Top 5 Reasons to Attend SMB VoIP
September 20-22, Washington DC 2010

5. The humidity will be gone from Washington DC. Admittedly – the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington DC (mid-July) was a bit overheated and humid. That all changes in the fall – it’ll be a glorious few days at the Gaylord!

4. Co-location is LEVERAGE! We are delighted to team with Channel Partners, a well-established telecom show. We believe that we’re better together. The typically Channel Partner’s attendee is a “sales agent” who is very good at promoting and selling telecom plans and cloud services. That allows our SMB Nation tribal members to actually “do the work” if you team up. It’s hand-and-glove folks!

3. SMB Subject Matter Experts! We’re bringing in the best in the business again. You’ll just have to click through to see who!

2. Be there at the Start – SMB VoIP community. Leading the parade and being ahead of the curve is a time-tested formula for business success. This is your chance to “own” the entire customer relationship that combines voice+data. This time the convergence is for real.

1. You Must! Home alarm system time folks – if you don’t VoIP your customers as a computer guy, someone else will. That is, the telephone grrl will come in and steal your client. Trust us – she’s already calling on your accounts!

Wolfgang Wants To Know: BPOS vs. SBS!

astro posted on February 26, 2010 09:21

The other day we hosted a Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) webinar called “Beyond VoIP – More SMB Stack Stuff” Afterwards, Wolfgang asked excellent question(s) and I quote: “Jennifer, I believe the event was great. The audio quality of one speaker though was a bit awkward at times. Anyway, what I would like to ask Harry or one of the guest speakers is how does Microsoft position BPOS vs. SBS? To me there seems to be a conflict for SMB partners and channels where one solution is on-premise based (SBS) and the other one is offered as SaaS (BPOS), but both compete for very much the same overlapping functionality and customers. Would be interesting to get their thoughts on that. Great stuff, keep up the good work for the SMB community! With best regards, Wolfgang S.”

He is spot on with the core question: BPOS versus SBS!

I spoke with a member of the BPOS team about this topic and he is excited to see your response(s) and perhaps have us conduct a survey on this topic. Let’s start that PARTY by having you reply back into this blog post with comments. Hmmm….the mind wanders!

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