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icanttalkimhavingacrisis · 3 months

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Introduction Post!!!

hi!! lovely to see you - won't you stay awhile?

the basics:

name: Joy, short for Jonathan

age: 17, going on 18! (wish me a happy birthday on 14 october :3)

pronouns: he/she/they

orientation: omnisexual, polyamory

gender identity: genderfluid and pangender!!

timezone: CET (GMT +1)

my tops:

musicians: Twenty One Pilots, Måneskin, Hozier, George Michael, Wham!, Bastille, P!ATD, Tally Hall, My Chemical Romance, The Oh Hellos, The Amazing Devil, Lemon Demon, Kwiat Jabłoni

songs: Lavish, Bourgeoisieses, This is Love, ANARCONNASSE, Too Sweet, Sunlight, Midwest Indigo, Routines in the Night, l'altra dimensione, tous les memes

fandoms: marauders era, the lunar chronicles, the good place, grishaverse (haven't read king of scars yet tho), the cruel prince, some musicals (mainly Hamilton), DDLC, FNAF (I haven't played the games but I do really like the lore and songs), WTNV, AGGGTM, TØP lore

books: the cruel prince trilogy, red white and royal blue, they both die at the end, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, the midnight library, six of crows duology, 1984, animal farm

shows/films: the good place, loki, moon knight, the umbrella academy, heartstopper, hazbin hotel, legally blonde, tick, tick, boom!, hamilton, howl's moving castle

Hobbies: writing, reading, cello, painting, writing my own songs, D&D

miscellaneous:

I'm a band kid, I write songs and plays and stories and books ^^

I finished writing a book recently!! You can read it on AO3 here. Let me know if you want a pdf or epub version, I'd be happy to share!!

hogwarts house: hufflepuff

grisha order: durast

godly parent: Apollo

divergent faction: amity (born candor)

hunger games district: probably eleven

I'm obsessed with Welcome to Night Vale (mountains are fake y'all, they were made up by the government)(although I haven't listened to a lot of it...)(Still love it tho ^^)

I'm absolutely a yapper, and love meeting new people, so feel absolutely free to dm me if you wanna chat!! <3

please consider using tone tags, I dumb as all heck

I have two younger siblings!! A brother and a sister :>

my people:

@andytheoverthinker - husband, partner, beloved boyfriend <3

@evee-refuses-to-die - squirrel extraordinaire, sweetest lil' insomniac

@lyionly - genuinely the most talented artist I know, best bio partner

@bjcf23 - favourite cousin ever <33

@astroocti - my drummer friend :D

mutuals: @erraticprocrastinator-alt @jess-of-all-trades @finnslay @moonysfavoritetoast @cazzythefrogking @chatter-crow @def-not-kaz-brekker @chaosgremlinlivinginyourwalls @waitingonadeathgodtocallmeback @saivamp @lemon-cosmoscollection @gay-for-zoya @agenaroace-a-fucking-disgrace @finleyforevermore @kaithe-enby404 @currently-becoming-potatoes @catinasink @vintagetee13 @clodoveah @ghost-of-a-poet @viago-vamps @ddlcbrainrot @pan-anarcho @gremleyn @discoveredreality @blue-bell-icecream @xrinnihil @artemisiamezzanotte @drifter-gaming @stqrgirl3 @my-castles-crumbling @winters-rose-daughterofcain @elliots1stshadow @daydream-of-a-wallflower @razz-is-queer @blood-slushy @starcrossedmoony @celestialserenity24 @justafanbutcurious @37x3

WAHHHH I LOVE YOU ALL!!! MANY HUGS AND KISSES FROM MOI <333

final section!! my bullshit:

#jonny writes stuff - my writing

#joy has thoughts - I say stuff

#joy on fandoms - anything fandom related

#joy on volleyball - I rant about volleyball I guess?

#joy has a strange mum - about my mother (sometimes I rant, idk what to tell ya--)

#joy on music - anything music related

#joy has friends - about my irls <3

#joy is gay for andy - about my beloved bf

#joy gets asks - I respond to asks!! May take me a while tho-

#the witchy saga - I post about witchcraft apparently

@joywritesbutitsactuallymystories - sideblog where I repost my writing

@prongsiedadeerest - my James Potter rp sideblog

my poems

my novel

my carrd for further contact info!!:

ok lovelies, that's it!! thank you for being here <3

#intro post #joy has thoughts #jonny writes stuff #joy on fandoms #joy is gay for andy #joy has friends #joy on music #joy on volleyball #joy has a strange mum #joy gets asks #the witchy saga

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machinavellian · 4 months

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hi :)

i just wanted to pop into your ask box to say thank you for writing interstate! (as well as precedence!). interstate is, to this day, my favorite fic, and also, it is the fic that inspired me to start writing fanfiction. i've read it like a million times- i have a pdf on my computer and an epub on my phone so i can highlight my favorite parts. (i swear i'm not crazy, just autistic lol). i could go on and on about how your writing is perfect. the characterization, the plot, the prose itself. i generally hate happy endings in fics but you managed to write one that i love. i'll never stop thinking about how you wrote the sex scene in one sentence. to be able to get across the whole essence in one simple sentence takes so much talent i could never. and the way you did the pov switch without switching povs (where norman is imagining what ethan is doing) was brilliant! (i am awful about accidentally switching povs)

i wish i could explain myself better, but i'm not as good with words as you are.

anyway, since i'm here i also have a question, and i hope it's not too vague or stupid etc. but how do you do it?? (i guess what i mean is, what books/other media inspires your writing? do you have a writing routine or a secret tip? or is it just natural talent?)

sorry for being a weirdo but your fic is my roman empire so to speak

thanks again for writing and publishing (especially in our tiny little fandom!!)

pardon how late this is, i'm not at all good at tumblr lmao. but ahhh, thank you, you're very kind! it's so great to hear that something i wrote meant so much to someone else, and it's SO great to hear that it got someone else writing their own fic! no judgment whatsoever about the hoarding of copies, my autism is the cause of many mysterious choices i make in life 😌

it's a little embarrassing in a way because i most definitely don't consider myself a creator of great literature or anything, i just work hard on my fics and take the process of writing them seriously (maybe too seriously)... but i'm going to try to answer your question/request for tips as sincerely as i can!

