#i’ll go with a large overview type scope this time

[drev-the-procrastinator]

1, 8, 12 and 52 for the writing thingy!!!

Look at me finally answering these after like a whole month lol

Thanks for the ask!

1. Tell us about your WIP!

Which one lol, I’ve got many of them. Too many. Really. That, coupled with the fact that I am a slow writer because I keep getting distracted and procrastinating (like with answering these asks,,,,) means that pretty much everyone on this site will die of old age before I finish like any of them :’D

Anyway, I guess I’ll give brief summaries of all of the… main ones. This is gonna be a long one, fellas! I guess in the order I came up with them? Or the order I’m pretty sure I came up with them in.

TT: My original story I’ve been low-key working on and reworking since… 2012…? It’s a fantasy story, and it is… way too long probably. Also needs a lot of work. Worldbuilding and character building and plot building… At the moment, I guess I could summarise it as, our world gets wrecked for some reason, and the main characters, these two girls, who got saved into another, fantasy world with like… a bunch of other survivors, leave the Earth-refugee camp and get tangled with like, politics? Of that world? Well, politics and then eventually like, a war type thing… I didn’t say it was good, and I did also say it needs a whole lotta work. I’m pretty happy with some names younger me came up with though! Also it has dragons, so. Yup.

Fantasy fanfic: I am very good with names, as you’ll come to notice. Anyway this is a.. Hetalia fantasy fic..? I came up with in, like, 2014. I’m not actively working on this one at the moment, but I would like to maybe write it one day, and my most beloved OC originated in this story, you may have seen me mention her in my tags? I haven’t managed to come up with a name for her, but I call her the Asshole Goddess, because she’s a goddess, and also an ass. So.

Anyway this one’s pretty cliche, and it’s like, an absurdly large cast of Hetalia characters ending up in a fantasy world, where a bunch of other characters, who’d gone missing earlier, have apparently been taken to? Then it’s a journey to find and get them back, friendships are formed and magical things are encountered, but uh oh! They’re mortal here and can die! And many do. You may note I was 14 when I came up with it, so. Well. It is quite edgy. Had some good concepts though!

Kingdom AU: Great with names, as I said. This one is also a Hetalia fic, because that is the fandom I’ve been stuck in forever, though mostly just because I’ve so many fics for it. This is the odd one out in my fics though! This is like, a royalty AU of an rp AU me and my friend made by accident one time? The RP, not this AU, this is all my invention. It’s really just for me and my friend, since it’s based on that strange RP and the main thing in it is like and OC x canon character ship? That’s also why it’s the weird one, I don’t usually have much romance in my fics because I’m not big on ships and just prefer gen stuff, but this one is like primarily romance? Lots of pining. And it’s very soft. And I love this AU with all my heart. It’s also got a whole lotta angst!

Basic plot is the more or less classic, kinda cliche, peasant girl goes to get a job in the royal palace to help her poor family and meets the crown prince, and they become friends, and slowly fall in love.. Except, well, this is weird also in that the end point isn’t them getting married or confessing their love or anything, that’s like...Maybe the midpoint? There’s also politics, kinda worldbuilding? It’s set in like a 1700s type setting, I think, And while it’s not really a fantasy world since no magic, it’s not like, a real world setting. Anyway, yeah, this is near and dear to my heart.

The Home Front Fic: This! This is the one I’ve been trying to work on lately! It’s about life on the Finnish home front during WWII, and yes this is uh, also a Hetalia fic. Sorry. Though to be fair with this one and the previous one everyone’s probably gonna be so OOC and the setting is so different they might as well just be original works lol. Anyway, it’s a human AU, and also had a lot of OCs for that reason because it’d be tough to make a story of this scope with like. Three characters.

Basically! Tino is a 8, soon to be 9-year-old boy living in the Finnish countryside in 1942. His dad’s gone off to war, as well as the farmhand they had at the farm, and his mom and grandma can’t take care of the whole farm by themselves. So when they hear a nearby factory and some other farms in the area are getting extra work force in the form of Soviet prisoners of war, they decide to ask for one, too. They get a worker, his name’s Ivan. It takes some time, since they’re technically enemies, right, but eventually Tino befriends him and slowly he kind of becomes a part of the family… But you know what happened when the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union ended in September 1944? :) Well, I’ll just say that Stalin did say “There are no Soviet prisoners of war, only traitors.”

This one also has angst. But it also has found family! I like it a whole lot, I wish I’d written it already, but I have been having such a hard time starting it. :(

That BNHA Fic: I can call it that because I’ve only got one so far! So this is a My Hero Academia fic, and hmm. I haven’t talked about it too much, but I do like it, even though my focus has been pulled back to the Home Front Fic again. I do wanna write this one!

So this is like a future fic? It’s canon divergent because some stuff happening in the manga rn is not gonna work with the plot, I guess it’ll diverge at least from like… all the New Year’s chapters? I don’t remember what the number is.

Anyway, the main character is Eri, who’s been going to like this boarding school meant for kids with volatile quirks. She wanted to go there herself when some years ago her quirk had gone bonkers, she thinks? Something like that, she doesn’t remember that well anymore, but anyway, she’s going to apply to UA! Just the Gen-Ed, her quirk isn’t any good against robots. She’d love to be a hero, though, she knows so many heroes and she just wants to help people, but her quirk is no good. :( Anyway she’s back in Musutafu for the summer break in her last year of middle school, and she meets Mirio and Aizawa at the train station, and they go around the town meeting everyone! In the entrance exams she meets Kouta, who for some reason doesn’t want to be a hero though he’s got a really good quirk for it, and he’s proud of his parents who were famous heroes! They both get into UA, and she manages to convince him to try to get into the hero course through the Sports Festival, and he does! She doesn’t get that far in the festival though, because even though she’s practiced using her quirk, she’s scared to use it on people when in battle and stuff. Anyway, she’s very upset about it, and when she tells Mirio about how she wants to help people, but can’t, because her quirk sucks, he gets this look on his face and later tells her that he knows someone who could help. They go to meet this scarecrow lookin’ dude, and oh wait, is that All Might?? Why’s he refusing to help her out from Mirio’s request?? And later, what’s this One For All Mirio’s talking about?? And whose kind arms does she keep dreaming of in her sleep??? 

So yeah. That’s the BNHA fic. One more WIP to go!

Space Fic: Back to Hetalia, and this is technically an older fic but I decided to someday actually write it just recently. So it’s my Historical Human AU No. 3. It’s based on a space facts video fact, where it said that in 1963 Kennedy had proposed the USSR and US go to the Moon together, and Khrushchev had been meaning to agree, but then Kennedy died and the plan was abandoned. This story idea was like, but what if they’d gone through with it? And then, because why not, what if they’d included other countries as well? And this WIP was born. It’d be like, the main characters would be representatives of their home countries, sent to take part in the program and they’d all be candidates for going to the Moon, but there’d be only 3 spots on the rocket so like, they’d kind of have to compete for the spots? And the ones that wouldn’t pass would take part in the mission on Earth. So then there'd compete, there’d be personal drama, their personal relationships would be affected by the relationships between their home countries, but overtime friendships would be forged, and they’d all just become… one big ole found family. A space family. A big ole found space family. And the Overview Effect would also play a part. This is kind of on the back burner, this’ll need lots of research and the Home front fic also needs a lot of it, so I’ll try to.. write that first, I guess? We’ll see.

So that’s all my WIPs. There are other fic ideas that I haven’t put much thought into yet so they’re not on the list, but yeah!

8. Do you have any writing buddies or critique partners?

I don’t have any one person who I’ve talked to about all of my stories, but I have discussed my stories with a few people! Both online and irl. I’m also on a couple discord servers that are for writing or where people talk about writing, even though for the most part I’m too shy to talk much on any of them ;u; But the people who’ve been awesome enough to listen to me ramble about my stories have helped me a lot!

12. Which story of yours do you like best? Why?

Aaaa, don’t make me choose between my children! ;__; I love them all,,,

Well, I am very fond of TT, since it’s my own original story and I’ve worked on it the longest… Then again, the Kingdom AU has a lovely aesthetic and those two pining idiots in it… But also, that BNHA fic has some really nice plot and character moments? But also I’ve spent so long researching for the Home front fic and it’s got my boys in it! And the atmosphere in it is so nice, and it has found family,,, But then also… Space??? And even the fantasy fanfic has the Asshole Goddess in it?? And a nice storyline with Liech?? See I can’t choose ;_;

To be fair, the story my dumb brain takes interest in changes every now and then, for example lately I’ve been mostly thinking about TT, the Kingdom AU and the Home front fic, so I guess those would be my favorites at the moment? But a couple weeks ago I was really into the Space Fic, and at the start of the year it was the BNHA fic. So it depends! But I do love them all.

52. Who do you write for?

Well, primarily probably for myself. I do often find myself in a situation where I’m looking for fics or books to read but none of them really click, and then I realize I’m looking for my own story. Which I haven’t written. So that’s definitely a big one! Then, to some extent, I also write for the people I’ve rambled about my fics to, so they might maybe someday get to experience the whole thing through something other than just my ramblings :’D But mostly for myself, I think.

Thanks for the ask again and sorry for taking so long!

#it's been 84 years..... #long post #drev's fics #did i have an ask tag? i don't remember

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In business circles, wherever you go, people are discussing LinkedIn. Despite the fact that it remains the most puzzling and misinterpreted of all major person-to-person communication destinations, enthusiasm for LinkedIn is at an unmatched level and sparks interest in how best to use the site to generate revenue. At this stage, any individual or organization that deliberately chooses not to perceive LinkedIn, or investigate its latent capacity, is seen as a slow hit. People get burned to learn that they "should be" giving more consideration to LinkedIn. They currently need iron proof that this really works before they contribute their time, vitality, and cash.

There is a wealth of online instructional exercises, web magazines, white papers, e-books, and recordings on how to make and increase LinkedIn's closeness. An important part of the work is a subsidiary, however, search a lot and you will discover solid and realistic content. While you can get a lot out of these sources, there is no viable alternative to learning LinkedIn through your own understanding. As a LinkedIn speaker, expert, and mentor, I've created a framework for sharing LinkedIn best practices that rely on the observational exam. 

An Increase in LinkedIn automations

Some people have been on LinkedIn for quite some time and their perseverance has paid off. There is constantly another example of overcoming adversity, one that could not have happened without LinkedIn as a delegate. A sales representative exceeded participation. An attorney handled a huge corporate client. LinkedIn is improving people's expert lives, and the people receiving the rewards are discussing it. The best motivation for people who currently don't seem to understand a LinkedIn achievement is found in the enthusiasm and achievements of those who realize they made a transformative change.

How LinkedIn transmits intelligence to you

While Cliff Rosenberg did not speak on this point, the best methods for obtaining information are most likely through his own system. LinkedIn is a great device for connecting with hard-to-reach possibilities. By looking at second and third-grade associations, you can regularly understand that the people you need to contact are connected to a partner or colleague. It's a systems management goldmine and I'll talk about this in more detail later, illustrated now.

LinkedIn is a search engine

These continuous advancements from within the LinkedIn group show that LinkedIn is much more important about the substance, especially the preservation of content from across the web and the transmission of relevant data to its customers. Here and there it is quickly becoming a web search tool in its own right, similar to what Facebook has become.

Why is LinkedIn attractive to marketers?

In advance, the human-observer and human resources workforce persecution field, LinkedIn, is also attractive to organization-focused marketers. LinkedIn measurements tell a bit of the story:

• Globally, Facebook has more than 500 million people (with 300 million dynamic customers),

• Twitter has 40 million

• LinkedIn has 50 million people.

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1. What is marketing automation?

The essential formula of any advertisement is:

Characterization Perspectives + Contact Details + Campaign = Marketing

The demonstration of the computerization of these media with the help of innovation and programming transforms it into marketing automation.

In this way, when with the help of business programming, a product or application deals with a few or numerous means of promotion, what is called marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Begins

In this sense, back in the beginning, when the PC and the web were new and not developing as much as they are today, the promoting organizations used to accumulate a not insignificant summary of the next clients and then send them a similar email individually. At the time, someone developed a capability whereby people had the option to enroll all email IDs into one email and send a bulk email.

We can call that the main Marketing Automation effort since the framework had mechanized a piece of the advertising effort. Currently, there was no compelling reason to send each individual individually. Currently, it ended with a lone snap. However, you first had to create a database with all the email IDs, but the tedious procedure of forming a similar email for each person was eliminated.

How?

A couple of shipping types have ready-made groups accessible for nothing. You can accept that design as the body of your email. At that time, there are administrations that give you a summary of the email IDs in the spaces you need. And then, in an email client, you plan for your messages to be sent naturally without their essence. It is not obvious? Nothing is made up, but then you've sent a lot of messages with a couple of snapshots.

Promoting automation: intelligence gathering

The automation promotion schedule has progressed, and in this regard, they have also progressed with each exhibition progression. The basic advertising recipe mentioned above has become complex, substantially more engaged, pooled, and adjusted for the highest ROI. These days, simply mounting email ID arrays is not enough. For more extreme effectiveness, you have more programming and strategies to get rid of people and steps that are less likely to transform into changes. You can target only those people who are most kind to transform into a customer.

2. Why should you automate your LinkedIn network?

You need an organized way to handle sales and the mechanization of LinkedIn makes the procedure seamless. Computerization builds your system while content builds the attention and firmness of the brand. So with the right computer gadget, you can build connections and extend your system the right way

These are normal inquiries that we constantly make when we visit potential customers. Also, the short answer is simple: definitely not.

Automation your LinkedIn network absolutely has a place in a business that is without a doubt.

In our business, there are a lot of procedures and tasks that we have robotized using great innovation to help kick some of the hard work out. For example, the finishing of our commercial procedure is fully mechanized.

At the moment when someone needs to ask about one of our articles, we do a survey, when they complete this they go to another page where they can legitimately book with one of our specialists.

At no time was anything physically done and simply as expected, one of the groups will call the possibility at the scheduled time. It is simpler for everyone, they reserve in a period that is useful for them as one of our colleagues.

They will call them at the reserved time and they are all champions. Regardless, when it comes to building connections, that's what LinkedIn is all about: it's an unequivocal no.

Of course, it sounds incredible in principle to transmit computerized requests en masse instead of doing it physically individually.

Ban your account

On the one hand, it goes against the terms of use of LinkedIn and may prohibit your registration. LinkedIn is becoming significantly more meaningful than its site. These days, when people scan online, the main thing that emerges is that your site is never really your LinkedIn profile.

So if this were to disappear out of nowhere, you would become a ghost of potential possibilities and the need to develop your system without any preparation.

Inclined to errors

LinkedIn is continually looking at approaches to shutting down mechanization gadgets by changing things that make it difficult for them to work 100%. This implies the possibility that you transmit association messages or welcome regularly, an inappropriate message goes to the right people or vice versa. We frequently see bulk messages or automatic responses that are missing in the main name field or with an odd string attached.

Validity

There is also a validity problem today, when people ask if they should be using robot devices, we generally use the similarity of OK, go to a systems administration job and get a robot to organize it and make connections?

No, you wouldn't, why would you do it on LinkedIn?

People can tell, they are not inept, they can smell it a mile away. Out of nowhere, you interact with them and after 5 minutes you receive a created tone message. They realize that it was mechanized and couldn't care less.

Clarify your customer avatar

Initially, you should be clear about your customer's symbol, who do you expect to partner with

Through LinkedIn we take a look at 5 measurements that include:

Title

Rank level

Organization size (count)

Zone

Industry

A: Sell your products and services

Today's business visionaries are concerned with getting excited about work and realizing that it is of greater importance. As business visionaries, we like our work to have an effect and help improve the world. Simultaneously, be that as it may, we like our work to be effective. Doing it admirably doing it great. With the most terrifyingly horrible recession in decades in our subsequent vision, today's entrepreneurs must be very imaginative and do things competently. These 7 stages to mechanize your online business will create agreements and improve your activities.

Automation is the way to build a successful business with fewer assets. Creating wonderful organizations, as a group, and using innovation, eventually to improve the world, is a shared goal of the present business visionary. And yet, today's business visionaries don't have the accessible budget resources to hire a group of workers. So the more the current business person can accomplish alone, the better.

Steps to build an automated online business on LinkedIn

Here are seven steps you can take on your journey to becoming a freelance, freelance, and deeply effective business person without burning all available resources.

Build a WordPress website

Build your email list

What do your optimal followers need?

What is the main problem they have that you trust you can explain?

What is your technique to deal with that problem?

What do you like to discuss more than anything?

Compose compelling content

The number of followers he has is directly identified with...

His ability to drive was exceptionally focused on traffic to his blog.

Your ability to change that traffic into FIERCELY LOYAL endorsers.

Your ability to get your readers to uplift and allude to peers.

Currently, it's up to you to make a move and arm your email list with compelling substance.

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b. Become a LinkedIn influencer

I recently spoke about the perception of influential people to build the visibility of your business. The opposite side of the coin is the means by which you can achieve LinkedIn influencer status yourself so that you can decisively impact different organizations. One thing to remember is that there is a state of influence and then there is a state of influence on LinkedIn. The two are not very similar.

What do you have to do to get influence status on LinkedIn?

Obviously, to experience the path to gaining influence status, you must start with the content, very similar to what you generally do. In addition to the fact that you need to create content, you need to do it in a crisp and compelling way, constantly connecting with the content. The more high-quality substance you produce, the higher your status as a LinkedIn influencer. It will also help you increase your expert notoriety as a rule, which is one of the main things you are looking for. As is always the case, you should avoid making a "difficult sale" to anyone. You will prevail in the sale of your articles, as well as in the administrations when developing your notoriety, credibility, confidence and positioning yourself as a master of subjects. Obviously, remember that the composition of your substance must be of high quality and it must also be intriguing. You must associate with your user on a human/passionate level and the story that each part of a substance tells must resonate with your user.

C. Get more visitors to your blog

This summary was found when people in my Marketing Group shared what works for them. These are reliable approaches to help you attract more visitors to your blog. I am sure you could continue to add more plans to this summary. In case you have something you want to include, it would be great if you let me know. I couldn't wish for anything more than being notified of what you're doing. We will start another summary.

1. Use clear sentences and expose them

2. Keep your site/blog updated - 2-3 times a week

3. Make a newsletter

4. Get interested in discussions or meetings, like LinkedIn, Quora, Ning

5. Send to local bookmarks - Stumbleupon, Delicious, Digg

6. Advance to others in your locality, exchange articles, be a visiting author

7. Put your sites in your email signature

8. Have a challenge or advance

9. Use social media devices like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

10. Be a visiting blogger, enter your site URL

11. Submit requests to your site for comments or for your occasions

12. AdWords

13. Make connections by keeping in touch, ask them questions

14. Write a book, ask for people's contact information, or post it on Scribd

15. Write public statements

16. Make a Facebook fan page to coordinate guests

17. Twitter to drive traffic to your blog site

18. Join different meetings where your clients get together

19. Exploit share buttons and benefits like Ping FM

20. Sign up for Google's local business catalog (Google Places)

21. Transfer an introduction to Slideshare with a connection back to your site

22. Profile people on your site and ask for comments or connections

23. Make videos of your articles/benefits and transfer them to other video administrations

24. Transfer photos to Flicker

25. Sign up for promotional pamphlets/writings for more thoughts

26. Show yourself on Craigslist, Kijiji and other free promotional destinations

27. Get substantial connections to your site from targeted traffic

28. Have more calls to activities

29. Offer a free digital book or blessing or report

30. Make up an extraordinary substance that people should go back to and share.

D. Get some social prove: Become trustful on LinkedIn

Even though your best results for creating new leads and prospects will come from dynamic prospecting (social selling), you would like to ensure that your profile improves. An improved profile makes it easy for those looking for your article or administration to find out.

Run these tips from LinkedIn to increase your chances of being found by the perfect people more regularly.

Streamline your LinkedIn business card

To ensure that your optimal customers get some answers about you, you need two things to happen: Your chances should have the option to discover it in the query items

The moment they find out, they should move to become familiar with you and the manners with which you can support them. This is where a structured LinkedIn business card turns out to be significant.

LinkedIn's role: Your role is the most basic piece of your profile. You can increase your chances of appearing in indexed lists by including keywords within your function that need to be found. In any case, more than that, your role should address your target market and motivate them to become familiar with you. That is the purpose of its function: to obtain its navigation possibilities to familiarize itself with what it offers.

Profile image: first impressions are everything, especially on the web. Use an expert profile photo in which you stand out, dress expertly, smile and look at the camera against a non-partisan base.

LinkedIn Publisher Article and Offer Ads

An elegantly composed business card can help you find it in the relevant indexed lists, however, don't just rely on the Advanced Search found on LinkedIn. Another brilliant method to expand your perceptibility on LinkedIn, particularly among its optimal possibilities, is to reliably publish LinkedIn publisher ads and articles.

E. Scale up your network

LinkedIn is really about partnerships. In addition, therefore, it tends to be an extraordinary asset to focused systems management. By joining meetings, attending occasions, and using current partnerships to create new partnerships, you can develop your business organization and promote your skills, increasing your capacity and image.

Interface with these individuals. Adjust the "individual note" alternative in the association request. Reach out to them for an espresso meeting and, if that can't be accomplished, propose a meeting on the web take a look at these meetings as being commonly advantageous. How could you help that individual and how could they help you?

Focus on offering some incentives to other people and being a connector. The more you do this, the more you update the estimate of what you bring to the table, either as a final supplier or as a source.

F. Give free ebooks and valuable tips to engage your Linkedin audience

The reason for ebooks is to attract leads. Convert an exceptionally significant substance that cannot be found in a direct online search on a digital book, and its possibilities are likely to give you its subtleties of contact as a by-product of access to the digital book.

While half of the substance display with digital books is the creating organization, the other half is elevating their digital book to expand ROI.

These are the means by which you can advance your digital book through a web-based network means to create important leads.

3. Add automatically some targeted connection on LinkedIn

LinkedIn.com is a site explicitly focused on informal communication that is equipped to interact with business experts who share basic interests. According to Nielsen on the web, LinkedIn, with just over 10 million customers developed by 193% in 2008 with an average age of 35 years. Recruitment reps and Human Resources experts love using LinkedIn to enroll planned workers. Additionally, it flaunts universal enrollment with approximately a portion of people located outside of the United States.

