Lead generation is becoming one of the most important aspect of a website’s marketing strategy. Several SaaS offer clever and innovative ways to collect email adresses, and improve conversion rates. Although the impact of using such tools is widely correlated to the quality of the content marketing strategy, some of them are unarguably efficient. HelloBar is one of them.
Wait, what are we talking about here?
Hello Bar is a innovative tool created by the successful entrepreneur Neil Patel. You’ve probably seen hundred of websites using it, without knowing what it was.
Both easy to use and impressively efficient, Hello Bar has established itself as one of the best tool to collect email adresses. Like most of Neil Patel’s startups, the company rapidly gained an impressive number of users while several enthusiastic reviews about how good the product is were written.
If it’s so great, why should I even bother considering other floating bar plugins?
Because Hello Bar can quickly become expensive
The pricing of the tool is based on the number of clicks that the bar generated. If you are being smart about how you are using the product (we know you are!) the 100 clicks limit of the free plan is quickly reached. Most alternatives aren’t as conservative when it comes to pricing.
Because some alternatives offer a broader scope of features
HelloBar has been copied as much as any SaaS out there, but most of its competitor are not simple copy-cat softwares. Most of them have included Hellobar-like feature into a much broader suit of lead generation tools.
So what are the best alternatives to Hello Bar for a WordPress Website ?
Simple alternatives to HelloBar
Attention Grabber
Attention Grabber is a simple, free HelloBar alternative that offers similar feature than Hellobar itself. Its bars are entirely customizable, and you can therefore redirect your traffic to your conversion pages, or use it to collect email adresses.
Be careful, Attention grabber can only be used with the email provider Customer.io. Although this is a decent email marketing software, it is something to take into account, as some of view may wish to use your lead generation tools with other email marketing plateform, such a MailChimp.
Number of users : 1,000+
Ratings (from WordPress.org) : 2.7/5
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Notification Bar
Notification bar offers a lot more options on when and where the bar will appear compared to other Hellobar-like plugins, which allows you to offer more relevant experiences to your visitors. The AutoClose feature, which determines the time after which our bar will close itself, is especially useful for those who do not want to harass their users. With notification bar, you can also set up your bars to appear after a number of pixel scrolled, which you can use to target only your most active users.
Number of users : 600+
Ratings (from WordPress.org) : 4.6/5
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ManyContacts
ManyContacts, which has been created by former developers of WooRank, is one of my personal favorite. The set-up stage of the plugin is incredibly easy, and the functional scope fairly deep, especially for a free plugin. All the collected email adresses are enriched, so you are actually collecting much more than the email adress. You also have access to the social profiles of your new suscribers, as well as its first and last name. It makes emails and social follow up a lot more efficient.
ManyContacts also offers a native A/B testing feature, which is very useful for any good marketer, in order to find and use the most powerful marketing messages.
Finally, the plugin recently released native integration of your collected contacts with most of the main email marketing softwares, such as MailChimp, CampaignMonitor, iContact, Aweber, Mailjet and Madmimi.
Number of users : 10,000+
Ratings (from WordPress.org) : 3.7/5
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Suite of lead generation tools
Icegram
Like all of the following plugins, Icegram is much more than a simple alternatives to HelloBar, but rather a complete suite of lead generation tools that’ll allow you to boost any of your conversion ratings. I particularly enjoy Icegram because it is really easy to set up, and has many integrations options. You can set-it up with almost any of the email marketing software out there, from Mailchimp to ConstantContact, as well as many lead capture plugins, such as Gravity form or Nïnja Pop-up. This allows you to create a really efficient lead generation strategy, using the best of several plugins.
Popup windows, floating action bars, messengers, toast notifications, Icegram includes many of the tools you would expect from one of the best lead generation plugins available. Despite such a deepp functional scope, Icegram is still a bit behind the next two lead generation plugins.
Number of users : 10,000+
Ratings (from WordPress.org) : 4.8/5
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SumoMe
Calling SumoMe an alternative to Hellobar might be a bit offensive, as the plugin offers a variety of lead generation tools and goes a lot further than the previous ones in this list. Let’s be clear, SumoMe is awesome! It’s a really smart and entirely automated lead generation. more than just bars, SumoMe makes it really easy to deploy pop-ups, social buttons, and so on. They easily connect with most email marketing App, (MailChimp, Emma, Hubspot, etc), can entirely be use to create forms, but also landing pages, image sharer… you name it.
Be careful though, SumoMe is not entirely free. If you want to have access to all their Apps, you will need to subscribe to their starter plan, for 10$ a month.
Number of users : 80,000+
Ratings (from WordPress.org) : 4.1/5
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OptinMonster
Much like SumoMe, it would have been wrong to present OptinMonster as a simple alternative to Hellobar. OptinMonster might just be the best lead generation plugins.
Like any good lead generation plugin, OptinMonster does offer the ability to set up bars all over your WordPress site, while editing the message, objectives, and confirmation message.
But OptinMonster offers much more features. A great drag and drop form editor allows you to create forms in a matter of minutes. The management of pop-up is also a key feature of this plugin. Its exit intent feature, which triggers pop-up as soon as your visitors’s mouse leaves the browser’s window, is in my experience, especially efficient. The management of AB tests is incredibly intuitive, which makes OptinMonster awesome to quickly identify efficient marketing messages.
Careful, such a great tools come at a price. Although it used to be, OptinMonster is not free anymore, which makes it accessible only for website with a significant traffic.
Number of users : 10,000+
Ratings (from WordPress.org) : 3.2/5
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