Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The Competitive Sales Assistance (CSA) team has a pretty sweet offer for any of you MS Partners taking MS products head-to-head against their competition.
The offer is composed of two parts. The first offer is for a FREE MSPRESS BOOK that will be sent out to any partner that uses ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
US residents with a Live ID can now see what all the buzz is about by creating their own Live Mesh account. It will only take a few minutes and explain more to you about Mesh than a hundred blogs.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
As Microsoft plans it continued rollout of Software + Services (S+S) there are some details that still need to be clarified. An important one to MS Partners is how we get paid. While the standard comp structure for Microsoft’s Online Services (SaaS) has been settled upon, they have not made ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Take a number and wait patiently by the phone please. That's the new plan for Microsoft's Call-Back SBS Support plan. It's not going to be cheap either. So if I sign a monthly retainer instead of paying the standard 4 hour call back fee will I get priority response? ODG, ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Thanks again to Dean Calvert for participating as an SBSC PAL for 2007-08 over Australia. I can testify that Dean not only served passionately for the interests of the SBSC Partners down under, he always thought globally too. His candor and energy are to be admired as is his general ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
As if they were not green enough here at the Redmond campus, they just took the global cooling imitative higher. So I'm here in Redmond at Bld 40 doing what we do here and I come out of the meeting room for an afternoon break to find that the entire kitchen ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
While Microsoft was quick to recognize the amazing talent of Paige Boesen and move her to yet another new critical position working on a key strategic initiative, we do not know if she will be joining us for a G&V reunion tour this fall. Bob Nelson will be attempting to ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
OK, so I don't actually have regular "Video of the Week" blog but if I did, this one would be on it. While it may be an older video, it gets funnier and funnier each time I watch it. Dave Sobel, this one if for you!
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
While there is good money selling solution and services sometimes it's nice to earn a nickel or two doing small projects that are second nature to us. Call it EBay money if you will ;-). Microsoft is testing the waters on a new intermediary/broker solution to bring those that need ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Still don't know all you want to about Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 and Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008? While our time is Dallas for the SMB Summit was about more than just learning these products, now you can at least share in the same techno feast we enjoyed without ...
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