Are You Using the New BTAT Tool?

Microsoft has recently updated the Business and Technology Assessment Toolkit to version 3.5. Been quite a few years since we originally rolled out the initial version. On Friday July 23, four HTG members will be discussing how to use assessments to drive business. Hear Joddey Hicks, Aaron Booker, Brent Morris and Erin Arnold as they share their wisdom about BTAT. There is no better time than now to focus on going deeper with clients, and no better tool than the assessment process to dig deep, peel the onion and find opportunities to serve your clients. Here are the details:

The Microsoft Business and Technology Assessment Toolkit V3.5 - How Partners are Using It to Generate Real Revenue and Profit.

This webcast will review how MS Partners use the Microsoft Business and Technology toolkit to generate revenue and drive a long lasting client relationship that continues to provide opportunity for years to come. These veteran Microsoft partners will share their secret sauce on how they use the assessment process and the data collected to build long term IT plans and strategies for their clients and then use those to get their clients to open their wallets and continually make purchases of technology and services. We’ll also discuss the new and enhanced features of the new toolkit, including SBS/EBS updates and a new proposal generator.

January 23 at 9:00 Pacific time.

Register at http://www.mssmallbiz.com/training/. The session is down toward the bottom in teh Growing your Business section.

Day Three Video Summary from Summit

Pat Dolan and his team from TCC sent this link of video from day three. Check it out. Make sure you tell Pat and Al and others from TCC thank you for their dedication to capturing the magic of SMB Summit. And Aaron Booker - you were the guy who really drove this - so thank you too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvgmSyIXcw&feature=user&fmt=18

Make it an awesome day!

New SBS Resources on the Microsoft Partner Site

There is a new place to get all kinds of information about SBS. It can be found at https://partner.microsoft.com/40046800?msp_id=sbsmyths and features stories on Phil Kenealy, Stuart Crawford and Aaron Booker who are all members of the HTG peer groups. There are links to a number of great resources including the SBS Test Drive - an online way to let customers or parnters take SBS for a drive without having to install it locally first. There are training guides for sales, technical and getting started with your SBS practice. Resources are there to help you make the right choices as well in your server platform. So check it out. A lot of great resources available to help you grow your business around SBS.