As a valued attendee of the 2007 Worldwide Partner Conference you receive a special discounted registration rate of $1,395 ($400 USD off the $1,795 standard price).
The alumni rate expires tonight (4/28) so take advantage of this offer and register by 11:59PM PST.Once you're registered, you will also be able to use a session preference tool to view session abstracts and vote for the 10 sessions you would like to attend.
Register today! If you have already registered, you can still select sessions by going to https://www.wpc08commnet.com/ and login with your registration credentials.To take advantage of this alumni offer, please follow these easy steps:
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2. Register to attend the conference.
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4. Note that the special alumni registration rate expires on April 28!
I will be in Houston all week and we will have a number of HTG events during the week as well, starting with an HTGALL session on Sunday July 6 from 3-6 pm at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. See you in Houston!
This blog is about the power of peers in the IT space. It is designed as a place to share things I have learned the past 25 years running a business (HTS) as well as meeting the growing demands of business owners we experience leading the Heartland Tech Groups - a peer group network for IT business owners. Check out more at www.htgpeergroups.com.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
And finally - the last of the firsts
Here are the closing thoughts on firsts for HTG at Summit:
1. The announcement of our first international groups. Based on demand and the need to tailor groups to local regions, we met with a group of Canadian partners on Sunday night to discuss formation of a Canadian HTG group. Stuart Crawford has stepped up to lead this group provided we get the right participation. There was discussion of a Canada East and West group, but we will see how the application process goes. Dave Sobel has stepped up to lead the formation of our first European group, HTG England. So we are going international and this fits right into our vision to grow to 20 groups. It is important to have some worldwide representation as we work with vendors to make a difference for them.
2. We recorded our first audio CD. Those who had written chapters in the HTG Peer Power book were interviewed and their wisdom captured for a CD we will release. Scott did a great job of collecting their thoughts and making it relevant to the book chapter they had written. We will be working on the next book sometime soon. Scott is pondering that along with 1,000 other ideas as you read this.
3. We produced our first video snippets with the help of TCC and Hardlines. Pat and his team from TCC captured a lot of video footage and posted it to YouTube, so we are in the hip generation now. There are 5 different videos from the four days of SMB Summit. It was our first attempt, but we have lots of great footage to work with and edit into videos we will use for future release. These guys – Pat and Aaron – had the vision to do this and just made it happen. True HTG initiative at its finest. Thanks guys!
1. The announcement of our first international groups. Based on demand and the need to tailor groups to local regions, we met with a group of Canadian partners on Sunday night to discuss formation of a Canadian HTG group. Stuart Crawford has stepped up to lead this group provided we get the right participation. There was discussion of a Canada East and West group, but we will see how the application process goes. Dave Sobel has stepped up to lead the formation of our first European group, HTG England. So we are going international and this fits right into our vision to grow to 20 groups. It is important to have some worldwide representation as we work with vendors to make a difference for them.
2. We recorded our first audio CD. Those who had written chapters in the HTG Peer Power book were interviewed and their wisdom captured for a CD we will release. Scott did a great job of collecting their thoughts and making it relevant to the book chapter they had written. We will be working on the next book sometime soon. Scott is pondering that along with 1,000 other ideas as you read this.
3. We produced our first video snippets with the help of TCC and Hardlines. Pat and his team from TCC captured a lot of video footage and posted it to YouTube, so we are in the hip generation now. There are 5 different videos from the four days of SMB Summit. It was our first attempt, but we have lots of great footage to work with and edit into videos we will use for future release. These guys – Pat and Aaron – had the vision to do this and just made it happen. True HTG initiative at its finest. Thanks guys!
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And on they went
More HTG firsts:
1. Our first public discussion of the vision of HTG. Saturday night at HTGALL I shared a glimpse of the next steps for HTG. The leadership council is helping define the how to’s, but the vision is something like this – to create 20 groups of elite partners who build a community that can change the industry. We will be leveraging current HTG members as leaders of the next 11 groups. If you have a heart to help people, let me know. You don’t get paid much to facilitate beyond the ability to give back and make a difference in some people’s lives.
