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Supporting Your Event Efforts...

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A lot of people ask about how the local Microsoft team can help partners execute events. Here you go...

To get a list of locations where you could hold an event contact your Partner Account Manager

How It All Comes Together…

Here are some great examples of how a partner put all of the pieces together.

1. Business Engineering has packed house with 55 attendees

2. Corporate Network Services “sells out” theater to 71 customers

3. DP Solutions jumpstarts over 50 customers with a hands-on Vista/Office day

What We’re Offering

  1. Logistics and administrative support (through Microsoft Partner Events)
  2. Suggested locations for events based on data-mining analysis
  3. Event in a Box that includes: (through Microsoft Partner Events)
    1. Pre-built Powerpoint decks
    2. Email invite templates
    3. Telemarketing scripts
  4. Access to Microsoft presenters and/or Microsoft RV (pending availability)
  5. Access to local bi-monthly Event Best Practices Community Call
  6. Marketing funds reimbursement (incentives based on hitting registration targets) [top level is $500]
  7. Use Microsoft office and caller ID in “Blitzes” for focused cold-calling time

What We’re Asking

  1. Drive 60 registrants/30 attendees for the event
  2. Submit all evals (pre-paid envelope) at completion of the event
  3. Use www.clicktoattend.com site to handle registrations [set up automatically for you via Microsoft Partner Events]
  4. Participate in bi-monthly community call

 

An Overview of the Topics We Support

Topic & value proposition/problem

 

Communication & Collaboration/Mobility

Customers have told us that they spend A LOT of time tracking down documents. Email attachments fly back and forth and people have a hard time figuring out what document is most recent and accurate.

This is a seminar that will explain to you how some of the newer Microsoft products address this issue and other topics such as staying productive away from the office (e.g. Unified Communication, document retention, and knowledge management.)

Featured Products: Office 2007, SharePoint 2007

 

SQL/BI

Customers tell us they spend a lot of time looking for data and assembling reports. There are “multiple versions of the truth” in spreadsheets all over the place.

This is a seminar that will help you understand how the Microsoft BI offering is designed to help you create and manage a single repository of data while providing your end users with a way to easily understand and interpret the data.

Featured Products: SQL 2005, Office 2007. Optional: Business Scorecard Manager/Performance Point Server 2007

 

2007 Office/Vista/Exchange

Customers are curious about the multi-billion dollar investment in the new version of Windows and Office. This is your opportunity to learn about what Office will mean in terms of productivity and Vista will mean in terms of security and usability.

Email is the glue of our organizations, we’ll talk about how to better work in an email centric world.

Featured Products: Office, Vista, Exchange

 

Infrastructure Optimization

Most customers spend too much time and money managing their infrastructures.

We’re going to talk about ways to consolidate, simplify, and optimize.

Featured Products: Windows Server; Windows System Center; Forefront, ISA Server

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 17, 2007
    Got an email from a partner doing an event for the first time saying, "we will guarantee 25-30 people