Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia

We announced live on stage this morning this exciting new communications initiative - Partner TV. www.partnertv.com.au We've posted three videos so far: Pip Marlow, SMSP Director: http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2007/08/20/partner-tv-introducing...

Did you know that the portal has information on our free pre-sales support service - this is available to all certified and gold partners - free of charge, unlimited and accessible by phone and by the web: You will get a response within one business day...

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/findapartner/ We've just put this live - a visual geography-based searching tool for customers to find partners - using Virtual Earth. I love it - particularly great for our SBSC community I think as their customers...

https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/salesmarketing/competitiveselling We have sales resources by competitor for you to leverage in competitive selling situations. There is also online competitive selling training.

" Windows Live™ Quickstart is your one-stop-shop for training, resources, up to date information, news, and pre-release cool stuff! As a member you will be eligible for all of the Windows Live™ commercial offers. Sign In to participate! " You can register...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare "Informing Decision-Making for Customers at the Crossroads in Their Server-Purchasing Choices Announced today, the Windows Server/Compare site provides customers with in-depth resources and comparative information...

Preparing my keynote slides for partner conference, I have a slot for our blogging strategy and what's available for partners. Below I summarise the list of Australian partner-focussed blogs we have available to help our partners get and stay informed...

Just arrived today for the conference - such an awesome location and we have an exciting week ahead of us. The team has worked very hard - this is a big event - 620 partners, 150 Microsoft staff, numerous executive visitors, pre-days etc etc but the week...

We've added some more nice showcase entries to the Silverlight site in the last few days: Omnicom's media preview NETiKA's WinForms MSDN Whirly Thing ((! Yes really !!) Tafiti Search front end (blogged last week) Windows Vista Simulator Enjoy !

Wow - there is a serious amount of training for partners coming out around the Forefront product line. This is targetted at sales and technical people in numerous partner types like infrastructure, security, and even Sharepoint partners (with our Sharepoint...

This just came out - a new experimental front end for Live Search - FAQ Here . The introduction of the 'shelf' is quite novel - here is how you use it: Step 1. Go to www.tafiti.com Step 2: Enter your search term (I am going to search for Tafiti itself...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptstv/archive/2007/08/22/partner-tv-licensing-101.aspx "Patrick Voss and Aileen Hannah from the Partner Team discuss the sometimes sticky subject of licensing Microsoft products - sticky because its sometimes quite complicated to...

One of my US colleagues asked me to post this - would love to see some of our Australian ISVs getting involved in this (if you do, please let me know through the contact email on this blog, and I will give you a name check !): "We’re looking around the...

Via Mike's Marketing for Partners Blog : "Our marketing consultantcy, Carpe Diem recently undertook a survey of over 50 Australian Partners , obtaining feedback relating to their thoughts on what sales and marketing readiness training they would like...

We've just announced the Microsoft Australia 2007 Partner award finalists publically - winners to be announced at the gala dinner at the partner conference . Many congrats to all those listed below and thanks also to all partners that submitted solutions...

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Upcoming Partner Readiness training on Windows Server 2008 1. Windows Server 2008 : IT Pro https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=669348&linvitation This 2 day Windows Server 2008 Essentials is intended for IT...

This is the 4th post in the series of Partner Portal Nuggets - highlighting some of the useful and interesting resources that partners might not be aware of on the portal - including both the global content and the local Australian content. This time...

This one caught my eye: http://www.flowers-for-you.com.my/catalog2.aspx A Malaysian e-commerce site - nice use of Silverlight for a more interactive and engaging user experience. I quite liked the thumbnail navigator for example...

We hit our target attendees a while ago but managed to get a little more capacity - but now we are definitely full ! You can join the waitlist if you like as the main constraint is accommodation (and of course more could be released to us at any time...

Here on the portal is the section all about helping your business succeed financially. This includes the Profitability Assessment Tool where you can benchmark your financial performance against like partners - I've sat with a few partner CEOs and done...

As part of our continued efforts to improve partner & customer satisfaction we are sponsoring the Global Relationship Study. This is designed to directly shape Microsoft’s products and services, which in turn will help us meet your needs and help...

Ryan Donovan announces the roadmap for our ecommerce platform - it's a great plan and a good posting: http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2007/08/08/in-depth-commerce-server-product-roadmap-information-desk-program-announcement.aspx

Christian gave me 100 DVDs for my blog subscribers (partners only I am afraid) to give away - you can order them on the portal but you have to pay postage. If you contact me, and can prove you are a subscriber (RSS feed etc), I will send you one for free...

Hardly going to build you a pipeline on its own, but nevertheless this may prove useful for your marketing teams/people/you. You can customise logos with your own competencies. Step 1: choose your competencies (I choose 3 at random to illustrate) Step...