I was having a chat with Gareth today who helps run the Kent Group and over the last few months, they’ve really taken some serious steps towards achieving a respected and professional organisation that will help support small businesses in the local region.
The Kent gang didn’t do this overnight, it’s taken a lot of time, […]
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A few bloggers (including Andy and myself) posted their thoughts about the level of awareness concerning what a Microsoft Small Business Specialist is. Hats off to Emma Cockburn, Jennifer Brinton and the web team at Microsoft for listening to the feedback from there and from the Small Business Roundtable last November which has led to […]
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If you’re a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, you can now download the most up to date logo from here.
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Note: I’m updating this page regularly as I get new information so keep an eye on it…
Thanks to everyone who attended the Small Business Forum last Thursday, we had a great turnout and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. I’m still wading through all the emails that I’ve received so far - I can assure […]
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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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Great news! Microsoft Corp. have finally allowed one of the greatest tools that bridges the gap between the techies and the sales teams.
Vijay announced it on his blog after the much anticipated Worldwide SBSC PALs meeting.
Thank you to Nigel Postings and Chris Parkes for taking the feedback the Community has been generating over the last few months […]
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Something that Microsoft discussed in the Community event today was a programme that has been developed to support local businesses with the assistance of Irish SBSCers.
About the programme:
“With substantial financial support available through FÁS, and provision of the programme by industry leading business training and technology consultants, delivered on-site in a face-to-face manner with the […]
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I’ve sat on this post for a while in various forms and my opinions and observations welcome your comments because I know that I am not alone in this way of thinking.
Note: when I say SBSC, I mean ‘Small Business Specialist Certification’.
As many of you know (both UK and WW), I’ve been bouncing around the […]
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There are a series of one-day events running from November until March 2007 specifically for women wanting to find out more about working for yourself. Although I’m not keen on women-only events (are men not allowed to know the same things as us?), I know from presenting at previous events these are hugely successful.
“This one-day […]
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Vijay Singh and Gareth Brown are our SBSC PALs for the UK. They have a worldwide SBSC PAL meeting coming up at the end of the month (24th) so if you have a something you would like say or comment on about the Microsoft SBSC Programme then get your comments into them. To avoid getting […]
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