Your goal with LinkedIn should be to develop as an innovator in your industry or specialty, not just discover how to get traffic. Make important partnerships with customers and partners with whom you have a working relationship and build thereafter. Regarding the association with new individuals, it is worth proceeding with caution. Standards on LinkedIn propose that people should only interact with people they definitely know. The focus should be on creating connections, not on storing a huge following that you have no idea about. In the event that your profile is vigorous and appears to be a competent expert on your subject, at that point you will end up being an asset and people will start looking for you to make partnerships.

Here are a couple of tips to targeted on LinkedIn traffic:

Completely complete your profile and incorporate links to your blog or site. Your profile is your initial introduction, so dazzle! You only have one chance for an initial presentation.

Join groups in your industry or specialty and participate in conversations. You can post news in your meetings that contain a connection to your site or blog.

Use prompts to illuminate your system about what you're really looking for, new tasks you're driving, and the next few occasions that would have some meaning with them.

Edit your profile function, which is the line below your name to enter your site address. Currently, when people are browsing the profile arrangements, your site address will be unmistakable and curious people will tap on it to perceive what your site is about.

4. Send personalized and targeted messages to users

Select among the destinations that accompany you for your crusade:

Site visits

Lead age

Site transformations

Characterize your intended interest group in the Audience area.

Build your intended interest group by choosing the focus on aspects. Become familiar with the focus on alternatives and the current focus on goal-based understanding.

To apply a previously saved approach to design, click the Saved Crowds drop-down menu in the Audience area.

You can apply Peer Audiences, allowing you to redirect site guests or transfer records or contact records. Get acquainted with matching audiences.

Select Message Promotion in the ad design area.

Message promotions and discussion announcements are charged at an expense for each shipping premise/cost per sample. Familiarize yourself with the types offered and the cost and valuation of the ads.

Measure the display of your advertising crusade with compromise measures. Better understand your audience with segment details.

5. Extract the emails and other data

The moment you exchange your association information with Extract email on Linkedin, you may see that some of your contact email addresses are missing. This is because we recently introduced a setting that gives LinkedIn people more power over their email address, as a guarantee to put our people first. The new setting for "Who can download your email" is set by default to the strongest protection option. People can decide to change this setting to allow their immediate associations to download their email address when those immediate associations require a download of information.

Currently, you cannot exchange a summary of your contacts that are not first-degree associations.

In case you submit your associations since you have a copy account, be sure to close your additional registration and import your association summary to another LinkedIn account. Make sure you have saved registration in an area you can discover, and then adhere to the guidelines for transferring contacts using a CSV document.

Set me symbol at the highest point on your LinkedIn home page.

Select Settings and Privacy from the dropdown menu.

Set the Privacy tab at the highest point on the page.

How LinkedIn uses your information segment section, click Change next to Download your information.

You will be redirected to the Download your information page, where you can choose Connections.

You will receive an email at your primary email address that will incorporate a connection where you can download your association summary.

6. Auto-respond and auto-reply to your messages

Automated assistants are email parts that allow people to demand information about their articles, organization data, and administrations. The devices address subtleties to the applicant in response to a clear email that they send to their email address.

Automated wizards are perfect and essential special devices in case you have a web-based advertising adventure. Not many people call them Autobot, eMailer, or mailbox. Whatever name you use to address them, they accordingly respond to incoming messages without human mediation.

Automatic assistants spend free time and you can use them for some purposes. They work every minute of every day if you use solid, high-quality suppliers. In this sense, in case you need to build traffic flow to your sites, automated assistants are the best bet.

Many people use automated assistants to reduce online guest data. For example, when people appear on a web page entered by an automated wizard, the page opens and displays a pop-up message asking people to fill in their names or email identifiers on that page of the website. The automated wizard stores these email identifiers.

Types of automatic responders:

The main type incorporates automated auxiliary administrations. These are based administrations that allow internet advertisers to send submission arrangements to an online guest, who has mentioned their item details via an electronic page present on their website or elsewhere. 

The benefit of this type is that you can configure it without much effort. Apart from this, they are solid and host-free, which implies that there is no need to access or organize the data of the guests. Rather, the devices carry out this responsibility for you.

7. Endorse your connections

LinkedIn has a cool new component that many uses. Perhaps this use is a direct result of its perceptibility, being regularly the main thing seen in a profile.

The supports allow you to easily perceive the skills and mastery of your system. In a brand, you can adopt their associations for a skill that they have recorded in their profile or suggest one that they have not included at this time. It's amazing to show proactive kindness and hug your associates, however, be sure to use it only for those you really subscribe to. This sounds self-evident, however, don't be overly decent and embrace someone's skills when you haven't seen evidence of experience.

Step by step instructions to adopt your associations:

At the highest point of an association's profile, you will see the supports prescribed for them. You can embrace the proposed skills, which originate from their profile or recommend additional skills.

The moment you hug someone, you receive a warning. The same applies in case someone supports you.

It is a simpler and quicker procedure than writing a suggestion for an association. These still have a place and are profoundly important in light of the fact that they are explicit and show that someone has put aside the effort to collect a few words about you.

With the element that prompts your system to embrace it, is it an opportunity to go back to the skills you have recorded and mend them?

Are your current skills recorded? Does the summary really incorporate skills or would you say they are increasingly similar to characteristics?

Use the skill territory to list the things you need to be known for: things that are part of your image, your business offering, or a range of skills as a representative.

Schedule for a profile survey this week. Ensure that your phrases are used throughout your profile, remembering your skills

8. Automatically like some specific posts

It is based on your monetary position what type of advertising or advance can support on LinkedIn. Be that as it may, towards the beginning of your blog, you will have to contribute as little as possible in the progress. Here are a couple of expert tips to get your blog moving free of cost or requiring little or no effort.

Receive new trends

You have two points to examine, one topic is in fashion and the other is an old story. It will switch to the most recent news or story as it carries some complementary points of interest along with accepting the latest updates. Currently, apply this circumstance to your guests.

Include a news section

The news is the latest, and the latest is the most necessary. Include a news segment on your blog. You can constantly update this segment or interact with your blog with an appropriate news site (deliberately or by paying them some cash).

Holding the audience

People love to talk. No one needs to become a silent audience or reader. Create systems to retain your audience so that your current guests become your guests without change. For this reason, you can create conversation threads along with comments, where people can associate with each other, have discussions, and offer their thoughts interest. 

9. Follow some targeted prospect

Here are some ideas on the best way to do it.

Have a place away from your target market. Who are your administrations for? Who do you manage to work with? This must be point by point and give those focused on the possibilities of a flood of recognition. It must be explicit enough that its ideal possibility relates to its representation.

Describe the problems you can address using a perspective-oriented language. After perceiving themselves in their target market, they will be in a hurry to see below a representation of the problems they are trying to solve. Consider it in this regard. They have been looking for an answer. They are exhausted in the search and potentially somewhat bewildered. They will light up with confidence when they see your description of the problem they need to understand. 

Make a description of what things might be like for them once they have your answer. This should be short but overflowing with rocking. What could they look for? What have you been waiting to have? What changes could they anticipate? At this point you have them salivating and needing to know more subtleties. 

Tell them what to do immediately. Direct them to the next page of your site. You have shaken his advantage and consideration. Try not to make them work to make sense of what's immediate. It sounds short-sighted but is regularly neglected as a hard copy of a site. Imagine how you feel when you go to a stranger's house. You do not need to be received and coordinated at the place you will visit with your host. 

Make sure your composition is short, clear, and moderately fast-paced. The ability to focus on it is famous for being short and volatile. A "wrong" word, a moderate sentence, or a confused idea is enough for guests to click off your site. Think of them as an annoying and rushed individual in a "store". 

10. Scrap the phone numbers of companies on Linkedin

Of course, LinkedIn allows customers to discover different people in their database by searching for their email addresses or phone number. By touching second-degree associations, your association's immediate associations ("Chaperones") will discover your profile using your email address or phone number.

Linkedin Search

The search on LinkedIn is more focused and will give you essential data of your possibility such as Name, Telephone number, Job title, Company name and URL of the LinkedIn profile. So you can reach your possibilities in a portable way with your advertising message.

Constant phone number extractor

RS Phone Prospector is exceptionally focused on extracting direct phone amounts from your latent capacity possibilities, such as versatile or work numbers. You just enter focused on the slogan and the area. That's the product that will end up making your list of focused phones.

Expansive search

The expansive search is only you can be separated directly from the web crawler phone numbers for any company or expert like real estate agents, developers, specialists, protection operators, exhibition consultants, specialists and much more according to your wish.

11. What is the Linkedin extension LinkHelp?

This increase is illuminated by another notice check at any point where you have a new move on LinkedIn. Touching the raised symbol is also a simple method of legitimately taking you to the LinkedIn site to see your new action.

LinkedIn is an amazing asset to the B2B lead era. In the event that your business offers to organizations, it is an incredible stage to be in. People on LinkedIn are not kidding, they don't like it at all on Facebook. LinkedIn presents an extraordinary open door for anyone looking for a contact, hiring someone, or making B2B sales.

a. How to use it?

To use magnification, you need a Nimble record. The expense is $ 15 / month, however, you can start with a free 14-day preliminary. When you enter the increase, log in. The moment you discover a possibility on LinkedIn, display the individual's name and Nimble will turn on live profile highlighting.

To introduce the Chrome extension from LinkedIn, it would be ideal if you follow these means

Open your Chrome browser on any PC

Explore the Chrome store. You will see a symbol for the Chrome store or you can search for it using Google

The moment you discover the Chrome Store, start a search for 'Exelare' in the Chrome Store search box

You will discover 2 accessible Exelare Extensions. One for candidates and one for contacts

Choose which extension to install and tap the capture '+ "or' Include 'to enter the expansion

In the event that you are prompted once again to affirm the establishment, click on 'either' or 'Include' to confirm

Another Exelare symbol will be entered in the upper right corner of the program window.

'Right click' on the Exelare symbol and select 'Options'

Another window will open allowing you to enter your Exelare login credentials (similar data you use to log into Exelare)

Enter your Exelare login ratings and click 'ok'. Now you could close the new tab.

Adjust Chrome settings button (upper right corner) and then select 'Settings' from the dropdown menu

Another window will open where you will see a search box

In the search box type "Downloads" in the box: this will generate a summary of results

At the bottom of the list items, there will be an option to 'Request to save each record before download'. Kindly ensure this is checked.

b. Does it worth its price?

Now you could start using the LinkedIn extension for Chrome! It would be ideal if you watch the video on the most competent method to use the LinkedIn Chrome extension.

Track costs on Amazon and Steam that you think are excessively expensive and get notified once they drop to a value you determine. This increase is never under dynamic advance again.

The moment you see an item that is currently more expensive than you are willing to pay, That is Worth allows you to enter a value that you think the item is worth, and then tells you if the value falls below that estimate.

Track costs on Amazon and Steam that you think are excessively expensive and find out once they drop to a value you indicate.

The moment you see an item that is now more expensive than you're willing to pay, that is worth allows you to determine a value you think the item is worth, and then tells you if the value falls below that estimate.

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Diagrams

UML 2 use case diagrams overview the usage requirements for a system. They are useful for presentations to management and/or project stakeholders, but for actual development you will find that use cases provide significantly more value because they describe 'the meat' of the actual requirements. Figure 1 provides an example of a UML 2 use case diagram.

Use case diagrams depict:

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Use cases. A use case describes a sequence of actions that provide something of measurable value to an actor and is drawn as a horizontal ellipse.

Actors. An actor is a person, organization, or external system that plays a role in one or more interactions with your system. Actors are drawn as stick figures.

Associations. Associations between actors and use cases are indicated in use case diagrams by solid lines. An association exists whenever an actor is involved with an interaction described by a use case. Associations are modeled as lines connecting use cases and actors to one another, with an optional arrowhead on one end of the line. The arrowhead is often used to indicating the direction of the initial invocation of the relationship or to indicate the primary actor within the use case. The arrowheads are typically confused with data flow and as a result I avoid their use.

System boundary boxes (optional). You can draw a rectangle around the use cases, called the system boundary box, to indicates the scope of your system. Anything within the box represents functionality that is in scope and anything outside the box is not. System boundary boxes are rarely used, although on occasion I have used them to identify which use cases will be delivered in each major release of a system. Figure 2 shows how this could be done.

Packages (optional). Packages are UML constructs that enable you to organize model elements (such as use cases) into groups. Packages are depicted as file folders and can be used on any of the UML diagrams, including both use case diagrams and class diagrams. I use packages only when my diagrams become unwieldy, which generally implies they cannot be printed on a single page, to organize a large diagram into smaller ones. Figure 3 depicts how Figure 1 could be reorganized with packages.

In the example depicted in Figure 1 students are enrolling in courses with the potential help of registrars. Professors input the marks students earn on assignments and registrars authorize the distribution of transcripts (report cards) to students. Note how for some use cases there is more than one actor involved. Moreover, note how some associations have arrowheads - any given use case association will have a zero or one arrowhead. The association between Student and Enroll in Seminar (in the version shown in Figure 4) indicates this use case is initially invoked by a student and not by a registrar (the Registrar actor is also involved with this use case). Understanding that associations don't represent flows of information is important; they merely indicate an actor is somehow involved with a use case. Information is flowing back and forth between the actor and the use case, for example, students would need to indicate which seminars they want to enroll in and the system would need to indicate to the students whether they have been enrolled. However, use case diagrams don't model this sort of information. Information flow can be modeled using UML activity diagrams. The line between the Enroll in Seminar use case and the Registrar actor has no arrowhead, indicating it is not clear how the interaction between the system and registrars start. Perhaps a registrar may notice a student needs help and offers assistance, whereas other times, the student may request help from the registrar, important information that would be documented in the description of the use case. Actors are always involved with at least one use case and are always drawn on the outside edges of a use case diagram.

Figure 2. Using System boundary boxes to indicate releases.

Figure 3. Applying packages to simplify use case diagrams.

Creating Use Case Diagrams

I like to start by identifying as many actors as possible. You should ask how the actors interact with the system to identify an initial set of use cases. Then, on the diagram, you connect the actors with the use cases with which they are involved. If an actor supplies information, initiates the use case, or receives any information as a result of the use case, then there should be an association between them. I generally don't include arrowheads on the association lines because my experience is that people confuse them for indications of information flow, not initial invocation. As I begin to notice similarities between use cases, or between actors, I start modeling the appropriate relationships between them (see the Reuse Opportunities section).

The preceding paragraph describes my general use case modeling style, an 'actors first' approach. Others like to start by identifying one actor and the use cases that they're involved with first and then evolve the model from there. Both approaches work. The important point is that different people take different approaches so you need to be flexible when you're following AM's practice of Model With Others.

Reuse Opportunities

Figure 4 shows the three types of relationships between use cases -- extends, includes, and inheritance -- as well as inheritance between actors. I like to think of extend relationships as the equivalent of a 'hardware interrupt' because you don't know when or if the extending use case will be invoked (perhaps a better way to look at this is extending use cases are conditional). Include relationships as the equivalent of a procedure call. Inheritance is applied in the same way as you would on UML class diagrams -- to model specialization of use cases or actors in this case. The essay Reuse in Use Case Models describes these relationships in greater detail.

Remaining Agile

So how can you keep use case modeling agile? First, focus on keeping it as simple as possible. Use simple, flexible tools to model with. I'll typically create use case diagrams on a whiteboard, as you see in Figure 5 which is an example of an initial diagram that I would draw with my project stakeholders. AM tells us that Content is More Important Than Representation so it isn't a big issue that the diagram is hand drawn, it's just barely good enough and that's all that we need. It's also perfectly okay that the diagram isn't complete, there's clearly more to a university than what is depicted, because we can always modify the diagram as we need to.

In parallel to creating the sketch I would also write a very brief description of each use case, often on a whiteboard as well. The goal is to record just enough information about the use case so that we understand what it is all about. If we need more details we can always add them later either as an essential/business use case or a system use case. https://extraload977.tumblr.com/post/657340998419169280/space-falcon-reloaded.

Source

This artifact description is excerpted from Chapter 5 of The Object Primer 3rd Edition: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2.

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Disclaimer

The notation used in these diagrams, particularly the hand drawn ones, may not conform perfectly to the current version of the UML for one or more of reasons:

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The notation may have evolved from when I originally developed the diagrams. The UML evolves over time, and I may not have kept the diagrams up to date.

I may have gotten it wrong in the first place. Although these diagrams were thoroughly reviewed for the book, and have been reviewed by thousands of people online since then, an error may have gotten past of us. We're only human.

I may have chosen to apply the notation in 'non-standard' ways. An agile modeler is more interested in created models which communicate effectively than in conforming to notation rules set by a committee.

Diagrams Examples

If you're really concerned about the nuances of 'official' UML notation then read the current version of the UML specification.

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What Sports Can Teach Us About cbd öl

The recognition of clinical cannabis is soaring, and amid the many goods shoppers are seeking are CBD, or cannabis oils.

A wealth of selling content, weblogs and anecdotes declare that CBD oils can remedy no matter what ails you, even cancer. Although the restricted investigation does not suggest that cannabis oil should take the place of regular medication, aside from in two quite scarce sorts of epilepsy (and also then, It is really recommended only as a last-vacation resort cure). And, authorities warning that mainly https://cbdbro.ch because CBD oil and other cannabis-dependent products and solutions are not controlled or tested for protection by the government or any 3rd-party company, It can be tricky for customers to understand just what exactly they're having.

What on earth is CBD?

Simply put, cannabis oil would be the concentrated liquid extract of the cannabis plant, Cannabis sativa.

Just like other herbal extracts, the chemical substances in cannabis oils change depending on how the extract is manufactured and what chemical compounds have been inside the plant to start with.

Cannabis vegetation deliver A large number of compounds but the most effectively recognized belong to a class identified as cannabinoids. There are numerous cannabinoids but The 2 which have been most properly-known among the people are THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol).

THC is the principal psychoactive compound in cannabis and it is what persons are hunting for if they want a product that gives them a "superior." Compared with THC, CBD is not acknowledged to bring about psychoactive effects, and it is thus desirable to People who want to stay away from the superior but who believe you will find other benefits of CBD, stated Sara Ward, a pharmacologist at Temple University in Philadelphia. [Therapeutic Herb? Marijuana Could Treat These 5 Conditions]

CBD items that Will not include THC slide outside the house the scope from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Company's (DEA) Controlled Substances Act, which means CBD products and solutions are lawful to promote and consume as long as they do not have THC. Which is very likely one of The explanations why CBD merchandise, together with CBD oil, are getting to be a lot more socially suitable and progressively common. In 2016, Forbes claimed that CBD goods are predicted to generally be a $2.2 billion field by 2020.

How are CBD oils eaten?

The physiological consequences of cannabinoids can vary broadly from Individual to individual, and in addition depend upon how they're consumed. That lack of predictability is amongst the reasons why cannabis oil is usually a difficult candidate for producing right into a medication, Ward explained to Live Science.

"Two folks might consume a brownie [made with cannabis oil] and a single may absorb enormous quantities of cannabinoids and one other may not," Ward explained. "How much time it will take to work and how long it stays inside the method differs considerably."

It can be somewhat more uniform when the product or service is absorbed by using tobacco or vaping the oil, Ward reported. But, "you can find clear considerations about smoking cigarettes one thing." A 2007 critique printed inside the journal JAMA Interior Medication observed that cigarette smoking cannabis resulted in identical declines in respiratory technique well being as smoking tobacco. The same evaluation posted in 2014 during the American Journal of Cardiology identified that cannabis smoke inhalation can maximize the probability of heart attack or stroke. Neither overview analyzed the effects of vaping cannabis oil by yourself, so It is unclear if it's precisely the same health threats as smoking cigarettes other cannabis merchandise.

Why do people use cannabis oil?

Persons claim that cannabis oil may be used to take care of a wide array of disorders, even though evidence to back up these statements is usually missing. As an example, according to Medical News Now, folks use cannabis oil for disorders starting from ache to acne; some even assert the oil can cure ailments like Alzheimer's and cancer. (But again, there isn't a scientific evidence to aid these statements.)

An evaluation revealed in 2017 within the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology described how CBD may go to shield the hippocampus — the Section of the brain chargeable for several essential features, which include learning, memory and navigation — through times of pressure, and may also enable avert brain-mobile destruction that outcomes from schizophrenia. A different 2017 review posted within the journal Annals of Palliative Drugs summarized a handful of studies that advise cannabis oils containing THC or CBD, or each, may help with chronic discomfort administration, but the mechanism is unclear.

Cannabis remedy in those with sure varieties of epilepsy continues to be a lot more promising. The sole FDA-authorized cannabis-based mostly drug is Epidiolex, a CBD oral solution for treating two exceptional and serious types of epilepsy. A the latest medical trial identified that Epidiolex reduced convulsive seizures by fifty% in youngsters with Dravet syndrome, a variety of epilepsy, MedPage Today claimed.

CBD is actually a chemical extracted from the Cannabis plant.

CBD is a chemical extracted within the Cannabis plant.

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Why health care industry experts are hesitant about CBD

It is important to know that the analysis Within this spot is in its infancy, partly for the reason that we haven't genuinely recognized Considerably about CBD until fairly lately," claimed Marcel Bonn-Miller, an adjunct assistant professor within the College of Pennsylvania Perelman Faculty of Medicine. He identified which the classification of cannabis to be a Schedule one drug with the DEA can make it tricky to get content to make use of in laboratory research. Timetable 1 medicine Possess a substantial likely for abuse, in accordance with the DEA, and are illegal underneath federal regulation.

For that reason classification, It really is challenging for researchers to have their arms on the drug. "That is not to say you can't get it done, but you'll find hoops you'll want to jump by which might be a soreness, which can prevent researchers from likely into this Area," Bonn-Miller explained. "Fairly Talking, It really is a little group of individuals during the U.S. that do investigate on cannabinoids in individuals."

