Nick De Jesus
I like React, love React Native. I play Tekken competitively
Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
by Nick DeJesus
(with lots of help)
Next.js Conference 2021
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Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
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We already love the Jamstack
Scalability
Security
Performance
... And everything else
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
But how do we sell the Jamstack to others it'll help?
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
We interviewed some of our users to get an idea of how they pitch the Jamstack and the ecosystem that comes with it
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Dan Spratling
https://danspratling.dev
https://skyward.digital
@SkywardAgency
@dan_spratling
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
We also interviewed:
Jellypepper
Somosgente
Monogram
Roboto
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
How do you find your clients?
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Referral System
Skyward
Jamstack specialists who find clients through social, referrals and direct contact, asking specifically about Jamstack projects
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Specific use cases
Somosgente
Putting out ads on specific use cases. They'll get clients from people looking to leave other platforms that aren't happy with the plugin ecosystems or website performance.
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Upgrading and saving money
Jellypepper
Businesses looking to get away from expensive hosting. Maintaining and upgrading is a "nightmare" for them.
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Local businesses
Roboto
Focus on local businesses, the type of people that might consider using platforms like Wix.
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Educational Content
Monogram
Educational content from their blogs, titles like, "Jamstack vs Some Technology", "NextJS is the best framework" etc etc
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Who is the Jamstack good for?
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Jellypepper
Marketing sites that are the main ambassadors of a brand (SaaS companies for example). These sites have Marketing teams focused on website promotion.
Light e-commerce stores. Client already used Shopify on the backend and want a more personalized experience.
Marketing Sites + Light e-commerce
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Monogram
Companies that have marketing teams who are more technical. Marketing teams are more likely to go Jamstack vs Software teams.
CIOs who may have heard about Next or the Jamstack
Technical Marketing Teams + CIOs
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Why is the Jamstack good for these types of sites?
Marketing
E-commerce
SaaS
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Benefits per site type
- Great performance
- Security
- Cost effective
- Better dev experience
Marketing
E-commerce
SaaS
- Multiple Backends
Example:
Prismic for content, Shopify for products
- Shared data + Payments across sites
- Still can work as SPA
- Docs site
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
So you've found a good lead, what next?
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
How do you pitch the Jamstack to clients?
A lot like you might pitch a traditional website
Sell benefits
Jamstack just makes this a lot easier
Faster growth
Save money
Save time
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
But what really makes Jamstack better?
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
High performance
Because there's no background processing and data is served through an API, it's a lot easier to get fast websites without doing anything extra
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Low maintenance
Building pages upfront (SSG) means you're only serving HTML & CSS, which won't break if a build goes wrong or an update fails.
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Secure by Default
Static sites don't require a constant connection to a server, meaning less chance for hackers to break your website
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Easy to Scale
Scalability allows them to grow. If they have hundreds or thousands of blog posts, products or marketing pages, the Jamstack can handle it all.
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Works for any type of Site
Doesn't matter if you have a marketing website, e-commerce site, saas or something else - jamstack will work for you
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Works with Any Platform
You're not restricted by a single platform. Pick your frontend. Pick your backend. You're not locked in to an ecosystem by your decisions
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Pro Tip: Pitch Design Systems
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
How does Skyward pitch projects?
Component Driven Design
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
How does Skyward pitch projects?
Component Driven Development
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
How does Skyward pitch projects?
Documented and Tested
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
How Somosgente uses design systems
Internal Design System maintained in CSS
This is what allows them to build websites very quickly and promise delivery within 2 weeks
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Transparency
Clients see what they're getting, how it's built and understand what they're paying for. It gives them a strong sense of security that supports conversions.
Roboto
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Prismic
Prismic Slices help tremendously with putting together fluid design systems that are easy to present to both technical and non-technical clients.
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Pro Tip: Demo how easy it is to use Prismic
Flexible editing
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
What is important to your clients?
🔳 High performance out of the box
🔳 Low maintenance
🔳 Works for any type of website
🔳 Secure by default
🔳 Works With whatever platforms you want
🔳 Easy to scale
🔳 Can consume multiple content sources
🔳 Cost Effective on the long term
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Flexibility of the Multiple Content Sources
Wanted to move to Jamstack
Keep the SEO value of over 300 blog posts
One of their clients
What would you do?
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Is Jamstack cost effective?
Short term
Long term
Short term
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
💡 Pro-tips for Proposals
Checkout
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
the Checklist for a Good Proposal
at the end of this talk
Getting it done
Build
Planning
Maintenance
What's different to traditional builds?
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
What to do after project completion?
Maintenance & Support
Get testimonials and referrals
Suggest more improvements
Keep on Marketing
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
You're selling the future of the Web
Jamstack is modular
Jamstack is powerful
Jamstack is the future
Jamstack is loved
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
We want to help (provide bitly link)
Next.js Conference 2021
By Nick DeJesus. in collaboration with Dan Spartling
Talk: Pitching the Jamstack and its ecosystem to your clients
Next.js Conf 2021 - Slide Deck
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