Microsoft Partners


Sales Management: How Do You Stack Up?

Use this handy scorecard to gauge your sales effort at year end.

Precious Gems in Plain Sight

Microsoft offers a wealth of resources that its executives really want you to use.

Your Most Important Sales Investment: Yourself

A few simple tricks for staying ahead in the selling game.

Mergers & Acquisitions: A Survival Guide

Experienced hands suggest keeping surprises to a minimum and staying sensitive to cultural challenges.

Life as a Small Fish in Microsoft's Big Pond

Microsoft offers tools but not much help for smaller partners -- it's up to you to work up your strategy and deploy those tools to meet your goals.

Software as a Service: You're Not in This Alone

As SaaS picks up steam, more resources are coming online to help with the transition to on-demand delivery.

Finance It!

Partners land bigger deals and report better cash flow from steering customers toward Microsoft's seldom-used financing program.

Quotes that Define Marketing

What's marketing? Here's how the pros define that job role.

Profitability, Skills Shortage, Solution Finder, More

The Worldwide Partner Group gears up to offer partners a slew of services to help their customers get ready for Windows Vista and Office 2007.

Profiting from Microsoft's Profitability

Microsoft's goals are to make partners profitable. How do you intend to make sure it meets that goal?

Focus Pays: Iteration2

It's not yet three years old, but Dynamics partner Iteration2 has two U.S. Partner of the Year Awards under its belt, a tribute to its ability to focus.

Anatomy of the Deal: Microsoft and Cisco

Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., Sept. 6, 2006

Fore!

As a group, you certainly enjoy the links.

Redmond to Small Businesses: Ride the Wave

Microsoft speakers at the SMB Nation conference talk up forthcoming releases, drawing a mixed response.

Books: The New Leadership Landscape

Fresh leadership insights from Harvard Business School Press.