Response Point Team Blog : partner program

Which industries are best in this economy?

sprague — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:38:27 GMT

Response Point digital service provider NGT, working with SMBNation, is conducting a survey of Microsoft Partners. The survey closes on Friday, December 19th, so hurry: you still have time to enter (and maybe win an iPod!).

Meanwhile, NGT shared with us some early results of their polling that I thought was interesting. Here’s how the first 300 respondents answered the question “What industries are you working with that do not appear to be impacted by today's economic downturn? “

Medical industries 65.6%
Education 23.4%
Property management / rental management 22.1%
Energy companies 11.0%
Liquor stores or breweries ("recession-proof“) 10.4%
Other fill-ins included: legal, accounting, “not all financial”, small community banks, software/hardware engineering, specialty manufacturing, government, professional services, food services (meat, dairy, cheese)

Find more questions and give your own answers: click here to take the survey.

Response Point Case Studies

sprague — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:45:25 GMT

Looking for examples of real customers who use Response Point? Look at http://Microsoft.com/casestudies and search under Response Point (or click here). So far there are a full dozen examples, and more coming all the time.

If you have an interesting example of how a customer or partner uses Response Point, please let us know and we may ask you to be included in a case study too.

Looking for Response Point info?

sprague — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:36:49 GMT

Many users and partners have asked us for more details about Response Point, especially how to get started.

We just uploaded a 23-page easy-to-read guide for how to get started with Response Point to our Response Point partner space. You can find it in the following folder:

There's a ton of other product, technical, and marketing information on the partner space as well. As always, please let us know if you need more.

Your phones are on their way

sprague — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:05:14 GMT

If you were one of the lucky winners of the free phone system we announced at the Small Business Symposium in Denver earlier this summer, it's time to start watching for the FedEx truck. Here's what we sent today:

These first boxes are from Dlink and should arrive in the next few days. Additional ones, including those from Syspine should start arriving soon as well.

Please reply to the comments of this post as soon as you receive the units, and let us know how you like them!

How to become a Response Point VAR

Jeffsmi — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:58:57 GMT

I have gotten this question repeatedly since WPC, so I figured it would be worth answering on our blog. Selling Response Point does not require any formal certification or competency. We do provide technical training resources, but having designed the system to be easy to deploy and manage, there is no formal test to take.

So if you have reviewed the available materials and are ready to take the next step, the best thing to do is to contact one of our hardware partners directly. You can go to www.dlink.com/var and register as a Business Solutions Partner. Microsoft partners can enter the special code we gave you at WPC to automatically enroll you at diamond level, without having to pass the normal $75,000 sales threshold. D-Link's partner program was rated 5-stars by VAR Business, and diamond status comes with a host of discounts and goodies, so this is a great deal if you can get it.

There may be a question or two on the D-Link partner program enrollment form that do not apply to you, but you can always enter "n/a" in any field; an account rep will contact within a couple days of your submission to answer any questions and serve as your primary point of contact.

What about other Response Point OEM's you say? We will pass on sales and contact information for them as soon as we have it.

Will the Microsoft partner program provide tools and resources as well? But of course. We are working on a partner portal site as we speak. Since Response Point is an OEM product however, you will need to procure it through the sales channels of one of our OEMs.

Still have questions? Send them our way!