Demo Showcase 2007 - A Little Respect!

re: Demo Showcase 2007 - A Little Respect!

Tim Long — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:35:56 GMT

I would love to be able to agree with you, but unfortunately Microsoft still persists in the silly idea that the demo showcase is "premium content" so as a Small Business Specialist and Registered Partner, I dont qualify to receive it. Crazy. More partners doing demos = more sales for Microsoft. The benefit is as much to Microsoft as it is to partners. So I wish the guys in charge would quit messing around and just include the demo showcase in our Action Packs.

re: Demo Showcase 2007 - A Little Respect!

chrisp — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:25:18 GMT

Tim, on the flipside of the argument, we have Certified and Gold partners who perceive this as a valuable benefit of achieving certification and expect us to not distribute this more broadly in the context of competitive advantage.

However, in specific relation to the Small Business Specialist where, due to reasons no fault of their own, it isn’t actually possible to achieve Certified partner status, I agree with you and feel that this should be available as a resource. I have been lobbying Microsoft Corporate on this issue for some time now and will raise again when representatives visit the UK subsidiary later this month. I very much appreciate your feedback on this issue.

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