Having said that, Bonn-Miller explained to Stay Science that he thinks cannabis analysis is to the upswing. "If we flash ahead 5 years I do think you will see more studies," he reported. All those scientific tests could expose more disorders that CBD can be beneficial for and might also expose that several of the reasons why men and women say they use CBD oil are usually not supported from the science but are alternatively a placebo effect. "And that is why we must do the studies," he said.

The Negative effects and threats associated with consuming cannabis-based mostly goods aren't clear, possibly, Bonn-Miller said. It's important to "ascertain cannabinoids which are valuable therapeutically although being familiar with and making use of cannabinoids which have been related to considerably less chance," he explained. A minimum of with CBD, he stated, it won't appear to provide the likely for dependancy. Which is unique from THC, that has been affiliated with dependancy, he explained, and detrimental Unwanted side effects, including acute stress.

What buyers need to know

The two Bonn-Miller and Ward anxiety that It really is around The customer to become nicely-educated about the fabric They are getting and the exploration that is around. "The businesses that happen to be making [cannabis oils] are providing a lot of promises about its use that aren't necessarily substantiated by any investigate," Bonn-Miller stated. So "I believe there ought to be, from a consumer standpoint, many vigilance," he extra.

As well as the goods to the shelf aren't all exactly the same, Ward said. "There is often lots of, many different versions, and in case you are serious about performing this for healthcare good reasons, you want to discover a trustworthy resource and do your investigate," she said. "Wherever does that oil come from, And exactly how self-assured can you be that you recognize the exact percentages of the different cannabinoids from the product or service?"

Bonn-Miller also defined that It is really very important to exhaust the traditional and recognized entrance-line therapies that are available in advance of trying to get out these goods. "CBD is not really a primary-line remedy for nearly anything," he reported. "You don’t want predicaments in which somebody states, 'I have cancer I'll forgo chemotherapy due to the fact I examine something about CBD or THC serving to with cancer.'" That's not a good suggestion, Bonn-Miller explained. "Don't just may be the science not there, however , you may finish up worse off."|/Though Many of us use cannabidiol to relieve suffering, more scientific investigate is needed To make certain it truly is Safe and sound. Comprehension cannabidiol might help get over the stigma connected to it.

A lot of people working experience Unwanted side effects when getting cannabidiol (CBD) and there are actually other factors to think about ahead of working with CBD oil for discomfort.

In the following paragraphs, we look at how CBD oil functions And the way folks can utilize it To alleviate Persistent suffering.

Outcomes

CBD oil in a very bottle, close to a wooden spoon stuffed with hemp seeds.

CBD oil is usually extracted from industrial hemp.

CBD is among in excess of a hundred and twenty compounds called cannabinoids.

Several plants consist of cannabinoids, but persons most often backlink them to cannabis.

Compared with other cannabinoids — like tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — CBD doesn't create a euphoric "superior" or psychoactive effect. It is because CBD doesn't have an affect on exactly the same receptors as THC.

The human system has an endocannabinoid technique (ECS) that gets and translates alerts from cannabinoids. It produces some cannabinoids of its personal, that happen to be identified as endocannabinoids. The ECS allows to regulate capabilities for example snooze, immune-method responses, and ache.

When THC enters your body, it generates a "higher" emotion by influencing the brain's endocannabinoid receptors. This activates the Mind's reward process, making enjoyment chemical substances which include dopamine.

Does CBD cause you to substantial?

CBD is a completely various compound from THC, and its effects are incredibly complex. It is far from psychoactive, meaning it doesn't produce a "large" or change an individual's point out of intellect, nevertheless it influences the body to work with its possess endocannabinoids extra efficiently.

In line with a person study posted to Neurotherapeutics, this is because CBD by itself does hardly any to the ECS. In its place, it activates or inhibits other compounds from the endocannabinoid program.

One example is, CBD stops your body from absorbing anandamide, a compound connected to regulating discomfort. So, enhanced levels of anandamide from the bloodstream might lower the quantity of discomfort anyone feels.

Cannabidiol can also Restrict inflammation from the Mind and nervous process, which may reward people today suffering from agony, insomnia, and sure immune-program responses.

What is CBD oil?

There are actually unique levels of compounds located in the all-natural hemp or cannabis plant. How persons breed the plant influences the CBD stages. Most CBD oil arises from industrial hemp, which normally has an increased CBD content material than marijuana.

Makers of CBD oil use various ways to extract the compound. The extract is then included to your carrier oil and identified as CBD oil.

CBD oil is available in many different strengths, and people use it in various methods. It's best to discuss CBD oil with a physician right before making use of it.

Advantages

People have utilized CBD customarily useful for A huge number of many years to deal with various types of suffering, however the medical Group have only not long ago started to check it again.

Here are several of your achievable benefits of CBD oil:

Arthritis discomfort

Aged man's hand, one particular hand Keeping the thumb of the other on account of arthritis ache.

CBD oil is well-known for easing pain connected to arthritis.

A research in the European Journal of Ache made use of an animal design to find out if CBD could assistance individuals with arthritis handle their discomfort. Scientists used a topical gel made up of CBD to rats with arthritis for 4 days.

Their researchers Observe an important drop in inflammation and indications of pain, without extra Unintended effects.

Folks applying CBD oil for arthritis might uncover relief from their suffering, but far more human reports must be accomplished to substantiate these conclusions.

Several sclerosis

A number of sclerosis (MS) is surely an autoimmune disorder that influences the whole physique in the nerves and Mind.

Muscle spasms are Probably the most frequent signs or symptoms of MS. These spasms is usually so terrific they lead to continuous discomfort in a lot of people.

A single report uncovered that quick-expression utilization of CBD oil could reduce the levels of spasticity someone feels. The outcomes are modest, but Many individuals claimed a reduction in signs and symptoms. A lot more research on individuals are needed to confirm these benefits.

Chronic suffering

A similar report researched CBD use for common Persistent suffering. Scientists compiled the effects of multiple systematic assessments masking dozens of trials and scientific studies. Their analysis concluded that there's significant proof that cannabis is a successful procedure for Serious soreness in Grownups.

A individual review within the Journal of Experimental Drugs supports these results. This investigate implies that making use of CBD can cut down soreness and inflammation.

The researchers also observed that subjects were being unlikely to develop up a tolerance to the effects of CBD, so they'd not will need to increase their dose regularly.

They famous that cannabinoids, including CBD, could present valuable new solutions for individuals with chronic ache.

Other takes advantage of

In The us, CBD oil has various legality throughout unique states and in a federal level, nonetheless it at present has a range of purposes and promising possibilities.

These incorporate:

smoking cessation and drug withdrawal

treating seizures and epilepsy

stress cure

decreasing a lot of the consequences of Alzheimer's, as shown by Original analysis

antipsychotic effects on individuals with schizophrenia

future programs in combating acne, sort one diabetes, and cancer

Though additional investigate is required to verify some takes advantage of of CBD oil, it is actually shaping up as being a likely promising and adaptable cure.

In June 2018, the U.S. Food items and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized one form of CBD for a therapy for people with two rare and unique sorts of epilepsy, particularly Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) or Dravet syndrome (DS).

The brand title of this drug is Epidiolex.

Dosage

The FDA won't regulate CBD for many ailments. Due to this fact, dosages are at this time open to interpretation, and people should really deal with them with caution.

Anybody who wishes to employ CBD really should to start with talk to a health care provider about whether it is a good idea, and exactly how much to consider.

The FDA lately accepted a purified type of CBD for some kinds of epilepsy, Together with the brand name identify Epidiolex. When you are employing this medication, be sure you Adhere to the medical professional's assistance about doses.

Negative effects

Drained businessman at desk rubbing eyes, because of headache and exhaustion.

Achievable limited-phrase Uncomfortable side effects of working with CBD oil include fatigue and modifications in appetite.

Plenty of people tolerate CBD oil effectively, but there are numerous doable side effects.

According to an evaluation in Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, the commonest Unwanted side effects incorporate:

tiredness

diarrhea

adjustments in hunger

body weight gain or fat loss

Also, using CBD oil with other medicines might make those medicines more or less powerful.

The overview also notes that experts have but to check some facets of CBD, for instance its lengthy-time period consequences on hormones. Additional extended-phrase studies are going to be beneficial in analyzing any side effects CBD has on the human body after a while.

People that are looking at making use of CBD oil need to focus on this with their Medical doctors. Physicians will want to observe the individual for virtually any changes and make adjustments appropriately.

The patient info leaflet for Epidiolex cautions that there is a danger of liver problems, lethargy, And maybe melancholy and thoughts of suicide, but these are genuine of other treatment options for epilepsy, way too.

CBD along with other cannabinoids may additionally put the person in danger for lung troubles.

One examine in Frontiers in Pharmacology, instructed cannabinoids' anti-inflammatory outcome may perhaps decrease inflammation an excessive amount of.

A substantial reduction in inflammation could diminish the lungs' protection system, expanding the chance of infection.

Other criteria

Almost all exploration on CBD oil and discomfort emanates from Grownup trials. Experts never advise CBD oil for use in young children, as There's minimal investigate on the effects of CBD oil on the Kid's developing brain.

Individuals must consult with a health care provider should they think a baby ought to use CBD oil for seizures.

CBD oil is also not suggested during pregnancy or although breast-feeding.

Takeaway

Whilst quite a few reports have proposed CBD oil is helpful for soreness, a lot more analysis is necessary, particularly in prolonged-expression research with human subjects.

On the other hand, CBD oil does clearly show plenty of potential for pain aid. Anecdotal evidence implies that it can be used that can help manage Persistent pain in many situations.

CBD oil is very promising due to its deficiency of intoxicating results and also a achievable decrease prospective for Unwanted side effects than a number of other agony medicines.

Men and women should really examine CBD oil with their health practitioner if they are thinking about making use of it for The very first time.

CBD oil is accessible for obtain on line.

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Geminii Review + Upto 50% Discount + OTO/Upsell Info+ BEST Bonuses

Are you searching for more knowledge about Geminii? Please read through my Geminii Review before selecting it, to evaluate the weakness and strengths of it.

In this Geminii Review, I’ll cover what it is, who is it for, how much it costs, discounts, Pros & Cons, what special bonuses you’ll get and what are the upsells or OTOs, so you can make a more informed decision about purchasing it it’s right for you.

Introduction

Every marketer knows you need to create lists and promote them to make a serious revenue online.

Would you care who else knows? The companies that have the tools that you need to do it.

Autoresponders can cost you $49 to over $299 a month. Page building and hosting apps can cost well over $100 a month.

$1000 a year in fees generates a big chunk of income.

In the sector, you get a robust autoresponder designed by experts from the ground up. A powerful creator of a landing page, with templates and hosting.

Those alone are saving you $100 a month. Yet you get more.

A collection of email conversion tools to make your promo income skyrocket. And full traffic training from a 7-figure marketer, namely on how to expand your FAST lists.

This is one of those rare ‘double wins’ A program that blasts both your profits, and slashes your prices.

If something it interests to you, stick with me during this “Geminii Review” on this page today to see how it helps your business.

Geminii Review – Quick Overview

Product NameGeminiiProduct CreatorJono Armstrong & ZeeshanLaunch Date & Time2020-June-01, 09:00 AM EDTPrice Range$27.95BonusYes, HQ Best BonusesRefund 30-Day Money Back GuaranteeOfficial sitehttps://geminii.info/goProduct TypeSoftwareTrainingIncludedCustomer SupportGoodSkillsAll levelsRecommendedHighly Recommended!

What Is Called Geminii?

Geminii is a new 3-in one email marketing platform that helps anyone to profit from their email leads without any monthly subscription.

Lead Generation: Squeeze page software with stunning templates and included hosting

Email Marketing: Custom cloud-based autoresponder sends unlimited promos to unlimited subscribers

Traffic & Conversions: Powerful email conversion toolkit to skyrocket clicks plus step by step proven traffic method

You get everything, including unlimited use of the software, for a one-time fee of just $27.95, which is hundreds to thousands of real world savings on similar tools on the market every year.

Geminii is this year’s most exciting all-inclusive profit platform to come out. You’ll be able to create traffic lists on demand easier than ever before and end up enjoying ‘lazy day money’ just by pressing send.

Who Is Behind This Creation?

Geminii is created by Jono Amstrong and Zeeshan Ahmed.

When you’ve been on IM for long enough, you’ll see their names totally on several sites. Many multiple-figure launches have built the guys their fame.

Jono is a big name in online marketing. In fact, he and Brendan help many people with their co-operated products, some of which are of high quality: Equinox, Stealthd, Incognito, Aurora, Traffic Laze, The Clones, El Bandito, Bang Bang Profits, Cash Magnets, and Ignition etc. They’ve teamed up with Zeeshan in their latest launch to introduce you all to a hidden and exclusive tool that will amaze you with its important details. Move to see what they are on next part. I really appreciate Zeeshan for creating wonderful products for the marketers.

Problems of a Email Marketing Beginner

If you’ve tried or struggled to build a list, and make money from it, you know how frustrating it can be.

⇒ Learning Complex Page Builder Softwares

⇒ Paying Huge Monthly Fees For Autoresponders

⇒ Throwing Thousands Of Dollars Into Expensive Fb Traffic

⇒ Staying Up Nights Studying Email Marketing

⇒ Sending Promo Emails And Not Making A Dime

⇒ Constantly Troubleshooting When Things Break Down

It’s The Worst Feeling In The World:

⇒ You Spend Thousands On Softwares, Traffic And Training.

⇒ You Invest Months Of Time, Sacrificing Sleep & Sanity.

⇒ Then Barely Make A Sale When You Promote.

That’s What Happened To Me Early On.

Features & Benefits of Geminii

[+] Squeeze Page Software With Templates And Hosting

The powerful squeeze page creator of Geminii is converting as much of your traffic as possible into subscribers.

Customize 2 customized designs for the lead page, or make your own from scratch.

Save $100s per year, and optimize conversions for ultra-fast page loading with BUILT IN hosting.

[+] Unlimited Use AutoResponder With NO Monthly Fees

Easily send endless promo emails with geminii ‘s powerful autoresponder to unlimited subscribers.

Developed by a leading expert in autoresponder software, it is designed to optimize your delivery rates without any hassle.

Benefit from seamless integration with your geminii squeeze pages to synchronize your leads quickly into your lists.

All while saving thousands of annual fees that other autoresponders would charge.

[+] Industry-Leading Email Conversion Technologies

Using these built-in email conversion tools to unlock the highest converting marketing messages of your life.

To skyrocket your results, include countdown timers, scarcity bars and clickable buy buttons inside your e-mails.

Typically these validated methods used by top email marketers cost hundreds or more, and could be setting up technical nightmares.

They ‘re point & click easily with geminii, and cut the time it takes to write emails because they’re doing the sale for you, literally.

[+] Convert Maximum

Working together, glitch-free, every aspect of your marketing system on list.

Traffic to your landing pages is optimized with Geminii. Your landing pages are turning full traffic into subscribers.

Subscribers are added to your autoresponder which is included.

Where the conversion tools incorporated allow you to send more messages

That gets opened, clicks on it, and you get paid.

Gemini Real User Reviews & Opinions

Geminii Review – Pros and Cons

Pros:

[+] Step-by-step, No Stones Unturned Over-the-shoulder Training

[+] Customized Specifically To Explode Your List Using The Geminii Softwares

[+] Perfect For Both Complete Beginners And Experienced List Builders Looking To Scale To The Next Level

[+] Traffic On Demand, Faster And More Effective Than You’d Ever Get From Facebook

[+] Done-for-you Squeeze Pages Optimized To Explode Your List Fast

[+] Top-converting Emails That Practically Write Themselves With The Included Plug & Play Conversion Boosters

[+] Without Technical Hassles: The Custom Tools Inside Work Together, Right Out Of The Box

[+] Say Goodbye To Guesswork: This All-in-one Platform Systemizes Everything From Lead Generation To Email To Profit

[+] Forget Struggling For Traffic: You Get My Favorite Traffic Method For Growing Your Lists Fast, As Large As You Like!

Cons:

[+] Up to now there ate cons.

Geminii vs Other Tools – Comparison

Compare Geminii to the rest and it’s a no-brainer. Consider the average cost of the essential tools you need to profit from list building: without geminii, you’d pay around $273 – $374 per month, plus an upfront investment in traffic training.

Geminii Review – My Final Thoughts

The money is and always will be in the list, “59% of people say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions” and “99% of consumers check their email every day”.

List marketing pays an average of $40 per $1 in for ever. With a wired slot machine, you can’t do any better. It’s the most powerful way you’ll ever find online to make money.

Since your list is your own on-demand private traffic source. And no other single medium in the world has greater scope than email: it’s used by more than half the earth.

For optimization, social media, video, messenger, SMS & push marketing combined doesn’t reach email. How did you arrive today at this page?

Potential big money or big time problems? Most people who try to create list & email marketing fail miserably, as simple as it sounds.

Because you need more than just the right parts … you need those parts to synch together perfectly.

[+] The right traffic

[+] The right landing page software

[+] The right email delivery software aka autoresponder

Yet most people never know the one thing … They desperately need:

Conversion tools that convert your promo messages to cash on request.

For all these lists building essential elements working together, you risk constantly competing for traffic, never getting a fully competitive list, finally giving up on your online dreams.

What ‘push button profits’ actually look like if you have an ever-growing subscriber list …

And the most effective tools for promoting them … Profits will only be yours by clicking the Send button. Picture your “job” in sending one email over coffee in the morning. Then, after having enjoyed your day doing whatever you want … Going back and finding hundreds , even thousands of dollars in your account.

If that sounds amazing, then you see exactly the right deal.

Geminii OTO/Upsell/Funnel/Upgrade Details

Geminii Main Offer – FE ($27.95 Onetime)

Geminii was created to deliver immense value on the front end and will give any newbie access to the three most important tools that everyone needs when they start their online business. These three basic resources are also included in the one-time price only, which otherwise would cost you individual monthly fees.

The applications include:

(1). Easy cloud based autoresponder that allows users to continue with the highly successful business model of email marketing. Apps include uploading your customer lists via. Csv, sending out unlimited email newsletters

(2). The geminii email marketing tool box; using timers, scarcity bars to increase your click levels and buy buttons “inside” your emails

(3). Squeeze page creator with 2 customizable templates fully hosted by us with the option to download all leads generated.

Zeeshan training will show you how each app functions, and Jono will show you how all the apps fit together, and how you can start driving traffic to your pages using Bing ads.

Geminii OTO 1: Pro Version ($47 Onetime)

Unlimited all-while the FE is limited to 2 squeeze pages and only 3 email toolbox features, this upgrade gives you access to an additional 4 squeeze page templates plus all toolbox features including:

[+] Clickable Giff Videos Inside Your Emails [+] Personalized Images [+] Self Interacting Elements Like “yes / No” Buttons [+] User Feedback Satisfaction Buttons [+] Q&a’s [+] Polls [+] Social Media Buttons [+] Google Map Graphics

And many more features that will increase your clicks and sales.

Geminii OTO 2: Advanced Traffic Training ($67 Onetime)

Jono will show you how to use the google display network and gmail ads to get insane traffic from adwords … It’s like getting into people’s email inboxes without even having an auto-responder.

Geminii OTO 3: DFY Campaigns ($97 Onetime)

X7 “tested” high converting campaigns from jono’s series of personal campaigns that collectively made more than $50,000. These cover:

[+] Email Swipes [+] Bonus Pages + Bonuses [+] Review Videos

Geminii OTO 4: High Ticket DFY Funnel + Limitless Traffic ($197 Onetime)

Again a huge value here. By putting pixels on our sales pages for the next 365 days, users get direct access to the jonos adwords public. Not stopping there …. They also get access to the personal ads library of jonos plus access to the personal auto-webinar funnel of jonos (complete with emails, follow up emails and retargeting). Simply use the ads of jono to send the penny clicks to the jonos audience and cash in ($880 / sale).

Geminii OTO 5: Resellers License + Developers License ($197 Onetime)

Combined rights of the software developers and resell rights. Users will train their own va with developer permissions to access their software, and take responsibility for their campaigns. Buyers of this up-sell can also sell geminii as if it were their own product and take 100 percent commissions from the whole funnel with them.

Geminii Discount Details

When you scroll down to the bottom of all main upgrades, you will see this message something like “No, I don’t Want This Offer”. You have to click that link to see the Geminii’s discounted upgrade offer pages that are mentioned below.

Geminii Bonuses

Geminii is all about email marketing stuff. I am here offering some best bonuses that will definitely help you get best results for your business.

Note: These are my custom bonuses for “Geminii” You can’t find these bonuses anywhere else on the internet. I hope my bonuses will help you get best results with this product.

GRAB ALL MY 3 BONUS PACKAGES FOR FREE!

GEMINII BEST BONUS PACKAGE #1

👉CLICK HERE TO SEE MY FIRST BONUS PACKAGE

GEMINII BEST BONUS PACKAGE #2

👉CLICK HERE TO SEE MY SECOND BONUS PACKAGE

GEMINII BEST BONUS PACKAGE #3

👉CLICK HERE TO SEE MY THIRD BONUS PACKAGE

How To Get My Geminii Bonuses?

STEP 1:

Click On Any One Of The Buttons Advertised On This Page And It Will Go To The Geminii Official Sales Page.

STEP 2:

Order The Product

STEP 3:

Forward Your Purchase Receipt To Our Mail Id: ([email protected])

Please Note: The above mentioned are my exclusive bonuses to get best results using Geminii. If you like my bonuses, you can purchase Geminii via my link. After that, send me you purchase receipt to below email id. You will get your bonuses within 12 hours.([email protected])

[+] VENDOR GIVEN BONUSES

BONUS #1: 2500 Swipes

Handing you over a massive collection of 2500 profit-producing, click getting emails you can adapt, tweak and alter for your own email or even email follow-up sequences.

BONUS #2: 30 Lead Magnets

 Get your hands on our 30 best lead magnets that will help you convert leads like crazy.

BONUS #3: Underground List Building Traffic Source

 Get started with list building right now, even if you’re a complete newbie with no technical skills (this method is so simple, you’ll be blown away.

