seals is a tiny monitoring fee that works out to less than the value of one join per month for most clients, so the barrier to entry is practically nonexistent. Now, thanks to AJ and Elevated X, his clients can try the seal for 90 days on their site for absolutely ZERO cost. That means you can add it to your site with 2 simple lines of HTML code in a matter of less than 3 minutes from start to finish and you can multivariate test it against a variety of other pages in your inventory to see how it performs.
As an upside, many clients benefit from our site audit and test joins because we often find accidental mistakes that can be corrected to the benefit of everyone involved. Also, I obviously do not have direct access to the backend stats of my clients, but I have been told by many that a 3-5% increase in conversions from submit page to payment page is about what you should expect on existing traffic along with some other very significant benefits (like having your site noted as being certified on the reviews about your site published by several major review sites etc...). The fact that many site owners continue to recur month after month is the simplest and best proof I can give that the seals do in fact have a positive impact on revenue.
As I mentioned previously, contact me via Skype or Email and I can show you some ways to identify a few of the major brands using the seals to their benefit. Many are well respected long standing brands you already know, and others are brand new sites seeking to benefit from the halo effect of that association.
Doing it for $29.00 per month is a no-brainer already.... doing it now as an Elevated X client for $0.00 cost is the best possible time for serious clients to see if they generate similar results and earn more just by monetizing the fact that their sites are being managed in an ethical manner from the consumer point of view. Ask yourself... if I didn't honestly believe clients earn money by adding the seals, why in the world would I agree to make them available for free for 90 days so people can try them with zero up front cost? Simply put, it's a good product and a great offer.