Launch Central for U.S. Partners : solutions

Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) Activation Seminar

dianeja — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:32:05 GMT

You are invited to attend a seminar to learn why and how to sell Microsoft Online Services suite of services. This 100-level seminar is designed for Microsoft partners interested in understanding more about Microsoft Online Services and the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).

In this 2 ½ hour seminar, you will learn how the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) fits into Microsoft’s Software-plus-
Services cloud computing vision and see the products in action, plus:

Understand how you can profit by becoming a BPOS reseller;
Discover how to target customer traits and handle their objections.

Register today to attend this seminar in a city near you, with dates throughout October and into November. Once you have signed in to the Partner Learning Center, choose the “Register” button in the top left hand corner to view all cities and dates. All seminars are hosted at a Microsoft facility and run from 1:30pm to 4:00pm. You may have the chance to win a great prize for attending!

Keeping Up with Everything Launch

dianeja — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:51:00 GMT

It's a daunting task. As Microsoft has broadened its business and our portfolio of products has proliferated, keeping up with launches, updates, service packs, and everything else has become more complex. Trust me, even from the inside, it can be a struggle, so I sympathize with our partners and also marvel sometimes at their ability to keep things straight.

That being said, I do want to point you to two resources we offer on the partner portal that can help you navigate the myriad messages, resources, and nuggets of information that will help you make the most of every launch.

Launch Central (https://partner.microsoft.com/us/launch or https://partner.microsoft.com/US/40033583). We created this US-specific page for the launch of Vista/Office/Exchange a couple of years ago, and partners told us it was a really helpful tool for getting a quick view of what was going on. Launch Central acts as a "mini-portal" and we encourage product marketers to contribute and refine launch-related content and calls to action that drive how partners learn about, market, and sell solutions recently launched or soon to be launched.

Launch Resources (https://partner.microsoft.com/US/productssolutions/launchresources). This is a slightly different pivot of launch-related resources, focusing more on the products themselves by offering information about trials, betas, toolkits, and other goodies that help you get your hands on the products and understand what's on the horizon.

Why two different pages? Well, I think these pages provide two distinct views of our launch efforts--Launch Central for the selling/marketing view and Launch Resources for the product-specific view. A lot of times at Microsoft, we take the "kitchen-sink" approach because we feel like we have so many great things to tell and offer to our partners. Two pages seems like a small price to pay to offer a little bit more clarity. If you have a different opinion, or thoughts about how we can improve these pages and their respective content, I would love to hear them...

Increase Your Visibility With Customers with a Solution Profile

dianeja — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:34:00 GMT

If you're reading this blog, I'm guessing you probably have a Microsoft practice and have solutions and services that you'd like to get wider exposure for. In the past couple of years, we've launched major desktop and server products, from Windows Vista and Office System to Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, and customers are looking for partners who can help them update/upgrade/migrate/deploy and more. Are you getting the most out of your Microsoft Partner Program membership by taking advantage of the thousands of customers who visit the Microsoft.com website every month, looking for solutions and services from technology experts like you?

Use the Partner Solution Profiler at https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/managemembership/40010922 to create and publish a unique profile of each of your solutions and services. Profile once, and your solutions will be listed on multiple Microsoft sites. Customers find partner solutions on sites including (but not limited to):

Partner Finder - https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/managemembership/40039288
Microsoft Midsize Business Center - https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/managemembership/40010898
Windows Marketplace - https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/managemembership/40010899

There is more information, and a list of more sites that customers use to find technology experts on Microsoft.com posted on the partner portal at https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/managemembership/partnersolutionprofiler.

Cheers,

Diane Golshan, Sr. Marketing Manager, US Partner Group

Launch Central for U.S. Partners : solutions

Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) Activation Seminar

­ Discover how to target customer traits and handle their objections.

Keeping Up with Everything Launch

Increase Your Visibility With Customers with a Solution Profile

Discover how to target customer traits and handle their objections.