{"id":883,"date":"2019-09-28T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.dublin.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=883"},"modified":"2019-10-16T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:28:27","slug":"selling-wordpress-and-panel-qa","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/dublin.wordcamp.org\/2019\/session\/selling-wordpress-and-panel-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Talk: Selling WordPress, Panel Q&amp;A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a discussion Scott Jones has been having with other agency owners and the cool people on the WordPress marketing team since last year. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s a challenge that I face in my business life each day, when WordPress comes up against other CMS and DXP platforms, especially when they have such great presence and marketing behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He believes we need to do more to show why the open source WordPress is more than just a credible competitor and to support our community in communicating the benefits of WordPress to their clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why is WordPress a sellable CMS? And how easy or hard is it to endorse WordPress when a client is asking about other platforms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott said: \u201cThese are some of the questions I want to help to answer. It\u2019s something that I work to achieve on a daily basis (with a mixture of success and failure).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CMS we all love is flexible, expandable, fast, well-supported, great for content editors and ultimately great for business. It\u2019s not just a small blogging platform anymore, it\u2019s a product that suits tiny businesses and enterprise businesses in equal measure, depending on the experience of the designers and developers working with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Jones aims in this talk to give a fairly broad range of people new ideas, new arguments and renewed thinking on how to say \u201cWordPress is the platform for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This lightning talk will be followed by a short panel Q&amp;A with Make WordPress contributors Abha Thakor and Colm Troy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-list wordcamp-speakers\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-speaker wordcamp-speakers__post slug-scott-jones\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-speakers__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dublin.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/scott-jones\/\">Scott Jones<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-none\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dublin.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/scott-jones\/\" class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-link\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0969bf7b2f42160092b711af38511963bd59cbcaa5d3bf9949f5f80da4c38e3?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Scott Jones\" \/>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-speakers__sessions\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wordcamp-speakers__sessions-heading\">\n\t\t\t\tSession\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"wordcamp-speakers__sessions-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"wordcamp-speakers__sessions-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"wordcamp-speakers__session-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dublin.wordcamp.org\/2019\/session\/selling-wordpress-and-panel-qa\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLightning Talk: Selling WordPress, Panel Q&amp;A\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wordcamp-speakers__session-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 20, 2019 at 1:30 pm GMT+0100 in Track A\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a discussion Scott Jones has been having with other agency owners and the cool people on the WordPress marketing team since last year. 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