[Typo3-marketing] Affiliated Consultants

[Daniel Hinderink]

> What you think of my idea then? Just let anybody fill in the same form and
> let customers decide. See the form online.

I think that is very good. So the path to a new consultancy-page on
typo3.com (none of this will apply to .org) is to create a good
questionaire.

It would be very good if I could get file-access to your government-centric
questionaire and make a proposal based on it that we can then develop
further to some v1. Is that posssible with your current server location, or
would you like to get ftp access to one of mine and we pull it through
there?


> 
> Further:
> 
>>> why TYPO3 is so much less known in the US.
> 
> They have been not that possitive about PHP for years, Typo3 wasn't that
> good some time ago, American companies try to talk down open-source
> software, governments do not support open-source and we didn't do anything
> to promote it..

>>> *HOW IT REALLY WORKS**
> Nobody could stay in business paying employees at such a staggering
> rate.  Never happened, all a bad dream.....
> 
> I think Typo3 is a Rolls Roys for the price of a Toyota and so in reach for
> every customer.

Not quite. Just lately, since TYPO3 has been skyrocketing, we get quite a
lot of inquiries for quotes where we just have to tell people that despite
being basically for free, TYPO3 is a complex system requiring some knowledge
to develop applications (not just websites) with it. And there is some
expectation that since the system is for free, these services must be cheap
too. 

It would really be interesting to get some picture what budgets
TYPO3-projects usually have across the board, once the typobrands-network is
operational.

Besides: It seems to me we need nothing more but some legal agreement among
us that primary contacts remain with the company that made them with the
potential customer. Putting in some contractual fee in case of breach that
proves awe-inspiring enough, will make it easier to have people act
accordingly.

Other than that we need a website and have to decide if we just wait around
for customers or if we will start doing some active marketing.

But again, it is essential that we have reason to trust each others
competence! How do we go about this?


> We talked about breaking ground for Typo3 in the US in our last seminars in
> Switserland; there should be more Typo3 consultants/companies there, it
> should be better promoted and we can use some good press over there. The
> most effective start and key to succes in the states in my opnion will be to
> get more Universities there to use it and with our focus on education at
> this moment we will succeed in this I'm sure. Once we annihilated Blackboard
> thing will go from themselfes..
> On the other hand I think the US is not the main concern for us Europeans at
> the moment. In Europe Typo3 is rocketing off now, we can hardly manage the
> projects and keep in pace. Lots of government are supporting open-source
> over here and that is giving Typo3 an extra boast.

Yes, but. Right now donations do not suffice to provide for Kaspers living
and I am afraid he will be worn out pretty soon if he doesn't feel more
supported by the community. Getting some momentum going in the US has
already incurred to companies paying Kasper for consulting and I hope more
exposure in the US will also yield more donations.

And finally: can you please set your mail programm to quote properly? It is
really hard to keep track of quotes and answers without the usual marks
(>,>>, >>>...).

Thanks!

Daniel


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Daniel Hinderink
Marketing, Press Relations, Strategy
http://www.typo3.com