Help for Sales & marketing
Present and promote Exponential: positioning, feature highlights, demos, objections, licensing, brand and community.
162 pages
Start here
Read these pages in this order.
- Sales and marketing: start here The landing page for sales and marketing: what this section offers, the ground rules for telling the Expone...
- Businesses: start here The landing page for organizations that run their internet, intranet, extranet and mobile web applications...
- Resellers: start here The landing page for companies and freelancers who resell offers based on Exponential - hosting plans, mana...
- Exponential in brief A five-minute briefing for journalists - what Exponential is, who stands behind it, where it came from, wha...
- Fact sheet for journalists A one-page fact sheet about Exponential for newsrooms - what it is, who leads and operates it, the history...
- Selling themes and services: start here The map for designers who want to earn a living around Exponential themes - what can be sold under the GPL,...
Good to know
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The leadership reading path
Every leadership and business page of the help in one ordered path, plus the key existing pages, arranged per role (project manager, sales and marketing) and per week, with a check question for each step.
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Checklist: ready to sell
The checklist before you sell a theme or a theme service - product, license, offer, prices, terms, delivery, support, privacy and taxes - each item linked to the page that explains it.
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Costs and return on investment
The landing page of the costs section. What it costs to own and run a website application on Exponential, what you do not pay for, and how to work out the return on investment with your own figures.
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Newsletters for businesses
The landing page of the newsletters section - what a business, shop or organization gets from the cjw_newsletter extension that ships with Exponential, who each page is for, and the order to read them in.
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Non-profits
The landing page of the non-profits section - what charities, foundations and community organizations can build with Exponential at no license cost, what exists for donations, volunteers and campaigns and what does not…
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Online stores and small shops
The landing page for businesses that sell online with Exponential's built-in shop - what the section covers, who it is for, every page with one line, and a suggested reading order.
Search by topic
Each button lists the pages of one topic for Sales & marketing.
- Project leadership4
- Sales and marketing12
- Publishing and distribution11
- Selling themes and services28
- Maintenance life cycle2
- Hosting1
- Public sector31
- Exponential for businesses42
- Press and media3
- Community1
- Reselling18
- Bundles and distributions2
- Non-profit organizations4
- Administration1
- Installation and upgrades2
Key pages
All pages for Sales & marketing- Selling in several languages and markets The landing page for businesses that publish or sell in more than one language or market with Exponential - what the section covers, ever...
- Templates for businesses The landing page of the templates section. Copy-ready templates for a business using Exponential - case study and interview guide, projec...
- Boilerplate descriptions you may copy Ready descriptions of Exponential, 7x and the Exponential Foundation in 25, 50, 100 and 250 words, for articles, show notes, video descri...
- Case study template A copy-ready template for a case study about a real Exponential project, written from the business's point of view, with the rules that e...
- Communications for non-profits How a non-profit keeps in touch with supporters, volunteers and the people it serves through its Exponential site - the cjw_newsletter su...
- Evaluating bids for an Exponential site The index of the evaluation section - templates, panel guidance, demo scripts, a proof-of-concept plan and evidence guides that help a pu...
- Government FAQ Frequently asked questions from public bodies about Exponential, by topic - accessibility, security, privacy, hosting, licensing, cost, s...
- Mobile strategy How a business decides between a responsive website, its own app on the REST API, or both, with Exponential as the one content source - t...
- Multilingual planning The decisions a business takes before publishing in several languages with Exponential - which languages and markets, addresses per langu...
- Planning a newsletter The decisions a business or organization takes before setting up a newsletter in Exponential - purpose, audience and lists, frequency, wh...
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