2. Our first announcements of what will happen with the online groups. We have completed the first session of online HTG groups. We learned we went too fast for people to be comfortable and be able to succeed. We will be starting some new online groups using the same 6 topics but will spread those out over 12 months. For those who completed the course, we will spin up the sophomore year of content and allow them to continue on their path to growth. Here is another place we need HTG members to step up and lead a group. This one takes less time and no travel, so if you want to give back and would like to lead a group of newbies in the HTG Online freshmen class, or some who are a little further along in the HTG Online sophomore class, please let me know. We will need leaders for the online groups too – so email interest.
3. For many, your first time presenting to an audience. HTG provided an overwhelming amount of the content from this weekend. For some, it was old hat and you have done it many times before. But for many, it was your first try at being a presenter and sharing some of what you have learned. Thanks for taking the risk and stepping up to share. We need many more that are willing. We will be building a content library to use for the online groups and need a lot of contributors. So if you are willing to do a live meeting training on a topic you have passion and experience about, please let me know.
1. Our first public discussion of the vision of HTG. Saturday night at HTGALL I shared a glimpse of the next steps for HTG. The leadership council is helping define the how to’s, but the vision is something like this – to create 20 groups of elite partners who build a community that can change the industry. We will be leveraging current HTG members as leaders of the next 11 groups. If you have a heart to help people, let me know. You don’t get paid much to facilitate beyond the ability to give back and make a difference in some people’s lives.
2. Our first announcements of what will happen with the online groups. We have completed the first session of online HTG groups. We learned we went too fast for people to be comfortable and be able to succeed. We will be starting some new online groups using the same 6 topics but will spread those out over 12 months. For those who completed the course, we will spin up the sophomore year of content and allow them to continue on their path to growth. Here is another place we need HTG members to step up and lead a group. This one takes less time and no travel, so if you want to give back and would like to lead a group of newbies in the HTG Online freshmen class, or some who are a little further along in the HTG Online sophomore class, please let me know. We will need leaders for the online groups too – so email interest.
3. For many, your first time presenting to an audience. HTG provided an overwhelming amount of the content from this weekend. For some, it was old hat and you have done it many times before. But for many, it was your first try at being a presenter and sharing some of what you have learned. Thanks for taking the risk and stepping up to share. We need many more that are willing. We will be building a content library to use for the online groups and need a lot of contributors. So if you are willing to do a live meeting training on a topic you have passion and experience about, please let me know.
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The firsts continued at SMB Summit
More firsts for HTG.....
1. Our first series of focus groups. Overall we held about 15 focus groups for a half dozen vendors which were overwhelming filled with HTG members. The feedback I got was this: “we talk with a lot of partners around the world, but these people are at a very different level. They understand solutions and just get it.” The feedback was extremely positive and we will help guide a number of things with the time you invested. I did hear that most of these groups were actually very good as well. I worked hard to make sure they were on the right track and while I didn’t hold my breath, the vendors stepped up and made them worth your time. But again, thank you for risking some hours to participate. I have asked the vendors to let us know what they do based on the feedback provided.
2. Our first church service at an industry conference. I don’t know of any other conference where a worship service has been held. Jeff Wood, Brad Schow and Jonathan Warrey led a fantastic worship experience that had over 60 attendees on Sunday morning. While we all came together to grow our businesses, to be honest, that is only part of the story. Life is about a lot more important things than how much money we make and these guys created an atmosphere that focused us on things that matter – people.
3. Our first conference prayer meetings. Each morning we had prayer time at 7 AM in my suite. Throughout the weekend across the four mornings, over 40 different partners came together to pray for the events of the day and the people in attendance. Many were there all four days. The spiritual part of life is a very important consideration as it should guide how we build our leadership plan and ultimately our business plan. If you didn’t know about this aspect of the event – I put out a daily email for folks that talks about scripture and life. Just email me and let me know you want to be added to the list. You can also read the scripture part of that (about 1/3 of what I write in the daily email) at asorensen.wordpress.com.
1. Our first series of focus groups. Overall we held about 15 focus groups for a half dozen vendors which were overwhelming filled with HTG members. The feedback I got was this: “we talk with a lot of partners around the world, but these people are at a very different level. They understand solutions and just get it.” The feedback was extremely positive and we will help guide a number of things with the time you invested. I did hear that most of these groups were actually very good as well. I worked hard to make sure they were on the right track and while I didn’t hold my breath, the vendors stepped up and made them worth your time. But again, thank you for risking some hours to participate. I have asked the vendors to let us know what they do based on the feedback provided.
