How do we grow a sustainable Drupal business in an increasingly competitive marketplace and how can we innovate and diversify to stay ahead? Help us address those questions at Drupalcon Vienna 2017 with your sessions on Business track.

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Speak about
business at
Drupalcon Vienna
Iztok Smolic
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How do we grow a sustainable Drupal business in
an increasingly competitive marketplace and how
can we innovate and diversify to stay ahead?
Help us address those questions at Drupalcon
Vienna 2017 with your sessions on Business track

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Drupalcon is the biggest Drupal event where people meet
and discuss Drupal as technology and community
This year European Drupalcon will take place in Vienna,
Austria
Drupalcon targets to provide something for everyone,
regardless if you are a developer, designer or
entrepreneur
To provide this mix of content, we organized it into 11
tracks

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11 tracks
Being Human
Business
Coding and Development
Core Conversations
DevOps
Frontend
Horizons
Performance
PHP
Project Management
Site Building

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This year I was thrilled to be invited to the Business track
team
Together with Janne Kalliola (CEO of Exove) and Stella
Power (CEO of Annertech) we are preparing the program
and will be selecting sessions
We are inviting people to share their lessons learned,
success stories and insights about how to grow a
sustainable Drupal business
We want to hear about real-life examples supported by
facts and numbers

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Marketing and selling Drupal as an enterprise
solution beyond GOV and NGO markets
At the last Drupal Business Days, a new movement has started
Our goal is to take Drupal to the next level and build marketing at the level of
Adobe and Sitecore
This task will be challenging as Drupal does not have one single owner and
Drupal companies will need to start promoting Drupal not only their own
business to make it happen
More about this in the article from Michael from OneShue: A Plea to Make the
Shift from Modesty to Marketing

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Alternative and innovative models of running
and growing agency businesses
The majority of Drupal companies are digital agencies
who build Drupal websites for customers
Agency model has many challenges: selling time
instead of value, no recurring revenue, demand for
talent, etc.
But there are other innovative models that agencies
are going after to build a stable business

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Case studies on using Drupal as the
technology platform for a company
Sponsors and exhibitors complain that there are no clients at
Drupalcon
End users or customers do not get much value out of Drupalcon if
there are no sessions targeted for them
We want to hear successful business stories from the client
perspective
What business results did Drupal bring to your company? Is your
startup based on the Drupal platform?
And most importantly, please share what you need from Drupal to
continue growing so Drupal community can build it

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Drupal is in the increasingly competitive market, and
technology alone will not be enough
We have to take a look at how we do marketing and
sales
We need innovative business models
We need to do this together as a community
Share your experiences with other business owner
and contribute to Drupal in something you are best at

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