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jason's blog

How to start a business - Nerdy Dragon style

Submitted by jason on Wed, 2011-06-15 10:10

Ok, so this isn't the best way to start/run a business, however we've compiled a list of some of the key factors involved in our success:

  1. Work for an employer that gets a few months behind on payroll, right before you start your company
  2. Open in a city where you don't know many people
  3. Venture into a business that you don't yet have a portfolio in
  4. Select a business with low overhead - and lots of competition

Drupal provides a variety of ways to solve common web challenges

Submitted by jason on Mon, 2011-04-11 22:48

Web designers, developers, copywriters, editors, small business owners, entrepreneurs, students, and professionals who are responsible for developing, organizing, and publishing content on the web love drupal.

A lot of people do, because it's powerful, available for free, has over 7000 modules available to enhance and customize it to most of the work required for an enormous number of web ventures.

It's not a system that handles everything for you.

It's a system that provides you and your web engineers a powerful and flexible toolkit to build applications from.

Boise SEO - How to Write SEO Friendly Blog Posts

Submitted by jason on Thu, 2010-10-14 09:10

Writing an SEO friendly blog post begins with a good plan. Here’s our basic formula:

Keywords + Topic + Creativity

First, we select which keyword/keyphrase we’d like to target. Think of the search terms that users use to find your website. For example, SEO Boise, SEO Companies in Boise, etc. Ideally, we’ll target just a single keyphrase in a post.

SEO Boise - Trust, Authority, and Conversion

Submitted by jason on Thu, 2010-09-23 21:45

To be an effective and credible Boise SEO Company, you must understand trust and authority as it pertains to SEO.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is an evolving industry. Search engines strive to become better at interpreting content as a user, and SEO's strive to become better at communicating content to search engines.

Boise SEO - The nerd of the link - destination, anchor text, title, and business justification

Submitted by jason on Sat, 2010-09-11 12:20

First Question: "Are you marketing, or are you just promoting?"

Marketing requires research, analysis, innovation, and understanding behind the decisions and actions you make when promoting.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is often simply used as a promotion exercise; this is the case when proper attention isn't paid to keyword selection.

Marketing question: "How do I get more customers on the web?"
Promotion question: "How do I get more traffic to my website?"

mon and tues of craziness, love the challenges presented by solid growth

Submitted by jason on Sat, 2012-03-03 15:05

when you're busy, and you're meeting with the bigs, then you've got a double edged sword of customer relations. On one hand, you have to be totally accessible to everyone, and on the other, you have to be solely focused on the time and attention you pay to your current commitments.

We've had an amazing week. It's hard to believe the good fortunes and opportunities that we're a part of. Not to bore you, but here goes a quick recap of the start of this week:

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some dynamics behind a solid venture agreement conversation #startup #entrepreneurship #software

Submitted by jason on Sat, 2012-02-18 02:07

Had some fun meeting with a company, who started as a client, and have evolved into a more collaborative and entrepreneurial venture.

The notes I took from the conversation that led us to an agreement in principle, are what you see. We love this stuff.

The product is a communications app, involving the cloud and pure awesomeness.

Stay tuned.

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do you git it?! #boise #community #collaboration #startups #byp #ecommerce

Submitted by jason on Thu, 2012-02-16 23:11

jon: ok looking at the git stuff
me: gonna git this git going
jon: we'll git er done
me: git yeah

Not a bad evening conversation. Truth is, Jon and I are working on a pretty sweet project that just so happens to have been cultivated by an introduction made via the Boise Young Professionals organization, as well as a $40 million dollar startup failure (which also included a failed Haiti Mission/Kidnapping/Prison/NBC Universal/HP/the mysterious JM, Mel Gibson movie investor waiting on a transaction to close so we can make payroll venture).

True Story.

RewriteRule ^subdirname/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Submitted by jason on Fri, 2012-02-10 15:08

yep, this is a handy statement for redirecting all requests from a sub-folder to the root of the site. Say, for example, you have originally built a drupal site in a subdirectory "/drupal" for example..then, say that some users used the ckFinder image uploader to upload files..and perhaps your designer used some references in the css and/or theme to /drupal/image.... Well, to save yourself from headaches, and buy some time while fixing the url's within the site, use this statement:

RewriteRule ^subdir/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Sweet, sweet magic.

Epic, commerce configuration extraordinaire - showcasing the power of Drupal Commerce

Submitted by jason on Tue, 2012-01-24 09:03

Some e-commerce challenges are more involved than others. Anyone can plug some products into a pre-built shopping cart, although tailoring a cart to your needs is a much more involved proposition.

Shipping, product attributes, configuration rules, constraints, inventory..the list goes on and on.

While working on solving an intricate ordering challenge for a specific industry, we've come across an excellent write-up involving drupal commerce: http://drupal.org/node/1338172

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