Microsoft Partner Tips


Changes Afoot at IAMCP

Microsoft partner member organization adjusts name, U.S. chapter lands new engagement model with Microsoft field.

Backup and Recovery -- What Are SMBs Waiting For?

In the battle to get customers to pay attention to backup and recovery offerings, it's important to know your enemy.

RIM Atop The Smartphone Heap

The Blackberry maker so far has maintained its lead in the smartphone segment, but Apple and Google present worthwhile challenges that keep RIM working harder to stay at the top.

Compensation in the Clouds

Once you're clear on strategic objectives, you can begin to build a sales compensation plan for your BPOS practice.

3 Movies To Inspire Your Sales Approach

While traveling recently, I had an epiphany. If we want to move our businesses forward, we first must move ourselves forward.

Microsoft Partners, Meet the NSIs

National Systems Integrators are the rock stars of the U.S. Microsoft Partner Community. Is it a designation worth aspiring to?

11 Things to Know About... WPC Sessions

With a little more than a month until the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C., session descriptions are beginning to appear in earnest on the Microsoft Partner Network Portal.

Microsoft and Mobile Apps

When a lot of innovative and hungry people gather in one place, the results can be explosive. That's what is taking place in the mobile segment, and Microsoft is just getting started.

Citrix Ports Apps to Apple iPad

GoToMeeting and Receiver are the Florida company's firsts for the new device.

Competing and Cannibalizing

When Microsoft wades into a market with an inexpensive, global solution with the weight of its vast partner community behind it, everyone else often heads for cover.

VC Funding Remains Tight

The market for venture money appears to have bottomed out, but VCs remain cautious.

With Vendors, Fertilize, Water and Weed

My theme for the last several months was how you can differentiate your firm from the masses of other resellers in the world.

Corporate Culture as a Marketing Investment

To make your business stand out, what you do internally behind the scenes can be even more important than what you do externally.

2010 Wave of Microsoft Product Crests

Microsoft plans to release many of its 2010-branded products -- including Office 2010 -- to manufacturers this month.

A Walkthrough of a Broken Organization

Strategic sales management is often a weak link in solution provider companies.