{"id":3283,"date":"2017-09-07T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.annarbor.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&p=3283"},"modified":"2017-10-31T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:42:45","slug":"lesson-learned-from-selling-wordpress-to-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/lesson-learned-from-selling-wordpress-to-enterprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Learned from Selling WordPress to Enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"

My WordPress journey started with small projects, with total budgets under $100. Nine years later, we have grown to reach the other end of the spectrum, regularly handling Enterprise WordPress projects with budgets of over $100K per year. At this scale, the rules for \u201cselling\u201d WordPress to a client change.<\/p>\n

WordPress\u2019 traditional advantages don\u2019t necessarily apply anymore. I will start by addressing the two largest apprehensions that enterprises have- security & scalability- and cover other pain points like:<\/p>\n

– Integration with existing systems
\n– Ownership and responsibility
\n– Extensibility and long term viability
\n– \u201cFree\u201d and \u201cGPL\u201d concerns<\/p>\n

I hope the lessons I share in this talk from our own learning will help increase the WordPress adoption in enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My WordPress journey started with small projects, with total budgets under $100. Nine years later, we have grown to reach the other end of the spectrum, regularly handling Enterprise WordPress projects with budgets of over $100K per year. At this … Continue reading Lesson Learned from Selling WordPress to Enterprises<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153468,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1507994400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"https:\/\/2017.annarbor.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/10\/Selling-WordPress-to-Enterprises-by-Rahul-Bansal-WC-Ann-Arbor.pdf","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[3223],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[866808,289],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-3283","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-amphitheatre","wcb_track-business"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83Bmu-QX","session_date_time":{"date":"October 14, 2017","time":"11:20 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"3223","slug":"rahul-bansal","name":"Rahul Bansal","link":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/rahul-bansal\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3283\/revisions\/3316"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3223"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/rahul286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}