Conclusion

Although the extremely low one-time price does make this a no-brainer already. You ought to feel absolutely confident about your decision. And you get to try out Geminii for a full 30 days. Put the autoresponder through their paces, and squeeze the page creator. Use the toolkit on email conversion to boost results from any message you send. Unleash solid rock traffic using the 7-figure method proved by jono. If you do not find this to be the best list marketing system you’ve ever seen in the highly unlikely event, we insist you’ll contact us for a refund within 30 days.

If it’s a technical issue or question their friendly support team will get you up and running as quickly as possible. But if you’re not really crazy about it, then your money back. So either you love Geminii or it’s not costing you a penny. There’s no way you can lose by picking it up today.

Geminii F.A.Q.

What makes Geminii different and better than other list building softwares?

Geminii provides all the premium resources you need to build lists, and make a profit. You usually have to “Put together” various elements for other items, such as autoresponders, page builders, email software, and traffic … Which also means $100s of per month dollars. For geminii, you get full access to everything for one low price.

Will I need to download any of the softwares? Will they work on my Mac?

No and oh! All the software included is cloud-based, and there is nothing to install and operate on any operating platform. Easy & direct, right out of the box.

I’m a complete beginner. Will this work for me?

YES, all you do is clearly follow the step-by – step instructions. We have been working incredibly hard to make this the planet’s most beginner-friendly list marketing program. And if you ever have a problem there is world-class support to help.

How much time does this take?

This varies according to individual effort and previous experience. But several beta testers reported positive list building campaigns that would run within an hour of their first login. It takes about 15 minutes to send out a regular promo email from there.

source https://spsreviews.com/geminii-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geminii-review from SPS Reviews https://spsreviewscom1.blogspot.com/2020/06/geminii-review-upto-50-discount.html

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Geminii Review + Upto 50% Discount + OTO/Upsell Info+ BEST Bonuses

Are you searching for more knowledge about Geminii? Please read through my Geminii Review before selecting it, to evaluate the weakness and strengths of it.

In this Geminii Review, I’ll cover what it is, who is it for, how much it costs, discounts, Pros & Cons, what special bonuses you’ll get and what are the upsells or OTOs, so you can make a more informed decision about purchasing it it’s right for you.

Introduction

Every marketer knows you need to create lists and promote them to make a serious revenue online.

Would you care who else knows? The companies that have the tools that you need to do it.

Autoresponders can cost you $49 to over $299 a month. Page building and hosting apps can cost well over $100 a month.

$1000 a year in fees generates a big chunk of income.

In the sector, you get a robust autoresponder designed by experts from the ground up. A powerful creator of a landing page, with templates and hosting.

Those alone are saving you $100 a month. Yet you get more.

A collection of email conversion tools to make your promo income skyrocket. And full traffic training from a 7-figure marketer, namely on how to expand your FAST lists.

This is one of those rare ‘double wins’ A program that blasts both your profits, and slashes your prices.

If something it interests to you, stick with me during this “Geminii Review” on this page today to see how it helps your business.

Geminii Review – Quick Overview

Product Name Geminii Product Creator Jono Armstrong & Zeeshan Launch Date & Time 2020-June-01, 09:00 AM EDT Price Range $27.95 Bonus Yes, HQ Best Bonuses Refund  30-Day Money Back Guarantee Official site https://geminii.info/go Product Type Software Training Included Customer Support Good Skills All levels Recommended Highly Recommended!

What Is Called Geminii?

Geminii is a new 3-in one email marketing platform that helps anyone to profit from their email leads without any monthly subscription.

Lead Generation: Squeeze page software with stunning templates and included hosting

Email Marketing: Custom cloud-based autoresponder sends unlimited promos to unlimited subscribers

Traffic & Conversions: Powerful email conversion toolkit to skyrocket clicks plus step by step proven traffic method

You get everything, including unlimited use of the software, for a one-time fee of just $27.95, which is hundreds to thousands of real world savings on similar tools on the market every year.

Geminii is this year’s most exciting all-inclusive profit platform to come out. You’ll be able to create traffic lists on demand easier than ever before and end up enjoying ‘lazy day money’ just by pressing send.

Who Is Behind This Creation?

Geminii is created by Jono Amstrong and Zeeshan Ahmed.

When you’ve been on IM for long enough, you’ll see their names totally on several sites. Many multiple-figure launches have built the guys their fame.

Jono is a big name in online marketing. In fact, he and Brendan help many people with their co-operated products, some of which are of high quality: Equinox, Stealthd, Incognito, Aurora, Traffic Laze, The Clones, El Bandito, Bang Bang Profits, Cash Magnets, and Ignition etc. They’ve teamed up with Zeeshan in their latest launch to introduce you all to a hidden and exclusive tool that will amaze you with its important details. Move to see what they are on next part. I really appreciate Zeeshan for creating wonderful products for the marketers.

Problems of a Email Marketing Beginner

If you’ve tried or struggled to build a list, and make money from it, you know how frustrating it can be.

⇒ Learning Complex Page Builder Softwares

⇒ Paying Huge Monthly Fees For Autoresponders

⇒ Throwing Thousands Of Dollars Into Expensive Fb Traffic

⇒ Staying Up Nights Studying Email Marketing

⇒ Sending Promo Emails And Not Making A Dime

⇒ Constantly Troubleshooting When Things Break Down

It’s The Worst Feeling In The World:

⇒ You Spend Thousands On Softwares, Traffic And Training.

⇒ You Invest Months Of Time, Sacrificing Sleep & Sanity.

⇒ Then Barely Make A Sale When You Promote.

That’s What Happened To Me Early On.

Features & Benefits of Geminii

[+] Squeeze Page Software With Templates And Hosting

The powerful squeeze page creator of Geminii is converting as much of your traffic as possible into subscribers.

Customize 2 customized designs for the lead page, or make your own from scratch.

Save $100s per year, and optimize conversions for ultra-fast page loading with BUILT IN hosting.

[+] Unlimited Use AutoResponder With NO Monthly Fees

Easily send endless promo emails with geminii ‘s powerful autoresponder to unlimited subscribers.

Developed by a leading expert in autoresponder software, it is designed to optimize your delivery rates without any hassle.

Benefit from seamless integration with your geminii squeeze pages to synchronize your leads quickly into your lists.

All while saving thousands of annual fees that other autoresponders would charge.

[+] Industry-Leading Email Conversion Technologies

Using these built-in email conversion tools to unlock the highest converting marketing messages of your life.

To skyrocket your results, include countdown timers, scarcity bars and clickable buy buttons inside your e-mails.

Typically these validated methods used by top email marketers cost hundreds or more, and could be setting up technical nightmares.

They ‘re point & click easily with geminii, and cut the time it takes to write emails because they’re doing the sale for you, literally.

[+] Convert Maximum

Working together, glitch-free, every aspect of your marketing system on list.

Traffic to your landing pages is optimized with Geminii. Your landing pages are turning full traffic into subscribers.

Subscribers are added to your autoresponder which is included.

Where the conversion tools incorporated allow you to send more messages

That gets opened, clicks on it, and you get paid.

Gemini Real User Reviews & Opinions

Geminii Review – Pros and Cons

Pros:

[+] Step-by-step, No Stones Unturned Over-the-shoulder Training

[+] Customized Specifically To Explode Your List Using The Geminii Softwares

[+] Perfect For Both Complete Beginners And Experienced List Builders Looking To Scale To The Next Level

[+] Traffic On Demand, Faster And More Effective Than You’d Ever Get From Facebook

[+] Done-for-you Squeeze Pages Optimized To Explode Your List Fast

[+] Top-converting Emails That Practically Write Themselves With The Included Plug & Play Conversion Boosters

[+] Without Technical Hassles: The Custom Tools Inside Work Together, Right Out Of The Box

[+] Say Goodbye To Guesswork: This All-in-one Platform Systemizes Everything From Lead Generation To Email To Profit

[+] Forget Struggling For Traffic: You Get My Favorite Traffic Method For Growing Your Lists Fast, As Large As You Like!

Cons:

[+] Up to now there ate cons.

Geminii vs Other Tools – Comparison

Compare Geminii to the rest and it’s a no-brainer. Consider the average cost of the essential tools you need to profit from list building: without geminii, you’d pay around $273 – $374 per month, plus an upfront investment in traffic training.

Geminii Review – My Final Thoughts

The money is and always will be in the list, “59% of people say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions” and “99% of consumers check their email every day”.

List marketing pays an average of $40 per $1 in for ever. With a wired slot machine, you can’t do any better. It’s the most powerful way you’ll ever find online to make money.

Since your list is your own on-demand private traffic source. And no other single medium in the world has greater scope than email: it’s used by more than half the earth.

For optimization, social media, video, messenger, SMS & push marketing combined doesn’t reach email. How did you arrive today at this page?

Potential big money or big time problems? Most people who try to create list & email marketing fail miserably, as simple as it sounds.

Because you need more than just the right parts … you need those parts to synch together perfectly.

[+] The right traffic

[+] The right landing page software

[+] The right email delivery software aka autoresponder

Yet most people never know the one thing … They desperately need:

Conversion tools that convert your promo messages to cash on request.

For all these lists building essential elements working together, you risk constantly competing for traffic, never getting a fully competitive list, finally giving up on your online dreams.

What ‘push button profits’ actually look like if you have an ever-growing subscriber list …

And the most effective tools for promoting them … Profits will only be yours by clicking the Send button. Picture your “job” in sending one email over coffee in the morning. Then, after having enjoyed your day doing whatever you want … Going back and finding hundreds , even thousands of dollars in your account.

If that sounds amazing, then you see exactly the right deal.

Geminii OTO/Upsell/Funnel/Upgrade Details

Geminii Main Offer – FE ($27.95 Onetime)

Geminii was created to deliver immense value on the front end and will give any newbie access to the three most important tools that everyone needs when they start their online business. These three basic resources are also included in the one-time price only, which otherwise would cost you individual monthly fees.

The applications include:

(1). Easy cloud based autoresponder that allows users to continue with the highly successful business model of email marketing. Apps include uploading your customer lists via. Csv, sending out unlimited email newsletters

(2). The geminii email marketing tool box; using timers, scarcity bars to increase your click levels and buy buttons “inside” your emails

(3). Squeeze page creator with 2 customizable templates fully hosted by us with the option to download all leads generated.

Zeeshan training will show you how each app functions, and Jono will show you how all the apps fit together, and how you can start driving traffic to your pages using Bing ads.

Geminii OTO 1: Pro Version ($47 Onetime)

Unlimited all-while the FE is limited to 2 squeeze pages and only 3 email toolbox features, this upgrade gives you access to an additional 4 squeeze page templates plus all toolbox features including:

[+] Clickable Giff Videos Inside Your Emails [+] Personalized Images [+] Self Interacting Elements Like “yes / No” Buttons [+] User Feedback Satisfaction Buttons [+] Q&a’s [+] Polls [+] Social Media Buttons [+] Google Map Graphics

And many more features that will increase your clicks and sales.

Geminii OTO 2: Advanced Traffic Training ($67 Onetime)

Jono will show you how to use the google display network and gmail ads to get insane traffic from adwords … It’s like getting into people’s email inboxes without even having an auto-responder.

Geminii OTO 3: DFY Campaigns ($97 Onetime)

X7 “tested” high converting campaigns from jono’s series of personal campaigns that collectively made more than $50,000. These cover:

[+] Email Swipes [+] Bonus Pages + Bonuses [+] Review Videos

Geminii OTO 4: High Ticket DFY Funnel + Limitless Traffic ($197 Onetime)

Again a huge value here. By putting pixels on our sales pages for the next 365 days, users get direct access to the jonos adwords public. Not stopping there …. They also get access to the personal ads library of jonos plus access to the personal auto-webinar funnel of jonos (complete with emails, follow up emails and retargeting). Simply use the ads of jono to send the penny clicks to the jonos audience and cash in ($880 / sale).

Geminii OTO 5: Resellers License + Developers License ($197 Onetime)

Combined rights of the software developers and resell rights. Users will train their own va with developer permissions to access their software, and take responsibility for their campaigns. Buyers of this up-sell can also sell geminii as if it were their own product and take 100 percent commissions from the whole funnel with them.

Geminii Discount Details

When you scroll down to the bottom of all main upgrades, you will see this message something like “No, I don’t Want This Offer”. You have to click that link to see the Geminii’s discounted upgrade offer pages that are mentioned below.

Geminii Bonuses

Geminii is all about email marketing stuff. I am here offering some best bonuses that will definitely help you get best results for your business.

Note: These are my custom bonuses for “Geminii” You can’t find these bonuses anywhere else on the internet. I hope my bonuses will help you get best results with this product.

GRAB ALL MY 3 BONUS PACKAGES FOR FREE!

GEMINII BEST BONUS PACKAGE #1

👉CLICK HERE TO SEE MY FIRST BONUS PACKAGE

GEMINII BEST BONUS PACKAGE #2

👉CLICK HERE TO SEE MY SECOND BONUS PACKAGE

GEMINII BEST BONUS PACKAGE #3

👉CLICK HERE TO SEE MY THIRD BONUS PACKAGE

How To Get My Geminii Bonuses?

STEP 1:

Click On Any One Of The Buttons Advertised On This Page And It Will Go To The Geminii Official Sales Page.

STEP 2:

Order The Product

STEP 3:

Forward Your Purchase Receipt To Our Mail Id: ([email protected])

Please Note: The above mentioned are my exclusive bonuses to get best results using Geminii. If you like my bonuses, you can purchase Geminii via my link. After that, send me you purchase receipt to below email id. You will get your bonuses within 12 hours.([email protected])

[+] VENDOR GIVEN BONUSES

BONUS #1: 2500 Swipes

Handing you over a massive collection of 2500 profit-producing, click getting emails you can adapt, tweak and alter for your own email or even email follow-up sequences.

BONUS #2: 30 Lead Magnets

Get your hands on our 30 best lead magnets that will help you convert leads like crazy.

BONUS #3: Underground List Building Traffic Source

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How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1)

About The Author

Paul Hanaoka is a Design Manager at Liferay, based in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and serving the North American teams. His passion is at the intersection of … More about Paul …

For the purpose of this two-part series of articles, we’re going to assume the answer for “Should designers code?” is “It depends.” If you’ve started and never finished courses in some online coding school — or if you’ve finished the courses but found it difficult to apply this style of learning in your day-to-day work, these two articles will provide a few different learning methods and will highlight different opportunities for their everyday application. In this first part of the series, we’ll take a look at getting comfortable with the command line and text editors.

As a designer with many years of experience, I often encourage my colleagues and reports to pick up some coding skills. While many are open to the idea, others balk at the notion. I usually hear some variation of “I didn’t study design to become a developer.” Although this is a valid concern, I’d like to emphasize two points: a better understanding of the materials usually leads to better outcomes, and there is an important distinction between “coding” and “software engineering.”

This two-part series of articles should be useful for any designers out there who’d like to gain also some coding skills.

Understanding The Raw Materials

Contrary to what some may think, design isn’t about creating beautiful mockups, it’s about delivering an intuitive, functional experience to the end user. That simply can’t be done without an understanding of the building blocks of a solution. An architect isn’t going to be very good at her job if she doesn’t understand the materials her plans demand and a designer isn’t going to be very good if he doesn’t understand the materials that make his designs come to life — the code. Experience with coding helps designers understand what’s possible and what’s not and whether or not their designs will be able to effectively perform their desired functions.

I also reassure my colleagues that knowledge of coding doesn’t mean one has to become an engineer. The two refer to different, though related, skill sets. As Kyle Thayer, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington recently wrote, the field of computer science (or engineering) is about giving students “an overview of the scientific field of computing”:

“The purpose of a Computer Science degree is to give students an overview of the scientific field of computing. While this includes some programming, programming is done primarily for the purpose of learning about other areas (e.g., operating systems, algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction). A CS degree is a good first step into the academic field of computer science.”

— Kyle Thayer

By contrast, coding simply means becoming familiar enough with a given programming language to complete a task. Asking someone to learn basic HTML or JavaScript does not necessitate their becoming a full-stack software architect. Despite what some might think, forking a repo and copy/pasting Stack Overflow answers in does not make you a software engineer — but it can increase the value you bring as a designer to a product development team.

What About “Low Code”?

Some may say that we’re entering a low code future where designers (and developers) are able to build applications through drag-and-drop functionality and a GUI (graphical user interface). So taking the time to learn a programming language isn’t “worth it.” The emergence of tools like Webflow, Modulz, FramerX, UXPin, etc., seems to support this line of reasoning. And this can be very true for many applications — it’s easier than ever to create a site or app without a single line of code. However, if you don’t understand the underlying principles, you will be capping the value you can deliver with a low code application.

Modulz, Studio.Design, FramerX, and other apps — there’s still a lot of code in there… (Large preview)

We’re also not yet at the point where you can build enterprise-scale applications with low code platforms. As designers we have to work in the world we live in, not the one we imagine is coming.

That being said, everyone brings a unique blend of skills to the table. Knowledge of code is not an absolute necessity and it should just be encouraged, not required.

Where To Start?

There is an endless amount of tools, languages, schools, guides, and other resources available for anyone who has access to the internet — so where to begin? An important disclaimer — I am by no means an expert, or anything close to a software engineer — and the following are insights from my personal experience, not a guaranteed path to success.

Many of the designers/developers I know have usually started hacking HTML and CSS templates on sites like MySpace, Geocities, Tumblr, Neopets, or others. Now that I have sufficiently dated myself, for anyone starting out today, I would recommend beginning in your friendly command-line interface (CLI) shell.

The Terminal: An Essential Tool

The go-to application for Hollywood directors whenever there’s a computer hacker on the screen, the terminal is simply an interface that allows you to execute actions via a text input rather than the graphical user interface (GUI) that most people are accustomed to. I’ll let real developers explain the intricacies and technical how-to, but for our purposes it’s good enough to know that familiarizing yourself with the CLI is beneficial for a number of reasons.

The terminal gives you access to your computer’s file and folder structure — the same way that you click through Finder or Explorer, you navigate using your keyboard in the terminal. It definitely takes some time getting used to, but developing your mental model in this area is foundational to working in code.

Like a lot of designers, I am using the macOS environment (formerly known as OS X), but the following applies to other *nix operating systems (LinUX, Unix), and also to Windows PowerShell. While there is a lot of overlap between different modern operating systems, there are some differences that I will do my best to highlight.

Regular Expressions

A key feature in a CLI is the ability to use regular expressions (regex) in your commands. Think of regex as boolean search operations (using quotation marks to search for exact phrases or the minus sign to exclude words) on steroids — they allow you to define a pattern in a string of text so that you can perform some action on the output. Here are some real-world examples:

If you have a long list of phone numbers in a variety of formats, you could define a script that would give you a consistent output based on a regular expression — e.g.: (###) ###-#### for the U.S. phone numbers format.

If you want to quickly rename a group of files to a specific case — from kebab-case to CamelCase or anything in between.

Here are some basic terminal commands* to help you getting started:

cd stands for “Change Directory”, type this and then a file or a folder path to go — note that you can type a folder name but it needs to be inside your current folder to go to it.

ls lists the files and folders in your current folder.

pwd stands for “Print Working Directory” — this will list out where you currently are in your computer.

mkdir and a folder name will create a folder in your working directory.

using cd with .. takes you one level up — if you’re in /users/username/documents/2019 and you enter cd ../.. you’ll end up in /users/username.

Bonus tip — hitting the Tab key will autocomplete as you type a folder/file path.

Note: The following will work on the Windows command line (cmd):

cd, cd .., mkdir, Tab key for path autocomplete (ls and pwd won’t work).

The more modern Windows command line (Windows PowerShell) supports all of them:

cd, cd .., ls, pwd, mkdir, and Tab for path autocomplete.

For a complete list of commands available in PowerShell, check this Microsoft’ Help page “Using Familiar Command Names”.

Mass-File Management

You can manipulate files and folders en masse via the terminal — here are a few ideas:

You can create three years of folders with subfolders for each month in a single command — using mkdir -p and {list-of-years}/{list-of-months} will create folders for each year with subfolders for each month. Use your imagination, I’m sure you can put this to good use!

You can quickly clean up your desktop by using mv Screen\ Shot* Screenshots — this will move all of your files that start with “Screen Shot” to a folder named “Screenshots”.

Create 36 folders on your computer with a single line of code! (Large preview)

Note: These two examples will most likely only work in *nix environments — but the theory still applies. And Windows PowerShell is also a very powerful command line tool, you just need to learn its features and specific commands.

Scripting And Maintenance

Now that we have a glimpse into the power of regular expressions and the options available in the terminal we can start combining those things into scripts. One very simple, yet powerful and commonly used script is Mike G’s file renamer:

criteria=$1 re_match=$2 replace=$3 for i in $( ls *$criteria* ); do src=$i tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e "s/$re_match/$replace/") mv $src $tgt done

What this script allows you to do, is define the scope (criteria), define what you’d like to change (re_match), and what you’d like to change it to (replace) — and then execute it.

There are countless other scripts that you can create beyond creating and renaming files — Vlad’s Batch Resizing script is an excellent example of the time-saving capabilities that you can create using bash scripts.

Advanced Tips And Tricks

Something I have found over the years is that regularly resetting my computer and reinstalling the operating system helps it stay relatively clutter-free and prevents the slowdowns everyone experiences after years of digital detritus that accumulates on harddrives. For many, the prospect of wiping a computer and re-setting everything back at best sounds like a few days of work, and at worst an impossible nightmare that you may never recover from.

But it doesn’t have to be — by using a few command-line tools, once you’ve backed up, wiped, and reinstalled your OS, you can install not only your list of favorite apps, but also fonts in a matter of minutes using Homebrew. (Homebrew is for Mac and LinUX only. For Windows, try Chocolatey which is a solid alternative.)

If you’re interested — we’ve created an easy-to-follow setup guide to get your computer in good shape for most development. Our guide is for macOS, but Owen Williams has written a solid guide for Windows as well.

