[consulting] consulting Digest, Vol 61, Issue 10

[Kelly Bell]

Tom,
My entire business model is based on partnership - partnership with all my freelancers (and I'm a freelancer as well), partnership with Acquia, partnership with my clients. The model for my business is designed around the idea that we can remain freelancers but help each other stay working on the projects we really want to do by bringing projects to the group and supporting one another to complete them. Because we have only a tiny overhead, this is not more expensive for our clients, and it brings together the best of both worlds - the high value, dedication and personal attention of the freelancer combined with the breadth of skills, multiplication of resources, high availability and stability of a dev company. I see signs of these types of arrangements increasing all around me. Good luck with your article.

-Kelly Bell
Founder, Gotham City Drupal
917.446.1555
twitter: @kelly @gothamdrupal
linkedin/in/kellyrbell
drupal.org: kbell
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http://acquia.com/partners/showcase/gotham-city-drupal

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On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:00 AM, consulting-request at drupal.org wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:12:07 -0500
> From: Tom Geller <tom at tomgeller.com>
> Subject: [consulting] Are partnerships increasing? Or changing form?
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> I'm working on an article about Drupal business, and one of my assertions is that "We've only started to see... partnerships in the Drupal community, but I believe they'll increase exponentially in 2011". One correspondent reported a lot of business through referrals and partnerships, but disagreed that they're growing in number. He did say he believes that they're becoming "more formal".
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> What do you think? Are you finding the need/desire/opportunity to do client work together with other Drupal companies? If it's changed over the past couple of years, how?
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> My deadline's short, so your responses probably won't go into the article. I'm just curious.
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