You can take the girl out of SMB…
But you can’t take SMB out of the girl!
July is going to be a busy time for me, I’m off to the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference to speak at the Small Business Symposium (hope to see you there!) and I’m also off to pastures new in terms of my career.
After being with Readycrest for seven years (well really since I was 13 when the sales office was my bedroom!) I’m taking a change in career and will be working with Westcoast Distribution as their Microsoft Channel Development Manager with a specific focus on the SBSC community.
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I’m not going to talk much more about Westcoast on this blog unless I feel it is appropriate as this site is independent of who I work with/for. What I will say is that whilst there is obviously a commercial backbone to my job, I will still be heavily involved in the community and not giving up the things I have enjoyed doing in my spare time so far.
I’ll be working on a few things to help connect with you better in my new role and I hope you keep an eye on this site and the new one. I’ll update you with more on this at the beginning of July.
More on the Microsoft Small Business Symposium and the WWPC to follow shortly. The theme of my presentation will be about how to do better business with the tools and resources around you. I’ll be using examples from the community and there may even be a workshop-angle to it - aren’t you lucky lads and lasses! Let me know if there are any specifics you would like covered.
Congratulations on the new job!
We deal with Westcoast quite a bit so sure our paths will cross sometime!
I’m taking the exam to sort our SBSC participation this week (all being well otherwise it’ll be next week) so i’m also hoping to get involved in the community a bit more
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the good wishes and yes, our paths will cross (looking forward to it!).
Good luck with the exam - I’m sure you’ll breeze it! And I look forward to catching up with you in the community soon!
Hi Susanne,
Congratulations on the new position! We too deal with Westcoast a lot. I’m sure it won’t take you long to get ‘em sorted out
Thanks Steve, I’m sure you’ll be able to help point me in the right direction on who to ‘get ‘em sorted out’ as well!
Go forth and grow > you’re ready for that jump > the hard stuff is behind you > deciding > just the change to go > and that will be fun.
Thanks Jeremy!
Big Dave put this on his blog. Using the marvel of RSS it hit my desktop !!
Good Luck in Distribution I am doing the 70 - 282 course next week with QAIQ in London.
When you start you can set us up as an account as we don’t use them yet !
Rugby pre season starts next week .
Thanks Ian and good luck too with your exam!
I’m already on pre-pre season training but it’s a bit hot at the moment!
Just thought i’d let you know as you wished me luck!
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Looks like it worked
Well done you!