read. like for real, read other people's writing! i actually don't do this nearly as much as i would like to anymore and i can tell my writing is a little rustier for it. when i read other people's writing, i sometimes feel like i'm filling up an invisible "tank" that holds my ability to do words good. :') as a personal example, i have a short story anthology by vladimir nabokov that i've been slowly whittling my way through for a million years -- i loved his prose the first time i read it in middle or high school and i think it has been a big influence on my desire to look for unexpected turns of phrase and vocabulary words i didn't know before. sometimes i like to keep a list of new vocab words i encounter as i read to look up later, but usually i end up getting distracted and looking them up as i go. 😩 though this is easier than ever if you're reading digitally, i suppose! i think learning to identify the things you like in writing is really important. for me, that has a lot to do with not only finding the exact words i want to describe something, but also their cadence/musicality in a sentence. i remember very little about the poetry terms i learned in school, but i think learning about the anatomy of poems can be a really useful tool when it comes to prose also! or if nothing else, it can be fun to try experimenting with shuffling around the order of words or substituting one synonym for another to see how it changes the overall sound and feel of a sentence.

write! then tweak/rewrite. i actually hate the advice "you gotta just write" lmao... pisses me off every time because i know it's true 😭 i can dick around writing notes/meta as long as i like (and i do), but there's truly no other way to make progress like just fucking writing SOMETHING down even if you hate it and think it's bad. i used to get academic papers done in college and grad school by quickly and sloppily blasting down the basic gist of my main points like a 10 year old and then going back and revising it to sound like an adult. it's a little different with fiction because i'm writing something i already actually want to write, but it can still help to jot down the bare bones of a scene even if i don't even use it in the end. writing out dialogue can help a lot in my experience. i do feel pretty strongly that revisions are nearly always necessary -- i don't always get my fics beta'd by another person, but at minimum i have to put it down and re-read it for myself to make sure everything is flowing the way i want it to. betas really are helpful, though, because a LOT of times i'll think something makes perfect sense in my head only to find out my friend has no idea what i'm on about lmao. this can also help with things like switching povs, like you mentioned! there's nothing wrong with having a pov switch happen in your fic, mind you! it's just that ideally it's happening because you wanted it to happen instead of like, uh-oh, i need to convey some information about norman that ethan doesn't have a way of knowing. it's funny you mention the fap/fantasy scene because i think that's literally what happened when i was writing it, like... i think i was like "hmm, i want to emphasize that ethan is most definitely Into norman and this thing that's growing between them, but i've stuck with norman's pov this entire time and i don't want to put one solitary scene of ethan pov in there, if i can help it... but hey, norman's a profiler! visualizing what people do when they're alone is his whole thing!" so that was the perfect excuse to frame it that way in the end. ✨

canon review for characterization. this has less to do with the mechanics of writing, but honestly, if i had to choose, i'd much rather read a fic that totally nails the characterization than one that's perfect on a technical level. y'know that meme that's like "he would NOT fucking say that"? i do everything i can to avoid eliciting that response lfkdslf. iirc while i was writing interstate i basically always had an LP of heavy rain playing so i could observe the way the characters react in different situations, listen to their speech patterns and the types of words/language they use, and just kind of... idk, absorb the general vibe a little bit, i guess? i know i just mentioned you have to write Actual Story and not just notes to make progress, but i do also tend to have a LOT of notes about like... "okay so norman actually really likes this guy, but the reason he's holding back his feelings is because he's given so much of himself to his work and he's so used to looking at people in the abstract that he struggles to connect with them, leading him over time to decide that he can't or isn't good enough to be what ethan deserves, and what could ethan maybe say or do to help challenge that so they can move forward?" etc etc.... at the risk of being Very Autistic, i find i do a lot of if/then calculations when it comes to plotting character beats. 😅 "if these two particular lonely dudes start to form a connection one night at a bar, what then?"

have a thesis. this feels kind of ridiculously pretentious when i write it out, but it honestly really helps me a lot with staying focused: it's basically me answering wtf my point is. why do i think this fic needs to be written in the first place? it's the thing i want to accomplish, the idea i want to share with people who read it. even if i don't have a solid statement to make, there's always SOME kind of central question i'm trying to answer -- a lot of times, that question is as simple as "man, you know, i really wanna see these two bone. what has to happen for that to be possible?" for precedence i think it was basically just "hey wouldn't it be fucked up if...?" and for interstate it expanded to "hey i think these two deserve a happy ending and they deserve to share it together. what does that look like?"

so i dunno, hopefully all that is at least slightly useful and not just self-indulgent rambling, but thank you for giving me the ability to self-indulgently ramble if nothing else 😭

but above all, please do not doubt your own ability! writing is hard and sometimes sucks but it's also a lot of fun and there's not a right way to tell the story you want to tell, it just matters that you tell it. so... DO 💪

#how do i tag this i ever answer asks lmao #writing! one assumes #no fr tho thanks so much op this was rad 🥺#nominally heavy rain #heavy rain adjacent #a light drizzle if you will

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maddiviner · 5 years

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What’s a Netgalley, anyways??!!

I’ve been getting hit with a lot of asks and DMs regarding Netgalley, how it works, and why it’s useful for witches, diviners and mages.

Instead of responding to them all individually, I’m just making this one post to clarify the situation and hopefully give folks tips for getting started on that site!

What the heck is Netgalley?

In publishing, “galley” is simply another term for an uncorrected proof or advance reader copy of a book. Distributed prior to the books general release, galleys allow authors to receive early feedback and reviews on their work.

Netgalley launched in 2008 as a way of providing digital galleys to reviewers. The site offers 100% digital copies, with a choice between EPUB, Kindle, and PDF formats. Reviews are submitted directly to the publisher via Netgalley, and can be shared on social media.

Wait! You mean they send you free books?!

Yes, they do!

These aren’t physical copies - they’re digital, and are best read on a tablet or eReader. If you dislike reading digital material, this site may not be for you. If, like me, most of your library is digital anyways, you’ll likely find a lot of awesome additions through Netgalley.

Once you’re registered, you can browse their list of publishers, categories, genres and authors. Most books available on Netgalley are either new releases or yet-to-be-released, and titles are periodically added/removed over time.

When you find a book you’d like to read, you can request it from the publisher. The publisher will then look at your Netgalley profile.

If they think you’re a good fit to review the title, you’ll receive the galley copy of the book, and can download it in either Kindle, EPUB, or PDF format directly from Netgalley.

You must write short reviews (I try for at least 500 words each) about each of them. You’ll rate each book with one to five stars, and your long-form review will be submitted to the publisher alongside that.

You’ll also want to post the review to your social media, be it Tumblr, Goodreads, or another platform. Publishers offer galley copies partially as a way of generating buzz about upcoming titles, so it only makes sense that readers would post the reviews publicly.

While Goodreads, Tumblr, and other platforms are perfect for posting reviews of unreleased books, you cannot post a review to Amazon until the book is actually published.

