[consulting] Who exactly is this list for?

[Messias Web]

God question:

Who exactly is this list for?

 

I would like to get out it, but I do not know.

 

Thanks

 

Messias

 

 


 


> From: arkelly at cognisync.com
> To: consulting at drupal.org
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:27:46 -0500
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Who exactly is this list for?
> 
> I'm not sure but I think you just agreed that maybe another list is
> warranted :).
> 
> Its more than evangelism and marketing though, to be specific:
> 
> 1. General marketing conversations. What types of markets are there for
> Drupal solutions? How to penetrate them? What sales strategy works?
> 2. General competitive conversations. Drupal by its very nature competes
> in several markets, and we're all small shops with very little bandwidth to
> do competitive analysis.
> 3. Development of "kill sheets" for other products (joomla, jive
> clearspace, MS Sharepoint, etc)
> 4. Sharing of security audit fodder (difficult to complete and can be a
> deal-breaker for open source solutions in the enterprise)
> 5. FUD-defense ("Drupal is not scalable, Drupal isn't secure, yadda yadda")
> 6. Sales/Mktg Collateral (Drupal-based sites, Drupal popularity, etc).
> 7. Value of Integrations. The salesforce conversation last week was
> interesting, what would be the market value of salesforce integration? Where
> can we go to sell that capability?
> 8. Contract stuff (license agreements, how to establish give-back to the
> community from your clients, etc). This might overlap with this list.
> 9. Partnering info - Often times 1+1 = 3 if you have the ability to bring
> in the right skillset at the right time.
> 10. I can't think of one but didn't want to end at 9.
> 
> The qualifier of whether or not you belong on that list is whether or not
> you cringe at the phrase "kill sheet". If you smile at it you can be a
> moderator :).
> 
> Andrew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
> On Behalf Of Domenic Santangelo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:58 PM
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Who exactly is this list for?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Andrew R. Kelly <arkelly at cognisync.com>
> wrote:
> > Drupal solution providers are in their infancy
> 
> I guess that depends on how you define "infancy". Aren't Aquia,
> Lullabot, WorkHabit, et al "Drupal Solution Providers"? I don't think
> I'd say they're all in their infancy.
> 
> > and its clear that this audience isn't the right one to talk about how to
> > build this business.
> 
> Build what business? Are you talking about:
> > I would love to see this list essentially act as the consulting arm of
> Drupal, Inc.
> 
> ? If so, you should look up the above mentioned companies, especially
> Aquia, as they're as close to an "official" shop as it gets.
> 
> I think you might misunderstand the breadth of people who hang out on
> this list, or who would consider themselves Drupal consultants. There
> are employees of shops (like me, and others in the thread), as well as
> independent consultants.
> 
> The reason you're getting pushback, Andrew, is because you're talking
> to a bunch of consultants who (mostly) aren't married to one platform.
> It just happens to be that Drupal works in some business cases for
> them, sometimes not. You're talking more about evangelizing and
> marketing.
> 
> -D
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