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I've been encouraging folks to start their own DNN firm for a number of years; here are a few slides from one of my presentations.
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How to Start a DotNetNuke Firm
How to Start a DotNetNuke Firm
Gifford Watkins, BSc, MA, MDiv
Evangelist & DNN MVPFounder and CEO
How to Start a DotNetNuke Firm
Should You Be Here?
This presentation is for the person inspired to become a DNN entrepreneur but needs to create a business model that will prove successful through startup.
Testimonial
“Gifford is one of the most unusual people I've met in technology -- in a good way. Here is a guy who grew up a Nova Scotia lobsterman (he's shared lobster recipes with me) and was educated as a minister...and without shedding either of those identities built a serious tech company about as far geographically from Silicon Valley as you can get. He's won the attention of Microsoft and the U.S. Military. And he's always been willing to share his expertise with me. All in all, Giff is a great story.”
~Kevin Maney, Columnist, Tech Columnist, Tech Writer, Cover Stories Editor, USA TODAY
The DNN/MIT License Opportunity
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
TICKET TO RIDE
Microsoft says… it’s okay.
DotNetNuke says… it’s okay.
Websites, shacks, hovels, abandoned, orphaned, widowed, diseased, out dated… HTML, Word Press, CFM…
Convert them all!
DNN?
100+ Fortune 500 firms.
DNN?
ACK!
THE STATUS QUO
Websites are created by webmasters creating a “web slave” situation.
DotNetNuke sets web slaves free.
House keys, car keys… web keys.
OVERVIEW
1) The DNN Opportunity MIT
2) Strategy
3) Support (be a relationship firm)
4) Hosting
5) Infrastructure
6) Design
7) SEO
8) Programming
9) Snowcovered.com
10) Revenue generation
Quality vs QuantityI tell people that Atlantic Webfitters is first and foremost a RELATIONSHIP firm with IT solutions.
THE MODEL
How much do you want to earn?
Let’s say you chose $120,000 a year
$100/mo per client
100 Clients
ACK!
Choose modules and skins carefully
Choose hoster carefully
Questions?
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