Phone gap is a relevantly new application where you can create mobile apps using HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript similar to making a website.
Since the advent of mobile devices the path to market was if you wanted to make a phone app for the Android market you would have to have knowledge of the Android Java language, for IOS you would have had to have knowledge of objective-c and for windows you would have needed .net. But that is now changing and that’s with the help of PhoneGap.
Phone gap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about.
The way of the Hybrid app is the new path to take
My own personal experience with it, I’m really impressed with the product I’ve tested it out with one basic app and it worked great, I wouldn’t say flawlessly as there is some set up setting up the Cordovo environment (named after the street where Phonegap was established)which is the command line interface that phonegap uses.
How are Google Android , Apple and windows reacting to this?
Here is how to emulate mobile devices in your own browser, I've been using this for months and it's really a great tool for webdevopment, the Google Chrome developement tools are very useful when trying to troubleshoot problems on a website.
With this mobile emulator you can check how your site will look using the most popular types of mobile device's without having to have the mobile device in front of you
If you have anyother questions about the developer tool kit just contact me and I'll try to answer them for you
If you've ever wondered how people were able to insert a timer into an email timer, you now can do it, becuase email clients won't allow code to be inserted for security reasons you have to trick the email client into beleiving that it's really an image or a gif to be exact. Try out the example I have shown below, but remember that this one is just set up for 7 days in advance.
Here's one of the ways to increase engagement, conversions and sales by enhancing your marketing emails with this free email countdown timer
Just enter the date in the format above and click generate timer, and the code will appear below
Copy the link and insert it like you would an image in an email and the timer will appear.
leave a commet below if you have any other questions about this.
If you want a custom one for your emails, just contact me and I'll see what I can do.
Installing a countdown timer into a email is a bit more difficult than just using a JavaScript script because your not allowed to insert code into an email for security reasons.But the process is easy when you know how
COPY THIS LINE OF CODE BUT CHANGE THE DATE into the future
http://www.johnquirke.ie/countdown/gif.php?time=2015-02-23+00:00:01
The first decade of adulthood can be a confusing, if also very exciting time. As young people determine who they're going to be, one of the top concerns on everybody's mind is finding a job that will make them happy.
That's why Glassdoor set out to determine the 10 best jobs for people in their 20s.
To compile the list, Glassdoor looked at job reviews left on its site by employees between the ages of 20 and 29 over the past three years. In each of the reviews, employees rated their job satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being very dissatisfied and 5 being very satisfied.
A FEW MONTHS ago Progressive, an insurance company, ran a video ad on Facebook featuring a grown man who acts like a baby and is carried around in a sling. The ad urged youngsters to "act your age" by renouncing their parents' car insurance and buying their own.
When Facebook employees chuckled about it during a meeting, David Fischer, the firm's 41-year-old head of marketing, wondered why he had never seen it. He was too old, his colleagues said. Progressive was trying to appeal to young drivers, so it served up the ad only to them.
In 1963 David Ogilvy, the father of Madison Avenue and author of a classic business book, "Confessions of an Advertising Man", wrote: "An advertisement is like a radar sweep, constantly hunting new prospects as they come into the market. Get a good radar, and keep it sweeping."
Half a century later advertisers are at last taking him at his word.
"Twentieth-century technology," writes economic historian Joel Mokyr in the Manhattan Institute's excellent City Journal, "was primarily about 'large' things."
Large in physical size, that is. Mokyr's examples include the diesel engine and the gas turbine, shipping containers, communications satellites launched by giant rockets, oil-drilling platforms, massive power stations, giant steel mills and huge airplanes.
Most are familiar sights today, but if we try to see them with the eyes of someone in 1914, they are awe-inspiring. This summer, I drove past the ruins of Henry Ford's Highland Park plant, the largest manufacturing plant in the world when it opened in 1910. There, Ford set up the first auto assembly line and in 1914, the same year Europe went to war, started paying his workers $5 a day.
You find it hard to approach people and talk about your work
It's difficult for you to represent the value of what you do
• You cringe when you have to go for the "ask," or offer a service or product to people
• You freeze when people ask you what you do, or you have to introduce yourself and your work to new communities
• You avoid opportunities to share your work or business
• You shrink from connecting with partners to promote your work
• You're uncomfortable asking for support in getting your business out into the world
Marketing, at its root, is about connecting with people to communicate your value or the value of what you're offering.
Chances are that even if you're not the owner of your own business you still have to put yourself and what you do out into the world to boost your performance.
When you develop a specific strategy and implement it effectively, thought leadership can impact these six areas of your company:
Sales: Consumers don’t want to be sold; they want to research products and services to make informed purchase decisions. If salespeople provide educational content to prospects that guides them through their questions and concerns, leads will filter in, and conversion rates will soar.
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