If the book you’re reviewing isn’t yet released, you’ll be prompted to return to the review page and share your review on Amazon once the book comes out. This is a very easy process directly through the Netgalley interface.

What are the requirements?

Well now, I’m not entirely sure. You must, of course, be active and public on a social media platform. This might be Tumblr, Goodreads, Facebook, Linkedin, or even YouTube.

Basically, you need a social media presence where you’ll share your reviews, in addition to submitting them through Netgalley proper.

Different publishers have different requirements and things they look for in a reviewer. This article gives some tips for making your NetGalley profile enticing to publishers.

A lot of people have asked me if Netgalley, or specific publishers, have a minimum amount of followers required for them to send books. The truth is, I have no way of knowing, and if such a policy exists, it’s not publicly stated.

I will say that when I started on Netgalley in 2017, I received books almost right away after requesting them. As a rule I never mention how many followers I have on this blog, so I can’t be sure if that was a factor in my receiving the books.

Regardless of your stats, there’s no harm in trying out Netgalley, though. And? I doubt they’re as finicky as you might imagine!

What happens if I can’t write the review?

While publishers vary in terms of their requirements for when reviews are completed, most expect a review within three months. But, what do you do if you can’t finish?

Don’t fret!

This happened to me once, too. I received a copy of an herbal anthology, but my Kindle PaperWhite ruined the formatting on it, and I wasn’t able to actually read all of it. I simply clicked the “Will Not Give Feedback” option for the two books that had been in my queue.

If you do this, you can always come back and review the book later, but keep in mind that you do need to submit the reason for not giving feedback. Thus far, Netgalley seems pretty understanding.

What does Netgalley offer, esoterically-speaking?

Netgalley works with several esoteric publishers to bring readers review copies of their books. These include

Llewellyn Worldwide

Sounds True Publishing

Watkins

Those are my three favorites on the site, anyways. There are other occult publishers there, as well as books about religion and spirituality from a variety of perspectives. You can browse their Religion and Spirituality category here.

Since starting in 2017, I’ve reviewed sixteen free books from Netgalley. You can see links to those reviews here on my books page, as well as other book recommendations.

I’ve had quite a positive experience with Netgalley. I highly recommend it to any other bloggers, regardless of what sort of books you’re seeking!

Happy reading!

#witchblr #witch #witchcraft #occult #magic #tarot #eliza reads #eliza.txt #netgalley #kindle #pdf #books #esoteric

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klaineccfanficlibrary · 4 years

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Hi so I 've fallen into a hole of wanting to get cosey and read for hours, but feeling like nothing is peaking my interest. Would you be able to recommend some multichapter fics (around 6-12) or oneshots that are really immersive from the get go. Something interesting, fun and unique. Basically please can you help a bored gal out of her fic finding rut 😔 xxx

Number of chapters isn’t a good measure because the length of each one varies enormously, depending upon the author. If you go to our Klaine Misc. Finder, you will see tags covering different word count lengths. Here are a few fics around 40k words. If these don’t interest you, come back and tell us what your favorite tropes are and what sort of rating you like to read. - HKVoyage

Don’t Do It by @xbeautifulunseenx

Kurt, who works for a letter-writing service, spends a summer writing emails to Blaine, who thinks Kurt is the guy he’s been dating for the past month. Kurt only has one rule: don’t fall in love. Of course, Kurt Hummel was born to push boundaries.

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Somewhere In The World by Water_Nix

Somewhere in the World is the world’s most popular children’s show, and its star, Blaine Anderson, has been touted as the handsome second coming of Mr. Rogers. Even Kurt watches the show religiously, and his list of Blaine’s best attributes is even longer than that of TV’s most gushing reviewer. Yes, okay, so Kurt has a little crush. Maybe. Possibly. Shut up. So when he’s given the chance to meet the man in the flesh, he can’t really say no, can he?

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Floorshow by neaf

Rocky Horror Audience Participation AU, Blaine is a law student, forced into a strict life by his father, but he misses performing. A chance meeting spurs his old desires, and he finds himself joining the cast of the local RHPS AP, where he meets the enigmatic Frank, and starts to remember who he used to be. But Frank is much, much more than he seems.

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Kama Seusstra by GSJwrites

When erotica author Kurt Hummel follows the hot guy from the book convention party back to his hotel room, he thinks it’s simply a chance to spark his lackluster sex life. But when a scheduling change finds him sharing a speaker’s podium with his one night stand, he discovers that he has hooked up with Blaine Anderson, America’s darling of children’s literature.

Can the writer of a popular erotic serial find love with the author who has made bow ties the literary and fashion trend of children everywhere?

Kama Seusstra follows both their efforts to navigate an unlikely relationship as well as their stories: “Out at Home”, an online erotic serial set in the world of professional baseball, and “The Brave Little Bow Tie”, a children’s story about a bow tie trying to find his place in the world.

This is a story of sex, love and the hard choices we make to balance happiness and success.

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In College You Know Who You Are by honorarymaraudr

This was written as a response to a prompt on the kink meme: “Kurt goes to college in NYC while Finn goes to college at OSU. Once in a while he goes back to Ohio and visits Finn on campus, where he meets Blaine during a party. The two hit it off immediately but are not looking for a relationship for whatever reason but both have needs, so they settle for a one night stand. Kurt keeps running into Blaine every time he comes back to Ohio (either intentionally or not ;)) and they quickly become friends with benefits. They also have phone/Skype sex and eventually hang out more together outside of the bedroom whenever Kurt is in town, until they realize they might want their relationship to be more than just physical. :)”

Note: PDF and EPUB files are available to download here.

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Love Me Like a Hufflepuff by kookaburrito

Everyone has warned him about the Beauxbatons boys, how they only break people’s hearts. But Blaine, a Hufflepuff from head to toe, cannot resist a particular Beauxbatons boy. Is it true love or just deceitful veela charms?

#klaine #klaine fanfic #klaine fanfiction #fic finder #anonymous #xbeautifulunseenx #writer!Kurt #penpals!Klaine #Water_Nix #actor!Blaine #neaf #actor!Kurt #GSJwrites #writer!Blaine #honorarymaraudr #college!Klaine #kookaburrito #crossover fic #harry potter crossover

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bobsidoodle · 2 years

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The Wonderful World of Origami

This is your portal to the wonderful world of origami. I’m really crazy with origami and even though I didn’t go beyond to become a master of it, I’m still crazy about it. I want to propagate this wonderful art with people everywhere. And I want to see this values grow and live on for all generations to come. That is what’s going in my mind why I decided to make a book about it. I would like to make it a vessel, a vessel to propagate and share these enchanting art to my fellow origami devotee — may they be past, present and future.