2. Our first church service at an industry conference. I don’t know of any other conference where a worship service has been held. Jeff Wood, Brad Schow and Jonathan Warrey led a fantastic worship experience that had over 60 attendees on Sunday morning. While we all came together to grow our businesses, to be honest, that is only part of the story. Life is about a lot more important things than how much money we make and these guys created an atmosphere that focused us on things that matter – people.
3. Our first conference prayer meetings. Each morning we had prayer time at 7 AM in my suite. Throughout the weekend across the four mornings, over 40 different partners came together to pray for the events of the day and the people in attendance. Many were there all four days. The spiritual part of life is a very important consideration as it should guide how we build our leadership plan and ultimately our business plan. If you didn’t know about this aspect of the event – I put out a daily email for folks that talks about scripture and life. Just email me and let me know you want to be added to the list. You can also read the scripture part of that (about 1/3 of what I write in the daily email) at asorensen.wordpress.com.
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HTG firsts continue
At SMB Summit we had .....
1. Our first meeting of MS-HTG Online members and their inclusion in our HTGALL open space time. We graduated 65 people from the HTG online course and they met face to face for the first time on Saturday night. We then opened the wall and both groups were involved together in an open space discussion about three topics:
a. Web 2.0 and social networking
b. How to survive in tough economic times
c. Disaster Recovery – what you are doing and what you need to do
The data collected will be sent in a future email, so watch your inbox for the summary of those notes.
2. Our first vendor technology product test. Altigen, who hosted a focus group for a dozen HTG partners, offered to provide equipment for a couple of HTG members to test on behalf of HTG and evaluate its fit for our membership. Altigen is a VOIP provider and while we certainly are not committed or even recommending their product today, it just sort of happened as we went through the meeting. An idea came up to have a small group of expert HTG telephony partners put it through the paces and give a thumbs up or down on this product. Expect to see results from this solutions in written form, along with a potential webinar to help you onboard more effectively if the results are positive. Look for this practice to be repeated and spread to all kinds of vendor solutions as we move forward.
3. Our first vendor trade show. Ken Shetler, who worked for HTS as a contractor, brought together almost 40 vendors for 6 action packed hours on Sunday night. I realize I was asking a lot of you to be in the rooms and engaged, and many of you attended sessions you weren’t all that interested in but took one for the team. Thanks for being willing to be part of community to make this succeed. The vendors were blown away by the HTG members and quality of partners we brought to the table. We have set the stage for bigger and better things in the future.
1. Our first meeting of MS-HTG Online members and their inclusion in our HTGALL open space time. We graduated 65 people from the HTG online course and they met face to face for the first time on Saturday night. We then opened the wall and both groups were involved together in an open space discussion about three topics:
a. Web 2.0 and social networking
b. How to survive in tough economic times
c. Disaster Recovery – what you are doing and what you need to do
The data collected will be sent in a future email, so watch your inbox for the summary of those notes.
2. Our first vendor technology product test. Altigen, who hosted a focus group for a dozen HTG partners, offered to provide equipment for a couple of HTG members to test on behalf of HTG and evaluate its fit for our membership. Altigen is a VOIP provider and while we certainly are not committed or even recommending their product today, it just sort of happened as we went through the meeting. An idea came up to have a small group of expert HTG telephony partners put it through the paces and give a thumbs up or down on this product. Expect to see results from this solutions in written form, along with a potential webinar to help you onboard more effectively if the results are positive. Look for this practice to be repeated and spread to all kinds of vendor solutions as we move forward.
3. Our first vendor trade show. Ken Shetler, who worked for HTS as a contractor, brought together almost 40 vendors for 6 action packed hours on Sunday night. I realize I was asking a lot of you to be in the rooms and engaged, and many of you attended sessions you weren’t all that interested in but took one for the team. Thanks for being willing to be part of community to make this succeed. The vendors were blown away by the HTG members and quality of partners we brought to the table. We have set the stage for bigger and better things in the future.
