#40 - Client onboarding

Hey folks,

Here are a few things I thought were worth sharing this week.

Onboarding and automation #

I’ve been doing a fair amount of work on setting up client onboarding and automation sequences this week, for my own site and In Detail. Paul Jarvis has done a lot of work on this stuff which has been very helpful.

If this sounds interesting to you the I recommend listening to Paul talking to Brian Clark about onboarding on the Unemployable podcast. Then read Paul’s onboarding article and checkout a few articles on his Chimpessentials course site.

I’m aiming to write few articles myself on specific sequences I’m using on my personal site in the near future.

Illustration guidelines #

Lately I began work on an Illustration System for AIN, so I’ve been researching the best way to go about it. I found some great articles by an illustrator called Al Power. Creating an illustration guideline is a good place to start.

A few other notable resources, the illustration section in the Shopify Polaris design system and atlassian.design. I also bookmarked a few site which make great use of illustration to sell their product; Oscar, Digital Ocean and twist.

Beyond the obvious ones in Dribble and Behance, it turns out Pinterest is an incredible rabbit hole for web illustration moodboarding. The site has a very clever tagging system which seems to suggest very similar styles of image. I dug a bit deeper on this and found the whitepaper on related pins at Pinterest. In case you feel like geeking out.

Unsubscribing from email #

With Unroll.me selling our data I’ve been on the hunt for a viable alternative for deal emails don’t make it easy to unsubscribe.

A good option seems like Google unsubscriber, a simple google script which open source and doesn’t store any of your data.

Unsubscriber is another though it doesn’t offer a rollup feature and may well or may not be selling your data. Follow this link if you want to know who currently has access to your gmail account.

On a separate but related note; here’s a good article on unsubscribe UX and another on the UX of creatively effective unsubscribe pages.

For your ears #

This tweet from Dan Eden reminded me of a good track for chilling: Bibio - Mind Bokeh

P.S — I finally got round to re-designing my personal site. It’s a bit rough round the edges but it feels like an improvement.


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