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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><channel><title>THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" : sbsc</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/tags/sbsc/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: sbsc</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>XING group for Small Business Spec</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/08/17/xing-group-for-small-business-spec.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1119637</guid><dc:creator>bradley</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1119637</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1119637</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/08/17/xing-group-for-small-business-spec.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Jose Morales, one of the 18 SBSC Pals wrote to me and said....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;em&gt;My name is Jose Antonio Morales and I am one of the 18 PALS (Partner Area Lead) for Microsoft;&lt;br /&gt;I am also the manager of B4Contact a company operating in Slovenia.

I would like to invite your Blog visitors that are Small Business Specialists to participate in our &lt;br /&gt;XING group for Small Business Specialists. The idea is to open opportunities and share ideas. &lt;br /&gt;They can participate going to: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.xing.com/go/invita/3466885/9271"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.xing.com/go/invita/3466885/9271&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre&gt;Check it out!&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1119637" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/tags/sbsc/default.aspx">sbsc</category></item><item><title>SBSC webcast</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/09/26/SBSC-webcast.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:142066</guid><dc:creator>bradley</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=142066</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/commentapi.aspx?PostID=142066</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/09/26/SBSC-webcast.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;I hear from folks that there were people in the &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/09/24/Microsoft-SBSC-Quarterly-Webcast_3A00_-September-26-.aspx"&gt;SBSC quarterly webcast&lt;/a&gt; that were not SBSCers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Folks... let&amp;#39;s be up front about this shall we?&amp;nbsp; This was not &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;intro to SBSC&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;why you want to be a SBSCer&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; webcast, this was &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Yes, you ARE a SBSCer and thus here&amp;#39;s the cool stuff because you&amp;#39;ve proven to us that you want to be taken seriously&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; webcast.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So if you are not a SBSCer and you attended that webcast... you are planning to sit for the exam and be one, aren&amp;#39;t you? &lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/emoticons/emotion-2.gif" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because folks, it&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;put up or shut up&amp;#39; time folks.&amp;nbsp; You can argue all you want that SBSC is a marketing exam, that it has no value...but if you were interested enough to show up to that webcast, then it&amp;#39;s time you got the real deal and became a SBSC.&amp;nbsp; For me it separates out the folks that want to take small business seriously.&amp;nbsp; That want to showcase to clients that they specialize in it.&amp;nbsp; And for all those folks that complained that Microsoft never made an effort for the single guy shops... well folks.. Microsoft has done just that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So if you were thinking about making yourself stand out from the rest... it&amp;#39;s time you got your rear in gear and got serious about that exam.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;#39;s back to School time for kids...how about for yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=142066" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/tags/sbsc/default.aspx">sbsc</category></item></channel></rss>