TrainingCloud.io

We run both public and private training courses.

Anyone can sign up online for the public courses we schedule, and the sales process tends to be short and sweet.

Selling private courses is very different: the client tends to be an SME or large organization, so going from zero to sale can take weeks or months.

For one particular global organization, the sales process took roughly 9 months.

That's why I'm super happy to have finally received their PO (Purchase Order), which means their decision makers have accepted our proposal, added us to their list of authorized vendors, and are ready to use our services.

Our new client is a Fortune Global 100 company that groups dozens of well-known consumer brands. With many of these individual brand teams being in the market for follow-up training sessions, there's a significant repeat sale opportunity here, if we do things right.

If you had 1 piece of advice to share about repeat sales across an organization, what would it be?

While we have been providing training for private teams since last year, we only launched our public training with online ticket sales this month.

On March 17th we got our first online sale!

I'd like to thank my wife, my manager, my business partner, my team members, our 3 dogs and 2 cats, my lovely neighbours Jacqueline and Stacy (hi!) and the entire team at Stripe for making this possible.

Seriously though, this is a significant milestone for us. There are many like it, but this one is ours.

Onward and upward!

We relaunched the marketing site and added our public Drupal / PHP courses, an event registration system, and a blog.

We made the decision to use a static site "to get it out there faster" but that has generated much more work than I had anticipated: more work to get external forms integrated, more work to get comments integrated, more work to get a third party commerce solution going.

Of course we know from the beginning that static sites aren't meant for all these things, but we thought the marketing site would stay small and simple. Ha!

My personal opinion: I won't be making static sites again. My expertise lies with Drupal. I thought a quick static site would be, well, quicker, but all things considered I should have stuck with Drupal.

With all that said, I'm extremely happy the marketing site's updated, the commerce solution (Drupal 8 + Commerce 2 + Stripe) is up and running, and we're waiting for that magical first online registration to come in.

Wish us luck, and check us out if you're interested in Drupal 8/9!