How, why, what drove me to come up with this? Easy, I sympathize with many origami artists who tend to forget the folds of even the mundane origami models. I for one is among the many. It doesn't matter how many times I have folded a model, after a few months or so, to my frustration, I very much forget a step or two. I know how infuriating this can be. Imagine that you badly needed to make a simple paper cup, which you have done many times in the past, and just when you needed it... you forgot one teeny-weeny step! It’s so exasperating, I know you’d want to kick yourself for forgetting. Sometimes this is one of the reasons why some of us shy away from origami. You feel irritated because you missed just one, single, solitary fold to complete a model. And you feel frustrated to look for the diagram amidst all your references. And you say to yourself, “Ahhhh! Just forget it!” And just like that, you begin to avoid and even begin to dislike origami.

This is the main reason for this wonderful world of origami book. This is your handy, phone-a-friend, lifeline (hehehe!) final answer to your origami woes. This handy book will make you love origami all over again. Whether you’re a newbie or an enthusiast, this book is for you. There are over 40 origami diagrams featured here and I hope it’s more than enough to satisfy your craving. Whoops, just a minute! If you’re expecting glamorous and hard to make models (like the kawasaki rose or the bladed samurai), I’m sorry this is not for you and you won’t find anything like it here. What you can find here are the simple and basic folds that can easily be done in minutes or even in seconds. Simple origami that can bring smiles to everybody. Folds that can bring happiness to a room and practical models that can be useful on many occasions. Paper cups to hold drinks (and treats), game hats to use in kiddie parties or even a box to put your things in order.

Taking advantage of this wonderful world of origami book, you can easily find those diagrams fast. Unlike printed books (or even PDF, fixed epub, flip-page) where it’s frustrating to find a certain diagram, it’s very easy here. You only need to swipe, swipe, swipe the screen and all is good. And because all the images here are “fit to screen”, you don��t need to zoom in and out (while squinting your eyes) trying to get a good view of the diagram. Oh, and the diagrams? They are as clear as the daylight! As I have mentioned earlier, you only need to swipe, swipe, swipe! With its built-in table of contents, you can instantly look and click on your preferred model and instantly be transported to it. Be free of stress!

Since this is a reflowable epub, this is specially crafted to use with mobile phones. Why? It’s because mobile phones are the handiest gadget you always carry around. Hence, this ebook is practically in the palm of your hands whenever and wherever you need it. Computers, laptop and tablets are cumbersome to carry around but your mobile phones are practically a part of you. So be confident, you’ve got your lifeline in the palm of your hands.

Worried you can’t open it? Don’t fret, this epub is like a swiss knife, you can also open this ebook using your computer, tablet or notebook. Too good to be true? Nope, it’s just the way it is!

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cbhunter494 · 3 years

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How To Lead Jo Owen Ebook

How to Lead: The definitive guide to effective leadership (4th ed.) by Jo Owen. Based on original research into some of the world’s best organisations, How to Lead cuts right through all the myths and mysteries to get straight to the heart of what it really takes to motivate, inspire and deliver results. How to Lead: The definitive guide to effective leadership - Kindle edition by Owen, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading How to Lead: The definitive guide to effective leadership. Jo Owen eBooks Epub and PDF format Jo Owen eBooks. How to Lead: What the best leaders know, do and say. Pearson Business, August 2012. [email protected] A unique and brilliant combination of authoritative guidance and stimulating and entertaining advice, How to Leadhelps you resolve some common challenges that every leader will face:. Why should anyone want to follow you as a leader?

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The one-sentence summary

Successful leaders will take on risk, change and ambiguity.

WHAT THE BOOK SAYS

This book contains all the important stuff about leading well: motivating people, building networks, selling ideas, influencing people, giving feedback, evaluating people, and learning to be lucky

It takes you through the foundations, practice and mastering of leadership, and makes the point that leaders aren’t necessarily at the top of organisations

The main qualities fall into focusing on people,being positive, and being professional (that means having loyalty, honesty, reliability, solutions, and energy)

Leading from the middle involves finding your way through the matrix. Those who fall by the way are:

the expert (technically competent, but that’s all) cave dweller (territorial) politician (political) boy scout (naïve) autocrat (acts as though they already are a leader)

WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT IT

A survey of 1,000 leaders reveals the qualities they look for in emerging leaders:

adaptability, self-confidence, proactivity, reliability, and ambition

Luck is normally down to practice, persistence, and perspective

There are good quotes to be had here:

“ Many sins are forgivable, but disloyalty is not one of them.”

“An organisation full of Ghengis Khan wannabes is unlikely to be a happy place.”

“It is possible to learn leadership. If you know how to, you are well on the way to success.”

“The successful leader will take on risk, change and ambiguity.”

There is an interesting checklist of what people want from a good boss:

Shows an interest in my career

I trust them – they are honest with me

I know where we are going and how to get there

I am doing a worthwhile job

I am recognized for my contribution

WHAT YOU HAVE TO WATCH

Not much. This is a well-organised and thoughtful book on leadership

MORE DETAIL

A survey of 1,000 leaders reveals the qualities great leaders need: 3 Ps leading to a fourth:

·People focus

·Positivity

·Professionalism…leading to Performance.

He distinguishes between emerging leaders, leading from the middle, and those at the top.

Leadership foundations

Find the right boss; always deliver; no surprises; ditch the excuses; adapt your style; have an alternative; learn; do what is right; size the prize; understand costs and risks of decisions; follow strategy and values; build consensus; flip a coin – don’t hide, decide; motivate; set direction; communicate; fight the right battles

Towards leadership mastery

Start at the end; take responsibility; raise the bar; drive to action; act the part; keep on learning; set expectations; have a plan; shape your team; set your style; protect your territory; deliver results; craft an agenda

Ineffective leadership behaviours

Ego; no emotional quotient; focus solely on expertise; naïve about networks; hires weak clones; threatened by talent; poor delegation; problem focused; can’t do approach; retreats into comfort zone; political; keen on status.

I’ve been tasked with ‘learning to lead’ for the remaining weeks of this term, inamongst the other things I’m doing. To that end, I’m reading a range of books and articles, watching videos and generally trying to learn from the experts. 🙂

Looking on Amazon, there were lots of 5-star reviews for a book by Jo Owen entitled How to Lead: what you actually need to do to manage, lead and succeed. I’ve just finished the first chapter entitled ‘Focusing on People’ and it has lots of good ideas and advice crammed into it.

