These lively and somewhat humorous monthly broadcast address timely topics and share proven tips for marketing, selling and servicing Microsoft Dynamics effectively. There’s no PowerPoint to watch or URL’s to copy down…the only URL’s will be your hosts…the UnRuly Ladies!!!

The December 2 broadcast airs live at 11:00am Pacific featuring updates from various product teams as well as the ever popular jiggles. Watch the video below for more information!!!

Click here to register for the event.

--Kevin

Microsoft is excited to announce the "SELL ONE GET ONE" partner program for Microsoft Dynamics GP. This program is designed to help increase your ability to compete in the more price sensitive segment of the market where many deals are below six (6) users of Business Essentials.

For each customer add (1) from November 30th, 2009 to through the end of the day (11:59 pm CST) on December 31, 2009 (the "qualification period"), SPA partners are eligible to receive credit for an equivalent number of user licenses (maximum of six (6) that can be applied to future single customer from January 4, 2010 to through the end of the day (11:59 pm CST) on February 26, 2010 (the "offer period").

Credit Calculation

• Each user license (Business Essentials or Advanced Management) in the initial purchase of a single new Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Microsoft Dynamics GP customer order during the qualification period, up to a maximum of six (6 ) users per customer add, will result in a $1,200 credit.
• Max credit = $7,200 per new customer add.
• There is no limit to the number of customer adds in the qualification period.

Complete details of the program are available on PartnerSource.

--Kevin

Incremental customers that are added and invoiced from November 28, 2009 – April 2, 2010 above and beyond those were previously added November 29, 2008 through March 27, 2009 OR November 24, 2007 through March 28, 2008 (if you did not add any customers during the Microsoft FY09 base period).

Attend one of the following live meetings to learn more about this exciting offer PLUS another offer called Sell One Get One for Microsoft Dynamics GP!!  Now is the time to act – register for a session today!

--Kevin

From our Microsoft Dynamics Sales Professional Community to utilizing Microsoft Virtual PC solutions to the Worldwide Partner Conference get schooled on the ABC’s of Microsoft Dynamics partner programs!

Watch this video for great resources.

--Kevin

Attend this one day workshop for sales and pre-sales professionals and learn how to focus the communication of the value of your solution through the sales cycle, drive unparalleled teamwork and consistency between sales team members , establish the sales person as the leader of value messaging for the prospect or customer, shorter sales cycles and an improved win ratio, and increase short term and long term revenue from new and existing customers.

The training takes place February through May 2010 in multiple cities. 

Click here to view the complete schedule and to register.

--Kevin

Microsoft is pleased to offer the Partner Leadership Workshop led by Salesworks, Inc. Register Now, and position yourself and your practice for a successful future!

Many partner practices provide their owners with a good living, but fall far short of their potential in terms of achieving maximum growth, creating significant ongoing financial returns, and meaningful financial rewards when it comes time for the owners to exit the business. This one-and-a-half day offering is designed to help you build a practice that makes the most of the market opportunities available to you, and that generates significant financial payoffs both ongoing and when it comes time to sell.

You will learn how to:

• Value your business and monetize your practice when the time comes
• Identify and bring visibility to the key performance indicators needed to drive superior profitability
• Optimize sales force structures and compensation for maximum results
• Build the right business model to profitably serve your chosen market segments
• Collaborate with your peers for maximum group and individual benefit
• Defend yourself against any competitive threats you may face

Target Audience

Microsoft Dynamics Partners who are engaged in senior leadership roles, owners and board of director members.

View Available Dates and Locations

--Kevin

The Microsoft Dynamics Marketing team is excited to announce the new Existing Customer Marketing homepage on PartnerSource North America.

This new page is a great one stop shop for all marketing and sales resources regarding Microsoft Dynamics Existing customers. The refresh has been updated with a larger, more prominent banner space to better promote and update partners about big bet EC offers and resources, and the layout is easier to navigate and is closer inline to the rest of the PartnerSource landing pages.

Visit the site and take a look!

--Kevin

Microsoft is pleased to extend the Business Ready Flexible Pay for Microsoft Dynamics promotion available in United States, United Kingdom, Hungary, Portugal, Italy and Brazil.

This offering reduces your customer’s upfront investment through predictable and affordable annual payments which can help optimize their cash flow and improve IT budget management. Microsoft is listening to customers and is actively enabling them to preserve capital resources while making strategic investments in their future. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics and taking advantage of their Business Ready Enhancement Plan helps customers increase their productivity and maximize their return on investment.

Importantly, based on partner feedback, we’re excited to announce a change in the terms of the program to allow more of our partners to participate in this offer. By providing a new rebate to partners of 50% on Year 1 license as well as new revenue credits for partner discount tier attainment, we hope that more partners will realize the financial benefits to their operations as well as to the customers. Click on the presentations on PartnerSource for more information on the changes to the program.

On PartnerSource you will see a host of marketing materials to help you position this offer to your customers. In these documents you will find the full set of details, terms and conditions. You can link directly to the required agreements and webcast training on the website as well.

--Kevin

Demand for solutions built on the Microsoft Dynamics xRM platform is accelerating exponentially around the world. Customers and partners alike are harnessing the power of Microsoft Dynamics xRM to rapidly build relational line-of-business applications. In today’s economy, understanding the capabilities and value of Microsoft Dynamics xRM is critical to our success. So, we’re here to help

Attend this three day offering to understand the out of the box features and functionality of Microsoft Dynamics XRM. In this course, you will also:

• Learn to apply CRM to varied, unique industry-specific business requirements
• Customize CRM entities, relationships, security, forms, views, workflows, and scripts for different business sectors
• Discuss dashboards, custom reports, views, and use Excel as a reporting tool including Pivot Tables
• Learn how to extend the CRM platform with plug-ins, custom workflows, IFrames and integration with other internal and external applications (e.g. SharePoint and ISV products) to create solutions specific to common industries
• Understand CRM Security and System Administration
• Acquire a high-level understanding of CRM deployment architecture considerations including topology, relationship with Active Directory and Exchange Server, scalability, and failover

Schedule

• January 12 - 14, 2010, in Atlanta, Georgia
• February 9 - 11, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois
• February 23 - 25, 2010, in Irvine, California

Click here to register.

--Kevin

Microsoft understands that there are costs associated with adding customers to a new service like Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. The "No Deal Left Behind" promotion aims to support the efforts of Microsoft Dynamics CRM CSA Certified Partners who are actively investing to establish Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online practices by paying out a minimum of $1,000 in CSA fees for new Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online contracts signed between December 1, 2009 and March 26, 2010.

This is a supplement to bring participating partners’ minimum 12‐month CSA payout up to $1000. The promotion’s objective is to reward partners that engage in all Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online opportunities, big and small.

Click here to view the Detailed FAQ.

--Kevin