Category Archives: IT Business

Who OWNS this SMB segment? (Party Pics)

Posted: 3:30 am
July 11, 2007
Events, IT Business, Microsoft, Vladville
on Who OWNS this SMB segment? (Party Pics)

Alright world, and particularly UK and Florida…. who OWNS your segment? I wrote at length about why WWPC matters, who the big players are and how you can learn from the people at the top of your game. No Susan Bradley, … Continue reading →

Keynote Q&A

Posted: 11:27 am
July 9, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft
3 Comments

Here is some Q&A that followed the keynote: Partner: For the fifth year in a row I have asked this question: Customers go to Microsoft.com, they go to Partner Search but you ask for a zip code. Thats not good. … Continue reading →

MAPS Training Requirement for MAPS

Posted: 11:18 am
July 9, 2007
IT Business
on MAPS Training Requirement for MAPS

Live from the SMB Symposium stage: We know that people are registering just to get MAPS. Launching this fall, training requirements to obtain MAPS! Apparently there will be a training requirement to make sure only legitimate partners can buy MAPS. … Continue reading →

Microsoft WWPC Starts

Posted: 2:15 am
July 9, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft
on Microsoft WWPC Starts

First day in Denver went quite well, got a few meetings out of the way as well as a nice party and dinner. Got to meet Vijay, catch up with Karl, Eric, Erick, Susan, Anne, Dean, Mark, Matt and… whats her name.. … Continue reading →

The definition of sales success

Posted: 9:13 pm
July 2, 2007
IT Business
on The definition of sales success

You know you’re becoming a spectacular weasel when you try to make a joke and end up closing a sale in the process. True conversation with a large Australian firm: Vlad: <list of unlikely technical possibilities to get the job … Continue reading →

Thinking Big in SMB (re: WWPC)

Posted: 8:41 pm
June 28, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft
1 Comment

My more eloquent half from UK sent me IM today asking if I had read Chris’s blog. Haven’t, so I asked what’s up? Apparently, Chris isn’t coming to WWPC because his business isn’t coming to WWPC because (paraphrasing quite a … Continue reading →

System Center Essentials finally talks about Managed Services

Posted: 9:46 am
June 22, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft, System Admin
on System Center Essentials finally talks about Managed Services

Dave Sobel was all over System Center Essentials at last years TechEd and frankly, I dismissed it way back then as another mee-too Microsoft entry in a hot market with an offshoot of SMS/MOM crippled down to the SMB without … Continue reading →

You can’t fix a business problem with software

Posted: 1:01 pm
June 20, 2007
IT Business, Shockey Monkey
on You can’t fix a business problem with software

I can’t find any decent pictures of me in my “Go away or I’ll replace you with a small shell script” tshirt but yesterday I did just that. Part of doing business with OWN is that we trust you to set your … Continue reading →

Hey man, I sold Shockey Monkey!

Posted: 2:10 pm
June 18, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft, Shockey Monkey
on Hey man, I sold Shockey Monkey!

I don’t know why the subject cracks me up so much, after all, I sell Microsoft vaporware for living (“Sure, of course it can handle a 14GB mailbox!”) but when someone goes out and sells my “Solutions built on a … Continue reading →

Executive Cleaning Decisions – Doing Less Marketing

Posted: 7:47 pm
June 17, 2007
IT Business
1 Comment

I spent most of the day today cleaning up the place, in particular, the nightmare that is my home office. I think its more precise to describe it as my home “storage locker” as it seems to have degenerated into … Continue reading →