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prorevenge · 5 years

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Got my nightmare professor fired, might've indirectly gotten him deported too

Before this tale even begins, this is obviously a throwaway account. This is a big bitch of a story spanning two semesters, so I'm putting the tealdeer at the beginning and at the end for those who are short on time.

TL;DR - My French professor was so terrible that I decided to get him fired on behalf of my classmates. After he got fired, my partner that I worked with to do this tipped him off to an immigration agency to get him deported.

Last semester, I enrolled in an introductory French course at my university. This was to learn at least a little bit of French so that I could read French papers about French filmmaking techniques since I'm a pretty hardcore film student and I really love film as an art form. Plus, I needed some gen ed credit for my degree, so it made sense to take the course.

I went to the first lecture kind of dreading the course. I was in 19 credit hours, which is taking six classes in a single semester, and the class was 4 credit hours, meaning we met four days out of the week, every week. Very overwhelming schedule, indeed. Needless to say, I didn't work a single job that semester.

The professor, who will be referred to as Baguette because it's one of the few French words I actually know, began to go through the syllabus and I watched as the excitement that is usually present in students on the first day slowly left everyone's faces. Before I explain why, I have to address that this is the most basic French class that the university I go to offers and is really meant for people who never took a lick of French in high school. Like me.

Baguette announced that not only would he be teaching the entire class in fluent French with no English whatsoever, he wouldn't be answering questions in English at all, and if you asked him a question in French but got even a word or a conjugation wrong, he wouldn't answer you either. Attendance was mandatory as well, and you could only miss 4 class periods before he started dropping letter grades. Now, this attendance policy is unfair bullshit because we met for class just under 60 times that semester, meaning you would fail the course if you missed 8 class periods, which is only about 7% of the total course. I was looking around the class and people looked like they couldn't drop this class fast enough.

Then, he announced that not only would we not be using a physical book, we'd be using a free website online, a site called Francais Interactif. Now, this got some excitement back in the air. Textbook prices suck, and anything to lower the cost of education for students is great. You can even use the site yourself to practice your French skills, if you want. It's open source, knock yourself out.

That said, the site isn't meant to replace a textbook. There's a free workbook and audio files to help with aural comprehension on it, and that helped me and some of the other students pass some of the exams, but the site's equivalent to the part of a textbook that actually teaches you the material is extremely lacking, sometimes only having a couple of paragraphs about a really important concept in the language. In short, it gives you a ton of ways to practice concepts but almost no ways to learn them in the first place.

This would have been totally fine if Baguette would have explained things better in his lectures. But, as you'll recall, he gave them entirely in French, and in fast fluent French. So, picture this; you have to sit through four classes a week that you understand literally nothing of for an hour at a time while the professor rambles on in a language that you don't understand but are desperately trying to learn, and on top of all that, you can't even ask him any questions in English because he won't answer you and you can't ask him any questions in French either, because you don't know how to do that properly yet, and you won't for 3/4ths of the semester, because the unit that covers question words and phrases was arbitrarily put a few weeks after midterms, and on top of all that, you can't even really do your homework or study for exams because you have no fucking idea what any of this nasally shit means. Naturally, we, as a class, slowly started to get more and more frustrated as time went on. A few of us decided to band together and be friends and study partners to weather the storm. I'll call the important ones to the story R and S.

S was a foreign exchange student from Spain who spoke perfect Spanish and was taking the class to learn French for when she goes back to Europe. Now, we dug into what all other classes Baguette taught and found out that he taught Spanish, too. Perfect. We found a loophole. We could ask S a question in English, and she could ask him in Spanish, since it wasn't asking him in English, and he could answer in Spanish and she could translate that back to us in English. Now, you might be saying to yourself that this a fucking stupid and no self respecting educator should teach in this broken, shitty, ass-backwards way. You're right.

This worked for a bit, but he started answering S's Spanish questions in French to combat our little exploit of the rules. We were defeated and back to square one. We needed to devise a new plan, because most of us were failing at this point and we were stressed beyond belief.

R, a frat lad, and I, decidedly not a frat lad, became unlikely friends. He was a pretty naive kid, and he was a hardcore drinker. It visibly took a toll on him. He had a beer gut at 22 and addiction kind of mentally hollowed him out and made him flippant and emotional. The guy was super easy to piss off and he overreacted to everything. I felt bad for the guy and even outside of the struggle in class, I tried my best to be there for him. We were talking one day and we decided to meet up at the library and just theorize ways to crack the class to get at least a 60.

At the library, R was playing around on Francais Interactif trying to find the videos the professor would use for the aural part of the exam (basically, you'd listen to the video and copy down whatever the person was saying for credit. problem was, it was hard as shit and it was easily the part of the exams that took the biggest chunk out of the class's grade). He couldn't find them on the site anywhere and he got frustrated and gave up, so he started filling in the slots where you put answers on the homework pages of Francais Interactif with random words.

That's when we realized that when you do this, the site gives you the right answer regardless, no matter how wrong you are. Essentially, we now had access to the entire course's answers for the homework section and all we had to do was put one character into the answer boxes and, since all we had to do for the homework assignments was copy and paste our answers into a Word document and submit them online, we could theoretically do all the homework while knowing zero material whatsoever if we just changed the answers in Word. We sat for about 45 minutes and did the rest of the homework for the entire course this way in one sitting.

We agreed to not turn it all in at once so we couldn't get caught and we agreed to keep our mouths shut and only share this with people who wouldn't rat on us. Obviously, we told S.

One of the things I'll never forget about that first French class was that, during the final, one of the students started to quietly weep. Then, the weeping got louder, then louder still. The student was clutching his head in his hands and you could feel the palpable impotent frustration at his inability to do French correctly. After I finished the final, I saw him outside the class staring out a window in the hall. I asked if he was alright and what he was crying about and he told me he couldn't answer even the most basic questions asking for words for things like left and right and up and down and that was thing that finally broke him. That got to me, man.

Most of the kids failed the course, even some of the ones who used the homework exploit. R and S passed with a D and I passed with a C, surprisingly. The professor actually liked me, for some reason, and graded my exams a bit more fairly. Even still, I'm an A/B student, one in the Honor's Program at my university, so a C kind of stung my GPA. But, seeing as more than half the class failed, I counted my lucky stars that I got off easy.

I went to enroll in my classes for the next semester, and I had completely forgot that I still had to take another French class for my degree. I checked the class list and the second class you're supposed to take in the progression was only taught by Baguette. No other professor taught Beginning French II, apparently. This struck me as kind of odd, so I checked the rest of the French classes that were available. All of them, all 6 courses in the French department, were taught by Baguette. He was the only fucking teacher the department had. My stomach dropped as I realized I had locked myself into yet another class taught by the worst professor I've ever had, to this day.

This is class where the revenge begins, and I'm sorry if that preamble was too long, but I had to give context as to how horrible Baguette was. Even still, I'm frankly not doing him justice. His class was an artful trainwreck of incompetence, in the slowest slow motion available over nearly 60 class periods. And I had to do it again, only this time with harder material.