If you don’t have the time for Wes’ entire series of tutorials about the command line — at the very least I highly recommend the following stack:

Oh My ZSH

zsh-autosuggestions

zsh-syntax-highlighting

z-jump-around

Choosing A Text Editor

There are many options when it comes to choosing a code editor — Sublime Text and VS Code (Visual Studio Code) are the two I have the most experience with and am currently using.

Sublime Text was one of the earlier text editors that became popular with front-end developers — it was the gold standard up until a few years ago. Features like multiple cursors, a powerful package manager, and highly customizable shortcuts that allowed you to quickly navigate in and between files and folders. Not to mention it was an incredibly lightweight and fast application which made it an easy choice.

VS Code (Visual Studio Code) came on the scene around 2015, it took a while for people to switch from Atom and Sublime, but VS Code has established itself as many developers’ favorite editor. In addition to pretty much all of Sublime’s features, VS Code differentiated itself with a built-in terminal and tight integration with Git. In addition, Visual Studio Code has a rich plugin ecosystem that allows you to extend and customize your environment to your heart’s delight.

All that is to say — you don’t need to be a developer to appreciate the features of a good code editor. I have found many uses for it in my daily work; two, in particular, are the ability to use multiple cursors, and using regex to find-and-replace text across folders of files. Let’s take a closer look at both.

Editing With Multiple Cursors

Picture your typical word processor — that blinking vertical line that shows where the text you’re entering will go? Now picture the ability to add more than one cursor to this window so that whatever you type will appear wherever there is a cursor!

This might not be blowing your mind just yet — so here’s an example that shows a few ways that an advanced text editor can help you create everyday efficiencies in your workflow.

Mass-editing in a text editor is much faster and more intuitive than in a spreadsheet. (Large preview)

Here we have a list of names that we need to convert into email addresses — we’d also like to make them all lowercase and then sort them alphabetically. This can be done with a few keystrokes.

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Using a text editor to quickly manipulate lots of text in Sublime Text (short video).

Once you paste the list in, Cmd + Shift + P brings up the Command Palette (fancy term for a searchable menu that gives you all the available functionalities). You can basically type in this menu what you want to do, pretty much anything you can do to text is available here. If it’s not, there’s likely a plugin or an extension that you can find.

We’re able to change the case and sort the lines in a matter of seconds — then pressing Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys adds cursors, then whatever we type gets added to every line — in this case, we’re turning the names into email addresses, but your wild imagination could find myriad other ways to use this.

You might be saying — well I can do this in Excel or Google Sheets, which is true, but I have found that it is a lot quicker to handle these types of things in a text editor. You avoid having to write formulas and select things with a mouse.

Which Code Editor Should I Use?

I’m a designer — so of course, my answer is “it depends”.

If you’re new to these concepts, I would recommend getting a free trial of Sublime — it continues to be a very lightweight app and does not consume too many system resources. You can customize Sublime’s key bindings (fancy word for hotkeys) and extend its built-in functionality with plugins.

If you’ve been using Sublime, Atom, or another editor — I’d recommend checking out VS Code as well. The team at Microsoft has really done an excellent job making it a powerful, yet easy-to-use text editor.

Personally, I use both editors — Sublime is lightning quick and opens in a fraction of a second allowing me to easily paste and manipulate text. But when I want to get some more serious work done, I use VS Code. It’s difficult to top the all-in-one package that VS Code provides — a vibrant plugin and extension ecosystem, powerful command palette, and hyper-customizable interface means you can really make it your own. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is very incentivized to ensure that it’s a first-class experience for developer productivity.

Conclusion, And What’s Next?

In this first article, you will have learned the basics of the terminal, a few productivity hacks to get you started, and should have a better idea of what code editor to choose. In the next part, we’ll continue with the topics of version control, HTML and CSS, and an introduction to engineering principles.

Anything Amiss?

There’s a good chance that something in this post was obscure, obtuse, and/or obsolete and I’d love the opportunity to make it better! Please leave a comment below, DM me, or @mention me on Twitter so I can improve.

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How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1)

About The Author

Paul Hanaoka is a Design Manager at Liferay, based in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and serving the North American teams. His passion is at the intersection of … More about Paul …

For the purpose of this two-part series of articles, we’re going to assume the answer for “Should designers code?” is “It depends.” If you’ve started and never finished courses in some online coding school — or if you’ve finished the courses but found it difficult to apply this style of learning in your day-to-day work, these two articles will provide a few different learning methods and will highlight different opportunities for their everyday application. In this first part of the series, we’ll take a look at getting comfortable with the command line and text editors.

As a designer with many years of experience, I often encourage my colleagues and reports to pick up some coding skills. While many are open to the idea, others balk at the notion. I usually hear some variation of “I didn’t study design to become a developer.” Although this is a valid concern, I’d like to emphasize two points: a better understanding of the materials usually leads to better outcomes, and there is an important distinction between “coding” and “software engineering.”

This two-part series of articles should be useful for any designers out there who’d like to gain also some coding skills.

Understanding The Raw Materials

Contrary to what some may think, design isn’t about creating beautiful mockups, it’s about delivering an intuitive, functional experience to the end user. That simply can’t be done without an understanding of the building blocks of a solution. An architect isn’t going to be very good at her job if she doesn’t understand the materials her plans demand and a designer isn’t going to be very good if he doesn’t understand the materials that make his designs come to life — the code. Experience with coding helps designers understand what’s possible and what’s not and whether or not their designs will be able to effectively perform their desired functions.

I also reassure my colleagues that knowledge of coding doesn’t mean one has to become an engineer. The two refer to different, though related, skill sets. As Kyle Thayer, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington recently wrote, the field of computer science (or engineering) is about giving students “an overview of the scientific field of computing”:

“The purpose of a Computer Science degree is to give students an overview of the scientific field of computing. While this includes some programming, programming is done primarily for the purpose of learning about other areas (e.g., operating systems, algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction). A CS degree is a good first step into the academic field of computer science.”

— Kyle Thayer

By contrast, coding simply means becoming familiar enough with a given programming language to complete a task. Asking someone to learn basic HTML or JavaScript does not necessitate their becoming a full-stack software architect. Despite what some might think, forking a repo and copy/pasting Stack Overflow answers in does not make you a software engineer — but it can increase the value you bring as a designer to a product development team.

What About “Low Code”?

Some may say that we’re entering a low code future where designers (and developers) are able to build applications through drag-and-drop functionality and a GUI (graphical user interface). So taking the time to learn a programming language isn’t “worth it.” The emergence of tools like Webflow, Modulz, FramerX, UXPin, etc., seems to support this line of reasoning. And this can be very true for many applications — it’s easier than ever to create a site or app without a single line of code. However, if you don’t understand the underlying principles, you will be capping the value you can deliver with a low code application.

Modulz, Studio.Design, FramerX, and other apps — there’s still a lot of code in there… (Large preview)

We’re also not yet at the point where you can build enterprise-scale applications with low code platforms. As designers we have to work in the world we live in, not the one we imagine is coming.

That being said, everyone brings a unique blend of skills to the table. Knowledge of code is not an absolute necessity and it should just be encouraged, not required.

Where To Start?

There is an endless amount of tools, languages, schools, guides, and other resources available for anyone who has access to the internet — so where to begin? An important disclaimer — I am by no means an expert, or anything close to a software engineer — and the following are insights from my personal experience, not a guaranteed path to success.

Many of the designers/developers I know have usually started hacking HTML and CSS templates on sites like MySpace, Geocities, Tumblr, Neopets, or others. Now that I have sufficiently dated myself, for anyone starting out today, I would recommend beginning in your friendly command-line interface (CLI) shell.

The Terminal: An Essential Tool

The go-to application for Hollywood directors whenever there’s a computer hacker on the screen, the terminal is simply an interface that allows you to execute actions via a text input rather than the graphical user interface (GUI) that most people are accustomed to. I’ll let real developers explain the intricacies and technical how-to, but for our purposes it’s good enough to know that familiarizing yourself with the CLI is beneficial for a number of reasons.

The terminal gives you access to your computer’s file and folder structure — the same way that you click through Finder or Explorer, you navigate using your keyboard in the terminal. It definitely takes some time getting used to, but developing your mental model in this area is foundational to working in code.

Like a lot of designers, I am using the macOS environment (formerly known as OS X), but the following applies to other *nix operating systems (LinUX, Unix), and also to Windows PowerShell. While there is a lot of overlap between different modern operating systems, there are some differences that I will do my best to highlight.

Regular Expressions

A key feature in a CLI is the ability to use regular expressions (regex) in your commands. Think of regex as boolean search operations (using quotation marks to search for exact phrases or the minus sign to exclude words) on steroids — they allow you to define a pattern in a string of text so that you can perform some action on the output. Here are some real-world examples:

If you have a long list of phone numbers in a variety of formats, you could define a script that would give you a consistent output based on a regular expression — e.g.: (###) ###-#### for the U.S. phone numbers format.

If you want to quickly rename a group of files to a specific case — from kebab-case to CamelCase or anything in between.

Here are some basic terminal commands* to help you getting started:

cd stands for “Change Directory”, type this and then a file or a folder path to go — note that you can type a folder name but it needs to be inside your current folder to go to it.

ls lists the files and folders in your current folder.

pwd stands for “Print Working Directory” — this will list out where you currently are in your computer.

mkdir and a folder name will create a folder in your working directory.

using cd with .. takes you one level up — if you’re in /users/username/documents/2019 and you enter cd ../.. you’ll end up in /users/username.

Bonus tip — hitting the Tab key will autocomplete as you type a folder/file path.

Note: The following will work on the Windows command line (cmd):

cd, cd .., mkdir, Tab key for path autocomplete (ls and pwd won’t work).

The more modern Windows command line (Windows PowerShell) supports all of them:

cd, cd .., ls, pwd, mkdir, and Tab for path autocomplete.

For a complete list of commands available in PowerShell, check this Microsoft’ Help page “Using Familiar Command Names”.

Mass-File Management

You can manipulate files and folders en masse via the terminal — here are a few ideas:

You can create three years of folders with subfolders for each month in a single command — using mkdir -p and {list-of-years}/{list-of-months} will create folders for each year with subfolders for each month. Use your imagination, I’m sure you can put this to good use!

You can quickly clean up your desktop by using mv Screen\ Shot* Screenshots — this will move all of your files that start with “Screen Shot” to a folder named “Screenshots”.

Create 36 folders on your computer with a single line of code! (Large preview)

Note: These two examples will most likely only work in *nix environments — but the theory still applies. And Windows PowerShell is also a very powerful command line tool, you just need to learn its features and specific commands.

Scripting And Maintenance

Now that we have a glimpse into the power of regular expressions and the options available in the terminal we can start combining those things into scripts. One very simple, yet powerful and commonly used script is Mike G’s file renamer:

criteria=$1 re_match=$2 replace=$3 for i in $( ls *$criteria* ); do src=$i tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e "s/$re_match/$replace/") mv $src $tgt done

What this script allows you to do, is define the scope (criteria), define what you’d like to change (re_match), and what you’d like to change it to (replace) — and then execute it.

There are countless other scripts that you can create beyond creating and renaming files — Vlad’s Batch Resizing script is an excellent example of the time-saving capabilities that you can create using bash scripts.

Advanced Tips And Tricks

Something I have found over the years is that regularly resetting my computer and reinstalling the operating system helps it stay relatively clutter-free and prevents the slowdowns everyone experiences after years of digital detritus that accumulates on harddrives. For many, the prospect of wiping a computer and re-setting everything back at best sounds like a few days of work, and at worst an impossible nightmare that you may never recover from.

But it doesn’t have to be — by using a few command-line tools, once you’ve backed up, wiped, and reinstalled your OS, you can install not only your list of favorite apps, but also fonts in a matter of minutes using Homebrew. (Homebrew is for Mac and LinUX only. For Windows, try Chocolatey which is a solid alternative.)

If you’re interested — we’ve created an easy-to-follow setup guide to get your computer in good shape for most development. Our guide is for macOS, but Owen Williams has written a solid guide for Windows as well.

If you don’t have the time for Wes’ entire series of tutorials about the command line — at the very least I highly recommend the following stack:

Oh My ZSH

zsh-autosuggestions

zsh-syntax-highlighting

z-jump-around

Choosing A Text Editor

There are many options when it comes to choosing a code editor — Sublime Text and VS Code (Visual Studio Code) are the two I have the most experience with and am currently using.

Sublime Text was one of the earlier text editors that became popular with front-end developers — it was the gold standard up until a few years ago. Features like multiple cursors, a powerful package manager, and highly customizable shortcuts that allowed you to quickly navigate in and between files and folders. Not to mention it was an incredibly lightweight and fast application which made it an easy choice.

VS Code (Visual Studio Code) came on the scene around 2015, it took a while for people to switch from Atom and Sublime, but VS Code has established itself as many developers’ favorite editor. In addition to pretty much all of Sublime’s features, VS Code differentiated itself with a built-in terminal and tight integration with Git. In addition, Visual Studio Code has a rich plugin ecosystem that allows you to extend and customize your environment to your heart’s delight.

All that is to say — you don’t need to be a developer to appreciate the features of a good code editor. I have found many uses for it in my daily work; two, in particular, are the ability to use multiple cursors, and using regex to find-and-replace text across folders of files. Let’s take a closer look at both.

Editing With Multiple Cursors

Picture your typical word processor — that blinking vertical line that shows where the text you’re entering will go? Now picture the ability to add more than one cursor to this window so that whatever you type will appear wherever there is a cursor!

This might not be blowing your mind just yet — so here’s an example that shows a few ways that an advanced text editor can help you create everyday efficiencies in your workflow.

Mass-editing in a text editor is much faster and more intuitive than in a spreadsheet. (Large preview)

Here we have a list of names that we need to convert into email addresses — we’d also like to make them all lowercase and then sort them alphabetically. This can be done with a few keystrokes.

[embedded content]

Using a text editor to quickly manipulate lots of text in Sublime Text (short video).

Once you paste the list in, Cmd + Shift + P brings up the Command Palette (fancy term for a searchable menu that gives you all the available functionalities). You can basically type in this menu what you want to do, pretty much anything you can do to text is available here. If it’s not, there’s likely a plugin or an extension that you can find.

We’re able to change the case and sort the lines in a matter of seconds — then pressing Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys adds cursors, then whatever we type gets added to every line — in this case, we’re turning the names into email addresses, but your wild imagination could find myriad other ways to use this.

You might be saying — well I can do this in Excel or Google Sheets, which is true, but I have found that it is a lot quicker to handle these types of things in a text editor. You avoid having to write formulas and select things with a mouse.

Which Code Editor Should I Use?

I’m a designer — so of course, my answer is “it depends”.

If you’re new to these concepts, I would recommend getting a free trial of Sublime — it continues to be a very lightweight app and does not consume too many system resources. You can customize Sublime’s key bindings (fancy word for hotkeys) and extend its built-in functionality with plugins.

If you’ve been using Sublime, Atom, or another editor — I’d recommend checking out VS Code as well. The team at Microsoft has really done an excellent job making it a powerful, yet easy-to-use text editor.

Personally, I use both editors — Sublime is lightning quick and opens in a fraction of a second allowing me to easily paste and manipulate text. But when I want to get some more serious work done, I use VS Code. It’s difficult to top the all-in-one package that VS Code provides — a vibrant plugin and extension ecosystem, powerful command palette, and hyper-customizable interface means you can really make it your own. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is very incentivized to ensure that it’s a first-class experience for developer productivity.

Conclusion, And What’s Next?

In this first article, you will have learned the basics of the terminal, a few productivity hacks to get you started, and should have a better idea of what code editor to choose. In the next part, we’ll continue with the topics of version control, HTML and CSS, and an introduction to engineering principles.

Anything Amiss?

There’s a good chance that something in this post was obscure, obtuse, and/or obsolete and I’d love the opportunity to make it better! Please leave a comment below, DM me, or @mention me on Twitter so I can improve.

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For the purpose of this two-part series of articles, we’re going to assume the answer for “Should designers code?” is “It depends.” If you’ve started and never finished courses in some online coding school — or if you’ve finished the courses but found it difficult to apply this style of learning in your day-to-day work, these two articles will provide a few different learning methods and will highlight different opportunities for their everyday application. In this first part of the series, we’ll take a look at getting comfortable with the command line and text editors.

As a designer with many years of experience, I often encourage my colleagues and reports to pick up some coding skills. While many are open to the idea, others balk at the notion. I usually hear some variation of “I didn’t study design to become a developer.” Although this is a valid concern, I’d like to emphasize two points: a better understanding of the materials usually leads to better outcomes, and there is an important distinction between “coding” and “software engineering.”

This two-part series of articles should be useful for any designers out there who’d like to gain also some coding skills.

Understanding The Raw Materials

Contrary to what some may think, design isn’t about creating beautiful mockups, it’s about delivering an intuitive, functional experience to the end user. That simply can’t be done without an understanding of the building blocks of a solution. An architect isn’t going to be very good at her job if she doesn’t understand the materials her plans demand and a designer isn’t going to be very good if he doesn’t understand the materials that make his designs come to life — the code. Experience with coding helps designers understand what’s possible and what’s not and whether or not their designs will be able to effectively perform their desired functions.

I also reassure my colleagues that knowledge of coding doesn’t mean one has to become an engineer. The two refer to different, though related, skill sets. As Kyle Thayer, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington recently wrote, the field of computer science (or engineering) is about giving students “an overview of the scientific field of computing”:

“The purpose of a Computer Science degree is to give students an overview of the scientific field of computing. While this includes some programming, programming is done primarily for the purpose of learning about other areas (e.g., operating systems, algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction). A CS degree is a good first step into the academic field of computer science.”

— Kyle Thayer

By contrast, coding simply means becoming familiar enough with a given programming language to complete a task. Asking someone to learn basic HTML or JavaScript does not necessitate their becoming a full-stack software architect. Despite what some might think, forking a repo and copy/pasting Stack Overflow answers in does not make you a software engineer — but it can increase the value you bring as a designer to a product development team.

What About “Low Code”?

Some may say that we’re entering a low code future where designers (and developers) are able to build applications through drag-and-drop functionality and a GUI (graphical user interface). So taking the time to learn a programming language isn’t “worth it.” The emergence of tools like Webflow, Modulz, FramerX, UXPin, etc., seems to support this line of reasoning. And this can be very true for many applications — it’s easier than ever to create a site or app without a single line of code. However, if you don’t understand the underlying principles, you will be capping the value you can deliver with a low code application.

Modulz, Studio.Design, FramerX, and other apps — there’s still a lot of code in there… (Large preview)

We’re also not yet at the point where you can build enterprise-scale applications with low code platforms. As designers we have to work in the world we live in, not the one we imagine is coming.

That being said, everyone brings a unique blend of skills to the table. Knowledge of code is not an absolute necessity and it should just be encouraged, not required.

Where To Start?

There is an endless amount of tools, languages, schools, guides, and other resources available for anyone who has access to the internet — so where to begin? An important disclaimer — I am by no means an expert, or anything close to a software engineer — and the following are insights from my personal experience, not a guaranteed path to success.

Many of the designers/developers I know have usually started hacking HTML and CSS templates on sites like MySpace, Geocities, Tumblr, Neopets, or others. Now that I have sufficiently dated myself, for anyone starting out today, I would recommend beginning in your friendly command-line interface (CLI) shell.

The Terminal: An Essential Tool

The go-to application for Hollywood directors whenever there’s a computer hacker on the screen, the terminal is simply an interface that allows you to execute actions via a text input rather than the graphical user interface (GUI) that most people are accustomed to. I’ll let real developers explain the intricacies and technical how-to, but for our purposes it’s good enough to know that familiarizing yourself with the CLI is beneficial for a number of reasons.

The terminal gives you access to your computer’s file and folder structure — the same way that you click through Finder or Explorer, you navigate using your keyboard in the terminal. It definitely takes some time getting used to, but developing your mental model in this area is foundational to working in code.

Like a lot of designers, I am using the macOS environment (formerly known as OS X), but the following applies to other *nix operating systems (LinUX, Unix), and also to Windows PowerShell. While there is a lot of overlap between different modern operating systems, there are some differences that I will do my best to highlight.

Regular Expressions

A key feature in a CLI is the ability to use regular expressions (regex) in your commands. Think of regex as boolean search operations (using quotation marks to search for exact phrases or the minus sign to exclude words) on steroids — they allow you to define a pattern in a string of text so that you can perform some action on the output. Here are some real-world examples:

If you have a long list of phone numbers in a variety of formats, you could define a script that would give you a consistent output based on a regular expression — e.g.: (###) ###-#### for the U.S. phone numbers format.

If you want to quickly rename a group of files to a specific case — from kebab-case to CamelCase or anything in between.

Here are some basic terminal commands* to help you getting started:

cd stands for “Change Directory”, type this and then a file or a folder path to go — note that you can type a folder name but it needs to be inside your current folder to go to it.

ls lists the files and folders in your current folder.

pwd stands for “Print Working Directory” — this will list out where you currently are in your computer.

mkdir and a folder name will create a folder in your working directory.

using cd with .. takes you one level up — if you’re in /users/username/documents/2019 and you enter cd ../.. you’ll end up in /users/username.

Bonus tip — hitting the Tab key will autocomplete as you type a folder/file path.

Note: The following will work on the Windows command line (cmd):

cd, cd .., mkdir, Tab key for path autocomplete (ls and pwd won’t work).

The more modern Windows command line (Windows PowerShell) supports all of them:

cd, cd .., ls, pwd, mkdir, and Tab for path autocomplete.

For a complete list of commands available in PowerShell, check this Microsoft’ Help page “Using Familiar Command Names”.

Mass-File Management

You can manipulate files and folders en masse via the terminal — here are a few ideas:

You can create three years of folders with subfolders for each month in a single command — using mkdir -p and {list-of-years}/{list-of-months} will create folders for each year with subfolders for each month. Use your imagination, I’m sure you can put this to good use!

You can quickly clean up your desktop by using mv Screen\ Shot* Screenshots — this will move all of your files that start with “Screen Shot” to a folder named “Screenshots”.

Create 36 folders on your computer with a single line of code! (Large preview)

Note: These two examples will most likely only work in *nix environments — but the theory still applies. And Windows PowerShell is also a very powerful command line tool, you just need to learn its features and specific commands.