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HTG Leadership Team
One of our firsts is the creation of an HTG leadership team. We announced the members of our HTG leadership council who have been selected to help create HTG 2.0 in the coming months. This is a collection of partners from all the HTG groups who first met with Michael Park from Microsoft in Feb in Minneapolis and are now working on several committees to help define what our next iteration of HTG will look like. Your representatives are:
HTG1 – Dan Hay – Organizational Structure
HTG1 – Dan Shundoff – Business Plan
HTG2 – Steve Knudson – Business Plan
HTG2 – Lyf Wildenberg – Organizational Structure
HTG3 – Brad Schow – Business Plan
HTG3 – Erik Thorsell – MVV
HTG3 – Stuart Crawford – Vendors
HTG4 – Garrett Brucker – MVV
HTG5 – Robert Lindley – Infrastructure and Tools
HTG6 – Robert Lamm – Infrastructure and Tools
HTG7 – Alex Ziogas – Infrastructure and Tools
HTG8 – Kevin Torner/Mike Brogan – Vendors, Organizational Structure
HTG9 – Chris Chirgwin – Business Plan
HTG1 – Dan Hay – Organizational Structure
HTG1 – Dan Shundoff – Business Plan
HTG2 – Steve Knudson – Business Plan
HTG2 – Lyf Wildenberg – Organizational Structure
HTG3 – Brad Schow – Business Plan
HTG3 – Erik Thorsell – MVV
HTG3 – Stuart Crawford – Vendors
HTG4 – Garrett Brucker – MVV
HTG5 – Robert Lindley – Infrastructure and Tools
HTG6 – Robert Lamm – Infrastructure and Tools
HTG7 – Alex Ziogas – Infrastructure and Tools
HTG8 – Kevin Torner/Mike Brogan – Vendors, Organizational Structure
HTG9 – Chris Chirgwin – Business Plan
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Some HTG Firsts
The next few days I want to review some of the exciting firsts that happened at SMB Summit for HTG members. Those of you who are not involved, well you can read and be amazed. HTG consists of over 100 partner companies who get it - who are connected through community and committed to making a difference in each others businesses. Here are the first of our firsts:
1. Our first broad joint meetings. Five HTG groups met simultaneously ahead of SMB Summit and one group following. It was good to be able to mingle and share lunches yet keep our meetings focused on our own groups. We were able to share some joint resources and leverage the power of numbers to our benefit. Expect to see more of that in the future where we will centralize and align meetings to help keep facilitator travel to a minimum and costs down while connecting partners across groups where there is a fit.
2. Our first conference joint sponsorship. This was our first foray into being on the hook for a conference at any level. We have helped with content at some events, but never had to sign contracts and send money. Thankfully we had a good turnout as our average attendee fee payment was over $130 less than our cost of food per person alone. With that scenario, volume isn’t all that good and it is hard to make up for a price miscalculation with volume. Some of you have learned that selling more of something that is losing money doesn’t make for a good bottom line. So our tail was saved by the vendors paying to be in the vendor fair. Otherwise this would probably have been our first and last event.
3. Our first HTG ALL vendor relationships. We announced the special agreements we have in place with Agility Disaster Recovery Services (thanks to Jeff Wood and HTG2) and Cymphonix. Both have come forward with special HTG pricing and opportunities. You will learn much more in the coming months and can expect to see much more from them as they engage to help partners succeed.
Check again tomorrow to see the next set of great things that is happening with HTG.
1. Our first broad joint meetings. Five HTG groups met simultaneously ahead of SMB Summit and one group following. It was good to be able to mingle and share lunches yet keep our meetings focused on our own groups. We were able to share some joint resources and leverage the power of numbers to our benefit. Expect to see more of that in the future where we will centralize and align meetings to help keep facilitator travel to a minimum and costs down while connecting partners across groups where there is a fit.
2. Our first conference joint sponsorship. This was our first foray into being on the hook for a conference at any level. We have helped with content at some events, but never had to sign contracts and send money. Thankfully we had a good turnout as our average attendee fee payment was over $130 less than our cost of food per person alone. With that scenario, volume isn’t all that good and it is hard to make up for a price miscalculation with volume. Some of you have learned that selling more of something that is losing money doesn’t make for a good bottom line. So our tail was saved by the vendors paying to be in the vendor fair. Otherwise this would probably have been our first and last event.
3. Our first HTG ALL vendor relationships. We announced the special agreements we have in place with Agility Disaster Recovery Services (thanks to Jeff Wood and HTG2) and Cymphonix. Both have come forward with special HTG pricing and opportunities. You will learn much more in the coming months and can expect to see much more from them as they engage to help partners succeed.
