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Open Source MarketingWorkshop

This session might beof help to everyone who wants to

make moneywith products

being or based onOpen Source software

What you will learn

• How to communicate effectively to your audience

• How to market your products and services

• How to successfully execute your marketing efforts

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What isOpen Source marketing?

The dark sideof marketing

“By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing...kill yourself...you're the ruiner of all things good...you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage...kill yourself.”

(Bill Hicks)

The bright sideof marketing

“Markets are conversations.”

(The Cluetrain Manifesto)

Any sideof marketing

World-wide word-of-mouth marketing

World-wide word-of-mouth marketing

People regard peersas the purest form ofaccurate information

Marketing to social networks

Stakeholders

Individuals

Stakeholders

Individuals

DevelopersDesignersBloggersNewbies

Journalists...

Stakeholders

Individuals

DevelopersDesignersBloggersNewbies

Journalists...

Organizations

Stakeholders

Individuals

DevelopersDesignersBloggersNewbies

Journalists...

Organizations

CompaniesPartners

Not-for-profitsGOs

Media Corps...

Stakeholders

Individuals

DevelopersDesignersBloggersNewbies

Journalists...

Organizations

CompaniesPartners

Not-for-profitsGOs

Media Corps...

Communities

Stakeholders

Individuals

DevelopersDesignersBloggersNewbies

Journalists...

Organizations

CompaniesPartners

Not-for-profitsGOs

Media Corps...

Communities

OSS projectsScientists

...

Open Source marketing is aboutpeer-to-peer, horizontal communication

among multiple persons and groupswith various roles

The big pictureand small details

1. Marketing Strategy

It’s not about the logo

It’s not about the logo

It’s about thecompass that

guides you

It’s not about the logo

It’s about thecompass that

guides you

Strategies can change

It’s not about the logo

It’s about thecompass that

guides you

Strategies can change

You want totrack implicationsof what changed

The 4 C’s

1. Corporation

2. Customer

3. Competitors

The 4 C’s

1. Corporation

2. Customer

3. Competitors

4. Community

Positioning

Strategy Elements

Market trends | Competitive analysis | Window of opportunity | Benefits of Open Source |

Product portfolio | Product features | Support and services |

Sales | Pricing | Conversion rates | Brand development | Media relations | Partner program |

Community building | Thought leadership | Corporate culture

2. Marketing Plan

P roductP ricingP romotionP lace

P roductP ricingP romotionP lace

P eopleP rocess

P hysical evidence

P roductP ricingP romotionP lace

P eopleP rocess

P hysical evidence

P ersonalizationP articipationP eer-to-peer

Plan Elements

Tasks | Milestones | Budget | Team | Benchmarks

3. Marketing Execution

Branding

Branding

Usingmarketing to

influence peoples’attitudes towards, and perceptions of, the brand.

“A brand is not what you say it is.It’s what they say it is.”

(Marty Neumeier)

Who?

Who?

The Open Source Alternative for E-Commerce Platforms

Media Relations

Social Media

Target Audience

• Informed intuition

• Follow the sun

• Communicate early, communicate often

• The higher up the stack, the more fierce competition, the more important the positioning

Awareness Circle

Pieces of Wisdom

Be BOLD

Talk about what you do

Talk about what you do

Have an opinion, share expertise

Talk about what you do

Have an opinion, share expertise

Don’t please everyone

$ave money

Use advertising carefully

Use advertising carefully

Keep printed brochures simple

Use advertising carefully

Keep printed brochures simple

Avoid multilingual corporate Web site

Do it!

Do it and adjust as you go

Do it and adjust as you go

Ask others for advice

Do it and adjust as you go

Ask others for advice

Keep it simple, stupid

Be o p e n

Share all product-relevant information

Share all product-relevant information

Do favors to people

Share all product-relevant information

Do favors to people

Join peer groups

Questions

?

Thank you!

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© 2008 InitMarketing e.K. (except where otherwise noted). Some rights reserved.Distributed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Deed.

Credits• Chess board: http://flickr.com/photos/waponigirl/162798520/

• iPhone at MacWorld: http://flickr.com/photos/wahaha_wu/352709963/

• Who are you?: http://flickr.com/photos/zigwamp/2645598186/

• Butterfly: http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2396177587/

• The conversation prism: http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/

• “BS” on newspaper box: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87913776@N00/517063978/