Today, we are highlighting a site that we think is a hot spot for getting relatively reliable consultative advice on all your business needs. This site is called LinkedIn.
Unlike Yahoo Answers, where any individual can respond to your questions under anonymity and where their credentials are nowhere to be found, LinkedIn is able to show you who is actually answering your question and allows you to see their credentials since most of them are highly qualified professionals or business owners. Most LinkedIn members are more than happy to answer your pressing business questions and provide thought provoking questions in the respective LinkedIn groups. You could also utilize other pay per question services like Just Answers ,which start at about US$30 per question, though the incremental quality increase, according to me, is not economical. Below are some sample questions that we asked in LinkedIn for case study purposes:
Question 1: If I have a joomla hosting site and a psd file, do I just need to convert the psd file into a css or into a whole joomla skin in order to implement the design on the hosting site?
Best Answer Picked:
Properly, you must have the psd converted to html with css, not just css. A joomla skin is called a template and the html/css will be used to create a joomla template, which is then uploaded and selected as the default template.
The template will include module positions and then you have to figure out how to integrate the various components, modules and plug ins to make your site look and function correctly. This includes a good deal of css tweaking.
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Most all of the sites we build are in joomla and I just launched two sites for clients today. www.asetpartners and www.hebraicstudies.com. Many more in our portfolio.
Question 2: What is the best way to market an IT related product to micro and small businesses?
Best Answer Picked:
Make a presentation to them on the sidelines of event involving SMEs, since these guys may not be able to spare time specially to attend to your presentation or demo. Make the product appear less complicated and more user friendly, minimum customisation and kind of off-the-shelves item. Remember most SMEs do not have dedicated IT team. Reassure them of the product support that you will provide. In your presentation, stress more on the money and the manpower they can save rather then complicated technical details of your product. Tell them what is in store for them in the product. Besides this, it would be great if you have other clients using your products, make out some convincing success stories and share it with them. All the best.
Vice President Systems & Remittances at State Bank of India
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