I had been keeping up with R and S over the winter break and S was going back to Spain, so she wouldn't be in the next class with me. But, I got R to enroll in the same section of Beginning French II as me.

Baguette passed out the syllabus to Beginning French II and it was the exact same as French I, down to us using Francais Interactif again, just in the higher chapters instead of the basic chapters. Now, here's the thing about learning a foreign language; you have to build from the basics, or else none of the other stuff makes sense. None of us in that class, not one person, knew any of the material past maybe Chapter 3. Most of us didn't even know how to ask questions. I did, so I asked questions for people who didn't, since S wasn't there.

Well, if you thought we bumbled through the basic material, no harder bumbling took place then when we started on things that have no direct English translation like y and en. When he asked students questions in this class, they'd just kind of look at him dumbfounded and shrug.

We got a study guide for our first exam and I was going to study my ass off so that I could get a better grade than a C. Besides a brief stint with depression my first semester that made me not be able to go to classes and fail one of my courses, a C was the lowest grade I had gotten at university. I must've studied for twenty hours over the course of a week before the exam. I hadn't even put that much effort into classes for my major. I got into class on the day of the exam, and nothing that I had spent all that time studying was on it. I bombed that test spectacularly, getting a 30%.

At this point, I was pretty much done. I was willing to go to my professor's office hours and ask him how I was supposed to study for his exams effectively, and his response is what began my quest to get revenge on him. He told me to watch YouTube videos. I don't know what it was about this that got me so pissed, but I was fired up.

But, that wasn't all that drove me to take the revenge I took on this fucker. No, what drove me to go after this guy was R calling me up crying after getting his exam back. He did worse than I did. He got a 15%. He kept repeating through sobs that he just wanted to be a good student and that he didn't want to disappoint his mom again. I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried at this. I thought back to that kid in French I after the final, about my peers and about R and something inside me snapped. I was going to get this guy fired and peacefully do anything else I could to ruin this guy's life one way or another, and R was going to be my Right Hand Man.

We met at his dorm and started brainstorming. It was about halfway through the semester, after our midterms. We both had a job, a significant other, extracurricular activities and I was taking 19 hours again this semester. We were going to need time on our side, a commodity that neither of us had, and we were going to need it quickly. We knew that the professor was going to be gone for a week at a conference right after spring break, so there was a two week window there. But, even still, we needed more time for what we started planning to do. I faked a doctor's note for two weeks absence and R agreed to use all four of his absences to meet at the same time French was supposed to occur and plan our peaceful academic coup.

Now, I knew I was eventually going to get caught from word go. But, I was so confident that I could get this guy fired before I would have a disciplinary hearing that I took the gamble, and Baguette took the bait. He excused me for two whole weeks.

So, you're probably wondering what we actually did. Well, the reason we needed so much time is that we needed time to both conduct interviews from the class as well as collect data on scores. We got a total of thirteen out of the seventeen students to make a statement about Baguette's performance in his Beginning French II class and all of them were negative. This was just in one section of the course.

Then, we asked if we could have their exam scores so that we could have some hard data to nail this guy with. All but two complied. We did some quick maths, and determined that more than half the class failed the exams, with most scoring between 30 and 50.

But, as it turns out, we didn't even need the exam scores given to us. We figured out that the online grade database site that our school uses so students can monitor their grades without asking their profs has a built in feature that shows the class average of every assignment that's put into the gradebook. Not a single assignment had a class average above a 50 except for the homework, which had a class average of around 80, no doubt thanks to the stupid exploit in the website.

Sure enough, I got tagged with a notice that I broke the discipline code of the university because obvious shop is obvious. But, it didn't matter. I had everything I needed to go to the Foreign Language department chair and sort this shit out. So, I did.

I showed the department chair all the data, let him listen to the audio from the student testimonies as well as gave my own testimony on the course. After showing him all this, he was dumbfounded. Not only did the chair not know that Baguette was a shitty teacher, almost nobody did course evaluations for French I, so he thought that Baguette was doing a decent job. He took all my evidence and gave it to the dean of arts and sciences and a couple weeks later, I get an email saying that Baguette was Bag-gone and that I was going to be withdrawn from the course along with everyone else who would've likely failed. Those who would've passed got to get a Credit Received grade without having to take the final. He got fired one semester before he qualified for his tenure.

But, that's not the juiciest fucking morsel of this tale. You're probably wondering how he got deported and how I found out that he got deported because of his firing. Well, after my disciplinary hearing got thrown out because the complainant was no longer affiliated with the university, I got more than I bargained for.

During his lectures, one of the few times he spoke English was after he introduced the syllabus on the first day. He had everyone introduce themselves and he started the exercise by introducing himself. Well, in his introduction, I remember him saying something about him being an immigrant from Venezuela. I live in the States (Etats-Unis for you Bonjour Bois), and some of you might know that we have pretty strict visa policies.

Well, R is pretty conservative. After our work got Baguette fired, we celebrated by getting some beer and shooting the shit. We talked about random aspects of the course and the fact that he was an immigrant got brought up. Apparently, R didn't know this and he was pretty upset about it. I tried to calm him down, but he went on a rant that I tried to politely nod along to while tuning out since I'm not really about that. I didn't think anything of it until a couple of days later.

He called me up and told me that he tipped Baguette off to a certain immigration agency for a "visa check" (his words, not mine) and that now all we had to do was wait. I was shocked. I didn't think this would go this far. I feigned that I was pleased with this but in reality, I was kinda bummed. Since he was probably here on an academic visa since he was a professor, he probably is going back home to Venezuela. I am glad, though, that he won't be teaching any more of my fellow students at my uni, because I wouldn't wish his classes on anyone.

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gracedgirlandie-blog · 5 years

