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Hi, my name is Gavin Gee and I work in UK Software Plus Services team performing a number of roles from Architecture to Business Dev.
As a team we focus on helping the Microsoft partner base deliver Software Plus Services to the market.

This blog will be used to post updates, news and information relating to Hosting and Software Plus Services.

The plan is to focus on 2 main areas:

1. Provide information for getting new potential hosters up to speed
2. Provide information for current hosters to develop their business and technology offerings.

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January 2007 - Posts

Up sell – a different view point

Now in my previous post I talked a little about up selling customers up the value chain and increasing ARPU (average revenue per user) Another tack we are seeing some hoster's taking to drive new business and revenue, is to move up and try and sell hosted Read More...

Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 2:25 PM by GavinGee | 0 Comments

Are you upselling?

Now we know that the communication sector hosting solutions are predominantly focused on delivering hosted services into SMB as there is a huge market opportunity here. We have seen that a lot of hosters are moving up the value chain and trying to upsell Read More...

Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 11:09 AM by GavinGee | 0 Comments

Are we all clear on the available Hosting Solutions and current roadmap?

I thought I would do a bit of a recap on where we stand with our hosting solutions, as simply put; there are quite a few now and it seems that most people aren't aware of all of them... Windows Based hosting 4. 0 – Solution for building a hosting infrastructure Read More...

Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 10:48 AM by GavinGee | 0 Comments

Using Word 2007 as a blog posting tool...

So I have finally joined the new age and am using Word 2007 as my content editor of choice for the blog. Ribbon UI makes it easy to find the features I want and then off we go. How much easier it is to format text in here than on a web page! Why has it Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:28 PM by GavinGee | 0 Comments

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