Business Catalyst CMS

Cautious

You have decided to make a carreer out of running a website development company, but you want to do it properly.

You constantly worry about the web business. You worry that partners will not live up to their commitments and companies will go broke and data centers will come down and you'll be left holding the ball with everybody suing you. You think back to the Internet bubble of 2000 and all the vaporware companies that just disappeared when the bubble burst and you remind yourself, "I have to be careful"

So you want to retain control of your system and you want to feel secure that it is backed up by the biggest company out there, because at least they aren't going to disappear. You do want to make money out of the business, but you don't mind if the work takes a bit longer and the options are more limited, so long as it is safe. You continually remind yourself that long term sustainability is much better than quick profit.

Congratulations- The CMS system you should be using is Adobe Business Catalyst.

Hands On

You have always liked the power of knowing how to do everything in your business. You live by the motto: "If you want a thing done properly, you have to do it yourself". You love creating, seeing a website come together and knowing that you are the creator - in fact the satisfaction of creating is worth more to you than the money you can make from the business. The money is just necessary to keep you going with your love of creating websites.

You can't bear the thought of not being able to tinker - on the odd occasion when you've hired another developer, you've always had to go into the back end and just fine tune things a bit, because nobody ever does it better than you can do it yourself.

The best system CMS for you is Joomla and if you want to play with a hightened level of difficulty, Droupal.

Elitist

You're a serious business owner and you want to be associated with Quality. You live by the motto: "You get what you pay for in this world". When asked about whether your clients would also mind paying a premium, you reply "If they don't then they are not the kind of clients I want anyway"

We have just the system for you, with a $10,000 system price tag and $180/hr development fees, MySource Matrix should definately be your CMS system of choice. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are using a system that most of your competitors can't afford.

Skeptical

SEO is very important to you. What is the point of putting up a website if it isn't indexed by Google? and you've seen or heard of people getting great results with Wordpress and you believe Wordpress has definately got it right.

You look around and nobody has managed to convince you that any system can do it as good as Wordpress. Sure it has it's shortcomings such as basically being a blogging engine that can be modified to make websites and sure, e-commerce is not properly integrated, it's just a plugin and there is no CRM, but you can always use Infusionsoft for that anyway.

And you worry that moving to any other system, no matter how inviting the additional benefits may seem, will just be like succumbing to the advances of a sweet, seductive siren in a bar somewhere, a brief moment of esctasy, followed by that hollow feeling and total rejection by your one true love in the morning - and you would rather die than be dumped by Google!

This may come as a surprise, but you can stop looking. Wordpress is the best CMS system for you!

Retiring Earlier

You love the web business, but you understand it is just that, a business and although you love to tinker with code, you would rather spend time with your family. You figure, "it's all economies of scale, if I let everybody do what they do best, including me, then I will retire earlier".

You want a reliable outsourcing partner to do the work, a good solid system to run it all and you want to provide your clients with the requirements they specify, in a timely manner for a competitive price. You want results, not excuses.

The system of choice for you is undoubtedly the 60 Second CMS.