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True. This is why I don't join certain churches. Some are the most prejudging groups you'll ever know. They won't even give you a chance as a person. They literally introduce themselves to you with forced robotic smiles and handshakes by asking you what's your religion and literally make their first five minutes with you calling you a sinner and stating all that's wrong with your church and about how theirs knows the Bible more and then they pick on even the tiniest most insignificant traditions of your life like celebrating birthdays and mentioning the name of Santa Claus and they conclude the whole chitchat by stating that unless you're in their group of people, they won't have shit to do with ya because you'll just drag them to Hell. It's like the entire chitchat was just a commercial for self-promotion of how they know the Bible better and are more knowledgeable on it scholastic-wise and barely even here about Jesus in the entire sermon. And then finally it comes to the testimony that they have to share and I take a sigh of relief that finally I can hear about Jesus for once. But, no, it's another session of rubbing in your face how they don't really feel God in your church but He's so evident in theirs and another five minutes of how they used to be total criminals while they were in your church but when they registered to this one, all of a sudden, they became "better than you". Like... dude... I came here to learn about Jesus... not learn every five minutes how you are "so much better" than me. And then they laugh about news of refugees dying because they "didn't have God with them" but "they did". And then they'd cheer on Donald Trump for putting up the wall to prevent entry of the "demons" that will drag them to Hell. The only two things you'll ever learn from being with them is that they're "better than you", and how to give the perfect BJ, because apparently they studied the Word and digested it and read clearly in the rules that it's only immoral when you stick it in the other end so then you're a sodomite and have no chance of being forgiven (unless you join their church that is) and are going to Hell. Before them, I never even knew what a BJ was, but they proudly brag about how they do it ten times a week. So studious of the Word indeed and of it's clear-cut rules and also so studious about Sex Ed. Ten minutes later, they're there giving you the hottest tips to the perfect one-night stand and their top-ten list of the perfect guys (including someone else's husband) to bang in their own bedroom because Queensland is apparently immoral and only for those who celebrate Sinulog, a tradition for "outdated barbarians". Thanks for telling me how you got the latest software update on Jesus Christ. Is the list of guys updated too? Because I also hear from some of them how there are those who are "too ugly to get laid by". I mean, those things don't even enter my mind. I look at a person and see someone beautiful and don't even analyze if he's even good-looking enough to get it on with. And if he's not, it's not like I will stop mingling with him like he's another demon that will drag me to Hell. And then with such confident smug smiles, they'd challenge you to list down what your church has that theirs doesn't that can make you study the Bible more conducively in yours, and they'd be ready to rebutt. I mean, I'd rather listen to the continuous gospel on Jesus by a grown guy wearing a tunic who sticks his privates into little boys' butts and then asks people to "mana po" to him later than to not learn a sentence straight at all and without the lesson being paused for another commercial of themselves. I mean, it can be pretty distracting to the lesson hearing every few verses how "I was once a Catholic too, but I got the software update so you can never call me lame and old-fashioned." get rubbed on your face. I'm not saying either that the other is holier with the way they completely disrespect their perfectly-working bodies and blame it all on chivalry and heroism and being the perfect spouse and yet contradict it with the way they treat and make to look like the very people they claim they're being chivalrous for, and as if that's even the only thing to love and completely ruling out the things of the heart which are what really matter and what really make up a person... and then judge their members' relationships whether rightfully or by their made up rules of physical heirarchy basing on their own looks of who's a bigger treat to who and who deserves who and who doesn't give justice to someone else's chivalry and who's an overall unworthy spouse... and then use their assumed righteousness to gain position and then assume this position as a sign of popularity which they also assume is a sign of attractiveness and then they ostracize who they reject as if it's a popularity show of who has the most supporters when really it's a religious community not American Idol. But at least that one is ad-free. But the sermon I'd wanna listen to the most is from someone who preaches it with his life and actions, because how you see Jesus in someone ain't from what is written on the religion section of their birth certificate if he got the "updated" label or the "barbaric" one. Words are so unnecessary and don't always prove anything. Neither does religion. And I'm sorry to tell you that yours is one too. And it's not gonna help if you give me another debate where in you lay down all the scholastically-defined rules of how you're not a religion. In fact, that just proves my point. I don't exactly see Jesus in you. I see Donald Trump. I see Hippocrates the Third, but at least the real dude is actually smart. And if you don't give other people the right to love Jesus with their lives unless they are part of you as if His name is under your copyright, then I'm sorry to say that you really are a religion. Nothing special. I came here to love, not to be fought and then made to feel like shit... only to gain nothing in the end. I never heard of Jesus preaching that way. For all I know, He gained His saved souls with love... just love. 🤷🏼‍♂️ And when you reject their offer to take you in their church, they have to let you elaborate with an impromptu speech. And when you just tell them it's because you can't see Jesus in them, they let you elaborate further. Then they whip out a Bible, a highlighter, a notebook and a pen and just go quoting all sorts of verses and making very scholastic equations and references that even stray so far into becoming no longer what the Bible even meant (Yes, I've read the Bible in full... word for word... cover to cover... over and over... with all my heart and asking Jesus to send me His Holy Spirit to guide me every so often. But they also bashed me all with a very plastic laugh of how "cute" it was that I thought I was doing it right and how I'm so "murang korek" attempting on my own the official Bible study their church would do and how "cute" it was that I tried to get all the steps right on my own without really an official brand and an offical program and an official strategy and criticized my order of reading the books in it like they even laughed how I should have read John first and then so on and so forth and then do this silly activity between those books by beating up a piñata superhero to teach me a Biblical lesson the fun and "fancy" way which my church never can because it's so "lame" and "outdated" and traditional.) but just stretched those words to sound so fancy just to prove to prove to you that Jesus is really in them all with a very forced plastic smile as they really rub it on you how Biblically undeducated you are which you wouldn't have been if you just joined their "perfect" program. And if you just leave and say sorry and do not want any more to deal with them, they give the most plastic smile and handshake and say they were just looking for their fellow saved souls and were just trying their luck if you were one of them but they realized they were wrong. Which is really another way of saying you're going to Hell. All with that very plastic smile on their face before they leave you. Last time I checked, Jesus never inflicted that much hopelessness into other people's souls... all for the sake of a self-promoting club. Last time I checked, He came to encourage and give hope even to the worst of sinners... even the one crucified beside Him... and on the very last minute. And that was what He loved for, to give them hope. And that was what He unified us all for... our shared hope. The fact that we're all sinners and we're all different and we're all sinners sinning in different ways... but we all share a hope. And that is what's supposed to unify us. And if you read the Bible, it doesn't exactly talk about hopelessness at all... like at all. If you read between the lines like you claim you do, we all fit the definition of sinners that should be burning in Hell... yet we all fit the definition of the kind of people He died for. We all fit the definition of people who deserve a second shot at life... and not just if we're registered in your club just because you think you copyrighted official repentance. Which is why the Bible never terrified me for all my life even when I think it's the scariest book there is but even inspired me and gave me a renewed sense of hope. It's literally the sweetest love story ever if you read between the lines. And this is the love story that's supposed to bind us all... because it's for us all. But what you're doing is just defeating the purpose. When I got exempted by an Ivy League college from taking the IELTs as a teen for reading comprehension results in the SAT, I immediately grew proud and thought of myself as better in reading the Bible than other people and I thought this was the actual blessing. But then I realized the real gift God gave me to really understanding the Bible was the ability to approach His Word with a HEART. It's not always about updatedness and being "scholastically better". Always, it's about heart. And that's the essence of being truly someone that is in Christ. You really don't need much brains or even any to have a heart. And that's exactly all He's asking which is exactly all you're trying to kill... in exchange for the qualities that don't even matter in anyone's journey to Christ... to the point that being RIGHT now means more to you than being RIGHTEOUS. You're killing all the qualities of heart for the qualities of ego. And that's defeating what Jesus has been trying to accomplish. What people are doing trying to form their own clique of who they think would be better than the other clique reminds me of the story of the Tower of Babel when people used the language they were even blessed to have to unify them to build themselves up in their pride rather than the name of God and used the gift of unification for division and so God took that unification away. They used what God gave them as a bridge, flipped it sideways and turned it into a wall. Ironic. Like the real Iron Wall. It was meant to be a bridge, it looked like a tower, but, really, it was a wall. I don't see anything different with what people are doing these days. God blessed us with His Son to unify people of all descriptions in the name of Love which is Himself, and we used it for division all over again. It's like a clique competition all over again to be the greatest... this time, using the name of God for the gimmick instead of a tower. This time, they're using churches. And the resemblance to the former story is uncanny. It's like the Church of Babel, and now the real one thing we're supposed to be bonding over has lost His spot in the story. Ego has taken His place. Fortunately, God does not take this gift away. He gives it freely, so we should share it, not copyright it. So what's really dividing us all is the lack of heart and the presence of ego in it's place. Creating a heirarchy and drawing the lines of what makes who better and what makes who less is literally segregating people on a shelf and is in no way reaching out to embrace each one in the same group hug... all out of the desire to be on the highest seat like a game of natural selection when He clearly said He's in it to save each one and go through all means for that goal... the goal our individual prides are trying to kill. Even Charles Darwin on his deathbed knew and said he was wrong... so why can't you? I guess that's why He in all His genius crafted out the first step to accepting Him... as humility. As what my 2016 documentary, Loved Biochemically and Beyond, pointed out... love finds it way in absolutely everything, even the science we know, to be the answer to everything. And the real meaning of Jesus who Himself is God is that Himself is Love. But now, I realized something else... the source of all the problems in the world: humans and their clashing egos. And this is real idolatry... when the God you worship is your own ego. And the worst thing that can happen to humanity is when we remove God who Himself is Love from His spot on the altar and put our individual selves on the spot. That's the perfect recipe for World War III. And so the real name of the devil... is ego. And many churches and even non-churches worship that beast.

