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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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. … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]