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As Your Business Grows, So Will Your Data: Are You Prepared?

Dell Small Business 360 are hosting a free online course that will help you understand what’s available to assist you with your small business data back up solutions.
“Market research firm IDC reports that storage capacity is rising 60 percent per year and many small businesses need to upgrade their capacity at a similar rate1*. Meanwhile, […]

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Partner Questions from the Small Business Forum

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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Integrating IT into your business plan.

I’ve been fortunate to have a job which allows me to move up and down the Channel from the end-user right up to those in control at vendor level such as Microsoft, HP, and Symantec. I get the opportunity to engage with lots of different people and spread what, when you distill it, is pretty […]

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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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Out on the road

Here’s a heads up on what’s going on in the in the land of Microsoft and where they’ll be whilst on the road:
Microsoft Technical Roadshow for the Channel
Technical level: 200
Subjects covered: Vista, Office, Windows Server, Centro, Small Business Server
Small Business Specialist pre-session events are available on the following dates:
Wednesday 10th October, Cardinal Place, London. Click […]

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UK Managed Services Seminar | 11th September 2007

Level Platforms, along with guest vendor Autotask, will host a Managed Services Education seminar in central London from 10am to noon on Tuesday 11th September. The seminar will address IT solution providers interested in learning more about managed services, including best practices, required steps and applicable solutions.
Guest speaker Matthew Stringer from APlus Computer Services will […]

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Symantec Sales & Tech Tour |13th September 2007

Symantec are running a free sales and tech training up in Birmingham in September which you may want to get yourself along to.
Why attend?
Go along for an afternoon’s technical training followed by an early evening sales seminar focusing on the next generation in security software as well as Symantec’s Protection Solutions.
Agenda:
Technical session: 14:15 (Endpoint Protection […]

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Small Business Forum | 29th November 2007

Hi Guys,
A thread has already started up regarding an event a Small Business Community event that we (as in me and the guys at Westcoast) will be hosting. So I thought I would talk briefly about it here just to give you the heads up.
Although the finer details can’t be released to you just yet, […]

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Do You Blog for Business? Part 2

A few days ago I posted a question asking for the community to offer any examples of where their blogging has given them new business. I got some great responses (thanks guys!) and I’d like to show you the fruits of one blogger’s efforts.
Vijay Riyait of iQubed posted the following comment on my blog:
“Microsoft in the US […]

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Symantec Sales & Technical Training | June 21st 2007

James (Baker - SMB BDM) asked if I would post this out to the community to give readers the opportunity to attend.
 Symantec Sales and Tech Night
Event Details:
Date: Thurs 21st June 2007
Venue: Renaissance Heathrow
Time:
2.30pm - Backup Exec Technical Session
4.30pm - Windows Protection Seminar
Click here to register.
 

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