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Interesting... on the one hand, $1500+/month seems like crazy money for a CMS to a hacker (particularly when you could, of course, build at least 90% of any giv

by kgrin 15y ago

Interesting... on the one hand, $1500+/month seems like crazy money for a CMS to a hacker (particularly when you could, of course, build at least 90% of any given page fairly easily - though I'm not so sure about the "studio", infrastructure, etc.) BUT - to your average BigCo (which, at least judging from the Customers page, is the target market), a few $k/month is a rounding error in the coffee budget - particularly when compared with the labor costs for a "webmaster" whose job often consists of 20% content production and 80% helping the Marketing department use Wordpress.

hippee-lee 15y ago
Most non tech focused big companies won't use Wordpress. Not only are they locked into the CMS bundles that only run on .NET but the marketing (or marcom departemnt) doesn't communicate very well with the IT department. Since the senior managers believe that front end is independent from the backend and IT re-enforces that, the big co will end up with an out of date website that is clunky for customers and users with annual requests to have a modern website like the cool tech companies. In large companies outside of tech there is very little understanding for what it takes to create and maintain a modern website. Trust me, I saw this first hand once upon a time when a VP asked for dynamic content for products (in a database) and the IT manager told him it could not be done with JavaScript. This IT manager had over 15 years of e-commerce and website development on his linked in profile.
twog 15y ago
1500+ a month doesn't seem to outlandish, especially when compared to the cost of Wordpress Vip http://vip.wordpress.com/ http://vip.wordpress.com/ which starts around 3750/m + quite a bit of additional costs.
maratd 15y ago
The target market for something like this is the existing SF customer base. Specifically, the ones who use the social features built in to their software suite and need a little help setting up some sites to interface with that.

by kgrin 15y ago

hippee-lee 15y ago

Most non tech focused big companies won't use Wordpress. Not only are they locked into the CMS bundles that only run on .NET but the marketing (or marcom departemnt) doesn't communicate very well with the IT department. Since the senior managers believe that front end is independent from the backend and IT re-enforces that, the big co will end up with an out of date website that is clunky for customers and users with annual requests to have a modern website like the cool tech companies. In large companies outside of tech there is very little understanding for what it takes to create and maintain a modern website. Trust me, I saw this first hand once upon a time when a VP asked for dynamic content for products (in a database) and the IT manager told him it could not be done with JavaScript. This IT manager had over 15 years of e-commerce and website development on his linked in profile.

twog 15y ago

1500+ a month doesn't seem to outlandish, especially when compared to the cost of Wordpress Vip http://vip.wordpress.com/ http://vip.wordpress.com/ which starts around 3750/m + quite a bit of additional costs.

maratd 15y ago

The target market for something like this is the existing SF customer base. Specifically, the ones who use the social features built in to their software suite and need a little help setting up some sites to interface with that.