Comments on: Fancy-Pants Navigation and Pencil Twirling http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/ Marketing blog focused on marketing optimization, improving website conversion rates, search engine marketing, web analytics, word of mouth, etc. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:58:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: alex cassinos http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/comment-page-1/#comment-449001 alex cassinos Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:35:28 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/#comment-449001 yea i twirl pencils, pens, knives, anything lol like books. i cant stop it helps me concentrate better yea i twirl pencils, pens, knives, anything lol like books. i cant stop it helps me concentrate better

]]> By: Dave Young http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/comment-page-1/#comment-20399 Dave Young Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:53:39 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/#comment-20399 Thanks Robert. I'm sure it was a better habit to pick up than say...smoking. BTW...I'm one of those easily distracted people at meetings. Anything shiny and moving. Thanks Robert. I’m sure it was a better habit to pick up than say…smoking. BTW…I’m one of those easily distracted people at meetings. Anything shiny and moving.

]]> By: Robert Gorell http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/comment-page-1/#comment-20382 Robert Gorell Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:12:59 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/#comment-20382 Not sure I can speak on behalf of habitual 'pencil twirlers', but I certainly am one (pens, mainly, but I wouldn't shy away from a serrated knife). Never realized it so distracting for other people... But, now that I think of it, meetings tend to be the only chance I get to indulge. If it's any consolation, I do this on conference calls, too ;) It's a great analogy, though. I'm sure that when I started flipping pens around my thumb back in high school, the point was to distract other people. Everyone on the debate team did it. I didn't bother joining, but I recall picking it up just to taunt my smarty-pants friends who did. (Of course, the irony here was lost on my teenage male ego.) Like an ecommerce site that added FEATURES along the way without considering VALUE to its audience, such is my pencil twirling... The message to online marketers: Don't make showing off a habit. Not sure I can speak on behalf of habitual ‘pencil twirlers’, but I certainly am one (pens, mainly, but I wouldn’t shy away from a serrated knife). Never realized it so distracting for other people… But, now that I think of it, meetings tend to be the only chance I get to indulge. If it’s any consolation, I do this on conference calls, too ;)

It’s a great analogy, though. I’m sure that when I started flipping pens around my thumb back in high school, the point was to distract other people. Everyone on the debate team did it. I didn’t bother joining, but I recall picking it up just to taunt my smarty-pants friends who did. (Of course, the irony here was lost on my teenage male ego.)

Like an ecommerce site that added FEATURES along the way without considering VALUE to its audience, such is my pencil twirling…

The message to online marketers: Don’t make showing off a habit.

]]> By: Friday Tea Time - 3/23/07 » TheMadHat http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/comment-page-1/#comment-19408 Friday Tea Time - 3/23/07 » TheMadHat Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:49:46 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/03/23/fancy-pants-navigation-and-pencil-twirling/#comment-19408 [...] * To start off, I found this last week from Jakob Nielsen. 10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities from the usability master of the world. From creating passionate users we have a post on eliminating fear for profit. Good read from Kathy Sierra. Finally from the persuasion architect himself: Pencil Twirling & Navigation. Just so you know, I can twirl my writing utensils. [...] [...] * To start off, I found this last week from Jakob Nielsen. 10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities from the usability master of the world. From creating passionate users we have a post on eliminating fear for profit. Good read from Kathy Sierra. Finally from the persuasion architect himself: Pencil Twirling & Navigation. Just so you know, I can twirl my writing utensils. [...]

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