Here’s my notes and reflections on what I’ve read:

Leaders are made, not born

Owen says three principles underpin his book:

Everyone can lead

You can load the dice in your favour (but there’s no magic recipe)

You can learn to be a leader

Leadership is not about the position you are in but about the way you behave. Leaders need followers, otherwise they are not leaders! There is no particular intelligence requirement for leadership, but instead some core behaviours:

ability to motivate others

vision

honesty & integrity

decisiveness

ability to handly crises

‘Performance’ is not mentioned in the above, but naturally flows from them.

You don’t need to know it all

Some leaders suffer from ‘altitude sickness’ in that they can’t cope at a higher level when they’ve been successful further down the hierarchy. Sometimes this is due to a perception that you need to ‘have all the skills’ immediately. Instead, good leaders radiate self-confidence and build on their strengths whilst realising that learning is a lifelong process.

Despite being an author and consultant himself, Owen says that people learn from lived experience, not primarily from books, manuals and conferences. That being said, these can help you understand your experiences and build upon them.

Focusing on people

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I cried. And cried, and cried.

And finally.

When I stopped crying - not intentionally, but because I had no tears left in me - her mom was still seated before me, waiting.

I raised my head, and her mom held out a pale blue handkerchief. Timidly, I received the handkerchief, and still out of breath, I wiped away my tears.

“You can keep it. That’s Sakura’s handkerchief. If you held on to it, I’m sure that girl would be happy too.”

“…………Thank you ……Very much.”

I honestly expressed my gratitude, wiped my eyes and nose and mouth, and stowed the handkerchief in a pocket on my uniform.

I once more assumed the proper posture on the tatami. My eyes were now as red as those of her mom.

“Please excuse me…… For losing my composure……”

Her mom promptly shook her head.

“It’s alright, it’s only normal for children to cry. That girl also used to cry quite a lot. Because she’s always been a crybaby. But you know, around the time she met you, and began writing about the time she spent with you, that girl stopped crying. Not completely though. But still, thank you. Thanks to you, the time she got to live became precious to her.”

I held back the tears that threatened to flow again, and I shook my head.

“The one that received her precious time was me.”

“…………If that’s the case, you should come have a meal with our family sometime. That girl didn’t tell us about anything involving you after all.”

Facing her mom’s sorrowful smile, I wavered once more.

Giving in to my wavering self, I spoke to her mom a little about the memories that I’d shared with the girl. The things that hadn’t been written down in her diary - of course, our game of Truth or Dare, and how we slept on a bed together - I left out. Her mom gave me her undivided attention, nodding countlessly.

Talking about my memories of her made it feel as if my heart was getting lighter, little by little.

The happiness and sorrow that were precious to me remained as they were, but it felt like I was casting off unnecessary weight.

That was why I thought that it was for my sake that her mom was listening to me.

At the end of my story, I made a request to her mom.

“Could I someday come offer my prayers again?”

“Yes, of course. When that time comes, please come and meet my husband and son too. That’s right, together with Kyouko-chan…… Though it looks like you two don’t really get along.”

Exactly like the girl, her mom giggled.

“That appears to be the case, huh. Various things happened, and I came to be hated.”

“It’s not like I’m forcing it, but if possible, Kyouko-chan and you should come join our family for a meal someday. It’s out of gratitude too, but being able to get along too with the two people Sakura treasured would make Auntie happy.”

“That probably depends more on what she thinks than I do, but I’ll keep that in mind.”

After that, we exchanged a few words, and after I promised to come visit on a later date, I stood up. At her firm insistence, I was made to bring the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’ home. The ten thousand yen my mother had made me bring had been declined.

Her mom saw me out to the entrance. I put on my shoes, said my thanks once more, and just when I put my hand on the door knob, I was called out to.

“That’s right, what was your first name?”

In response to her casual question, I properly turned around, and answered.

“It’s Haruki. My name is Haruki Shiga.”

“Ah, wasn’t there a novelist with that name?”

Once my surprise faded, I felt a smile creep across my mouth.

“Yes, though I don’t know which you may be referring to.”

I once again said my thanks, bade my farewell, and left the front door of the Yamauchi house.

The rain had stopped.

After dinner, I confined myself to my room, and while reading the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’ once more, I began to think. For a third time, I ended up crying in the midst of reading, but I continued to think still.

What should I do from now on? I thought about what I could do for her sake, for her family’s sake, and for my own sake.

I, who had received the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’, thought about what I was able to do.

After much thought, I made my decision a little past 9 PM, and began taking action.

I retrieved a printout that I had left in my desk drawer, and took out my cellphone.

Looking at the printout, I dialled a number I’d never thought I would use in my life.

That night, I dreamt that I was talking with her, and I cried again.

I arrived at the designated café after noon.

Since I had arrived a little earlier than the appointed time, the other party had yet to show. I asked for an iced coffee and sat down on a vacant chair by the window.

I was able to come to the designated café without any hesitation. It was probably a coincidence, but it was the same place I had waited for her on that day, the day she died.

No, it might not have been a coincidence. I reconsidered while drinking my iced coffee. Surely, she must have been a regular here.

Just like on that day, I looked outside. Just like on that day, people holding onto different lives were passing by.

But unlike that day, the person I was supposed to meet properly arrived on time. I was glad. I was relieved. Besides the trauma from that time, I was also worried that I could have been stood up.

Wordlessly, Kyouko-san sat down on the chair at the other end, and at once glared at me with eyes that had become bright red.

“So I’ve come…… But………… What?”

I refused to be intimidated. Forcibly hardening my trembling heart, I met her gaze, and began opening my mouth.

However, I was cut off by Kyouko-san.

“Sakura’s funeral………… You…… Didn’t go.”

“…………”

“…………Why?”

“That’s…………”

Just as I found myself unable to answer, a loud sound reverberated throughout the store, and time within it stopped momentarily. It was the sound of Kyouko-san striking the table with her fist.

“…………Sorry……”

Just as time began moving inside the store, Kyouko-san lowered her eyes, and said so in a soft voice.

Once again, I opened my mouth to speak.

“Thank you for coming. This, must be the first time we’re properly speaking to each other.”

“…………”

“I have a matter to speak to you about, Kyouko-san, so I had you come here but, first, I wonder where I should start.”

“Just get to the point.”

“…………That’s right, sorry. I have something I want Kyouko-san to see.”

“…………”

Of course, the matter was about the girl. She alone was the only point of contact between me and Kyouko-san. After troubling over it yesterday, I had decided to speak with Kyouko-san.

