making the leap: successful products as a web agency
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MAKING THE LEAPSuccessful Products as a Web Agency
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Caveat EmptorLeave now if this isn’t what you want!
Covered: Business Decisions for Products
• Motivators, Priorities, MVP, Marketing, Resourcing, etc.
Not Covered: Technical, Design or Other Considerations for Products
• How to build a product, Technical Infrastructure, Frameworks, Modules, A/B Testing Techniques, etc.
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Target AudienceYou will get the most out of this talk if you:
• Make things for clients
• Have an idea or prototype
• Wonder about your next steps
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Drew Gorton@dgorton
Gorton Studios 2001 - 2015
• Websites for Clients: Strategy, UX, Design, Content Strategy, Development, Support
NodeSquirrel 2011 - Present
• Secure Offsite Backup for Drupal and WordPress
Pantheon 2015 - Present
• World’s Best Website Management Platform (Seriously! Booth demo! Tomorrow’s session!
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Conventional Wisdom
Services companies should not build products.
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Success Stories in Drupal
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Lean Startup
One page business model that identifies how your product solves a problem and how it will make money.See: http://leanstack.com
“Iterate from Plan A to a Plan that Works.” “Being lean is not about being cheap but being efficient with resources.”Ryan Szrama - Growing a Drupal Based Product Businesshttps://latinamerica2015.drupal.org/session/growing-drupal-based-product-business
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Before You StartDefine some things
Goals - Why are we doing this?
Success - What will make this a success?
Methods - How will we find the time and money to do this?
MVP - What is the smallest version of this that we can build?
Marketing - How will people hear about this?
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GoalsWhy would anyone do such a thing?
• Fun
• Learning
• Internal Need
• Lead Generation
• Thought Leadership
• Profit
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Goal Pros + Cons
PRO CON
FUN Fun Won’t Always Be Fun
LEARNING New Skills Focus
INTERNAL NEED Solved Product is overkill
LEAD GENERATION Sales Prospects Cheap Clients
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Higher Rates Burden of Maintenance
PROFIT Money Less Than Hourly Rate
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NodeSquirrel Goals
PRO CON
FUN Fun Won’t Always Be Fun
LEARNING New Skills Focus
INTERNAL NEED Solved Product is overkill
LEAD GENERATION Sales Prospects Cheap Clients
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Higher Rates Burden of Maintenance
PROFIT Money Less Than Hourly Rate
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OpenPublish Goals
PRO CON
FUN Fun Won’t Always Be Fun
LEARNING New Skills Focus
INTERNAL NEED Solved Product is overkill
LEAD GENERATION Sales Prospects Cheap Clients
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Higher Rates Burden of Maintenance
PROFIT Money Less Than Hourly Rate
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Define SuccessKnow where you’re going
What do we call success?
‣ If you don’t know where you’re going, you won’t make it there.
Hard Decisions
‣ Is it worth the time and money we’re investing?
‣ Should we add a new feature?
‣ Should we sponsor DrupalCon?
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Define SuccessKnow where you’re going
“Define what success and failure are for you. How much time/money are you willing to invest and what results will tell you when to pull the plug? We didn't do this very clearly for Drupalize.Me at the start….Having a limping, half-baked product could be damaging to morale as well and do strange things to your culture.”
- Addison BerryProduct Owner, drupalize.me
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MethodsBootstrapping Your Product
• Nights and Weekends
• “Free Time” inside firm
• Money to buy dedicated time $
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Methods: Pros & Cons
PRO CON
FREE TIME You Have It You Don’t Have Enough Of It
MONEY You Have It You Don’t Have Enough Of It
NIGHTS & WEEKENDS Fun & Learning Business?
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NodeSquirrel Methods
PRO CON
FREE TIME You Have It You Don’t Have Enough Of It
MONEY You Have It You Don’t Have Enough Of It
NIGHTS & WEEKENDS Fun & Learning Business?
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Understand Your MethodsStaff Accordingly
“Giving your product space to grow (dedicated staff, etc.) is essential, but have a plan for how it strengthens your service business. If it's not directly symbiotic, start treating it as a separate business immediately, even if you haven't formed a new entity around it.”
- Alec ReynoldsCOO, Kalamuna
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MVPWhere you need to get
A Minimum Viable Product is the smallest thing you can build that delivers customer value (and as a bonus captures some of that value back).
http://leanstack.com/minimum-viable-product/ OPEN
YourSite.com
PRODUCT 01
CHECK OUT $
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Featur-itis is BADDon’t Build Too Much
“As a product owner, you are your own worst enemy. It is very easy to go down in the hells of featuritis. Build a minimal product and make sure that people who use it come back and keep using it more and more. Until you have that, don't waste time on adding additional features: No amount of chrome can fix a broken engine.”
- Kristof Van Tomme CEO Provonix, WalkHub
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MVP Aspects
• Problem being solved
• Identity
• Audience
• Path to Market
• Pricing
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NodeSquirrel MVP
• Problem: Offsite Backup
• Identity: NodeSquirrel Name, Brand, Logo
• Audience: Anyone running a Drupal site
• Path to Market: Backup and Migrate
• Pricing: $5 (now free)
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Different Motivators
PRO CON
FUN Fun! Won’t Always Be Fun.
LEARNING New Skills Can’t Know/Do/Master Everything
LEAD GENERATION Sales Prospects Cheap Clients
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Higher Rates Burden of Maintenance
PROFIT Money Versus Hourly Rate
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Different MVPProfit or Fail Quickly!
Landing Page
Signup Form
Google AdWords
Metrics
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Marketing
You need customers more than you need features.
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Audience Participation Time!Not convinced? How many of you …
Manage Drupal Websites?
Had heard of NodeSquirrel? (before this)
Knew what it was?
Thought it was a great idea?
Tried it?
Bought it?
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MarketingHow soon do you need a full time Marketing person?
Web Agency: 25 - 30 people
Product: ~4 people
Pantheon: ~80 people
‣ Marketing, Support, Engineering each about 20 people
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Putting it Together
Goals - Why are we doing this?
Success - What will make this a success?
Methods - How will we find the time and money to do this?
MVP - What is the smallest version of this that we can build?
Marketing - The most important job once the MVP is out.
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QUESTIONS
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