The Drupal CEO Roadmap: Lessons from the Road

The last year has seen a dramatic growth in the number of Drupal focused businesses. This is essential to the growth and future of Drupal as a platform. However, we have also seen in the past that having a great technical framework to build from doesn't create a winning business. In this session, we will take a look beyond the technology side of Drupal and share what it takes to run a successful Drupal oriented business.

This all star group of presenters is coming off a roadtrip of doing a "Running a Drupal Shop" panels at many of this past year's biggest Drupalcamps (yea they took this show on the road!) Drawing from these experiences and many past Drupalcon panels, we will kick it up a notch and use a fast paced ignite style of rapid presentation to focus directly on the most key issues and best secrets.

The format and topics have been refined and distilled to 7 concise areas of best practices and lots of great honest advice and Q&A with the audience. Each of the following will be presented by the CEO or owner of a Drupal focused business.

* Vision: Knowing who you are and what you want to create
* Strategy: Finding a Niche in the crowd
* Community: How to maximize your marketing efforts
* Sales: Face the competition and reap your rewards
* Project Management: The silver bullet to establishing order
* Process: How to manage and scale your growth
* Culture: The secret to achieving long term success and profit

The presenters include:

Ron Huber of Achieve Internet
Ben Finklea of Volacci
Dave Terry of Mediacurrent
Jeff Walpole of Phase2 Technology
Michael Caccavano of Treehouse Agency
Drew Gorton of Gorton Studios
Glenn Hilton of ImageX Media