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chineselanguageblog · 6 years

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To Learn Chinese

So you wanna know where to start when learning Chinese, or how to gain momentum and push through to fluency? Read on, dear reader…

Despite being only a mere mortal like yourself (in that I am not yet fluent in Chinese, - but it is only a matter of time) I am quite experienced in learning languages and have developed strategies and techniques that have saved me literally hours, days, months, maybe even years. These I will share with you today, so that you may learn from my past mistakes and less time studying and more picking up Chinese chicks!

Mentality

Okay, so, if I could impart only one thing on you it would be that confidence is half the battle.

If you spend too much time worrying about whether you will ever reach fluency, firstly, that is time you will not be spending injecting Chinese into your brain, but secondly, and most importantly, it will become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy – you won’t enjoy the process, will associate Chinese with stress and essentially never become fluent.

This ‘blind faith’, as an atheist, is something that doesn’t come naturally to me. But you really have no choice but to take my word for it that if you:

Put in the time (listening, writing and, eventually, speaking)

Enjoy yourself

Believe you will become fluent

Then fluency is an inevitable result.

“But, Chinese is such a hard language compared to French or Spanish!”

Don’t get sucked into this idea.

Chinese is not harder, Chinese is just far more different to English than most European languages are. Plenty of Westerners have managed to tame the beast. Off the top of my head, take Steve Kaufmann or Luca Lampariello, for example.

In fact, I would argue that Chinese is actually objectively easier and more logical than any other language I’ve come across (with the exception of Chinese characters – logical in theory, but struggle city in practice for anyone trying to learn it who doesn’t use it every day).

Consider these things:

1, Rather than having completely separate words for related concepts, one character in Chinese will represent a ‘concept’ that will manifest itself in a huge number of multi-syllable words, ie: 工 (gōng) – representing the idea of ‘work’, present in other words such as 工作 (to work), 工厂(factory/plant), 工地 (workplace), 工匠 (craftsman), 工力 (craftsmanship), 工业 (industry), the list goes on.

2, No conjugations. No tenses. No cases. No plurals. No gender. Therefore, no memorising ‘je peux, tu peux, il peut, nous pouvons’. ‘Nuff said.

3, No long words – say goodbye to ‘anticonstitutionnellement’, ‘Unkameradschaftlichkeit’ and ‘electroencefalografistas’.

I could go on for ages about how simple and logical Chinese really is. Also, don’t be afraid of tones. They can be learned naturally through extensive listening.

Approach

Although the sometimes vicious debate present amongst the language learning community would have you believe otherwise (I’m looking at you, Steve and Benny), there is no hard-and-fast rule to language learning. What works for some may work for others. What seems to be unanimous is that a lot of input in the form of listening and reading is needed at some stage, with output (speaking) following either once a good level of comprehension has been achieved or from the start, in addition to input.

Here is what I would advise for those beginning their Chinese studies, and for those already on the path.

Beginners

Learning Chinese can be struggle city. But only if you don’t have fun while you’re doing it!

1, Get some materials. Textbooks are okay, as long as they have dialogs with a recorded version. If you’ve got the dough, ChinesePod is great.

2, Do a significant amount of input (reading and listening) with this beginner material. This is the hard bit, where the language gradually becomes less ‘foreign’ – in other words, you get used to the language. To make rapid progress, try to dedicate at least 30 minutes a day (an hour is better).

3, Work the language into your life. I’m not really an advocate of ignoring your friends and family who don’t speak the language, or listening to the language while you’re talking to them and while you sleep (per AJATT), or changing the language on your computer and phone into Chinese - this is too annoying for me. Instead, make use of dead time. Do you daydream on the train/bus? Now you listen to Chinese. Do you wait in lines? Now you listen to Chinese while you wait in lines. Do you walk the dog? Paint your house? Daydream? Listen to Chinese while you do these things. You’ll see how easy it is. I would estimate that the average person has about 1-2 hours a day of dead time, this meaning time they do NOTHING else. If you studied Chinese only in the time you otherwise would be wasting, you will see massive progress. Now imagine if you fit some Chinese into your free time, too?

4, Two words. Mini goals. Learn 30 words a week, and then step it up after a couple of weeks. Listen to 30 minutes of Chinese a day – then step it up to an hour incrementally. I’m soon to write an entire post over on my own blog dedicated to explaining the importance of mini goals.

5, Characters. Forget about them for the first month. After that though, they are important. Spend 15 minutes a day learning them. Although it may seem tedious, it’s worth learning the radicals first, or as you encounter them – this will enable you to quite accurately guess new characters later on.

6, Get an SRS. Do your reps daily, and add sentences whenever you can. Also, I’ve found sentences are better than words, as you learn grammar and new vocabulary simultaneously – it also seems much less boring than just drilling single words. If you have the option/can be bothered, add sentences with audio so you don’t get a botchy pronunciation (or just do a lot of listening). Where to get sentences? Mine them from the dialogs in your textbook, from ChinesePod, wherever. Just make sure they are correct!

Intermediate Learners

1, Enjoy. This is the best part of the language learning journey. The language is starting to become familiar, and you can start doing fun stuff in the language! Like, watching TV shows from YouKu (the Chinese version of YouTube, but with full episodes) and actually understanding them! Or, reading authentic, interesting content and books. Or making friends, or…

2, Get a girlfriend/boyfriend. Now this may be a difficult and in some circumstances unethical task (if you are just using them to practice your 中文). The truth is, that at the intermediate level you need to actually increase the amount of input you’re getting in the language in order to step it up and push through to the advanced level. At the very least, get some friends! If you live in a cultural melting pot (like my own city, Melbourne, or like, NYC, etc) then you should have no problem meeting Chinese people. Or go study overseas (this may not be practical for you – but if you’re at Uni, go on exchange like I am!) Or, hey, why not get some Chinese roomies? Instant friends that have to hang with you!

