Working the Business Side with Joomla

In this meetup, we will talk about the Web and Internet Marketing Business, as well as how Joomla comes to play within the various facets of what we do for clients. By sharing our knowledge, expertise and "tricks of the trade" we will learn how to have greater success in what we do.

Because this is was a group choice of topic, the following list is the beginning for potential discussion points. Yet, your discussion points are the most important part. Answer the question when you RSVP with what you would like to talk about or share.

Discussion points:

• Contract and Agreements

• Managing Clients

• Ways to monetize a Joomla website or community

• Payments and Invoicing

• Website updates and ways to charge for them

• Managing Difficult Clients

• Trade or shares in exchange for site work

• Online tools to assist with all aspects of the web business

• Taxes

A great quote from a recent article in the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1jgut4B) concerning the recent Heartbleed bug and the OpenSSL project says:

“Open source is not magic fairy dust” that happens automatically, said Tim O’Reilly, an early advocate of open source and the founder of O’Reilly Media. “It happens because people work at it.”

Not only is Open Source projects like Joomla "... not magic fairy dust", but neither do any of us walk around with "magic wands". The way to survive, or even thrive, is to combine and share our energies, knowledge and "best practices".

We will meet in the conference room, at the Office of Silicon Valley, which is to your right when you come in the side door.

We look forward to seeing everyone there. If you are driving, or need a ride, please add a comment to the Meetup for this post and "come one, come all"!