Community Magazine

Integrate Your Site To Your CRM!

Managing a membership site can seem like a herculean task, but when you combine it with one of your other tools it can become a breeze.

A few days ago, with the Association Joomla! Lombardy and the Web Advisor Team, I had the great opportunity to live a work day with Xaverian Missionaries; I don’t want to hide the strong emotion I felt in bringing our beloved CMS in a so prestigious area, with the presence of official Vatican State delegates and missionaries coming from all over the world.

Who’s the boss? In every business, the boss is the Customer. Without customers... we have no business.  “Cost” is what a customer pays; “Value” is what a customer gets. We need to focus on what we give. Here are three ways we can increase our service’s value in the context of a Joomla web business.

Helping to make more satisfied, more productive employees

There are infinite ways to use a membership site. In previous articles, we talked about ways to externally use membership sites to make your business better. Have you thought about using one internally to improve your employees experience and productivity?

Estamos conscientes que un sitio web puede traernos muchos beneficios si pensamos que este representará nuestro negocio, y que potencialmente puede ser una puerta para que la mayoría de nuestros clientes existentes y potenciales nos visiten. Este puede ser nuestro vendedor numero uno, o nuestro mejor comunicador. Para conseguir esto, necesitamos tener una idea clara de que necesitamos para diseñar e implementar nuestro sitio web. Además, es importante contar con las herramientas necesarias para que nuestro sitio web sea capaz de abrirle las puertas a nuestros clientes y mostrarles de que se trata nuestro negocio.  Idealmente necesitamos que este vendedor no solo nos de los resultados deseados, sino que además nos de un informe completo de las ventas, las visitas y el performance de nuestros productos.

The Joomla! Project is proud to announce that we are kicking off this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) bid! Google Summer of Code is a global program that connects students and open source projects to work on exciting projects during summer break.

Estamos entrando a un nuevo año 2016 y Joomla! también se aproxima a una nueva versión. Joomla! 4 esta casi a la vuelta, y se ha hablado mucho acerca de las mejoras que esta nueva versión nos traerá.

Yes, your membership site can make you more of the expert! All things being equal, people buy from who they know, like and trust. Use your membership site to increase your authority and therefore your level of perceived trust.

I recently had the joy and privilege to keynote at both PHP World and the Joomla World Conference in November 2015, and both were amazing experiences. Thanks to the keynotes and my involvement with the Joomla community, I wanted to share with you how I got to where I am now, and how your life and career could take similar paths.

Most of you reading this will be very familiar with how volunteers contribute to the Joomla! project. It is sometimes hard and sometimes boring, waiting for results that cannot be achieved. This is what most of the Certification Team members have felt at least once in the last two and a half years while setting up the Joomla! Certification Program. I would like to thank all of you, contributing now to any of the Joomla! projects, and especially to those supporting the Certification Program, and to those for their past and future efforts.