Scripting And Maintenance

Now that we have a glimpse into the power of regular expressions and the options available in the terminal we can start combining those things into scripts. One very simple, yet powerful and commonly used script is Mike G’s file renamer:

criteria=$1 re_match=$2 replace=$3 for i in $( ls *$criteria* ); do src=$i tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e "s/$re_match/$replace/") mv $src $tgt done

What this script allows you to do, is define the scope (criteria), define what you’d like to change (re_match), and what you’d like to change it to (replace) — and then execute it.

There are countless other scripts that you can create beyond creating and renaming files — Vlad’s Batch Resizing script is an excellent example of the time-saving capabilities that you can create using bash scripts.

Advanced Tips And Tricks

Something I have found over the years is that regularly resetting my computer and reinstalling the operating system helps it stay relatively clutter-free and prevents the slowdowns everyone experiences after years of digital detritus that accumulates on harddrives. For many, the prospect of wiping a computer and re-setting everything back at best sounds like a few days of work, and at worst an impossible nightmare that you may never recover from.

But it doesn’t have to be — by using a few command-line tools, once you’ve backed up, wiped, and reinstalled your OS, you can install not only your list of favorite apps, but also fonts in a matter of minutes using Homebrew. (Homebrew is for Mac and LinUX only. For Windows, try Chocolatey which is a solid alternative.)

If you’re interested — we’ve created an easy-to-follow setup guide to get your computer in good shape for most development. Our guide is for macOS, but Owen Williams has written a solid guide for Windows as well.

If you don’t have the time for Wes’ entire series of tutorials about the command line — at the very least I highly recommend the following stack:

Oh My ZSH

zsh-autosuggestions

zsh-syntax-highlighting

z-jump-around

Choosing A Text Editor

There are many options when it comes to choosing a code editor — Sublime Text and VS Code (Visual Studio Code) are the two I have the most experience with and am currently using.

Sublime Text was one of the earlier text editors that became popular with front-end developers — it was the gold standard up until a few years ago. Features like multiple cursors, a powerful package manager, and highly customizable shortcuts that allowed you to quickly navigate in and between files and folders. Not to mention it was an incredibly lightweight and fast application which made it an easy choice.

VS Code (Visual Studio Code) came on the scene around 2015, it took a while for people to switch from Atom and Sublime, but VS Code has established itself as many developers’ favorite editor. In addition to pretty much all of Sublime’s features, VS Code differentiated itself with a built-in terminal and tight integration with Git. In addition, Visual Studio Code has a rich plugin ecosystem that allows you to extend and customize your environment to your heart’s delight.

All that is to say — you don’t need to be a developer to appreciate the features of a good code editor. I have found many uses for it in my daily work; two, in particular, are the ability to use multiple cursors, and using regex to find-and-replace text across folders of files. Let’s take a closer look at both.

Editing With Multiple Cursors

Picture your typical word processor — that blinking vertical line that shows where the text you’re entering will go? Now picture the ability to add more than one cursor to this window so that whatever you type will appear wherever there is a cursor!

This might not be blowing your mind just yet — so here’s an example that shows a few ways that an advanced text editor can help you create everyday efficiencies in your workflow.

Mass-editing in a text editor is much faster and more intuitive than in a spreadsheet. (Large preview)

Here we have a list of names that we need to convert into email addresses — we’d also like to make them all lowercase and then sort them alphabetically. This can be done with a few keystrokes.

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Using a text editor to quickly manipulate lots of text in Sublime Text (short video).

Once you paste the list in, Cmd + Shift + P brings up the Command Palette (fancy term for a searchable menu that gives you all the available functionalities). You can basically type in this menu what you want to do, pretty much anything you can do to text is available here. If it’s not, there’s likely a plugin or an extension that you can find.

We’re able to change the case and sort the lines in a matter of seconds — then pressing Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys adds cursors, then whatever we type gets added to every line — in this case, we’re turning the names into email addresses, but your wild imagination could find myriad other ways to use this.

You might be saying — well I can do this in Excel or Google Sheets, which is true, but I have found that it is a lot quicker to handle these types of things in a text editor. You avoid having to write formulas and select things with a mouse.

Which Code Editor Should I Use?

I’m a designer — so of course, my answer is “it depends”.

If you’re new to these concepts, I would recommend getting a free trial of Sublime — it continues to be a very lightweight app and does not consume too many system resources. You can customize Sublime’s key bindings (fancy word for hotkeys) and extend its built-in functionality with plugins.

If you’ve been using Sublime, Atom, or another editor — I’d recommend checking out VS Code as well. The team at Microsoft has really done an excellent job making it a powerful, yet easy-to-use text editor.

Personally, I use both editors — Sublime is lightning quick and opens in a fraction of a second allowing me to easily paste and manipulate text. But when I want to get some more serious work done, I use VS Code. It’s difficult to top the all-in-one package that VS Code provides — a vibrant plugin and extension ecosystem, powerful command palette, and hyper-customizable interface means you can really make it your own. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is very incentivized to ensure that it’s a first-class experience for developer productivity.

Conclusion, And What’s Next?

In this first article, you will have learned the basics of the terminal, a few productivity hacks to get you started, and should have a better idea of what code editor to choose. In the next part, we’ll continue with the topics of version control, HTML and CSS, and an introduction to engineering principles.

Anything Amiss?

There’s a good chance that something in this post was obscure, obtuse, and/or obsolete and I’d love the opportunity to make it better! Please leave a comment below, DM me, or @mention me on Twitter so I can improve.

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How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1)

About The Author

Paul Hanaoka is a Design Manager at Liferay, based in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and serving the North American teams. His passion is at the intersection of … More about Paul …

For the purpose of this two-part series of articles, we’re going to assume the answer for “Should designers code?” is “It depends.” If you’ve started and never finished courses in some online coding school — or if you’ve finished the courses but found it difficult to apply this style of learning in your day-to-day work, these two articles will provide a few different learning methods and will highlight different opportunities for their everyday application. In this first part of the series, we’ll take a look at getting comfortable with the command line and text editors.

As a designer with many years of experience, I often encourage my colleagues and reports to pick up some coding skills. While many are open to the idea, others balk at the notion. I usually hear some variation of “I didn’t study design to become a developer.” Although this is a valid concern, I’d like to emphasize two points: a better understanding of the materials usually leads to better outcomes, and there is an important distinction between “coding” and “software engineering.”

This two-part series of articles should be useful for any designers out there who’d like to gain also some coding skills.

Understanding The Raw Materials

Contrary to what some may think, design isn’t about creating beautiful mockups, it’s about delivering an intuitive, functional experience to the end user. That simply can’t be done without an understanding of the building blocks of a solution. An architect isn’t going to be very good at her job if she doesn’t understand the materials her plans demand and a designer isn’t going to be very good if he doesn’t understand the materials that make his designs come to life — the code. Experience with coding helps designers understand what’s possible and what’s not and whether or not their designs will be able to effectively perform their desired functions.

I also reassure my colleagues that knowledge of coding doesn’t mean one has to become an engineer. The two refer to different, though related, skill sets. As Kyle Thayer, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington recently wrote, the field of computer science (or engineering) is about giving students “an overview of the scientific field of computing”:

“The purpose of a Computer Science degree is to give students an overview of the scientific field of computing. While this includes some programming, programming is done primarily for the purpose of learning about other areas (e.g., operating systems, algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction). A CS degree is a good first step into the academic field of computer science.”

— Kyle Thayer

By contrast, coding simply means becoming familiar enough with a given programming language to complete a task. Asking someone to learn basic HTML or JavaScript does not necessitate their becoming a full-stack software architect. Despite what some might think, forking a repo and copy/pasting Stack Overflow answers in does not make you a software engineer — but it can increase the value you bring as a designer to a product development team.

What About “Low Code”?

Some may say that we’re entering a low code future where designers (and developers) are able to build applications through drag-and-drop functionality and a GUI (graphical user interface). So taking the time to learn a programming language isn’t “worth it.” The emergence of tools like Webflow, Modulz, FramerX, UXPin, etc., seems to support this line of reasoning. And this can be very true for many applications — it’s easier than ever to create a site or app without a single line of code. However, if you don’t understand the underlying principles, you will be capping the value you can deliver with a low code application.

Modulz, Studio.Design, FramerX, and other apps — there’s still a lot of code in there… (Large preview)

We’re also not yet at the point where you can build enterprise-scale applications with low code platforms. As designers we have to work in the world we live in, not the one we imagine is coming.

That being said, everyone brings a unique blend of skills to the table. Knowledge of code is not an absolute necessity and it should just be encouraged, not required.

Where To Start?

There is an endless amount of tools, languages, schools, guides, and other resources available for anyone who has access to the internet — so where to begin? An important disclaimer — I am by no means an expert, or anything close to a software engineer — and the following are insights from my personal experience, not a guaranteed path to success.

Many of the designers/developers I know have usually started hacking HTML and CSS templates on sites like MySpace, Geocities, Tumblr, Neopets, or others. Now that I have sufficiently dated myself, for anyone starting out today, I would recommend beginning in your friendly command-line interface (CLI) shell.

The Terminal: An Essential Tool

The go-to application for Hollywood directors whenever there’s a computer hacker on the screen, the terminal is simply an interface that allows you to execute actions via a text input rather than the graphical user interface (GUI) that most people are accustomed to. I’ll let real developers explain the intricacies and technical how-to, but for our purposes it’s good enough to know that familiarizing yourself with the CLI is beneficial for a number of reasons.

The terminal gives you access to your computer’s file and folder structure — the same way that you click through Finder or Explorer, you navigate using your keyboard in the terminal. It definitely takes some time getting used to, but developing your mental model in this area is foundational to working in code.

Like a lot of designers, I am using the macOS environment (formerly known as OS X), but the following applies to other *nix operating systems (LinUX, Unix), and also to Windows PowerShell. While there is a lot of overlap between different modern operating systems, there are some differences that I will do my best to highlight.

Regular Expressions

A key feature in a CLI is the ability to use regular expressions (regex) in your commands. Think of regex as boolean search operations (using quotation marks to search for exact phrases or the minus sign to exclude words) on steroids — they allow you to define a pattern in a string of text so that you can perform some action on the output. Here are some real-world examples:

If you have a long list of phone numbers in a variety of formats, you could define a script that would give you a consistent output based on a regular expression — e.g.: (###) ###-#### for the U.S. phone numbers format.

If you want to quickly rename a group of files to a specific case — from kebab-case to CamelCase or anything in between.

Here are some basic terminal commands* to help you getting started:

cd stands for “Change Directory”, type this and then a file or a folder path to go — note that you can type a folder name but it needs to be inside your current folder to go to it.

ls lists the files and folders in your current folder.

pwd stands for “Print Working Directory” — this will list out where you currently are in your computer.

mkdir and a folder name will create a folder in your working directory.

using cd with .. takes you one level up — if you’re in /users/username/documents/2019 and you enter cd ../.. you’ll end up in /users/username.

Bonus tip — hitting the Tab key will autocomplete as you type a folder/file path.

Note: The following will work on the Windows command line (cmd):

cd, cd .., mkdir, Tab key for path autocomplete (ls and pwd won’t work).

The more modern Windows command line (Windows PowerShell) supports all of them:

cd, cd .., ls, pwd, mkdir, and Tab for path autocomplete.

For a complete list of commands available in PowerShell, check this Microsoft’ Help page “Using Familiar Command Names”.

Mass-File Management

You can manipulate files and folders en masse via the terminal — here are a few ideas:

You can create three years of folders with subfolders for each month in a single command — using mkdir -p and {list-of-years}/{list-of-months} will create folders for each year with subfolders for each month. Use your imagination, I’m sure you can put this to good use!

You can quickly clean up your desktop by using mv Screen\ Shot* Screenshots — this will move all of your files that start with “Screen Shot” to a folder named “Screenshots”.

Create 36 folders on your computer with a single line of code! (Large preview)

Note: These two examples will most likely only work in *nix environments — but the theory still applies. And Windows PowerShell is also a very powerful command line tool, you just need to learn its features and specific commands.

Scripting And Maintenance

Now that we have a glimpse into the power of regular expressions and the options available in the terminal we can start combining those things into scripts. One very simple, yet powerful and commonly used script is Mike G’s file renamer:

criteria=$1 re_match=$2 replace=$3 for i in $( ls *$criteria* ); do src=$i tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e "s/$re_match/$replace/") mv $src $tgt done

What this script allows you to do, is define the scope (criteria), define what you’d like to change (re_match), and what you’d like to change it to (replace) — and then execute it.

There are countless other scripts that you can create beyond creating and renaming files — Vlad’s Batch Resizing script is an excellent example of the time-saving capabilities that you can create using bash scripts.

Advanced Tips And Tricks

Something I have found over the years is that regularly resetting my computer and reinstalling the operating system helps it stay relatively clutter-free and prevents the slowdowns everyone experiences after years of digital detritus that accumulates on harddrives. For many, the prospect of wiping a computer and re-setting everything back at best sounds like a few days of work, and at worst an impossible nightmare that you may never recover from.

But it doesn’t have to be — by using a few command-line tools, once you’ve backed up, wiped, and reinstalled your OS, you can install not only your list of favorite apps, but also fonts in a matter of minutes using Homebrew. (Homebrew is for Mac and LinUX only. For Windows, try Chocolatey which is a solid alternative.)

If you’re interested — we’ve created an easy-to-follow setup guide to get your computer in good shape for most development. Our guide is for macOS, but Owen Williams has written a solid guide for Windows as well.

If you don’t have the time for Wes’ entire series of tutorials about the command line — at the very least I highly recommend the following stack:

Oh My ZSH

zsh-autosuggestions

zsh-syntax-highlighting

z-jump-around

Choosing A Text Editor

There are many options when it comes to choosing a code editor — Sublime Text and VS Code (Visual Studio Code) are the two I have the most experience with and am currently using.

Sublime Text was one of the earlier text editors that became popular with front-end developers — it was the gold standard up until a few years ago. Features like multiple cursors, a powerful package manager, and highly customizable shortcuts that allowed you to quickly navigate in and between files and folders. Not to mention it was an incredibly lightweight and fast application which made it an easy choice.

VS Code (Visual Studio Code) came on the scene around 2015, it took a while for people to switch from Atom and Sublime, but VS Code has established itself as many developers’ favorite editor. In addition to pretty much all of Sublime’s features, VS Code differentiated itself with a built-in terminal and tight integration with Git. In addition, Visual Studio Code has a rich plugin ecosystem that allows you to extend and customize your environment to your heart’s delight.

All that is to say — you don’t need to be a developer to appreciate the features of a good code editor. I have found many uses for it in my daily work; two, in particular, are the ability to use multiple cursors, and using regex to find-and-replace text across folders of files. Let’s take a closer look at both.

Editing With Multiple Cursors

Picture your typical word processor — that blinking vertical line that shows where the text you’re entering will go? Now picture the ability to add more than one cursor to this window so that whatever you type will appear wherever there is a cursor!

This might not be blowing your mind just yet — so here’s an example that shows a few ways that an advanced text editor can help you create everyday efficiencies in your workflow.

Mass-editing in a text editor is much faster and more intuitive than in a spreadsheet. (Large preview)

Here we have a list of names that we need to convert into email addresses — we’d also like to make them all lowercase and then sort them alphabetically. This can be done with a few keystrokes.

[embedded content]

Using a text editor to quickly manipulate lots of text in Sublime Text (short video).

Once you paste the list in, Cmd + Shift + P brings up the Command Palette (fancy term for a searchable menu that gives you all the available functionalities). You can basically type in this menu what you want to do, pretty much anything you can do to text is available here. If it’s not, there’s likely a plugin or an extension that you can find.

We’re able to change the case and sort the lines in a matter of seconds — then pressing Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys adds cursors, then whatever we type gets added to every line — in this case, we’re turning the names into email addresses, but your wild imagination could find myriad other ways to use this.

You might be saying — well I can do this in Excel or Google Sheets, which is true, but I have found that it is a lot quicker to handle these types of things in a text editor. You avoid having to write formulas and select things with a mouse.

Which Code Editor Should I Use?

I’m a designer — so of course, my answer is “it depends”.

If you’re new to these concepts, I would recommend getting a free trial of Sublime — it continues to be a very lightweight app and does not consume too many system resources. You can customize Sublime’s key bindings (fancy word for hotkeys) and extend its built-in functionality with plugins.

If you’ve been using Sublime, Atom, or another editor — I’d recommend checking out VS Code as well. The team at Microsoft has really done an excellent job making it a powerful, yet easy-to-use text editor.

Personally, I use both editors — Sublime is lightning quick and opens in a fraction of a second allowing me to easily paste and manipulate text. But when I want to get some more serious work done, I use VS Code. It’s difficult to top the all-in-one package that VS Code provides — a vibrant plugin and extension ecosystem, powerful command palette, and hyper-customizable interface means you can really make it your own. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is very incentivized to ensure that it’s a first-class experience for developer productivity.

Conclusion, And What’s Next?

In this first article, you will have learned the basics of the terminal, a few productivity hacks to get you started, and should have a better idea of what code editor to choose. In the next part, we’ll continue with the topics of version control, HTML and CSS, and an introduction to engineering principles.

Anything Amiss?

There’s a good chance that something in this post was obscure, obtuse, and/or obsolete and I’d love the opportunity to make it better! Please leave a comment below, DM me, or @mention me on Twitter so I can improve.

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Udemy, Skillshare, Teachable, Thinkific. What are the differences? If you’ve ever wondered this, keep tuned and we will duvet it at present on this video. So should you inspiration about growing a web-based course. However weren’t definite what platform to make use of. Well, there is a pair specific types of structures. And at present i’m going to go over them. The ones i’ll begin with in these days are Udemy, Skillshare, Teachable and Thinkific. I’ll show you what the differences are, what the benefits are, and what the dangers are. Udemy and Skillshare are each referred to as course marketplaces.They sell many guides from many special creators. And they really have their possess viewers. Teachable and Thinkific are learning administration methods often referred to as LMS. An LMS is basically a course web hosting platform and program that you need to use. So what are the advantages and drawbacks of each varieties of platforms. Let’s begin with the course marketplace platforms Udemy and Skillshare. What are the benefits of using a path marketplace. Number one can be no upfront price. You do not want a internet site. You do not want a company.You do not want a industry. If you want to make the direction about something, perhaps you wish to have to educate tips on how to cook dinner vegan. You can do that on these two websites. There may be already an audience there for you. Udemy is particularly well-known. And the men and women which are coming to Udemy and to Skillshare are watching for courses. Udemy and Skillshare each have very colossal audiences. So they’re very likely that you are going to to find anyone that needs to take your direction. They handle all the fee approaches. That includes receiving payment from the consumers and refunds and so they pay you on a ordinary groundwork. Now they each do it in a different way. Skillshare is a membership web site the place they pay so much a month. And Udemy folks prefer out guides for special amounts. So the amount you’re getting can be a little bit bit specific relying on every of the distinctive sites. So that you could wish to seem into that. Using a course market is a excellent approach to study how you can build a course. In case you’ve in no way built a path earlier than, it is a first-class option to learn. That they had supportive communities, handy to understand directions and you don’t need to be tech savvy. What are probably the most drawbacks of course marketplaces? They are not your consumers.The humans who buy your courses on a direction market are usually not your buyers, now not your clients. They’re the shoppers and purchasers of Udemy or Skillshare. That additionally signifies that you are not able to acquire their email addresses and attain out to them in my view. You are not able to use your branding, your layout. And what I mean via layout is, if you wish to put up a direction on Udemy, i am pretty certain that they require 60% video. And if you wish to do an all audio course, that’s now not going to be proper. You need to go along with the branding and the structure that the direction market requires. You are not able to promote your products. Say you’re educating a category on easy methods to prepare dinner fish and you have got a bit companion recipe booklet to go with it. You can’t promote that on these web sites.All you are able to do is promote other classes that you just sell on these sites. It is their platform, so you do ought to comply with their rules. And principles do change. And i’ve heard from humans that commonly they change more commonly similar to any other platform. When you use facebook, you comply with their ideas. When you use Twitter, you follow their ideas. It is the identical with the direction market. You must comply with their ideas on how they want their publications made, how you can advertise for them, the pricing. All of that is set by means of the direction market. My ultimate proposal on path marketplaces is it is a exceptional alternative if you are just getting started with guides, and you no longer already have an viewers, and wish to hone your skills. So if you haven’t constructed a course earlier than and simply want to experiment out the waters, this possibly a first-rate option for you. Subsequent let’s talk about LMS systems.Studying administration programs. The two we’ll duvet listed here are Teachable and Thinkific. They may be probably the most standard ones, however now not the only ones out there for sure. What are one of the most benefits of utilizing a studying administration approach? Quantity one, manage. And this is the biggest one. You have manage on these structures to manipulate your rate, to manipulate your branding, to control your structure. As an alternative you want to go with video, audio, PDF. Most of all, that you may accumulate emails. You could get the emails of the folks taking your course, so that you could market to them in the future.Product merchandising. When you’ve got different merchandise that you wish to have to promote for your classification that you consider can be a good partner guide or an upsell, you are able to do that in Thinkific and Teachable. No competitors. Considering Thinkific and Teachable are extra of a webhosting site, you promote it in your possess web site. You set the hyperlinks up to your possess website. So there is not any competition there are not any different lessons about what you’re instructing in the same discipline. These are all of your classes is all with a view to exhibit up.An additional benefit is these are your buyers. That you can market to them. That you can get their emails. That you could attain out to them. As soon as they’re on your method, they are your patrons. They may be not Teachable’s customers. They are no longer Thinkific’s purchasers. They are your customers. So what are one of the crucial drawbacks of a finding out administration approach? Teachable and Thinkific should not going to do the advertising for you. You are going to must market your path yourself. Whether you do that to your social media website, do that for your website, do this to your email record. You need to provide the social proof. On sites like Udemy and Skillshare, individuals supply ratings and reviews of the guides that have taken. However on a finding out administration process like Teachable and Thinkific it’s simply your direction and there are no studies.You have to manage payments and refunds. Now it is a large one for some people. This can be a actual headache. And even though Teachable and Thinkific have finished an quality job of creating it simpler for you, ultimately you might be nonetheless liable. You’re still in charge for making definite that the whole thing is established to acquire repayments. And that the whole lot is set up to method refunds for anyone that wishes money back. Teachable and Thinkific are fairly excellent. However they’re quite a few additional work, time beyond regulation and more money. Relying on how you’re employed it. Each of these are without doubt, phenomenally, convenient to use. However the additional work is available in with the advertising and marketing, developing sales pages, establishing the fee, developing electronic mail sequences. And people all take quite a lot of time. And there are distinctive buck amounts relying on how giant your direction is, how many humans are going to be taking it. You may also have got to use one of the vital paid types of Thinkific and Teachable.My overview of finding out management methods is this is a exceptional option if you have already got a brand and an audience. Or should you just need the liberty to construct it your means, and understand the scope of the work that goes into it. And the scope of the work it can be gonna take for you to put it on the market. So which platform is excellent for your business? Simplest that you may answer that. It is dependent upon where you’re, how expert you are, how techie you’re, what codecs you need it in.There may be a lot to believe about. And i am hoping that this has helped you work that out. Now you’ve gotten a better proposal of the place to begin. You could have a greater notion of what the specific structures offer. You probably have any questions, be certain to drop them down under. I will likely be glad to answer them. Thanks for watching. In case you located this video precious, be certain and provides us a thumbs up. And subscribe for future broadcast. Thanks for staring at. .

