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Jonathan Jeter

Jonathan Jeter has been creating websites since 1997. He is currently Director of Technology Services and Digital Development at TracyLocke, a shopper marketing agency. You can follow him @mywebthoughts, on LinkedIn or connect on Google+.

Frictionless Sales: Selling to Generation Cloud – Digital Velocity Tealium User Conference 2014

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Here are my notes from the “Frictionless Sales” presentation by Treb Ryan at Digital Velocity Tealium User Conference 2014, San Diego, CA
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Generation Cloud = New Expectations

  • Immediate availability
  • Ubiquitous Access
  • Limitless Resources
  • Sharing and Collaboration
  • Mobile and BYOD
Sales hasn’t evolved since the mainframe until the last few years
  • salesforce (1 year contracts)
  • softlayer (monthly commitments)
  • constant contact (monthly commitments)
  • amazon web services (hourly commitments)
1:1 correlation to rapid increase in sales

Elements of a Frictionless Sale – The 3 NoCo’s

  • No contact – People who use the cloud like to buy in the cloud (Don’t want to have to talk to someone to be able to purchase something. If you force them to talk to a rep, they will just move on.)
  • No contract – Hourly billing is a simple proposition. Customers will continue to a service they like.

Building an Effective Digital Marketing Foundation

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Here are my notes for the Digital Velocity conference

  • The customer insights challenge
  • A blueprint for digital marketing
  • Assessment of suite adopters
  • Strategies for success

The Changing Customer Behavior

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  • The number of ways customers engage had exploded
  • Digital channels dominate (Google, Amazon.com, store website, search engines, etc.) Only offline channels are family/friends and physical store.
  • The digital landscape is changing – tablets and phones
    • Websites are now getting more traffic from tablets than smartphones
    • Internet users view 70% more pages on a tablet than a smartphone
  • Customers’ multi-channel behavior is complex (across phone, PC and tablet) – 22% engage multiple channels simultaneously
  • Multiple devices have given birth to the always addressable customer
    • Multiple devices
    • Frequent Access
    • Multiple locations

Why .com?

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.com and .net domain names power the Internet
.com and .net domain names power the Internet

With the myriad of top-level domains (TLD) becoming available, there are now more choices than ever for what domain you can buy. How do you choose whether you should buy a .biz or .info or other domain instead of a .com domain? Typically, the .com domain shows that you are the first one to claim a domain. A .pro or .company domain usually means you were last to the party and someone else beat you to the .com or .net domain. When starting your business, you should make sure and purchase the .com domain to show that you are ready for business. Here are some great reasons (provided by Verisign) to purchase your .com domain name.

.com means business. .com is the standard for doing business online. Give your business the recognition that comes along with a .com to help connect with new customers and partners.

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Prostate Cancer – Why I Mo

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Jonathan Jeter Movember - Day 12
Jonathan Jeter Movember – Day 12

Today is Day 25 of Movember and I have grown a mustache to try and help promote awareness for men’s health issues. I have a team and am trying to raise money for prostate cancer research, but for me it, as probably with most, the main reason I “mo” (grow a mustache in November) is because I have seen the effects of cancer on men and I want other men to take their health seriously.

When I was in high school the father of one of my best friends died of prostate cancer after a long struggle and lots of treatment. When my wife and I were on our honeymoon, her mom’s cousin died of prostate cancer, also after a long and painful treatment process. More recently, my uncle died after a long battle with cancer.

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Freshbooks finally has an Android App

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freshbooks android appI’ve been using Freshbooks (disclaimer: I get a commission if you sign up with them) since 2007 as my online accounting and invoicing service and in that time I’ve seen them change from a very basic online invoicing service to a full-service, cloud-based accounting system that includes projects, time tracking, estimates, reporting and an API that you can use to program your own customer support system. I’ve used Freshbooks to create estimates for website work, manage time in projects and invoice for completed work, hosting expenses and even billing for monthly rent on rental properties. It is efficient, simple and easy to use for customers receiving estimates and invoices.

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How to Use Chromecast with Chrome Browser

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Google Chrome Extensions Webstore ChromecastI was glad to see that my Chromecast device arrived today. After waiting a few weeks for them to be in stock, mine has finally arrived. I’ll go into the details of what’s included in the package and how to set it up in another post, but first I want to share some information that it took me a while to figure out to get it up and running. After I had set up my device and the app on my phone, I wanted to set it up in Chrome so that I could cast from my computer, as well. I went to the Chrome Web Store to look for the Chromecast app, but when I typed Chromecast in the search bar, there were no results found. I searched through Google help and kept getting sent to the setup page, which I didn’t need because I had already set up the device with my phone.

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HTML5 Texas JavaScript Workshop – Client-Side Storage

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HTML5TX JavaScript Workshop - Pamela FoxWeb technologies have taken a long time to progress.

A lot of the standards we see today are because browsers decided to implement new features.

HTML5 is now just supposed to be HTML. It is supposed to be a living standard.

Pamela needs an HTML app that helps choose her hair color.

Client-Side Storage

Cookies are used for all types of tracking, but they have issues with security, user trust (can be disabled), performance and size.

In the HTML spec, they considered the issues and came up with the following solutions.

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localStorage

  • Key / value pairs – hash table
  • Persistent on page reloads
  • Avoids HTTP overhead of cookies

HTML5 Texas Recap

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HTML5 TX Conference 2013

The HTML5 Texas 2013 Conference was great! Here are notes, slides and other resources I collected.

My blog posts of sessions that I attended.

JavaScript Workshop by Pamela Fox

Closing Panel at HTML5TX Conference

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Closing Panel at HTML5TX ConferenceTheme: Where has HTML5 come with the diversity of devices

Panelists: Christopher Schmitt, Ryan Joy, Burke Holland,  Estelle Weyl, Joe McCann, Mike Taylor

What is future-friendly?

Joe: being future-friendly with the web is supporting mobile, but a better strategy is a content strategy for all devices and where they are used. It’s okay to think of web browsers as end points, but your content should be able to live in all environments.

Desktop. Laptop. Smartphone. Tablet. Phablet. Xbox. PS Vita. Smart TVs.  That’s a lot of places your content can live.  Building specific experiences for each one of these simply doesn’t scale.  Let’s find out why and how to tackle such an enormous problem.

Being “”Future Friendly”” is not necessarily just a visual or interaction design decision, but an architectural decision as well.  Furthermore, being “”Future Friendly”” is not about the web or native:  it’s both and more.

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Rapid Templating: “Designing in the Browser” with Sass, Compass, and Serve

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by Nathan Smith at HTML5 Texas in Austin, TX (Deck)

Have you ever found yourself needing to build static front-end templates, either as part of a larger project or as a way to communicate the nuances of responsive design to a client? I think we can all agree that just doing flat HTML leaves us wanting for more templating power.

But, using a dynamic language (PHP, Ruby, etc) typically means that it’s tougher to hand off to a client, who may (not) have a local development environment. That’s where Serve helps bridge the gap. It lets you play with the “”V”” of Rails MVC, but also export flat HTML for easy distribution.

Responsive Web Design

Designers can’t just throw stuff over the wall to the developers anymore

The deck says it all. Great stuff!

sass is to css what jQuery is to JavaScript

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