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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:57 PM

That's Da BOM!!!

In Microsoft parlance, a BOM (Bill of Materials) is a set of documents/presentations/demos that we deliver to our partners to help them execute marketing campaigns. Typically, these are a combination of Word docs, PowerPoints, and PDF's that are all encompassing
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Monday, January 21, 2008 6:45 PM

A Community That Cares...

Took another step in the evolution of our Public Sector Partner community today. I hosted the first "Planning for the Remarkable Event" call today. The objective is to raise the game of all of us who execute customer-focused events to make them truly
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Monday, January 14, 2008 5:45 PM

Reaching out to the Disappointed...

No one likes to have disappointed customers or partners. It's not fun and you feel like a failure. Nevertheless, it' s better, IMHO, to reach out to those who are upset than to let their irritation fester. After our WIN calls , I make a point of contacting
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 3:36 PM

Scalable Partner Marketing Engines...

I'm opinionated. I guess every blogger is. :-) But I have particularly strong feelings about the critical components to a scalable partner-led marketing engine. First, we don’t want to guess where the opportunities are. Nor do we want to guess which products
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:10 AM

Building a Partner Community, Part 3...

When we talk about a "community" of partners and how we want them to market with us, we need to understand that community and marketing go hand-in-hand. A breadth partner community, by definition is a 1:many relationship. These partners don't have the
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 8:52 PM

Free Advertising to 13,000...

Here's the offer...help us redesign the masthead (pictured here) for our Pu blic Sector Partners Newsletter . (We think it needs a new look.) If we go with it, I'll include a link (and a write-up) about your skills/firm mention you on the next WIN Webcast
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:42 PM

Building a Community That Builds...

The ideal scenario, IMHO, of a partner community is where the partners themselves are involved in building the marketing and communications vehicles that they will use. So, when I see a glimmer of hope, I am PUMPED UP. Example #1. Fredrik read my post
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:02 AM

Building a Public Sector Partner Community, Part 2

A community needs to organize around something , or as Hugh MacLeod would say, " the social object ." So, what is the object around which Microsoft partners who sell into State & Local Governments and Academic might organize? If we can provide partners
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:14 PM

Do You Read Your Customers' Blogs?

If you are a service provider, you should. Angie Robar of Extra Mile Marketing does and she comments as well. A little background, first... There's a mentality among Microsoft employees in the "field" (read: outside of Seattle) that the folks "in Redmond"
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:51 PM

Building a Public Sector Partner Community, Part 1

Let's review the assets that the Public Sector partner marketing team has. a newsletter that has 1300 subscribers (we're just talking raw numbers here) two portal sites (here's one and here's the other --more control over the former) A " Get Engaged"
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:41 PM

The World Is Flat Indeed...

Think the game hasn't changed. My buddy Ben Vollmer needed a logo done for a volunteer organization he heads. One that would have cost, "easily $200" he says. Instead, he went to www.getafreelancer.com and some guy in Romania does it for $40. So, two
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:59 PM

Giving Your Fans a Megaphone...

Enabling Technologies and Ellie Vollerthum have taken the The "Raving Fan" Strategy... and made it their own. What's the Raving Fan? It's about flipping your event from a 1-way broadcast of you talking AT your event attendees to creating a conversation
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 9:31 PM

Value of Social Bookmarking

A great overview in Plain English about what Social Bookmarking is and why it's useful. 3.5 mins. I am jer979 on Del.icio.us, btw. Go ahead and Add me to your network
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Monday, August 27, 2007 11:12 AM

If Ready to Go isn't...

If you're looking for a quick way to jumpstart your marketing efforts and you don't have a lot of time or money (who does, right?), then you should consider a Ready to Go (RTG) campaign. As one partner put it, "I think the program is the best that MS/Dynamics
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Monday, August 13, 2007 1:36 PM

Partners who Partner

I frequently get asked, "what are the characteristics of your top partners?" One of the answers is "a strong network of partners themselves." These are partners who understand that customers are looking for a full solution which includes software, hardware,
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