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Windows Mobile Training

Become a Windows Mobile Specialist or a Windows Small Business Retail Mobile Specialist by studying a series of courses developed specifically around the features and benefits of Windows Mobile. Also available are online sales tools, and mobile device news.
Very useful if you want to train a new recruit up on the product both in terms […]

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Videos on your website

For many years now, companies have been using short videos to help convey a message to their audience. It may be to announce a company’s ‘new look’ or get a feel for what the company is about.
I like watching these types of videos - I get to understand what I am looking at better and I […]

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Windows Server 2008: Understanding the opportunity

There has been shed loads of information out there regarding this Wednesday’s launch of Windows Server 2008. Here are to name but a few:

Wayne Small’s Blog (more information on Wayne can be found here)
Susan Bradley’s Blog (more information on Susan can be found here)
Windows Server Division Weblog
David Overton’s Blog
Matt McSpirit’s Blog (particular focus on virtualisation)

So that’s a […]

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Selling Microsoft Windows Small Business Server

With the recent announcements of Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008, they’ll be plenty of people swayed towards the bright lights of something new and shiney. However, the launch is expected in the second half of 2008, there’s plenty of time to look to what is currently available and understand the opportunity.
As luck would have […]

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Mr. Busy Campaign paves the way for future marketing campaigns aimed at small businesses

The Mr. Busy Campaign will be bidding SBSCers in UK and Ireland a hurried goodbye as he gets replaced by three new campaigns.
Here’s what the Mr. Busy campaign achieved:

101 Partners took part in the campaign within five weeks
24,000 end users were reached
98% of Partners told Microsoft that they would like to see more of these […]

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Microsoft SBS 2003 R2 Rebate Offer

Built for resellers to help drive their businesses and would probably be a good one for Microsoft Small Business Specialists to join in on.
Between now and the end of 2007, every copy of Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 sold will allow you to choose from one of the following:

Claim up to $225 services rebate […]

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Jobsworths don’t help anyone

I’ve decided, ‘thank you’ and ’sorry’ are expensive words…
During my run today, I spent time thinking about the week ahead and what I needed to do. Taking time out on my own to run or simply sit by the river gives me my space to focus and clear down a few things that build up […]

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Banging the drum about DemoShowcase again…

In the last few days I’ve had some good meetings. Interestingly, both featured DemoShowcase which is a set of 24 predefined customer scenarios which you can customise in a virtual machine environment.
After chatting to the London IT Pro Group, I showed them how easy it is to talk about how five different applications in just over […]

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2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 partner sales tool

I’ve just sent an email to a prospective Partner and thought you might not know about this as well.
To download the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Partner Sales Tool (available in five different languages), click here.

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