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Author: Joanne Black
Wouldn’t it be great if you had loads of people out there selling for you and you didn’t have to pay them to make sales? This low- to no-cost sales force would find sales leads, put you in touch with the right sales prospects, and maybe even make the sale. Sound realistic? Actually, [...]

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Author: Jim Karl
The Windows® 7 operating system (OS) will help business users around the world become more productive and will help IT departments enhance security and control and streamline PC management.
Microsoft® Volume Licensing solutions provide the most flexible, cost effective way to give your clients access to the latest Windows desktop technologies.  Whether they want [...]

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Author: Ken Thorenson
Sales Compensation Planning for 2010   Now??
It takes time to get it right. As sales leaders or executives everyone must be focused on exceeding the end of year sales quota’s and budgets-but alas- it is mid-September and October will be quickly on top of you.  Over the next few weeks I will be discussing [...]

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Author: Jeremy Epstein
Conventional wisdom about how to “get the word out” about your products is focused on finding and relating to the “influencers.” If you do this, so we’re told, you will get the “big hit” from a mention in a powerful blog or mainstream media publication and that will drive traffic to your website, [...]

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Author: George Porzuc
Ok folks -
I have heard that MS is getting ready to stop support for VB6 is this correct? I have a product that uses VB6 as the base and need to know if we need to do a rewrite to .NET – already have some issues with COM+ not working any longer… and [...]

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PartnerPoint has partnered with the Microsoft® Students to Business (S2B) team again to drive awareness of their incredible service to our members. The Microsoft® Students to Business (S2B) team helps you locate qualified entry-level and internship candidates with Microsoft skills for your business. See more here:
http://www.partnerpoint.com/Communities/S2BProgram/tabid/542/Default.aspx

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I participated in a Panel recently for the GBTC in Baltimore Md.  The topic was the ROI of Social Networking for Businesses.  Our presentation time was limited, so I thought I would post my short presentation with a bit more detail… but not much more.  Keep in mind that there are many experts on the [...]

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We have launched a brand new version of our Member Map today.  The new version provides some nice additions, and will be much easier for us to maintain than our last version.
Because we have so many members (about 6,200), we can no longer show all members on the map when the map loads.  The load [...]

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Microsoft continues to try to help partners with lead generation efforts.  The most recent service that caught my attention was the Microsoft ISV SEO Service.  It looks like their services range from $5-%10K, though projects may vary.
It looks like a traditional approach to SEO (site analysys, training, do’s & dont’s, competitive analysys, etc.), and I’m [...]

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