3, Everyday. Even more important than in the beginner stage, at this level you need to be having contact with the language every day in order to incorporate it into your psychic. This is because the language needs to become part of the fabric of your mind, which is just not possible if you only study on the weekend. There’s a saying that goes ‘learn a language and gain another soul’. This is because you develop a borderline personality disorder when you learn another language – you will find your thinking and personality will be heavily influenced by cultural elements of the target language.

4, Don’t give up. At this point, you have got it in the bag! The hard yards are almost over. Like I said, this is the best part, it is all downhill from here. You don’t have to agonise over mind numbingly boring hospital-grade artificial learning materials, and can get onto some juicy stuff. It’s simply a matter of continuing to consistently expose yourself to the language, and talk as much as possible. Language acquisition is a natural process, and we are inherently good at it by virtue of being human. Just don’t stress, it will come!

Anyway, that’s all from me, for now.

There is an abundance of resources out there to help learn Chinese, yet it can all be very confusing and time-consuming for the new student to find the best way and the right materials to help.s

Wanting to provide some assistance to students, at one of the regular meetings of the Learn Mandarin Now team, we decided to commission a survey to find out the preferred methods savvy, modern, Chinese language students use. After some thought on how to do this, we agreed to ask 50 or so top bloggers what resources they use to get ahead with learning Chinese - after all…, they should know!

Just who did we ask?

Actually, we asked a wide cross-section of people including teachers of Chinese, native speakers, new and experienced students of the language (both Chinese from overseas and foreign students) and, of course, top bloggers.

The aim: to get a wide variety of opinions and suggestions.

The top 10 recommendations

For reasons such as ease of being able to study whenever the student wanted to and the variety of options on offer, the results, perhaps not surprisingly, showed that the preferred methods to learn Chinese are primarily web based. Other students, however, still preferred to learn and practice with other students or people in their day-to-day lives or via hard copy items such as books.

With 42% of votes Pleco, an integrated Chinese-English dictionary/flashcard system, which not only allows students to learn via Smartphones, but also offers a variety of other features such as being able to look up unknown Chinese words ‘live’, came out on top.

22% of respondents went for human interaction, either learning or practicing with Chinese friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, work colleagues or via other social interaction with native Chinese speakers.

Multi-media captured 20% of the votes, and this included watching Chinese TV programs, dramas, documentaries or movies, or even listening to Chinese songs in order to listen to tones, and learn more common words and colloquial phrases.

The MDBG Dictionary, a comprehensive dictionary which offers the ability to look up a huge number of words in Chinese, Pinyin or English was also a popular choice-easy to use and readily available and it garnered 14% of the votes.

Both also polling 14% were:

(i) WeChat (Weixin), “the new way to connect with friends across platforms”, offering voice and group chat, free calls, video calls and the obligatory message stickers, and thereby especially popular with the younger generation looking to instantly chat in and learn Chinese; and

(ii) Anki, a spaced repetition software programme which makes remembering things easy. As it’s considered more efficient than traditional study methods, time spent studying can be decreased or the amount learned greatly increased. The programme is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific mark-ups.

Skritter which is suitable for Smartphones or PC’s and allows the student to learn how to correctly learn to write Chinese characters—even suggesting corrections to any mistakes if they appear, scored 12%, as did Memrise which offers a wide variety of on-line courses and aims to make learning joyful and exciting.

Rounding off the top 10 with 8% was Line Dict, a very useful on-line Chinese dictionary which translates both words and phrases from Chinese to English and vice-versa, using Chinese characters and Pinyin—plus offering handwriting recognition and the ability to view stroke orders for characters, and also Chinese Pod which promotes itself as a site offering “Chinese learning for busy people”, with over 3,000 short, self-contained, award-winning lessons.

It was both exciting and rewarding for us at Learn Mandarin Now to do this survey and we may well repeat it at some future date. If you’d like to know more about the results in detail you can also read: How to learn Chinese: great tips from 50+ top bloggers, one of our other related articles.

Happy learning!

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Career As a "Company Secretary"

Secretaryship. An enormous development in the quantity of Company Secretaries prompted the arrangement, in 1969, of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. The Institute of Company Secretaries of India has been changed over into a legal body under the Company Secretaries Act, 1980.

Behind each effective man there is a lady. This platitude can be wound a little to suit our motivation 'Behind each fruitful organization is a devoted Company Secretary'.

An organization secretary is the person who relates with the general population and thus is additionally named as the 'representative' of the organization. So we should set out on an excursion to disclose about the happenings in the life and making of an organization secretary.

A Company Secretary is an individual who guarantees consistence, all things considered, which identify with the working of an organization. Thus, information about corporate laws and the guidelines identified with it are compulsory to formalize business bargains. Aside from being capable to the investors and heads of the organization, an organization secretary additionally speaks with the rest of the world in the interest of the organization. Henceforth, he/she is the 'substance of the organization'.

An organization secretary's job begins from the exact instant when the possibility of development of a Company is considered. Albeit the possibility of development of an organization Secretary (CS) may differ from one organization to another the information and preparing gained by organization secretaries make them flexible to do different capacities in Finance, Accounts, Legal Administration and Personnel regions notwithstanding their own secretarial obligations and duties. An organization secretary is perceived as one of the chief officials of the organization by different authorizations. Organization secretaries, along these lines involve a significant and flexible situation in organizations. Organizations having a settled up share capital of above Rs. 50 lakhs for more are legally needed to name an entire time CS.

The profession course of Company Secretary isn't just esteemed yet is monetarily compensating as well. The post of a Company Secretary is viewed as a good one in the progressive system and this is perhaps the main posts an individual handles. This is on the grounds that, in this position, one goes about as the middle person between the organization and its Board of Directors, government, investors and administrative specialists. The individual in question manages the Chairman and the Directors on the best way to utilize their duties under different laws.

An organization secretary is a high level worker in an organization whose duty is to guarantee that the organization clings to all the legalities set by the public authority subsequently exhorts the chiefs on different approaches and activities of the organization. To have an organization secretary has been made mandatory by a Government Act for huge organizations. Since the lift in economy in the new years numerous organizations have developed massively and new organizations have arisen. In this way the need and degree for organization secretaries has additionally expanded hugely throughout the long term. To turn into an organization secretary one necessities to do an expert course under the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).

The utilization of the word secretary for the sake of this specialization is somewhat deceptive for one who is new to the idea. A Company Secretary has nothing to do with customary secretarial work. A Company Secretary is an expert whose job in a corporate set up is that of a guide for legitimate issue. According to the Companies Act, a legal prerequisite is that organizations with a settled up share capital of at least Rs 50 lakh are needed to delegate a Company Secretary. A Company Secretary is a vital individual from the organization's administration.

