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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The new Developer marketing boy. : FAQ</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/tags/FAQ/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: FAQ</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Successful Partnering with Microsoft</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/2007/10/25/successful-partnering-with-microsoft.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:50:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5665912</guid><dc:creator>chlong</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/comments/5665912.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/commentrss.aspx?PostID=5665912</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=5665912</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nswdotnet.com.au/" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="69" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/chlong/WindowsLiveWriter/NSWClusterMeeting_8AEB/image_3.png" width="244" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At tonight's &lt;a href="http://www.nswdotnet.com.au/"&gt;NSW DOT NET Cluster&lt;/a&gt; event, I presented the "Microsoft Partner Program for ISV's", including how to partner successfully with Microsoft, alongside &lt;a href="http://uwceo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Eddie&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.uniqueworld.net/"&gt;UniqueWorld&lt;/a&gt; and Parma from &lt;a href="http://www.readify.com.au/"&gt;Readify&lt;/a&gt;, who gave a "warts and all" view.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As promised, I've made my slides available via &lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/chlong/isv-successful-partnering-with-microsoft/"&gt;Slideshare&lt;/a&gt; with some subtle changes Eddie suggested.&amp;nbsp; The &lt;a href="http://partner.microsoft.com/australia"&gt;Microsoft Partner Program&lt;/a&gt; is in my opinion world class and it's a great start to a potential partnership.&amp;nbsp; But a successful partnership takes at least two parties to work at the "Gives and Gets" and although this is certainly not an exhaustive list, I hope it provides a few ideas if nothing else.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As always, your feedback and any comments are welcome. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer2.swf?doc=isv-successful-partnering-with-microsoft-1193312407973131-5" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;  &lt;div style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-bottom: -5px; border-right-width: 0px" alt="SlideShare" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/logo_embd.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a title="View 'ISV Successful Partnering with Microsoft' on SlideShare" href="http://www.slideshare.net/chlong/isv-successful-partnering-with-microsoft"&gt;View&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload"&gt;Upload your own&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3249d3b4-bf17-4f05-ae7c-f23c8410b45a" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ISV" rel="tag"&gt;ISV&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NSW%20Cluster" rel="tag"&gt;NSW Cluster&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Successful%20Partnering" rel="tag"&gt;Successful Partnering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5665912" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/tags/Partners/default.aspx">Partners</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/tags/FAQ/default.aspx">FAQ</category></item></channel></rss>