Posts Tagged ‘Partner Tools’

Microsoft Australia SBSC Updates

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Recently I was asked to be part of a panel discussion with Microsoft’s new SBSC Program Manager Wendy Smith. These were a series of discussions held in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in which Microsoft wanted to hear from the SBSC’s to understand what they could do better. Personally I applaud Microsoft for doing this and I hope that this bodes well for the future as I believe we need far more consistent and clear communications with them so that we can all benefit. As a result of this discussion, Microsoft committed to present to the community a summary of the issues covered and plans on how they would do this. Wendy maintains the blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsc_australia

She has posted a summary of the meeting at http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsc_australia/archive/2007/11/22/small-business-specialist-roundtable-discussions.aspx

I understand that Wendy will be aiming to use this blog as a key tool for communication back to the community, so make sure you add it to your RSS feeds so that you won’t miss out on anything important.

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We ve Got a Guy.

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

More announcements from the SMBNation Keynote. Eric Ligman has announced the “We’ve Got a Guy” campaign starting real soon now. It’s focused around the “We’ve Got a Guy” where often we the SBSC’s have to go and clean up after “the guy”. This time however, it spins it a little better and focuses on the skills of the SBSC partner for Microsoft. The website http://www.wevegottaguy.com/ is live now and the promotion to customers starts real soon.

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Who wants a trip on Microsoft s dime?

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Today here at SMBNation, Eric Ligman announced a new promotion for FY-08 exclusively for the SBSC channel. The grand prize is a trip for you and your team to the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, including rafting trips, helicopter flights and much much more… Watch out for more details real soon now.

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New Partner Locator tool for Australian MS Partners

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Microsoft have also recently launched a cool Find a Partner tool which ties in Microsoft Virtual Earth with the usual MS Partner Directory. Now you can quickly find and visualise not only the local Pizza place, but your local MS SBSC, Certified Partner or Gold Certified Partner. I’ve noted that it also shows those people with business that operate from home as their home address too so something to keep an eye on for sure! The picture shows up your top level competency and if you click next, it shows you that you may also be a Small Business Specialist as well.

You can find the new Partner Locator at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/findapartner/find.html

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Microsoft Australia Launches Partner TV

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Once again, Microsoft Australia lead the pack in communicating to the partner channel. Today at the Australian MS Partner Conference, on Hamilton Island, Microsoft launched “Partner TV” a new initiative from them to communicate with us resellers.

Pip Marlow, the Director of the SMS&P group at Microsoft Australia has presented one of the first blogs focusing on talking to partners about what they want to achieve from the partnership with Microsoft, and inviting resellers to continue to provide feedback to Microsoft so that they can provide us with the right tools to do the business we need to do.

The site is http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/

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