An organization secretary is an individual who guarantees consistence, all things considered, which identify with the working of an organization. Henceforth, information about corporate laws and the principles identified with it are obligatory to formalize business bargains. Aside from being dependable to the investors and heads of the organization, an organization secretary additionally speaks with the rest of the world for the benefit of the organization. Henceforth, he/she is the' essence of the organization'.

These are a portion of the obligations of an organization secretary:

•Advising on great administration practices and consistence of corporate administration standards as recommended under the Companies Act, posting concurrence with stock trades and different laws, rules and guidelines.

•Promotion, arrangement and joining of organizations and different issue identified with it.

•Filing, enrolling reports including structures, returns and applications for the organization as an approved agent

•Maintenance of secretarial records, legal books and registers.

•Arranging board and comprehensive gatherings and getting ready minutes of the gathering

•All business related to shares and their exchange and transmission

•Secretarial review/consistence review

•Compliance declaration for organizations not needed to utilize an entire time secretary

•Signing of yearly reports

•Advising organizations on consistence of lawful and procedural perspectives, especially under different demonstrations like SEBI Act, Intellectual Property Rights, Labor and Industrial Laws, setting up of auxiliary sheets, drafting of authoritative archives, and so forth

•Representing the organization or different people under the watchful eye of the Company Law Board, National Company Tribunal, and so forth

An organization secretary would need to keep up the records of the organization appropriately, record in the essential minutes book, assemble conferences like the executive gatherings or the overall body gatherings, handle matters identified with starting public contributions (IPOs) and public issues.

An organization secretary needs to have awesome Communications abilities, magnificent order over English, insightful psyche and capacity to disclose things to the chiefs and choice takers in the organization. Occupation possibilities for Company Secretary are very acceptable and the degree for development is likewise there. Compensations offered are truly useful for organization secretaries with pay rates beginning from Rs. 20,000 every month.

Profession SCOPE:

Qualified organization secretaries can discover generously compensated situations in the private area and public corporate area, banks and monetary establishments, stock trades, the Department of Company Affairs, organization law sheets and government offices. The bigger the organization and the more extensive its field action, the better the remittances procured by the CS. Private consultancy occupations are a rewarding alternative.

Progression and globalization have a huge lift to corporate movement and alongside it the openings for organization secretaries keep on developing. In the current time of consolidations, acquisitions, and tie-ups this calling anticipates rich profits.

Advantages and Scopes of Company Secretary:

• The organizations who pay an offer capital of singular amount sum (differs from one spot to another) for the most part require an organization secretary regarding Companies Act.

• The fundamental capacity of the Company Secretary is to give the direction and valuable exhortation in the fields of monetary, secretarial and legitimate issue.

• The organization secretary will be considered capable in managing the partners, Boards of Director, Government Departments and furthermore the individual will go about as the consistence official of the organization to fuse the principles and guidelines of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

Request of Company Secretary:

There is a tremendous interest of Company Secretary in USA, India, UK and some western nations.

The fruitful individual organization secretary will get some work in

• Departments of Company issues

• Stock Exchanges

• Government Departments

• Company Law Boards

• Can fire up Company Secretary Ship Consultancy firm

Organization Secretaries in Practice additionally render following Services (Self Employment):

• Legal, Secretarial and Corporate Governance

• Corporate Restructuring

• Foreign Collaborations Joint Ventures

• Arbitration and Conciliation

• Project Financing

• Financial Management

• Project Planning

• Capital Market and Investor Relations

• Due Diligence

• Corporate Advisory Services

Courses Details:

*Foundation course

*Executive Program

*Final Course

Establishment course:

• This is the distinguishing proof for the primary/most reduced/beginning level of the CS course directed by the ICSI.

• This is the Lowest level at which an understudy can begin seeking after the CS for example Organization Secretaries course.

Length of Foundation Course is 8 months. Understudies are needed to breeze through the Foundation assessment inside a long time from the date of their confirmation. Applicants who have passed senior optional (10+2) can apply for establishment course. Enlistment for establishment course is open consistently. The tests for the establishment course are held in December and June. To show up for the tests in December applicant ought to apply for the test before the past walk. Likewise to show up for the June test, up-and-comer ought to apply before the past September. for example the Registration for every assessment ought to be done in any event nine months before the month in which the assessment is held.

Since the primary assessments are led once at regular intervals just, the real delay among enlistment and showing up at the principle assessment might be over 8 months.

Subjects:

01. English and Business Communication (FCEBC)

• Part A: English - 50 Marks

• Part B: Business Communication - 50 Marks

02. Financial aspects and Statistics (FCBE-BE)

• Part A: Economics - 50 Marks

• Part B: Statistics - 50 Marks

03. Monetary Accounting (FCFA)

04. Components of Business Laws and Management (FERBAM)

• Part A: Elements of Business Laws - 50 Marks

• Part B: Elements of Management - 50 Marks

05. Data Systems and Quantitative Techniques (FCISQT)

Prizes Award:

ALL INDIA PRIZE AWARDS:-

1. Ruler Chand Trust Prize Award

2. Ruler Chand Trust Prize Award

3. Ruler Chand Trust Prize Award-

4. Durga Devi Saraf Memorial Gold Medal(Only for Female)

5. Elvina Pinto Memorial Prize Award

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williamexchange · 5 years

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Treat Customer Data Like You’d Want Yours to Be Treated

Customer Experience Matters More-

By selling my friend’s data, the magazine lost her business. So what did it gain in return? Probably around $0.20. Although the value of a customer’s data varies according to their life circumstances, seldom does it sell for more than a dollar.

In aggregate, user data sales add up. But no amount of ad money can erase the stain that selling it leaves on the customer experience. In research published this past May, data exchange Insights Network noted that 90% of consumers consider it unethical for companies to share personal data without the user’s consent. Although some customers will look past data sharing they see as unethical, those like my friend won’t.

Whether my friend is the exception or the norm isn’t important. What’s important is that nearly three-quarters of consumers consider the customer experience an important factor in their purchasing decisions, according to a PwC report published earlier this year. And nothing puts the customer experience in jeopardy quite like unethical use of personal data.

Treat customer data like your own-

Customers have different expectations, of course, for how you should handle their data. So how can you tweak your data policies to deliver the best experience for the most customers? Follow the Golden Rule: Treat user data as you’d want your own to be treated. In other words:

1. Don’t buy data; ask for it:

In the U.S. alone, companies spend more than $10 billion annually on third-party audience data. The trouble is, 65% of consumers are uncomfortable with their personal data being shared with for-profit firms, according to the Insights Network report.

But where, if not from data vendors, can you get customer insights? What about customers themselves? Snapchat and other firms focused on the customer experience are partnering with companies like Jebbit to collect what’s known as declared data. Declared data is first-party information that consumers volunteer about their motivations, intentions, interests, and preferences.

Although it might seem impossible to gather enough declared data for Big Data initiatives, Jebbit points out that online experiences and conversations can make collection scalable. Plus, because customers volunteer it, declared data tends to be far more accurate than third-party data, which two-thirds of surveyed consumers told Deloitte is mostly inaccurate.