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Udemy, Skillshare, Teachable, Thinkific - What's the difference? (2018)

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Udemy, Skillshare, Teachable, Thinkific - What's the difference? (2018)

Udemy, Skillshare, Teachable, Thinkific. What are the differences? If you’ve ever wondered this, keep tuned and we will duvet it at present on this video. So should you inspiration about growing a web-based course. However weren’t definite what platform to make use of. Well, there is a pair specific types of structures. And at present i’m going to go over them. The ones i’ll begin with in these days are Udemy, Skillshare, Teachable and Thinkific. I’ll show you what the differences are, what the benefits are, and what the dangers are. Udemy and Skillshare are each referred to as course marketplaces.They sell many guides from many special creators. And they really have their possess viewers. Teachable and Thinkific are learning administration methods often referred to as LMS. An LMS is basically a course web hosting platform and program that you need to use. So what are the advantages and drawbacks of each varieties of platforms. Let’s begin with the course marketplace platforms Udemy and Skillshare. What are the benefits of using a path marketplace. Number one can be no upfront price. You do not want a internet site. You do not want a company.You do not want a industry. If you want to make the direction about something, perhaps you wish to have to educate tips on how to cook dinner vegan. You can do that on these two websites. There may be already an audience there for you. Udemy is particularly well-known. And the men and women which are coming to Udemy and to Skillshare are watching for courses. Udemy and Skillshare each have very colossal audiences. So they’re very likely that you are going to to find anyone that needs to take your direction. They handle all the fee approaches. That includes receiving payment from the consumers and refunds and so they pay you on a ordinary groundwork. Now they each do it in a different way. Skillshare is a membership web site the place they pay so much a month. And Udemy folks prefer out guides for special amounts. So the amount you’re getting can be a little bit bit specific relying on every of the distinctive sites. So that you could wish to seem into that. Using a course market is a excellent approach to study how you can build a course. In case you’ve in no way built a path earlier than, it is a first-class option to learn. That they had supportive communities, handy to understand directions and you don’t need to be tech savvy. What are probably the most drawbacks of course marketplaces? They are not your consumers.The humans who buy your courses on a direction market are usually not your buyers, now not your clients. They’re the shoppers and purchasers of Udemy or Skillshare. That additionally signifies that you are not able to acquire their email addresses and attain out to them in my view. You are not able to use your branding, your layout. And what I mean via layout is, if you wish to put up a direction on Udemy, i am pretty certain that they require 60% video. And if you wish to do an all audio course, that’s now not going to be proper. You need to go along with the branding and the structure that the direction market requires. You are not able to promote your products. Say you’re educating a category on easy methods to prepare dinner fish and you have got a bit companion recipe booklet to go with it. You can’t promote that on these web sites.All you are able to do is promote other classes that you just sell on these sites. It is their platform, so you do ought to comply with their rules. And principles do change. And i’ve heard from humans that commonly they change more commonly similar to any other platform. When you use facebook, you comply with their ideas. When you use Twitter, you follow their ideas. It is the identical with the direction market. You must comply with their ideas on how they want their publications made, how you can advertise for them, the pricing. All of that is set by means of the direction market. My ultimate proposal on path marketplaces is it is a exceptional alternative if you are just getting started with guides, and you no longer already have an viewers, and wish to hone your skills. So if you haven’t constructed a course earlier than and simply want to experiment out the waters, this possibly a first-rate option for you. Subsequent let’s talk about LMS systems.Studying administration programs. The two we’ll duvet listed here are Teachable and Thinkific. They may be probably the most standard ones, however now not the only ones out there for sure. What are one of the most benefits of utilizing a studying administration approach? Quantity one, manage. And this is the biggest one. You have manage on these structures to manipulate your rate, to manipulate your branding, to control your structure. As an alternative you want to go with video, audio, PDF. Most of all, that you may accumulate emails. You could get the emails of the folks taking your course, so that you could market to them in the future.Product merchandising. When you’ve got different merchandise that you wish to have to promote for your classification that you consider can be a good partner guide or an upsell, you are able to do that in Thinkific and Teachable. No competitors. Considering Thinkific and Teachable are extra of a webhosting site, you promote it in your possess web site. You set the hyperlinks up to your possess website. So there is not any competition there are not any different lessons about what you’re instructing in the same discipline. These are all of your classes is all with a view to exhibit up.An additional benefit is these are your buyers. That you can market to them. That you can get their emails. That you could attain out to them. As soon as they’re on your method, they are your patrons. They may be not Teachable’s customers. They are no longer Thinkific’s purchasers. They are your customers. So what are one of the crucial drawbacks of a finding out administration approach? Teachable and Thinkific should not going to do the advertising for you. You are going to must market your path yourself. Whether you do that to your social media website, do that for your website, do this to your email record. You need to provide the social proof. On sites like Udemy and Skillshare, individuals supply ratings and reviews of the guides that have taken. However on a finding out administration process like Teachable and Thinkific it’s simply your direction and there are no studies.You have to manage payments and refunds. Now it is a large one for some people. This can be a actual headache. And even though Teachable and Thinkific have finished an quality job of creating it simpler for you, ultimately you might be nonetheless liable. You’re still in charge for making definite that the whole thing is established to acquire repayments. And that the whole lot is set up to method refunds for anyone that wishes money back. Teachable and Thinkific are fairly excellent. However they’re quite a few additional work, time beyond regulation and more money. Relying on how you’re employed it. Each of these are without doubt, phenomenally, convenient to use. However the additional work is available in with the advertising and marketing, developing sales pages, establishing the fee, developing electronic mail sequences. And people all take quite a lot of time. And there are distinctive buck amounts relying on how giant your direction is, how many humans are going to be taking it. You may also have got to use one of the vital paid types of Thinkific and Teachable.My overview of finding out management methods is this is a exceptional option if you have already got a brand and an audience. Or should you just need the liberty to construct it your means, and understand the scope of the work that goes into it. And the scope of the work it can be gonna take for you to put it on the market. So which platform is excellent for your business? Simplest that you may answer that. It is dependent upon where you’re, how expert you are, how techie you’re, what codecs you need it in.There may be a lot to believe about. And i am hoping that this has helped you work that out. Now you’ve gotten a better proposal of the place to begin. You could have a greater notion of what the specific structures offer. You probably have any questions, be certain to drop them down under. I will likely be glad to answer them. Thanks for watching. In case you located this video precious, be certain and provides us a thumbs up. And subscribe for future broadcast. Thanks for staring at. .

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Android Architecture Components: Getting Started

Android and the Android SDK have improved a great deal over the years. We’ve received major API upgrades and additions. The UI has changed completely throughout the versions. However, some aspects of the SDK are still challenging, and can leave us with quite a headache.

An example headache is the Android application lifecycle. More often than not it follows the Uncertainty Principle. When you’re not paying attention, it works just like you want it to. But when you’re relying on it, it tends to work its own way. :[

Another issue, which goes along tightly with the lifecycle, is app architecture. Even though Android architecture changes faces about as often as Arya Stark does, the same issues usually remain. Namely, data flow problems, persistence, and stability. But how do you tackle these without complicating your code base?

Believe it or not, you’re now finally able to build a stable architecture in Android. It only took 9 years! And you don’t have to hack, complicate things, or build it yourself! You can do this by using the awesome Android Architecture Components framework from Google.

In this tutorial, you’ll dive into the vast world of Android Architecture Components, model your use case, and build an app to back it all up. In doing so, you’ll learn:

Some of the primary Android Architecture Components and why they exist

How to structure your app to conform to Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)

How to observe data in a safe way

Note: This Android Architecture Components overview assumes that you’re familiar with the basics of Android development and application structuring. If you’re new to Android, please check out our Beginner Android series and other Android tutorials.

Getting Started

In a little bit, you’ll download the starter project and dive into code. I know you’re hungry for some Kotlin, but you’ll understand the code and logic much better if you learn about the Android Architecture Components in theory first. :]

We’ll be covering Lifecycle, LiveData, and ViewModel, but leaving other Android Architecture Components such as Room for other tutorials.

Lifecycle: Cycling

Android Architecture Components encapsulate three major architectural aspects of app development. And they’ve made way for a new style of application structuring. Even more so, they address issues of stability, data persistence and flow in a very serious manner. With this in mind, we will likely see the quality of Android apps grow in the future like wildfire.

But enough talk: you’re due for an example! Let’s start off with one of the most important concepts, the Lifecycle.

You’ve more likely than not seen the lifecycle graph for activities and fragments. It’s a bit of a mess when you first look at it, isn’t it? Most bad things happen when we do something in the incorrect app state. If something like this popped into your head:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState

then you know how frustrating it can be when you forget to unsubscribe a request. To make the Android world a little more crash-free, Google’s built Lifecycle.

It branches out to three concepts, Lifecycle LifecycleObserver, and LifecycleEvent. As a result, you can act on state changes from lifecycle you’re in by annotating methods. This means you can shoot out requests, and update the UI, knowing you’re in safe state.

You might say: “It seems pointless, why don’t I use onCreate or onStart to handle state?”. Well, the Android lifecycle is about as stable as a chair with two legs, so the callbacks don’t provide much safety. So for the most part you’re right, but in some cases callbacks aren’t either accessible or enough.

Have a look at the following example:

class MyLocationListener(private val lifecycle: Lifecycle) : LifecycleObserver { @OnLifecycleEvent(Lifecycle.Event.ON_START) fun start() { if (lifecycle.currentState.isAtLeast(Lifecycle.State.STARTED)) { // connect if not connected } } @OnLifecycleEvent(Lifecycle.Event.ON_STOP) fun stop() { // disconnect if connected } }

Often we need user location updates. But if the user leaves our app, we should stop listening to save data and battery. In fact Lifecycle tells us when it’s safe to listen, and when it isn’t. Moreover, we don’t have to create custom listeners for onStart and onStop events.

To sum up, we’ve seen how this basic yet powerful concept can make our life easier. We’ve seen how easy it is to replace horrid listeners with a LifecycleObserver in our existing code. But we still haven’t addressed the issue of supplying data to the UI!

LiveData: It’s Aliiiiiive!

Continuing in the same spirit, look at another common scenario:

override fun onFailure(call: Call<BeersResponse>?, t: Throwable?) { view.hideLoading() view.showNoData() ... }

This is a situation we often face, receiving an error from the backend. Of course, we need to handle errors, but how do we do this in a clean way?

In the case that we have a View that displays an error, it is crucial to have both show() and hide() methods for the error. Although this might seem OK, we’re adding methods to the View. Furthermore, the business logic layer shouldn’t know what the view can do and what happens on the UI.

Also, this makes you write a ton of boilerplate interfaces and method declarations for each screen. You know how painstaking that can be. But, once again, Architecture Components save the day. This time featuring LiveData!

What is LiveData made of? Other than sweets and magical essence, it’s basically just an Observable value that is also Lifecycle aware. Quite simple in it’s nature, yet very powerful. It is aware of the app state. So if you do go into background, but your response decides to arrive anyway, the data value is set, but not emitted. Once you’re back in the positive state of mind (read onStart) the data is sent, and the UI gets updated.

The main difference to the typical approach of requesting data from an API is that the UI subscribes to the data, and then knows what to do with it when it arrives. The business logic layer no longer imperatively says what to do.

Although it might seem that you’re moving logic from the business layer into the view, that’s not the case. In reality, all the view knows is that there is data to listen to. You’ll achieve it by subscribing this Lifecycle to a LiveData object.

Since our business logic doesn’t tell the UI what to do, we’ve achieved a nice separation of concerns. That will help us unit test our app. You’ll see how this separation is done later on in the sample project.

ViewModel: Modelling Gig

Luckily I’m not talking about fashion models, it’s not really my strong suit. The type of models we’ll be confronting are ViewModels!

In order to understand them we’ll go through an example in the sample project. For now, you need to know ViewModels are persistent throughout a Lifecycle scope. Meaning, if you create it in an Activity, as long as the Activity lives in the stack, so does the ViewModel. Knowing this, we can create a ViewModel in Activity scope, and use it in multiple Fragments, effectively sharing data between them.

Activities and fragments are owners of a Lifecycle, as they implement the LifecycleOwner interface. This means they can provide their instance of Lifecycle when asked.

Also, calling for ViewModel instances will always return the Lifecycle bound instance. They even persist through orientation changes! So, by combining LiveData with ViewModels, you have data persistence such as for the savedInstanceState. This will save you from tons of crashes!

You’ve survived my excruciatingly long introduction, way to go! :]

One Project to Implement Them All

In order to show you the full extent of Android Architecture Components, we’ve created a sample project. Also, we’ve found a real life example to make each component as clear as possible. Shall we begin?

Start off by downloading the sample starter project here. Open the project in Android Studio 3.0.1 or greater and build and run to make sure all is well:

Let’s go over the project structure, which you can see is modular by package. The api and interaction packages are part of the model layer, the connection to backend. The di package contains, well – the dependency injection setup! The rest should be pretty self explanatory, with ui containing Android specific files and models containing our data classes. We’ve also added all of the needed dependencies to Gradle and separated them a bit for better understanding.

You’re using Retrofit for network requests, Glide for image loading, and Dagger for dependency injection.

The model classes look as follows:

data class Beer(val name: String = "", val style: BeerStyle = BeerStyle(), val labels: BeerLabels = BeerLabels()) data class BeerLabels(val large: String = "", val medium: String = "") data class BeerStyle(val name: String = "") data class BeerResponse(@SerializedName("data") val beers: List<Beer>, val currentPage: Int)

The labels contain your beer images so you can see what you drink. You’ll also display the beer name, and a style. The beer response models the beer data coming back from the API.

The ViewHolders to display the beers are also prepared for you in the starter project, and they’re fairly simple:

class BeerHolder(itemView: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView) { fun showBeer(beer: Beer): Unit = with(itemView) { beerStyle.text = beer.style.name beerName.text = beer.name val mediumImage = beer.labels.medium val largeImage = beer.labels.large // load whichever image exists Glide.with(itemView).load(if (largeImage.isNotBlank()) { largeImage } else { mediumImage }).into(beerImage) } }

Since we’re using Kotlin Android Extensions, we don’t have to manually initialize Views using findViewById.

Waiter, I’ll have a beer please :]

We’ve chosen the best sample app purpose we could: beer drinking! However, beers don’t magically appear in your hands (sadly). You must first create an application at the BreweryDB. Create a new account, if you haven’t got one already.

Go to the Developers page, and click “Start Developing Now”. Next, accept the license to sell your soul to the Beer Gods:

Finally, create an API key to use in your requests by clicking “Register A New App” and giving your app the name BottomsUp:

You should see your app now, with the API key:

It may take a day or two for BreweryDB to approve your app, so you’ll see a “Pending Activation” message on the app screen. Calls to the API won’t work until the app is approved.

Since our app is simple, you can store your new key at the end of AppConstants.kt:

const val API_KEY = "your-api-key"

If this were a production app, you’re advised you to keep the key in a safe environment.

Hitchhiking Through Components

While 42 may be the answer to what life is about, this app will be about a reactive, lifecycle aware structure. You’ve got a backend now, and most of the core setup, but you need to integrate the Architecture Components. With LiveData you will make the UI update on data changes. ViewModel will make the requests survive orientation changes. Additionally, you’ll safely execute requests in the proper app state thanks to Lifecycle.

You’ll start off by requesting beers from the backend API. Then you’ll supply the ViewModel‘s LiveData mini cooler with said beers. And last but not least, you’ll provide the view with a cold one from the ViewModel by letting it subscribe to LiveData changes.

Building your ViewModel

Start by creating a viewmodel package in the app root. Then create a BeersViewModel class, which extends ViewModel, in the package:

class BeersViewModel : ViewModel() { }

Your ViewModel needs a reference to the BreweryInteractor prepared in the starter project. Do this by adding a lazily computed value named interactor, at the top of the class, provided by the AppComponent from the application subclass App:

private val interactor by lazy { App.component.breweryInteractor() }

Next, you need to request beers from the interactor. For now, add a method getBeers() to request the first page of beers, and add a callback in your ViewModel just under the variable declarations:

fun getBeers() { interactor.getBeers(1, beersCallback()) } private fun beersCallback() = object : Callback<BeerResponse> { override fun onFailure(call: Call<BeerResponse>?, t: Throwable?) { } override fun onResponse(call: Call<BeerResponse>?, response: Response<BeerResponse>?) { } }

When prompted to import classes such as Code or Response, be sure to use the Retrofit2 classes.

Now you have everything a ViewModel needs, except for LiveData (which you’ll add below)! :]

One last thing you need to do before you move on to LiveData is add the ViewModel to the top of BeersActivity.kt:

private val viewModel by lazy { getViewModel<BeersViewModel>() }

The sample project comes with a few neat extension functions that help to tidy up your code. So instead of calling ViewModelProviders.of(target).get(viewModelClass), here you instead call getViewModel().

You might have noticed how your DI is currently done by lazy values. This is not necessarily the best approach, but Dagger and ViewModels don’t work together out of the box. In order to create a ViewModel with Dagger, you have to declare a custom Factory, which is done by using mapped binding or subcomponents.

For the purposes of simplicity though, the project will use lazy values. You can check out Google’s sample app on Architecture Components to see the subcomponent approach. :]

A Time for Change (or Being Reactive)

Everything moves and changes fast. The key is being able to react to changes. You’re now going to use LiveData to do so. LiveDatas. Instead of complicating your apps with Observable, you can use a LiveData structure. Simple as that. :]

You’re moving to the final task of our little tutorial – adding the data. Think about what data you need. When we first talked about components, we had an example with loading and error states. This is something our app should handle. In case of an error, we need to tell the UI that loading should stop, and an error should be shown.

Start off by adding two LiveData properties to the top of your ViewModel:

val errorData = MutableLiveData<Boolean>() val loadingData = MutableLiveData<Boolean>()

Updating their values in onFailure, like so:

override fun onFailure(call: Call<BeerResponse>?, t: Throwable?) { loadingData.value = false errorData.value = true }

For the rest of the data, you need one to hold the page value, because you have lazy loading in the sample project. In addition to that, you need one to hold the list of Beers. Add them right after the loading and error ones:

val pageData = MutableLiveData<Int>() val beerData = MutableLiveData<List<Beer>>()

Update their value from the response

override fun onResponse(call: Call<BeerResponse>?, response: Response<BeerResponse>?) { loadingData.value = false //data has come, stop the loading errorData.value = false response?.body()?.run { updateData(this) } }

Add the updateData method to the bottom of the view model:

private fun updateData(data: BeerResponse) { pageData.value = data.currentPage + 1 // increment the page beerData.value = data.beers }

All that you need to do now is wire up the view, and you’ll be ready to serve some brewskies! :]

Add a BeerAdapter under the ViewModel declaration in BeersActivity:

private val adapter = BeersAdapter()

Replace the single TextView in activity_beers.xml with the following:

<android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout android:id="@+id/pullToRefresh" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="0dp" app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent" app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"> <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView android:id="@+id/beersList" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:scrollbars="vertical" /> </android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout> <TextView android:id="@+id/errorView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Error getting beers!" app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

Add the following private helper methods into BeersActivity, which in turn initialize the UI, handle the loading state, and handle possible error conditions:

private fun initializeUi() { beersList.layoutManager = GridLayoutManager(this, 2) beersList.itemAnimator = DefaultItemAnimator() beersList.adapter = adapter } private fun showLoading(isLoading: Boolean) { pullToRefresh.isRefreshing = isLoading } private fun setErrorVisibility(shouldShow: Boolean) { errorView.visibility = if (shouldShow) View.VISIBLE else View.GONE beersList.visibility = if (!shouldShow) View.VISIBLE else View.GONE }

Now, call the initializeUI() helper in onCreate(), and make a call to the view model to get beers:

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) setContentView(R.layout.activity_beers) initializeUi() // add subscriptions viewModel.getBeers() // request the data for the first time }

But wait you’re missing something! Where are those subscriptions to the view model LiveData? Replace the “// add subscriptions” comment in onCreate with the following:

viewModel.errorData.subscribe(this, this::setErrorVisibility) viewModel.loadingData.subscribe(this, this::showLoading) viewModel.pageData.subscribe(this, adapter::clearIfNeeded) viewModel.beerData.subscribe(this, adapter::addItems)

These subscriptions add callbacks to the data changes in your LiveData. I’ll walk you through them one-by-one:

The errorData callback is the setErrorVisibility method:

) private fun setErrorVisibility(shouldShow: Boolean) { errorView.visibility = if (shouldShow) View.VISIBLE else View.GONE beersList.visibility = if (!shouldShow) View.VISIBLE else View.GONE }

When the shouldShow argument is true, an error is displayed, and the list is hidden for the moment. On the other hand, if the argument is false, the error is removed, and the list is displayed.

