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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>Why you should go to SMBnation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx</link><description>http://www.vladville.com/2007/07/are-you-going-to-smb-nation.html Top five reasons to go to SMBNation 1. It&amp;#39;s in Redmond so Microsoft team members that you know in that location have no excuse to not accept your phone call when you can walk over to</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>re: Why you should go to SMBnation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1041541</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:26:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1041541</guid><dc:creator>Ben Ahlquist</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#39;re not in Vlad&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;fab 5,&amp;quot; you&amp;#39;re worthless. &amp;nbsp;If you&amp;#39;re not an iconic industry leader, then in Vlad&amp;#39;s book you are a complete waste of his time. &amp;nbsp;And most likely a newbie who just started out and is almost destined for failure. &amp;nbsp;Dude, lay off the pipe. &amp;nbsp;And get some sleep.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will be there at SMB Nation, along with a wide variety of people worth knowing, networking with, learning from, and all around having a good time. &amp;nbsp;And many of those HAVE been in the business a while. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Funny, I&amp;#39;ve never been called worthless by a vendor before... &amp;nbsp;If that isn&amp;#39;t writing on the wall...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1041541" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Vlad Mazek - Vladville Blog  &amp;raquo; Blog Archive   &amp;raquo; Riff-Raff, and you don&amp;#8217;t Stop.</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1041351</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:04:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1041351</guid><dc:creator>Vlad Mazek - Vladville Blog  » Blog Archive   » Riff-Raff, and you don’t Stop.</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Pingback from &amp;nbsp;Vlad Mazek - Vladville Blog &amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;raquo; Blog Archive &amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;raquo; Riff-Raff, and you don&amp;amp;#8217;t Stop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1041351" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why you should go to SMBnation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1039557</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:02:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1039557</guid><dc:creator>yAnyO</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Completely agree with you Susan in &amp;quot;quite frankly Vlad, the conference isn&amp;#39;t there for the likes of you and me. &amp;nbsp;It is there for those still seeking the answers.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m flying from the caribbean just for the pocket mba track.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1039557" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why you should go to SMBnation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1039363</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:25:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1039363</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If Vlad doesn&amp;#39;t want to go... why would we want him there?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1039363" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why you should go to SMBnation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1038715</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:04:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1038715</guid><dc:creator>Matthew Clapham</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ll be there! &amp;nbsp;I wouldn&amp;#39;t miss an opportunity to put names with faces on all of my SBS peeps. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1038715" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>My Amazing Sense Of Timing &amp;laquo; Andys Techie Blog</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1037743</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:05:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1037743</guid><dc:creator>My Amazing Sense Of Timing « Andys Techie Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Pingback from &amp;nbsp;My Amazing Sense Of Timing &amp;amp;laquo; Andys Techie Blog&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1037743" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why you should go to SMBnation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1037674</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:39:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1037674</guid><dc:creator>HandyAndy</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Speaking as part of the Riff-Raff&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blog.sbs-rocks.com/?p=3"&gt;http://blog.sbs-rocks.com/?p=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1037674" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why you should go to SMBnation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/18/why-you-should-go-to-smbnation.aspx#1037230</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:39:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1037230</guid><dc:creator>Vlad Mazek</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Which quarter of the conference covers the community.. the one that belongs to the Microsoft, the one where people have paid for the slot and are doing &amp;quot;Best Practices&amp;quot; using their products or the one of the attendees eating in the parking lot? :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, I&amp;#39;ll turn my back on that &amp;quot;community&amp;quot;. And all of the &amp;quot;impressive&amp;quot; people I listed still do consulting work.&lt;/p&gt;
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