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I'm at the Microsoft Australian partner conference, being held on Hamilton Island. There are 633 Microsoft partners here and around 140-150 Microsoft staff, together with 23 exhibitors including Trend, Kaseya, Wacom, ProCurve etc. Anyway, Friday night...
Monday morning just about all of us in the office were suffering "Jimlag", trying to remember what we'd learned the previous week & put it into practice. Ian (our implementer) was off in the bowels of north western Queensland so was...
It's finally the end of a totally full on week - in fact probably the most incredible week I've had in business. The implementation of our new Jim2 management system has gone really well with everybody knuckling down and tackling it full on. It's...
It's been a full on exercise getting the new system going internally. Whilst it hasn't been overly painful as such, it's a big change for everyone so there's a steep learning curve to climb, plus breaking old habits which is always a bit...
It's been quite a ride with Jim2 so far - and it's only the end of the first day. Ian arrived this morning and we got into questions & answers almost as soon as he got into the car - one interesting point I found out is only about 40% of the...
Any change, particularly in small business, can either make or break a company. Good big change can propel a business forward whereas bad big change (or lots of bad small change) and kill a company. Today is one of those days where we undergo BIG change...
SMB Nation 2006 is open for registration. This is THE premier event for SME consultants/VARs/VAPs/resellers and you need to do all you can to be there. The conference will once again be held at Microsoft's Conference Centre in Redmond, Washington. There...
2006 has already shown itself to be a very full year. In fact I've been struggling to keep up with my email traffic let alone all the other things happening around the place. How's this for the current major projects on the go: * office relocation mid...
Woo hoo, I've just successfully installed CRM 3.0 onto our office SBS2003 server. After nutting out a few installation issues I managed to get it installed using, of course, the SBS installation method (was around 9-10 clicks after all the other fiddly...
Attention Microsoft Partners, if you want to get your hands dirty with CRM 3.0 (for testing purposes only) check out http://microsoft.order-7.com/CRMpartnerBeta/ . You need to sign in with your MS Passport to get access to the downloads (462Mb for the...
Just finished reading “Winning” by Jack Welch (ISBN 0-06-075394-3) which I’d picked up in Seattle just before flying home from MVP Summit in early October. (see http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp...
There is a saying that a person is a product of the people they associate with and the books they read. I tend to agree with this but with the addition of the experiences they go through as well. Let's face it, when you look back on your life there are...
Our state newspaper, The Advertiser, ran an article in last Tuesday's (Jan 11) edition, in the “Business Owner” section that I'm particularly fond of. You can see a copy of the article here Whilst the journalist did take some artistic licence...
After a great weekend with Wayne & Stu , Gavin was IMing with us about his exciting moves to put on an admin person and a tech over the next few weeks. Naturally he's feeling a little nervous, but was man enough to ask for advice. Now Wayne, Stu &...
Saturday afternoon yielded more great information sharing and development. We did spend a while checking email, blogging (well, me anyway), debating whether or not to call our wives (we voted not to) and checking the agenda. The content itself was great...
Following on from my post about Business Networking Benefits ( http://msmvps.com/calvert/archive/2004/10/20/16184.aspx ), I'm sitting in my office with Wayne & Stuart having just returned from popping out for lunch. We had a casual catch up last night...
This morning I'm heading to my monthly meeting with a bunch of other small business owners. We meet at a hotel, with a business coach, and talk about all sorts of topics including business planning, financial planning, measuring business performance,...