Next, the loadingData callback in showLoading just displays the loading state on true events and hides it on false ones.

Finally, the page and beers data govern what you will display by making calls into the BeerAdapter:

fun clearIfNeeded(page: Int) { if (page == 1) { beers.clear() } } fun addItems(newBeers: List<Beer>) { beers.addAll(newBeers.filter { beer -> beer.labels.medium.isNotBlank() || beer.labels.large.isNotBlank() }) notifyDataSetChanged() }

In case the user pulls to refresh, and resets the page to 1, you will clear the data before adding newly received items. Adding items is the standard adapter procedure. To implement pull-to-refresh, first update the BeersViewModel to modify the getBeers method and add onRefresh:

BeersViewModel.kt

fun getBeers() { interactor.getBeers(pageData.value ?: 1, beersCallback()) } fun onRefresh() { pageData.value = 1 getBeers() }

Now add the following call at the end of initializeUi in BeersActivity:

private fun initializeUi() { ... pullToRefresh.setOnRefreshListener(viewModel::onRefresh) }

To conclude, you see the input is the data from your ViewModel, whereas the output is the resulting UI changes. Now you should have everything you need to get the long awaited beers! :]

Run the app to get some beers. Everything should be working as planned (fingers crossed):

The implementation of infinite scroll to load the subsequent pages is not the focus of this tutorial. However, just call viewModel.getBeers() when you want to load a new page. The page increment has already been taken care of.

Reinventing the Wheel

You’ve used LiveData in this tutorial, but it’s quite the same as using Rx programming isn’t it? Well, not quite. While it follows the same core principle of the Observer pattern, LiveData has one huge advantage: it has a built in subscribe/unsubscribe system.

While Google encourages you to use whichever you prefer, they advise that by using Rx, you have to handle the unsubscribing yourself.

From what I’ve seen, Rx is very lightly used in most projects. So having a huge dependency just for passing data around from API requests is not my recommendation. Unless you’re doing Rx style operations like combining multiple requests, you’re better off with LiveData.

Where to Go From Here?

You can download the final project here.

There is a ton of materials on Android Architecture Components, since they’ve become one of the main things the Android community is actively researching and using. You can find a lot of articles out there, some of which are:

Joe Birch’s series

Google’s github, featuring a ton of sample apps

My article depicting a nice way to handle errors

And of course be on the lookout for more of our tutorials on Android Architecture Components!

If you have any questions or comments, please join the discussion in the comments below.

The post Android Architecture Components: Getting Started appeared first on Ray Wenderlich.

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Hey /r/entrepreneur Two nights ago I posted part 0 of my 1 week challenge to build and launch a 'Micro-SaaS' business from scratch. Last night I sort of kicked things off. I originally planned to post updates in a ride along type way as I started developing this thing from scratch, but I actually hit a pretty large, unexpected road block right out of the gate and had to do some recalibrating. Here's a quick overview of what happened. To recap, the original idea I had was to build a Stripe subscription manager that let's users connect their stripe account to manage & customize the subscriptions they sell. I've seen people asking how they can do this a decent amount in places like stack overflow so it seems like there's some demand here. So basically, the flow of my application would have looked something like this:You connect your Stripe account, my app imports your dataYou have a monthly subscription plan you created in Stripe and want to customize (let's call it the "gold" plan for example)You want to turn this into a monthly payment plan that ends after 6 successful payments. Here's where I ran into a wall: The underlying functionality of my application would be the ability to cancel subscriptions for your customers at the appropriate time. For example, the gold plan above successfully receives 6 payments from one of your customers. My app monitors that and cancels the subscription as it has completed its life cycle. I realized last night before getting started that I had been leaning on a pretty big assumption that because Stripe Connect let's you do things like create new subscriptions for users, that it would also let you cancel subscriptions. But I realized I hadn't actually looked through Stripe's Connect Docs to explicitly verify the fine print around that. Oops. A quick scan through Stripe's Connect documentation last night led me to this point in particular regarding Subscriptions & Connect: "Your platform can’t update or cancel a subscription it did not create" ..So in order for my idea to work, whatever I build would have to be able to also handle actually creating the subscriptions it would be managing. Well unfortunately, that's a bit beyond the scope of what I'm trying to build in a week, and starts to get more into the space of what I think larger companies like Recurly and Chargify do. Bummer. Anyways, with all of that being said, I still want to keep the momentum going and try to ship something in 1 week. So here's what I'm proposing as the new plan: About a month ago I posted on here that I was tinkering around with Stripe's API to build a Stripe analytics dashboard for fun. Basically over the course of a few weekends or so I built a semi-functional little mvp dashboard; however it was very, very scrappy, to say the least. For example - no data from Stripe was actually being stored into the app, so everything was happening when you would load the dashboard page via multiple API requests. This resulted in pretty heavy load times, especially for subscription data, and started over every single time you would reload the dashboard page. That and other things made it a pretty minimal MVP, and there's a lot based off building that MVP that I would now do very differently on a rebuild. So what I'm proposing then is to try to build a fully functional Stripe analytics dashboard, starting over from scratch, over the course of this one week challenge, documenting the process as I go. 1-2 tiny ways that I'll be cheating just a little bit:I already snagged a domain that I kind of like and will probably keep using ( tigerlytics.io )I already have a landing page I built that I kind of like and might keep using as well. Aside from that I'll be starting completely from scratch on it today. I think one challenge worth pointing out with this idea will be trying to figure out during the week how I can potentially build something that has a unique offering compared to other Stripe Analytics tools that already exists, of which there are definitely a few out there. Overall though, I'm still excited about the challenge and looking forward to keeping the ball rolling. What do you guys think?

#/r/entrepreneur #reddit

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5 CRO Mistakes That Need to Be Fixed!

Much like your link building campaign or the process of your keyword research, CRO should also be on the top list of your priorities. Without the proper enactment of CRO into your SEO, your rate of converting visitors into customers would be mediocre – to say the least. So, this only highlights the importance of CRO for every business or brand that has an online presence.

It is common knowledge that Conversion Rate Optimization is a system that most – if not all – webmasters of business websites use to increase the percentage of visitors converted into a customer. However, this process is still susceptible to errors and mistakes that can damage your SEO campaign. Today, I’ll be giving out some tips which have always worked for me whenever I encountered some problems in my CRO endeavors.

Here’s a scenario: You test a redesign through A/B testing – which would mean that half of your visitors could see the original design of your page, and the other half would see the new redesign that you worked on.

Then, after a month or so, you notice that the demo requests increased from 4% to 15%. This means good news for you and your company. So, you immediately report to the boss that your new redesign works, and they give you the go sign.

However, after you have introduced the new redesign, the requests suddenly decrease. So, you assume that it is about the seasonal changes in the consumer’s tastes, and you wait a few months to see if it would go improve.  Then, your monthly recurring revenue is also decreasing, so what’s wrong?

The Mistake

It so happens that the length of time of your test was not long enough for the results to be significant. The page you used in the test only received an average of 60 views per day, but the optimal number would have been over a hundred thousand for it to have an over 90% confidence level. So, because of the mistake, the company is losing important business.

This is just one of the mistakes you can make in your CRO. It is actually understandable because numerous marketers THINK that they are leading their company to something great, but in reality, they are just walking down a path that could break their company.

Always remember that the primary goal of CRO is to find out the truth and use it to improve a specific business. So, making assumptions and basing decisions on incomplete data will be detrimental instead of being helpful.

Here are some mistakes that most marketers commit, and how you could fix them.

CRO Mistakes and How to Fix Them

#1. CRO is NOT A/B Testing

Treating CRO the same as A/B testing is a huge mistake. Undoubtedly, A/B testing is a TYPE of CRO, and it is just one tool you could use – out of many others. This tool can only test a single variable against another for the tester to know which of the two performs better. Meanwhile, the scope of CRO covers the totality of all manners of testing, which points to the same end: to make your visitors take a certain action.

If you think that using A/B testing is the same as doing CRO, then you are making a huge mistake. Also, there are instances wherein A/B testing is not helpful. Here’s an example: If you are using A/B testing and the sample size is not large enough, then it could take a long time before you get your desired statistical significance.

And, if you want to stop using A/B testing after a long time of not garnering the sufficient results, then you will be basing some decisions without scientific backing.

I won’t deny that knowing how to do A/B testing is a great starting point for your CRO campaign. However, it is still important for you to know other methodologies in order to not restrict yourself to just one type of tool. So, when you are already knowledgeable about different CRO methodologies, you can try using multiple changes in variables at a time, instead of only change a single variable.

#2. Context for Your Conversion Rates

The term “conversion” could mean a lot of things. Some meanings could be about purchases, leads, prospects, and subscribers – it all just depends on the goal of your page. Instead of talking about you having a massive increase in conversion, be specific about it. Talking about having an increase in conversion while not specifying what kind it just makes your point meaningless.

However, specifying what kind of conversion you had is just one part of the whole picture. A question such as “when did you conduct the test?” will most likely be raised whenever you claim something about your conversion rate. This is likely the case because the dates in which you conducted the test can effectively yield to varying results. This necessitates that even if your tests yield a 90+% significance after only five days, you would still need to conduct the test for the entirety of a week because the results you achieve would vary for each day of the week. It is also important to remember that conducting a test during holiday seasons will yield very different results as compared to conducting tests during ordinary months such as March. Seasonality will ALWAYS affect your conversion rate.

Many factors can have a major impact on your conversion rate. One of which is the platform the users are on. They might be willing to fill out your forms while on a desktop or laptop, but they are not willing to fill that out while on their mobile device. So, make sure that the mobile users are converting at the same rate.

Lastly, always remember that conversion rate is not your business’ most important metric. The most important metric is whether the conversions lead to profit for the company or not. For example, you make your products free, then obviously, your conversion rate would increase to extreme heights, but the company would not be making any profit, would they? The conversion rate would not always tell you if the company is doing much better or not.

#3. Not Understanding the Statistics

One of the biggest mistakes you could make is to rely on your insufficient knowledge regarding statistics. If you did not know, statistics is the foundation of CRO, if you do not understand it completely, then you would not be able to run your tests properly – which could lead to disastrous results.

Making a habit of stopping your tests when you have reached 90% statistical significance is not something a seasoned marketer would do. If you are thinking that 90% is good enough, then you are making a big mistake. Why? Think of it as going all-in in a bet. Would you risk all your hard-earned cash because you are 90% sure that you are going to win? Of course not! 90% is not good enough – it will never be good enough.

So, study on your statistics. You will need some discipline and time, but it will surely make you much better in doing your job. To start, you can read Moz’s article regarding CRO statistics.

#4. Not Experimenting on Something That Is Already Doing Well

A page that does well should not be ignored. More often than not, these assets have the highest potential to perform better when you optimize it. The best example I could give you is a project conducted by Hubspot’s Pamela Vaughan called historical optimization. It basically involved updating and re-publishing their old articles in order to generate more traffic and leads.

This meant that they updated their blog posts that ALREADY had the most influence on traffic and lead generation. In the article, Pamela made two discoveries:

76% of their monthly blog view came from blog posts that were posted prior to the month of their project.

92% of their monthly blog leads came from these blog posts.

The performance of these blog posts could be attributed to the fact that these articles slowly obtained search authority and were now steadily ranking on search engines. This meant that they were generating a bulk of the organic traffic after numerous months.

Essentially, the objective of their project was to figure out:

How to obtain more leads from their high-traffic but low-converting articles.

How to have more traffic in high-converting posts.

By optimizing these high-performing posts for more traffic and conversion, they already doubled the number of their monthly generated leads.

The most important thing to remember is that don’t ever solely focus on optimizing your assets that are underperforming. More often than not, the high-performing posts could already lead to much better results.

#5. You Prefer Tactics over Research

Process is everything when you do your CRO. You should stop depending on tactics to optimize your marketing. Make it a habit of approaching your CRO systematically and as organized as possible.

Every successful CRO should always start with thorough research. It should be the step where you spend most of your time on. This is because everything you do in the research process stays for the totality of your CRO. Through proper research, you will be able to foresee some problems that might arise in the future, and effectively make you more ready for any problems. Also, if you know where the problem will come from, you can already hypothesize what steps you should take to avoid or fix the problem.

If you haven’t noticed, I keep stressing the point that research should be your main focus while doing CRO. Oftentimes, the lack of proper research leads to failures or disastrous results. However, while I do advocate that you should focus on research, your attention and efforts should not only be limited to this process. Remember that it is only the first step of your CRO while having a complete and proper research process is great, it will be meaningless if you do not follow through to the succeeding steps. So, here’s an overview of what the process of your CRO should look like:

Do your research properly.

Create and verify your corresponding hypothesis.

Establish control and generate a treatment.

Conduct the test/experiment.

Analyze the data that you have gathered.

Initiate a follow-up test/experiment.

Note that this is just an oversimplified form of the whole CRO process. Also, remember that recording your hypothesis, methodology, success scale, and analysis in a way that you could easily replicate everything. Finally, regarding the follow-up test/experiment, make sure that it is a way to refine your next step, and to make some major improvements.

#6. Giving Up After A Test Fails

Having a test fail is never a cause for giving up. The best approach you could do is to continuously conduct tests even if they fail numerous times. Approach every single test systematically and as objectively as you can. Disregard your assumptions that failed, and eventually, your desired results shall be obtained.

Key Takeaway

CRO is never an easy process, failure will always happen, and to be successful means learning from every test that you have conducted. This article will help you improve your overall CRO, and will make you take a more systematic approach to every experiment or test that you conduct.

You will save a huge amount of time and money by avoiding the mistakes that I have highlighted above. Of course, these are not the only mistakes that people make while doing CRO, but these are the most common. So, be wary of everything you do in your CRO.

Do you know any other CRO mistakes that I was not able to mention? Tell me in the comments below and let’s talk about it.

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#5 CRO Mistakes That Need to Be Fixed!

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5 CRO Mistakes That Need to Be Fixed!

Much like your link building campaign or the process of your keyword research, CRO should also be on the top list of your priorities. Without the proper enactment of CRO into your SEO, your rate of converting visitors into customers would be mediocre – to say the least. So, this only highlights the importance of CRO for every business or brand that has an online presence.

It is common knowledge that Conversion Rate Optimization is a system that most – if not all – webmasters of business websites use to increase the percentage of visitors converted into a customer. However, this process is still susceptible to errors and mistakes that can damage your SEO campaign. Today, I’ll be giving out some tips which have always worked for me whenever I encountered some problems in my CRO endeavors.

Here’s a scenario: You test a redesign through A/B testing – which would mean that half of your visitors could see the original design of your page, and the other half would see the new redesign that you worked on.

Then, after a month or so, you notice that the demo requests increased from 4% to 15%. This means good news for you and your company. So, you immediately report to the boss that your new redesign works, and they give you the go sign.

However, after you have introduced the new redesign, the requests suddenly decrease. So, you assume that it is about the seasonal changes in the consumer’s tastes, and you wait a few months to see if it would go improve.  Then, your monthly recurring revenue is also decreasing, so what’s wrong?

The Mistake

It so happens that the length of time of your test was not long enough for the results to be significant. The page you used in the test only received an average of 60 views per day, but the optimal number would have been over a hundred thousand for it to have an over 90% confidence level. So, because of the mistake, the company is losing important business.

This is just one of the mistakes you can make in your CRO. It is actually understandable because numerous marketers THINK that they are leading their company to something great, but in reality, they are just walking down a path that could break their company.

Always remember that the primary goal of CRO is to find out the truth and use it to improve a specific business. So, making assumptions and basing decisions on incomplete data will be detrimental instead of being helpful.

Here are some mistakes that most marketers commit, and how you could fix them.

CRO Mistakes and How to Fix Them

#1. CRO is NOT A/B Testing

Treating CRO the same as A/B testing is a huge mistake. Undoubtedly, A/B testing is a TYPE of CRO, and it is just one tool you could use – out of many others. This tool can only test a single variable against another for the tester to know which of the two performs better. Meanwhile, the scope of CRO covers the totality of all manners of testing, which points to the same end: to make your visitors take a certain action.

If you think that using A/B testing is the same as doing CRO, then you are making a huge mistake. Also, there are instances wherein A/B testing is not helpful. Here’s an example: If you are using A/B testing and the sample size is not large enough, then it could take a long time before you get your desired statistical significance.

And, if you want to stop using A/B testing after a long time of not garnering the sufficient results, then you will be basing some decisions without scientific backing.

I won’t deny that knowing how to do A/B testing is a great starting point for your CRO campaign. However, it is still important for you to know other methodologies in order to not restrict yourself to just one type of tool. So, when you are already knowledgeable about different CRO methodologies, you can try using multiple changes in variables at a time, instead of only change a single variable.

#2. Context for Your Conversion Rates

The term “conversion” could mean a lot of things. Some meanings could be about purchases, leads, prospects, and subscribers – it all just depends on the goal of your page. Instead of talking about you having a massive increase in conversion, be specific about it. Talking about having an increase in conversion while not specifying what kind it just makes your point meaningless.

However, specifying what kind of conversion you had is just one part of the whole picture. A question such as “when did you conduct the test?” will most likely be raised whenever you claim something about your conversion rate. This is likely the case because the dates in which you conducted the test can effectively yield to varying results. This necessitates that even if your tests yield a 90+% significance after only five days, you would still need to conduct the test for the entirety of a week because the results you achieve would vary for each day of the week. It is also important to remember that conducting a test during holiday seasons will yield very different results as compared to conducting tests during ordinary months such as March. Seasonality will ALWAYS affect your conversion rate.

Many factors can have a major impact on your conversion rate. One of which is the platform the users are on. They might be willing to fill out your forms while on a desktop or laptop, but they are not willing to fill that out while on their mobile device. So, make sure that the mobile users are converting at the same rate.

Lastly, always remember that conversion rate is not your business’ most important metric. The most important metric is whether the conversions lead to profit for the company or not. For example, you make your products free, then obviously, your conversion rate would increase to extreme heights, but the company would not be making any profit, would they? The conversion rate would not always tell you if the company is doing much better or not.

#3. Not Understanding the Statistics

One of the biggest mistakes you could make is to rely on your insufficient knowledge regarding statistics. If you did not know, statistics is the foundation of CRO, if you do not understand it completely, then you would not be able to run your tests properly – which could lead to disastrous results.

Making a habit of stopping your tests when you have reached 90% statistical significance is not something a seasoned marketer would do. If you are thinking that 90% is good enough, then you are making a big mistake. Why? Think of it as going all-in in a bet. Would you risk all your hard-earned cash because you are 90% sure that you are going to win? Of course not! 90% is not good enough – it will never be good enough.

So, study on your statistics. You will need some discipline and time, but it will surely make you much better in doing your job. To start, you can read Moz’s article regarding CRO statistics.

#4. Not Experimenting on Something That Is Already Doing Well

A page that does well should not be ignored. More often than not, these assets have the highest potential to perform better when you optimize it. The best example I could give you is a project conducted by Hubspot’s Pamela Vaughan called historical optimization. It basically involved updating and re-publishing their old articles in order to generate more traffic and leads.

This meant that they updated their blog posts that ALREADY had the most influence on traffic and lead generation. In the article, Pamela made two discoveries:

76% of their monthly blog view came from blog posts that were posted prior to the month of their project.

92% of their monthly blog leads came from these blog posts.

The performance of these blog posts could be attributed to the fact that these articles slowly obtained search authority and were now steadily ranking on search engines. This meant that they were generating a bulk of the organic traffic after numerous months.

Essentially, the objective of their project was to figure out:

How to obtain more leads from their high-traffic but low-converting articles.

How to have more traffic in high-converting posts.

By optimizing these high-performing posts for more traffic and conversion, they already doubled the number of their monthly generated leads.

The most important thing to remember is that don’t ever solely focus on optimizing your assets that are underperforming. More often than not, the high-performing posts could already lead to much better results.

#5. You Prefer Tactics over Research

Process is everything when you do your CRO. You should stop depending on tactics to optimize your marketing. Make it a habit of approaching your CRO systematically and as organized as possible.

Every successful CRO should always start with thorough research. It should be the step where you spend most of your time on. This is because everything you do in the research process stays for the totality of your CRO. Through proper research, you will be able to foresee some problems that might arise in the future, and effectively make you more ready for any problems. Also, if you know where the problem will come from, you can already hypothesize what steps you should take to avoid or fix the problem.

If you haven’t noticed, I keep stressing the point that research should be your main focus while doing CRO. Oftentimes, the lack of proper research leads to failures or disastrous results. However, while I do advocate that you should focus on research, your attention and efforts should not only be limited to this process. Remember that it is only the first step of your CRO while having a complete and proper research process is great, it will be meaningless if you do not follow through to the succeeding steps. So, here’s an overview of what the process of your CRO should look like:

Do your research properly.

Create and verify your corresponding hypothesis.

Establish control and generate a treatment.

Conduct the test/experiment.

Analyze the data that you have gathered.

Initiate a follow-up test/experiment.

Note that this is just an oversimplified form of the whole CRO process. Also, remember that recording your hypothesis, methodology, success scale, and analysis in a way that you could easily replicate everything. Finally, regarding the follow-up test/experiment, make sure that it is a way to refine your next step, and to make some major improvements.

#6. Giving Up After A Test Fails

Having a test fail is never a cause for giving up. The best approach you could do is to continuously conduct tests even if they fail numerous times. Approach every single test systematically and as objectively as you can. Disregard your assumptions that failed, and eventually, your desired results shall be obtained.

Key Takeaway

CRO is never an easy process, failure will always happen, and to be successful means learning from every test that you have conducted. This article will help you improve your overall CRO, and will make you take a more systematic approach to every experiment or test that you conduct.

You will save a huge amount of time and money by avoiding the mistakes that I have highlighted above. Of course, these are not the only mistakes that people make while doing CRO, but these are the most common. So, be wary of everything you do in your CRO.

Do you know any other CRO mistakes that I was not able to mention? Tell me in the comments below and let’s talk about it.

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#5 CRO Mistakes That Need to Be Fixed!