Check again tomorrow to see the next set of great things that is happening with HTG.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Our friends at TCC have posted video footage from day four of SMB Summit 2008. My hats off to Pat, Raymond, Al and the team at TCC for their commitment to the channel and the community of partners that gathered at Summit. Check out what happened on day four.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6xnqfM5wA&feature=user&fmt=18
See you at Summit 2009!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6xnqfM5wA&feature=user&fmt=18
See you at Summit 2009!
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Monday, April 21, 2008
SMB Summit is over - success
SMB Summit 2008 has come and gone. It is all over except the clean up. We had over 470 people that were registered and with the day passes over 500 that were involved. What a show! There was a lot of very hard work by the SMBTN leadership led by Jim Locke, our conference director Mike Iem from Ziem Group, and the HTS team. Of course, HTG and SMBTN members jumped in and did a multitude of tasks and presented content and engaged vendors and just made it happen. It took a village to make this event a success - and the great news is - the community responded.
I had a chance to talk to a few more vendors today - and they are still very pleased. "Best show we have ever been too" was my favorite line. I heard the same from many of the attendees. We had a strong half day of great content again today. I have the privilege to moderate a great panel of four partners on growing your business. We never got past the first slide. The questions started and kept coming for an hour and a half. But it was spot on and exactly what they wanted - answers to their questions. You can never go wrong with that.
The MS - HTG online graduation was great. We had 65 graduate and Lane Sorgen, central region VP presented a very compelling commencement speech on the partner of the future. Aanal Bhatt from the WESS team in Redmond presented the graduates with their copy of SBS2003 R2 and Scott Scrogin who led the program presented their certificate of graduation. We can be very proud of these companies that effectively worked their behinds off to pass.
The town hall meeting closed the event. We heard a lot of very good suggestions to make a pretty darn good conference even better in 2009. Thanks for all the positive comments and suggestions, and the accolades to the team for a job well done. I pass mine along as well. It went well, we were blessed, and everyone left happy and ready to get after it.
I was able to hold prayer meeting in my room each morning from 7-7:30 and over 40 different partners came and prayed at some time during the week. It was a great way to begin each day and something I intend to continue doing in coming events.
Thanks for your support and participation. The next event I will attend where many of you may participate is Microsoft's WPC in Houston in July. I look forward to seeing you there!
Remember, vision without execution is hallucination. Go back and take your learnings and put them to work. Do it now!
I had a chance to talk to a few more vendors today - and they are still very pleased. "Best show we have ever been too" was my favorite line. I heard the same from many of the attendees. We had a strong half day of great content again today. I have the privilege to moderate a great panel of four partners on growing your business. We never got past the first slide. The questions started and kept coming for an hour and a half. But it was spot on and exactly what they wanted - answers to their questions. You can never go wrong with that.
The MS - HTG online graduation was great. We had 65 graduate and Lane Sorgen, central region VP presented a very compelling commencement speech on the partner of the future. Aanal Bhatt from the WESS team in Redmond presented the graduates with their copy of SBS2003 R2 and Scott Scrogin who led the program presented their certificate of graduation. We can be very proud of these companies that effectively worked their behinds off to pass.
The town hall meeting closed the event. We heard a lot of very good suggestions to make a pretty darn good conference even better in 2009. Thanks for all the positive comments and suggestions, and the accolades to the team for a job well done. I pass mine along as well. It went well, we were blessed, and everyone left happy and ready to get after it.
I was able to hold prayer meeting in my room each morning from 7-7:30 and over 40 different partners came and prayed at some time during the week. It was a great way to begin each day and something I intend to continue doing in coming events.
Thanks for your support and participation. The next event I will attend where many of you may participate is Microsoft's WPC in Houston in July. I look forward to seeing you there!
Remember, vision without execution is hallucination. Go back and take your learnings and put them to work. Do it now!
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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!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvgmSyIXcw&feature=user&fmt=18
Make it an awesome day!
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
SMB Summit Day Three
One word describes day three - HOMERUN!
It started with a great worship service. I had many thank you's for having church as part of this event. Over 60 people were there and another 20 or so said they missed it - mostly because I failed to announce it as planned on Saturday. But a special thanks to Jeff Wood and Brad Schow for leading that worship and the testimony from Jonathan Warrey and music by Brian P from Jeff's company. Those guys did an unbelievable job and the message to touch people by serving them is so absolutely true. I am sure they made God smile!