2. Give the customer something in return:

The question is, are consumers actually willing to share their data? Most are—provided they get something in return. According to a survey by Acxiom and industry group Data & Marketing Association, 58% of consumers make decisions on a case-by-case basis as to whether a service enhancement is worth sharing their data.

What, exactly, do customers want in exchange? In a world, personalization. Epsilon research shows that 80% of consumers are more likely to buy from brands that offer personalized experiences. Most consumers realize that products and services can’t be tailored to them unless they share some amount of personal data.

If you need inspiration, look to Spotify. Not only does the music service leverage user data to create customized Discover Weekly playlists, but it builds bottomless Daily Mixes in the user’s favorite genres. Last but not least, its Release Radar helps users find new releases by their favorite artists.

3. Get consent before sharing or selling user data—or better yet, don’t sell it at all:

While the U.S. doesn’t have a comprehensive law like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which requires companies to obtain the customer’s consent before sharing or selling their data, new legislation like the California Consumer Privacy Act indicates a shift in that direction. Simply because the practice is currently legal in the U.S., doesn’t mean it’s a smart business move.

To show that you’re serious about protecting your customers’ data, start by updating your privacy policy to make clear that you’ll seek informed consent before selling or sharing their information. The University of Michigan’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides a primer on model language as well as phrases to avoid. Although it’s focused on research data, best-in-class companies take a similar approach to their marketing data.

In a time when the customer experience matters most, surreptitiously selling user data simply isn’t a smart move. The science magazine might’ve made a quarter by doing so, but it also turned a paying customer into a quitter.

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SA Government 'capitulated' to upstream states on Murray-Darling Basin Plan, commission finds

Updated February 01, 2019 07:40:05 The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission has accused the SA Government of surrendering to the Federal Government and has suggested the state's Water Minister David Speirs breached ministerial code. Key points:A deal with upstream states was "totally antipathetic" to SA interestsThe commissioner said Mr Speirs "almost certainly" breached his code of conductMr Speirs said he was disappointed by that commentary Commissioner Bret Walker SC's scathing commentary related to a ministerial meeting in December, where South Australia joined with other states to agree to terms on how environmental water would be returned to rivers. The meeting agreed to return up to 450 gigalitres (GL) of water to the environment, provided it did not have a negative socio-economic impact on river communities, based on criteria agreed to by the states. In return, South Australia received $70 million of funding from the Federal Government to spend on rehabilitating the struggling Coorong wetlands. However, in his report Mr Walker found the decision to support the agreement was against the state's interests. "It is nothing short of a capitulation to the interests of the current Commonwealth Government, and those of Victoria and New South Wales," he said. "It is so contrary to the interests of South Australians that the decision by the Minister responsible is almost certainly a breach of at least [clause] 2.5 of the South Australian Ministerial Code of Conduct. "No minister acting reasonably could consider these changes to the criteria to be anything but totally antipathetic to the interests of South Australia, and the South Australian environment." That section of the code states that ministers should not make official decisions without considering the "impact the decision is likely to have" on the interests of the "citizens of South Australia". SA Premier Steven Marshall said he did "not accept" the royal commissioner's criticisms. "I think that the Minister has done an excellent job negotiating with the Commonwealth," he said. "We've been in Government for 10 months. We've been able to secure more money to [come] into South Australia to support the Coorong." Mr Speirs said he was disappointed with the commentary in the report. "It is an isolated comment that doesn't consider all the other things that occurred, that we did get New South Wales and Victoria to the table for the first time in history, that we did get 450 GL of water," he said. "We did get $70 million for the Coorong that concerns South Australians so much. "The ministerial council in December was incredibly successful for South Australia and it got that pathway forward." Desalination plant would have 'little impact'

Photo: The 746-page report of the Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission. (ABC News) The royal commission report also questioned the State Government's decision to agree to investigate whether the Adelaide Desalination Plant could be used to offset water diversions elsewhere. "Why the South Australian Minister agreed to this proposal is not clear," Mr Walker said. "This is particularly concerning, given that the relevant South Australian department received a comprehensive, independent cost-benefit analysis in June 2016, that determined the desalination plant should only be used when temporary water market prices reach a critical pricepoint, namely above $510 per megalitre. "On that analysis, it should therefore not be used as a permanent 'support' to annual water recovery targets. "Either the Minister was unaware of this report, has determined it is deficient in some way or has simply chosen to ignore its existence. "All of these scenarios are concerning." Mr Walker said Adelaide's urban water usage represented about 1.25 per cent of basin-wide diversions. "Running a desalination plant for Adelaide's metropolitan water usage, therefore, could have little impact on upstream diversions." Report raises 'extraordinary questions' for Premier

Photo: The SA Government has not ruled out water buybacks as a solution. (ABC Open contributor mickw78) The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission was announced by the previous state Labor government in 2017. Labor leader Peter Malinasukas said today said the accusation that Mr Speirs had breached the ministerial code of conduct was "nothing short of extraordinary" and put Premier Steven Marshall "front and centre about what sort of Government he is going to lead". "David Speirs went over to Canberra, politely agreed with everybody in a way that was fundamentally contrary to the interests of South Australia, that is not standing up for our state," he said. Mr Malinauskas stopped short of demanding Mr Speirs be sacked, but said Mr Marshall should "do what he promised he'd do and that is hold his ministers to account". "Every South Australian can remember how hard we all fought for that extra 450 GL and then within months of coming into office they've sold it away," he said. "They've agreed to things that almost certainly ensure that we'll never have that water delivered, that is genuinely heartbreaking." Mr Speirs said it remained "absolutely critical" that the 450 GL was secured for the environment, and there was Federal Government money which did "enable buybacks to occur potentially in the future". "However, there are many regional communities concerned about buybacks because they have a particular economic and social impact," he said. 'Colloquial terms' used at notorious restaurant meeting The royal commission also shed light on the infamous exchange between former South Australian water minister Ian Hunter and his federal and state counterparts in November 2016.