Before I arrived, I had been thinking about how to broach the subject with Kyouko-san - whether to start with the relationship between me and the girl, or about the illness. In the end, I decided to simply let Kyouko-san see the truth first.

I took the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’ out from my bag, and placed it on the table.

“This is, the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’.”

“…………Disease coexistence?”

I removed the dust jacket wrapped around the book, and showed it to her.

Right away, Kyouko-san’s eyes, her eyes that were hollow somewhere, opened wide. I thought that it was to be expected of her. I thought that it was enviable too.

“…………That’s……Sakura’s handwriting.”

“It is.”

With a distinct movement, I nodded.

“This was her book. As part of her will, I received it.”

“……Her will…………”

The matter I was about to speak of made both my heart and words excruciatingly heavy. But, I couldn’t let that stop me.

“The things written inside, are all real. They are neither part of her mischief, nor mine. This is, something like a diary she had written, and in its last pages, is a will addressed to Kyouko-san and me, among others.”

“……What…………are you saying?”

“She, was ill.”

“…………You’re, lying, I’ve never heard of anything like that.”

“She didn’t tell you.”

“…………And just why would you know something that even I don’t?”

That was what I had thought too. But I knew the reason for that now.

“She didn’t tell anyone other than me. She, had gotten wrapped up in an incident and passed away, but even if she hadn’t met with an incident, the truth is––”

My words were cut off once more before I could finish. In their stead, a high-pitched sound pierced into my ear, and pain soon began to seep into my left cheek. Since I didn’t have any experience, it took a while for me to realise that the pain had come from the violent act of a slap.

With eyes that looked as if they were about to cry, Kyouko-san spoke like she were pleading.

“Just stop…………”

“I won’t stop. I have to tell Kyouko-san. She even wrote inside this book. That she treasured Kyouko-san the most. That’s why I want you to listen. She, was ill. Even if she hadn’t met with that incident, it had been determined that she would die after half a year. It’s not a lie.”

Kyouko-san weakly shook her head.

I held the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’ out to Kyouko-san.

“Read it. That girl loved mischief, but, she absolutely wouldn’t make any jokes that would hurt you.”

Beyond that, I decided not to say anything more.

My worry that, just perhaps, she wouldn’t even read it, promptly dissolved when Kyouko-san reached her hand out after a short while.

Cautiously, Kyouko-san grabbed hold of the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’ and opened its pages.

“It really is, Sakura’s handwriting……”

“This is genuinely, something that she wrote.”

Kyouko-san, with her eyebrows still knitted, began slowly reading from the very first page. I, focused on waiting.

I had heard from the girl that had died. Kyouko-san too wasn’t the type of person to ordinarily read words in a printed format. So it took some time for Kyouko-san to progress through the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’. Of course, her speed of reading the book wasn’t the only factor influencing how much time was passing.

At first, with a look that said she couldn’t bring herself to believe it, Kyouko-san re-read the pages countless, countless times. “It’s a lie, it’s a lie,” she even recited. Following which, her heart probably connected with the girl’s somewhere. As if a switch had been flipped, she started to cry, and her speed of reading gradually grew even slower.

I didn’t start to feel impatient at all. Especially when Kyouko-san began to cry, I felt relieved that she had come to accept it. Because if she hadn’t accepted it, my being here today would have lost its meaning. Both conveying the girl’s will, as well as one other purpose.

Midway, I ordered my second glass of coffee. After some thought, I got a glass of orange juice for Kyouko-san too. Without saying anything, Kyouko-san drank just a sip.

While waiting, I didn’t think about the girl. Rather, I was thinking about what I could do with what I had received from her. It was a difficult task for me who had persisted with self-absorption till now. I continued thinking, and time passed right by.

By the time I realised it, the day was turning into night. In the end, I couldn’t think of anything concrete beyond what I had thought of yesterday. Things that people could normally do were difficult to me.

I looked at Kyouko-san; her face was sticky with tears and the pile of soggy tissues on the table had grown ever larger. Her fingers were sandwiched around right in the middle of the book, and she was about to close the book. I did the same thing the girl’s mom had done yesterday. “There’s, still more further ahead.”

Though Kyouko-san already looked like she was tired from crying, once she read the portion consisting of the girl’s will, this time she closed the book completely, and as if she weren’t aware of the other people around her, she started bawling loudly. I, watched over Kyouko-san. Just like the girl’s mom did for me yesterday, the entire time. Kyouko-san cried her name, countless, countless times. “Sakura, Sakura,” she continued to cry.

Kyouko-san continued to cry for even longer than I did yesterday, and when I looked at her, her eyes - still overflowing with tears - turned towards me. It was the same as always, a gaze like she couldn’t stand the very sight of me.

“…………Why…………”

Kyouko-san spoke with a voice that rattled in hoarseness.

“Why………… Didn’t she…… Tell me……”

“……That’s, because she-”

“It’s not Sakura! It’s you!”

Towards that angry voice that I hadn’t even anticipated, I lost the words I had wanted to respond with. With a gaze like she wanted to stab me to death, and had become all miry, Kyouko-san let loose her words.

“If she, if she had told me…… I would’ve spent so much………… So much, so much more time with her. I would’ve quit my club too, I would’ve even quit school! And be together, with Sakura……”

It was, about this, huh.

“…………I won’t forgive you. No matter how much Sakura liked you, treasured you, needed you - I, won’t forgive you.”

She, lowered her face again, and her tears began to fall onto the floor. Just a little, really just a little, I - the same me I was up till now - ended up thinking that even so, I wouldn’t mind. That even if I was hated, I wouldn’t mind. But I shook my head. No good. That’d be no good.

I began speaking to Kyouko-san, whose mind had been made up and whose head was hanging low.

“I’m sorry, but………… Even little by little is fine so, I’d like you to forgive me.”

Kyouko-san didn’t say anything. I pushed aside my nervousness, and somehow re-opened my mouth.

“And then………… If you don’t mind…… Someday…………………… I’d like-”

Kyouko-san, wasn’t looking at me.

“I’d like for you to be my friend.”

Because I used words that I had not once used in my life, both my throat and heart tensed up. I desperately worked to maintain my breathing. Because my own matters had left me desperate, I couldn’t afford to do something like make a guess at Kyouko-san’s mental state.

“…………”

“It’s not just because of her will. This is something I myself am choosing to do. I’d like to get along, with Kyouko-san. I want, us to get along.”

“…………”

“Is it, no good……”

I didn’t know any other means of asking beyond this. And so I turned quiet. Silence fell into the space between the two of us.

