[TYPO3-UG US] US Marketing Plan

[Michelle Heizer]

Hi Jeff,

That is some wonderful work you are doing! The first time I heard about
your project was through a press release that was sent off Google
Alerts. I had also seen the Devotional Journal extension you had
published and thought it would be a very useful extension, as you
mention in your tutorial, not only for church sites, but educational
sites as well.

I think you bring up an interesting point. I'm not sure if this is more
of a US thing, or what, but I've noticed a big interest in building
packaged TYPO3 solutions. My company has been doing this as well. Not
only is the turnaround time much quicker, but you can easily
troubleshoot or update the packages you release since you have a fixed
number of extensions.

I was curious about the funding for your project. Am I reading it
correctly that these packages are offered for free so a church would
only need to pay for hosting? 

Regards,

Michelle

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:07 -0500, Jeff Segars wrote:
> Greg and Michelle (and anyone else reading along...),
> 
> I figured I'd throw in my two cents on how to focus on vertical markets. 
>   I work with a ministry called Web-Empowered Church 
> (www.webempoweredchurch.com and www.webempoweredchurch.org) that's 
> trying take TYPO3 into churches and ministries.
> 
> Once of our first big tasks has been creating a TYPO3-specific package 
> for our market by installing and configuring extensions and creating a 
> page tree and content geared toward that market, as has been referenced 
> in this thread.
> 
> It's still a work in progress and far from perfect, but if you'd like to 
> see the way we're targeting TYPO3 at churches, feel free to check it 
> out.  We're calling our package the Common Configuration and its 
> available at http://webempoweredchurch.com/gettingstarted/commonconfig/. 
>   I think this type of thing could hold for other markets as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff