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Great post from Bruce Rasmussen of Carpe Diem & the Microsoft solutions sales course fame around how to sell in difficult economic times. Check it out here: http://carpe-diem.typepad.com/ms_partners/2008/10/selling-in-diff.html Or as many partners
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Very timely event from our Financing team aimed at helping partners understand & prepare for the coming economic downturn. To assist you in determining what it means for your business and your customers, Microsoft Financing, has assembled a panel
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Lots of notes & noise swirling around today after the Professional Developers Conference announcement of Windows Azure , Microsoft's platform for cloud computing and software + services. As you can imagine the wraps on this were kept tighter than
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Good announcement from Prime Minister Rudd on Friday about the Government's plans for helping small businesses cope with the credit crisis. A snippet from the Sydney Morning Herald's MySmallBusiness blog: Addressing a business summit in Brisbane today,
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Good read from one of my feeds about the importance of looking at your existing customer base as a source of future revenue. A snippet: Seeing your customers as members of a kind of quasi-R&D team can save you a good deal of time and money and has
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Good read from the American Express OPEN business forum around the importance of building your strategic network. Snippet: You can easily and logically develop joint marketing initiatives with one or more partners and share the costs of promotion while
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Hard times. Nervous times. Companies losing confidence & the economy in turmoil. What to do? There's a very strong argument that says organisations should pull back, consolidate, stop spending and just ride out the storm. And that absolutely makes
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Great article from one of my feeds that's more relevant today than ever. With basically the whole world in financial panic mode & small businesses looking to cut corners wherever possible, there's a temptation as suppliers to lower prices in order
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