I had never been this nervous about someone’s answer before. With an extreme mental state in addition to such self-centeredness, I waited for a response from Kyouko-san, and after a while, still facing downwards, she shook her head several times, stood up for the first time in a few hours, and left without a glance in my direction.

Looking at Kyouko-san’s back, this time it was my turn to hang my head low.

So it was…… No good huh……

I thought that this was probably the price I had to pay. The price for not acknowledging people up till now.

“This is, difficult.”

I whispered so, alone. But I think I was actually saying it to that girl.

I placed the ‘Disease Coexistence Journal’ that had been left behind into my bag, and after clearing the mountain of trash the two of us had created, I once again headed outside where it had turned completely dark.

Just what should I do from now on? It felt like I had been trapped in a maze with no way out. If I were to look up, I could still see the sky. But even though I knew there was an exit, I couldn’t find it.

“What a troublesome problem,” I thought. Everyone who solved such problems on a daily basis was amazing.

I got on my bicycle, and starting riding home.

Summer vacation was about to end soon.

It seemed like it would be impossible to complete my homework before summer vacation came to an end.

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By reading this book, you will learn to:

Measure and boost business KPIs effectively,

Build a user-centric sales funnel,

Reduce risks and address objections,

Build trust and overcome skepticism,

Persuade people without alienating them,

Establish a strategy for higher conversion.

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Download a free PDF sample (17.3 MB) and get the book right away.

The book features interface design examples that take ethical design principles into account. Large preview.

The cover and chapter illustrations carefully designed by Veerle Pieters.

Table Of Contents

1. Avoid the Dangers of Persuasion

Paul begins your journey with a rock-solid business case you can take to management or clients to avoid the more manipulative techniques you see online.

You will learn:

How online choice has empowered the consumer.

The hidden marketing agency costs of manipulation.

The dangers of buyers remorse.

2. Measure Conversion Effectively

You cannot improve what you are not measuring. That is why, in Paul’s second chapter, he explores how to measure your conversion rate effectively. Only then can you start to improve it.

You will learn:

The dangers of having no metrics or bad ones.

How to establish your key performance indicators.

What to track and how to track it.

3. Get to Know Your Users

You will learn:

What exactly you need to understand about your audience.

How to consolidate all you know about your users.

How to carry out lightweight user research.

4. Build a User-Centric Sales Funnel

You will learn:

What a sales funnel is and how it helps.

How to map your customer’s journey.

How to build a sales funnel around the user’s journey.

5. Address Objections and Reduce Risks

You will learn:

How to identify the concerns your audience has about taking action.

How to address common concerns.

A process for handling any objection users might have.

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You will learn:

Why trust is essential for improving conversion.

How to build trust through openness and empathy.

The role of social proof and connecting consumers in building trust.

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You will learn:

What cognitive load is and why it is so dangerous for your conversion rate.

Methods for reducing the cognitive load of your websites.

Techniques for keeping any interface simple.

8. Overcoming the Problem With Perception

You will learn:

How to position our products and services in a positive light.

The role that mental models play in conversion.

Techniques for ensuring your content reflects the user’s mindset.

9. Never Stop Testing and Iterating

You will learn:

Techniques for ensuring you are working on the right projects to improve conversion.

Ways to test how compelling a design concept is.

How to integrate testing into every aspect of your development cycle.

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You will learn:

The role of your developer in improving your conversion rate.

How to use other digital channels to improve your website conversion rate.

How broader organisational changes can help boost revenue and online leads.

11. Where to Go From Here

With a book packed with advice, it can be overwhelming. The book concludes with some practical next steps that you can take, wherever you are on your journey to improve conversion.

You will learn:

Quick wins that can get you started today.

Budget testing techniques you can implement immediately.

A more ambitious and ongoing approach to optimisation.

— Dave Smyth, Agency Owner

— Brandon Austin Kinney, Director of Lead Generation

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

About the Author

Technical Details

ISBN: 978-3-945749-83-8 (print)

Quality hardcover, stitched binding, ribbon page marker.

Free worldwide airmail shipping from Germany. (Check your delivery times). Due to Covid-19 and import restrictions, there could be some delays. But you can start reading the eBook right away.

eBook is available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

Get the book right away.

A quality hardcover with a bookmark. Designed with love by Veerle Pieters. Photo by Marc Thiele.

Community Matters

There is quite a bit of work to do on the web, but our hope is that with this book, you will be equipped with enough techniques to increase conversion and the number of happy customers.

Stay smashing, and thank you for your ongoing support, everyone!

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

More Smashing Books

Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing.

Ethical Design Handbook

A practical guide on ethical design for digital products.

Add to cart $39

Design Systems

A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products.

Add to cart $39

Form Design Patterns

A practical guide to designing and coding simple and inclusive forms.

Add to cart $39

Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co

Delray Beach SEO

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Click! Here: Meet Our New Smashing Book

About The Author

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running … More about Vitaly Friedman …

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

About The Book

Here’s a short video message from Paul Boag, the author of Click!, explaining why he’s written the book and what it’s all about:

[embedded content]

By reading this book, you will learn to:

Measure and boost business KPIs effectively,

Build a user-centric sales funnel,

Reduce risks and address objections,

Build trust and overcome skepticism,

Persuade people without alienating them,

Establish a strategy for higher conversion.

Psst! A little surprise shipped with the first 500 books.

Download a free PDF sample (17.3 MB) and get the book right away.

The book features interface design examples that take ethical design principles into account. Large preview.

The cover and chapter illustrations carefully designed by Veerle Pieters.

Table Of Contents

1. Avoid the Dangers of Persuasion

Paul begins your journey with a rock-solid business case you can take to management or clients to avoid the more manipulative techniques you see online.

You will learn:

How online choice has empowered the consumer.

The hidden marketing agency costs of manipulation.

The dangers of buyers remorse.

2. Measure Conversion Effectively

You cannot improve what you are not measuring. That is why, in Paul’s second chapter, he explores how to measure your conversion rate effectively. Only then can you start to improve it.

You will learn:

The dangers of having no metrics or bad ones.

How to establish your key performance indicators.

What to track and how to track it.

3. Get to Know Your Users

You will learn:

What exactly you need to understand about your audience.

How to consolidate all you know about your users.

How to carry out lightweight user research.

4. Build a User-Centric Sales Funnel

You will learn:

What a sales funnel is and how it helps.

How to map your customer’s journey.

How to build a sales funnel around the user’s journey.

5. Address Objections and Reduce Risks

You will learn:

How to identify the concerns your audience has about taking action.

How to address common concerns.

A process for handling any objection users might have.