The sessions for day three were also outstanding. We had three tracks of content that was unparalleled from any conference I have attended, and that actually is quite a few. There was great preparation and presentation, and the takeaways were very strong. Thanks to all the speakers for the hard work and willingness to share what you know.
There were a number of focus groups throughout the day and the vendors were very pleased with the feedback. The number one comment I heard was that you expressed yourself clearly and made positive suggestions. As always, you were vocal and opinionated, but you did it professionally and in a helpful way. That makes me smile.
This evening we had a fantastic vendor fair. I spoke with almost every vendor on the floor and the response was overwhelming. They were blown away by the quality of the partners at SMB Summit. They were blown away by the quality of your companies and you as individuals. I was blown away by your commitment to making this time worthwhile. I recognize that all were tired, had spent three days locked up in a room, and just as easily could have made a quick run through and headed off to the hot tub. But you didn't. You stayed engaged, you went to the sessions, you did what you do best - you demonstrated why the partners in HTG are a cut above the rest. You have integrity, you are executers and you are accountable. I am extremely grateful to get to rub shoulders with you all. And there was plenty of shoulder rubbing going on - the place was active and busy for 5 plus hours. What a fantastic group of people.
I am proud to be associated with the SMB Summit and particularly HTG membership. I am humbled to be able to lead the three groups I do, and look forward to continuing to grow with you to new levels of success and personal achievement. Thank you for being committed to one another and a part of the community.
It started with a great worship service. I had many thank you's for having church as part of this event. Over 60 people were there and another 20 or so said they missed it - mostly because I failed to announce it as planned on Saturday. But a special thanks to Jeff Wood and Brad Schow for leading that worship and the testimony from Jonathan Warrey and music by Brian P from Jeff's company. Those guys did an unbelievable job and the message to touch people by serving them is so absolutely true. I am sure they made God smile!
The sessions for day three were also outstanding. We had three tracks of content that was unparalleled from any conference I have attended, and that actually is quite a few. There was great preparation and presentation, and the takeaways were very strong. Thanks to all the speakers for the hard work and willingness to share what you know.
There were a number of focus groups throughout the day and the vendors were very pleased with the feedback. The number one comment I heard was that you expressed yourself clearly and made positive suggestions. As always, you were vocal and opinionated, but you did it professionally and in a helpful way. That makes me smile.
This evening we had a fantastic vendor fair. I spoke with almost every vendor on the floor and the response was overwhelming. They were blown away by the quality of the partners at SMB Summit. They were blown away by the quality of your companies and you as individuals. I was blown away by your commitment to making this time worthwhile. I recognize that all were tired, had spent three days locked up in a room, and just as easily could have made a quick run through and headed off to the hot tub. But you didn't. You stayed engaged, you went to the sessions, you did what you do best - you demonstrated why the partners in HTG are a cut above the rest. You have integrity, you are executers and you are accountable. I am extremely grateful to get to rub shoulders with you all. And there was plenty of shoulder rubbing going on - the place was active and busy for 5 plus hours. What a fantastic group of people.
I am proud to be associated with the SMB Summit and particularly HTG membership. I am humbled to be able to lead the three groups I do, and look forward to continuing to grow with you to new levels of success and personal achievement. Thank you for being committed to one another and a part of the community.
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SMB Summit Day Two
What a great day we had yesterday. The content was brought to us by Microsoft and we really were given a great overview of EBS, the new mid market server offering for us later this year. This product is what we have been waiting for. SBS like with its design and laser focus, it allows us to move up in the customer chain and serve the core mid market customers from 50-300 seats with the same confidence we have been able to serve our SBS customers for many years. Now is the time to get ready. Seeing the content here gives you a big leg up on all the other partners. But it only helps if you take action. It only matters if you execute. There will be a lot of content coming in the next few months to guide you toward building an EBS practice. So be ready to put some focus and attention on it. It is very much worth your time and effort.
Here is a little of the flavor from yesterday. Enjoy and see you at the Summit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWG-Buuz3cg&feature=user&fmt=18
Here is a little of the flavor from yesterday. Enjoy and see you at the Summit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWG-Buuz3cg&feature=user&fmt=18
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