http://www.vladville.com/2007/06/thinking-big-in-smb-re-wwpc.html Vlad Mazek on IT, Business and Technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.vladville.com/2007/06/thinking-big-in-smb-re-wwpc.html/comment-page-1#comment-22222 aluby Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:47:05 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2007/06/thinking-big-in-smb-re-wwpc.html#comment-22222 Conferences are what you make them, but WPC has never been about SMB. They are doing some things right, and will probably eventually do very well with their SMB partners. The reality is that for now there is not much ROI for most small partners to go to WPC. The ROI is in relationship building with Microsoft and vendors, and that's really only significant for the larger Solution Provider who has the bandwidth to deal with many vendors. It's the same ROI you get from ANY conference. Frankly, there are better conferences out there. I won't be attending all of WPC - only the SMB Symposium and the first few days of WPC. It's all about ROI for all of us. Conferences are what you make them, but WPC has never been about SMB. They are doing some things right, and will probably eventually do very well with their SMB partners. The reality is that for now there is not much ROI for most small partners to go to WPC. The ROI is in relationship building with Microsoft and vendors, and that’s really only significant for the larger Solution Provider who has the bandwidth to deal with many vendors. It’s the same ROI you get from ANY conference. Frankly, there are better conferences out there. I won’t be attending all of WPC – only the SMB Symposium and the first few days of WPC. It’s all about ROI for all of us.

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