6. Establish Trust and Overcome Scepticism

You will learn:

Why trust is essential for improving conversion.

How to build trust through openness and empathy.

The role of social proof and connecting consumers in building trust.

7. Defeat Cognitive Overload

You will learn:

What cognitive load is and why it is so dangerous for your conversion rate.

Methods for reducing the cognitive load of your websites.

Techniques for keeping any interface simple.

8. Overcoming the Problem With Perception

You will learn:

How to position our products and services in a positive light.

The role that mental models play in conversion.

Techniques for ensuring your content reflects the user’s mindset.

9. Never Stop Testing and Iterating

You will learn:

Techniques for ensuring you are working on the right projects to improve conversion.

Ways to test how compelling a design concept is.

How to integrate testing into every aspect of your development cycle.

10. Address the Whole Experience

You will learn:

The role of your developer in improving your conversion rate.

How to use other digital channels to improve your website conversion rate.

How broader organisational changes can help boost revenue and online leads.

11. Where to Go From Here

With a book packed with advice, it can be overwhelming. The book concludes with some practical next steps that you can take, wherever you are on your journey to improve conversion.

You will learn:

Quick wins that can get you started today.

Budget testing techniques you can implement immediately.

A more ambitious and ongoing approach to optimisation.

— Dave Smyth, Agency Owner

— Brandon Austin Kinney, Director of Lead Generation

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

About the Author

Technical Details

ISBN: 978-3-945749-83-8 (print)

Quality hardcover, stitched binding, ribbon page marker.

Free worldwide airmail shipping from Germany. (Check your delivery times). Due to Covid-19 and import restrictions, there could be some delays. But you can start reading the eBook right away.

eBook is available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

Get the book right away.

A quality hardcover with a bookmark. Designed with love by Veerle Pieters. Photo by Marc Thiele.

Community Matters

There is quite a bit of work to do on the web, but our hope is that with this book, you will be equipped with enough techniques to increase conversion and the number of happy customers.

Stay smashing, and thank you for your ongoing support, everyone!

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

More Smashing Books

Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing.

Ethical Design Handbook

A practical guide on ethical design for digital products.

Add to cart $39

Design Systems

A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products.

Add to cart $39

Form Design Patterns

A practical guide to designing and coding simple and inclusive forms.

Add to cart $39

Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co

Delray Beach SEO

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scpie · 4 years

Text

Click! Here: Meet Our New Smashing Book

About The Author

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running … More about Vitaly Friedman …

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

About The Book

Here’s a short video message from Paul Boag, the author of Click!, explaining why he’s written the book and what it’s all about:

[embedded content]

By reading this book, you will learn to:

Measure and boost business KPIs effectively,

Build a user-centric sales funnel,

Reduce risks and address objections,

Build trust and overcome skepticism,

Persuade people without alienating them,

Establish a strategy for higher conversion.

Psst! A little surprise shipped with the first 500 books.

Download a free PDF sample (17.3 MB) and get the book right away.

The book features interface design examples that take ethical design principles into account. Large preview.

The cover and chapter illustrations carefully designed by Veerle Pieters.

Table Of Contents

1. Avoid the Dangers of Persuasion

Paul begins your journey with a rock-solid business case you can take to management or clients to avoid the more manipulative techniques you see online.

You will learn:

How online choice has empowered the consumer.

The hidden marketing agency costs of manipulation.

The dangers of buyers remorse.

2. Measure Conversion Effectively

You cannot improve what you are not measuring. That is why, in Paul’s second chapter, he explores how to measure your conversion rate effectively. Only then can you start to improve it.

You will learn:

The dangers of having no metrics or bad ones.

How to establish your key performance indicators.

What to track and how to track it.

3. Get to Know Your Users

You will learn:

What exactly you need to understand about your audience.

How to consolidate all you know about your users.

How to carry out lightweight user research.

4. Build a User-Centric Sales Funnel

You will learn:

What a sales funnel is and how it helps.

How to map your customer’s journey.

How to build a sales funnel around the user’s journey.

5. Address Objections and Reduce Risks

You will learn:

How to identify the concerns your audience has about taking action.

How to address common concerns.

A process for handling any objection users might have.

6. Establish Trust and Overcome Scepticism

You will learn:

Why trust is essential for improving conversion.

How to build trust through openness and empathy.

The role of social proof and connecting consumers in building trust.

7. Defeat Cognitive Overload

You will learn:

What cognitive load is and why it is so dangerous for your conversion rate.

Methods for reducing the cognitive load of your websites.

Techniques for keeping any interface simple.

8. Overcoming the Problem With Perception

You will learn:

How to position our products and services in a positive light.

The role that mental models play in conversion.

Techniques for ensuring your content reflects the user’s mindset.

9. Never Stop Testing and Iterating

You will learn:

Techniques for ensuring you are working on the right projects to improve conversion.

Ways to test how compelling a design concept is.

How to integrate testing into every aspect of your development cycle.

10. Address the Whole Experience

You will learn:

The role of your developer in improving your conversion rate.

How to use other digital channels to improve your website conversion rate.

How broader organisational changes can help boost revenue and online leads.

11. Where to Go From Here

With a book packed with advice, it can be overwhelming. The book concludes with some practical next steps that you can take, wherever you are on your journey to improve conversion.

You will learn:

Quick wins that can get you started today.

Budget testing techniques you can implement immediately.

A more ambitious and ongoing approach to optimisation.

— Dave Smyth, Agency Owner

— Brandon Austin Kinney, Director of Lead Generation

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

About the Author

Technical Details

ISBN: 978-3-945749-83-8 (print)

Quality hardcover, stitched binding, ribbon page marker.

Free worldwide airmail shipping from Germany. (Check your delivery times). Due to Covid-19 and import restrictions, there could be some delays. But you can start reading the eBook right away.

eBook is available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

Get the book right away.

A quality hardcover with a bookmark. Designed with love by Veerle Pieters. Photo by Marc Thiele.

Community Matters

There is quite a bit of work to do on the web, but our hope is that with this book, you will be equipped with enough techniques to increase conversion and the number of happy customers.

Stay smashing, and thank you for your ongoing support, everyone!

Print + eBook

$ 39.00 Get Print + eBook

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

Free! Get the eBook

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership.

More Smashing Books

Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing.

Ethical Design Handbook

A practical guide on ethical design for digital products.

Add to cart $39

Design Systems

A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products.

Add to cart $39

Form Design Patterns

A practical guide to designing and coding simple and inclusive forms.

Add to cart $39

Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co

Delray Beach SEO

source http://www.scpie.org/click-here-meet-our-new-smashing-book/

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