Photo: Ian Hunter told Barnaby Joyce to "leave his jurisdiction". (Carl Curtain) At the time, it was reported that Mr Hunter repeatedly said "f*** you" to Victoria's Water Minister Lisa Neville and called her a "c***" before storming out of the dinner at Adelaide's Rigoni's restaurant. He also reportedly told the gathering, which included then federal water resource minister Barnaby Joyce, "f*** you all". Mr Hunter later denied using "some particularly inappropriate words", but admitted to using "inappropriate language" and issued an apology. The royal commission report stated that a "hard conversation" took place at the restaurant. "The South Australian minister made his, perhaps the then state government's views, known to his interstate and Commonwealth colleagues in unambiguous terms, with Minister Hunter apparently telling Minister Joyce, in colloquial terms, to leave his jurisdiction." Topics:murray-darling-basin,rivers,environment,law-crime-and-justice,royal-commissions,federal---state-issues,states-and-territories,government-and-politics,water-management,irrigation,federal-government,environmental-management,adelaide-5000,sa,wilcannia-2836,broken-hill-2880,shepparton-3630,menindee-2879,bourke-2840,australia,goolwa-5214,renmark-5341,st-george-4487,mildura-3500,wagga-wagga-2650,toowoomba-4350,qld,nsw,dirranbandi-4486,albury-2640,griffith-2680,dubbo-2830,wentworth-2648 First posted January 31, 2019 18:48:50 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/murray-darling-royal-commission-condemns-david-speirs/10767156

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Learn Business English Will Undoubtedly Have An Effect In Your Business

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How to Do a List Building Campaign on Pinterest

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How to Do a List Building Campaign on Pinterest

If you’ve been diving into blogging for a while, you’ve definitely heard that having an email list is the most beneficial thing you can have for your blog. And if you’ve been around It’s All BlogSense for a while, you’ve already seen me re-iterate that your email list needs to be your number one priority. Now say it again until it’s drilled into your brain:

YOUR EMAIL LIST NEEDS TO BE YOUR #1 PRIORITY! YOUR EMAIL LIST NEEDS TO BE YOUR #1 PRIORITY! YOUR EMAIL LIST IS YOUR #1 PRIORITY!

Good! We’re getting there!

My two favorite things as a blogger:

Pinterest and my email list

I am ALL about Pinterest and have been sucked into its webs countless times. Please tell me you love Pinterest just as much as I do! When I started this blog, I started using Pinterest to grow my blog since day one and not just to consume my time anymore.

Now, what if I told you how you can unleash the power of Pinterest to get loads of new subscribers to your email list? This was a game changer for me and can be for you, too!

If you’re new to Pinterest and still have questions, I have the answers put together my first ebook, Pinning to Win. I go into detail answering all the questions I get asked repeatedly about how I used Pinterest to its full potential to grow three different types of businesses.

Once you’re ready to grow your email list and your blog, you’re going to need to dedicate some time to get this started and to see results. So go ahead and pin this page to reference later, grab yourself a drink, and let’s get started.

You will need to Choose an

email marketing provider

To have an email list full of loyal followers, first you’ll need to have an email marketing provider. You know, like ConvertKit, MailChimp, or, my personal favorite MailerLite. I tested out all three, but MailerLite was worth the switch and I never want to leave. Trust me when I say I’ve been around the block of email marketing services! I have finally found my BFF newsletter with Mailerlite. It’s easy to use, free forever for the first 1,000 subscribers, and it’s comprehensive! They even give you access to free lead pages! Which brings me to my next two points on what you need to create an effective list-building campaign on Pinterest.

Find a Lead Magnet You want to offer

What’s a lead magnet, you ask? As the name might suggest, a lead magnet is something enticing that will bring leads to it much like a magnet. In this case, that something enticing is going to be something of value for free, and those leads will be e-mail subscribers. Call it what you want: a freebie, an opt-in offer, a content upgrade, a landing page, an ethical bribe; it all means lead magnet.

If you need a help finding an idea for a freebie you want to offer to your readers, Elle&Co’s The Collaborative has 5 fantastic ideas for lead magnets that aren’t all run-of-the-mill.

Another unique idea to attract new subscribers is the use of quizzes. Interact is a quiz platform that has options for pre-made quizzes to save you some time. I’ve already used Interact to grow my list right here in my blog posts. But you could also use a high-converting quiz as a lead magnet!

Once you decide on what type of opt-in you want to offer, you’ll need to put in the time to create the freebie. It’s going to take a bit of time to perfect it, but that’s okay. This is all going to pay off!

You’re Ready to Make a Landing Page for your

Lead magnet

You need a landing page for your freebie so when your pin is clicked on, your reader is brought to a page with the option to immediately opt-in. They are willing to exchange their name and email address for whatever it is you have to offer. In other words, it’s an ethical bribe.

Your landing page is about one thing and one thing only: convincing your visitor to opt-in! You want make it easy for your reader by making your sign up box front and center. There’s nothing else to distract your reader. It’s also acceptable to include a link to your blog or popular content so your reader will stick around your website. Don’t get carried away, though. Any more than two additional links is too many. I love how Elna from Twins Mommy really clarifies a landing page. She lays down the basics and then some!

If you took my advice to make the switch to MailerLite, you’ll have access to their free lead pages! The best part about using MailerLite’s forms to create a landing page is that it’s already integrated with your mailing list!

Create a Pin for Your Lead Magnet

All right! Go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back! You’re so close to seeing the magic of Pinterest unleashed to build your email list! Before you start seeing traffic on your lead page, you’ll need to create a pin-worthy pin for your freebie. This should clearly state who would want this freebie, what your freebie is, oh and that it’s FREE. Cuz who doesn’t love free stuff? You might want to create 3 to 5 variations for the same lead magnet. This works well because Pinterest is a visual search engine, so you want to diversify your pins instead of having the same exact thing pinned time after time.

Pin it again, and again, and again

Yep, and again and again. To save you time there are totally pin schedulers! Tailwind is a beast. You’ll be able to take care of scheduling, review analytics, and even join Tailwind tribes to help connect with others in your niche. If you want to give it a try, I’ve got $15 for you to use towards a month of service (making it free for a month). BoardBooster is another pin-scheduling tool and it’s free for the first 100 pins. If you want to use both, you absolutely can.

You’ll need to do the set up for at least one month of pinning in advance, which might take a whole afternoon. I did warn that this list-building campaign was going to take a small investment in time. But, seriously. Don’t skip the scheduling step. You might think you can repin it all yourself, but the time you spend scheduling it into Tailwind will save you time in the long run!

Tips for planning to pin in schedulers

Don’t go into Tailwind or BoardBooster and pin your new lead magnet and its variations repeatedly. There’s more strategy to it than that! If you’ve been using the 80/20 rule, you’ll want to implement that into your scheduling. The 80/20 rule says that 80% of what you post is from other people’s pins and 20% is yours. You’ll want to add it to your group boards, too.

Make sure your pins include a keyword-rich description, but avoid just cramming keywords in for the sake of having keywords.

Using the different pins you created, set them to go out at different times. You don’t want to schedule them to all go out back to back. A good plan is to schedule some for the morning, some around noon, and some to go out at night. Schedule it for every day. And make sure you’re scheduling your lead magnet to go out more than your other content. I mean, while you’re in there scheduling, you might as well be scheduling your other posts to get more traction on Pinterest, too!

Get it set up for a month in advance. Then let it go out for a month. At the end of it, compare your subscriber count to when you first started.

Although it’s possible for your pin to find its way to going viral, it’s going to take time for that content you’re pushing out of Tailwind or BoardBooster to catch up with everyone else using Pinterest (a whopping 150 million!) so give it some time. Just start with one month to see your list grow. Then you can repeat with a new lead magnet!

Okay, I know that was a lot to take in! Just take it slow and take action. Just one step at a time!

If you’re new to using Pinterest for your blog, you can learn how to prime your Pinterest account for your business with my FREE Pintastic Primer eCourse.

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