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Wed, Jul 8 2009 9:05

SBSC’s listen up…

Body: July 1st marks the end of one age and the start of a new era in the SBSC space in Australia. Hilton Travis has ended his term as SBSC Pal for Australia and passed the baton to Keira McIntosh for the coming 12 months. The SBSC PALs role is to act...
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Wed, Jul 8 2009 8:56

Microsoft Australia focusing on the SMB space in Australia

Body: Many in Australia are concerned that Microsoft are not understanding the needs of resellers in the SMB space. Some have made brash claims that MS simply don’t care. I can tell you from the meetings I’ve had inside Microsoft that those comments are...
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Tue, Jun 30 2009 17:03

What will you do different today?

Body: Today marks the start of the new Financial year here in Australia. As part of the new financial I’ve been giving due consideration to business planning and in particular what I will do different this year vs last year. The world economy by all accounts...
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Mon, May 25 2009 19:49

SaaS / Cloud Computing – interesting concern

Body: Microsoft today announced they will block access to MSN Instant Messenger for 5 countries on a sanction list according to the US government. CRN reported it here Ok – so with all the hype about cloud computing, the users are not supposed to care...
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Mon, May 25 2009 18:43

Sarah Arnold begins blogging – aka Australian MS Partner Program

Body: For those that have never met her, Sarah Arnold is the Partner Program Manager at Microsoft Australia. Sarah recently began a new blog focused on the needs of the Australian Partner channel. Her blog can be reached here http://blogs.msdn.com/auspartners...
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Wed, May 20 2009 2:46

Ingram Micro, Moneytech and Australian SMB Community

Body: I heard people today in the Australian SMB community talking about a letter they got from Ingram Micro. The letter talked about their account with Ingram and it stating that “your Ingram account is being transferred to Moneytech in May....” . Knowing...
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Sun, May 17 2009 22:26

Vote #1 - Keira McIntosh for SBSC PAL for Australia

Body: In all my life I have never really been vocal about politics at all – but there is one thing that really hits my heart and that is the SMB community that I work in. Therefore this blog post is 100% my personal view which you may well choose not...
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Tue, May 5 2009 5:44

CRN Australia – a new direction!

Body: Today people started to receive the new and improved CRN Magazine in the mail, and then shortly after I started to get phone calls and emails from people as my photo is on the front cover. No, it’s not for some embarrassing gaff I made in public...
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Wed, Dec 3 2008 14:55

You know you are an idiot when…

Body: You go against all the good advice that Microsoft offer when they design the product and you don’t even care enough for your clients well being to heed advice given by others. Such is the case of some people who believe that they can put the Hyper...
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Thu, Nov 6 2008 16:27

CRN Awards tonight!

Body: I’m excited to be attending the CRN Awards tonight here in Sydney. Last year I was invited to be there as a guest of Trend Micro not knowing that I had been awarded the first ever CRN Channel Champion of the Year award by CRN. The award to me was...
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Tue, Oct 28 2008 14:28

Follow Through Matters… particularly now

Body: I met Amber Naslund at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed event in Columbus, Ohio in September this year. We shared many a good chat about business and how social media impacts our ability to do things in a modern day world. Today she has a...
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Sat, Oct 11 2008 10:33

Future Uncertain…

Body: I finish up today my 3 weeks here in the USA. I’ve been attending 10 days of extremely intense training, and two conferences in two different states. I’ve been here while the US economy takes a major nose dive. The Australian economy whilst currently...
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Sat, Sep 6 2008 2:22

Vendors and Phone Support - it's almost non existent today...

Body: Back in the early 90's I worked for a large PC Manufacturer called AST Research here in Australia. AST was at the time the #3 PC manufacturer in the world and here in Australia we did pretty darned well with market share and our fair share of...
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Tue, Aug 19 2008 23:53

Moving over to the dark side.. :-)

Body: To the sounds of evil laughter, I've swallowed the blue pill :-) Well almost. Today I started working with Microsoft Australia. My role here will be Tech Specialist on SBS and EBS and I'll be helping very much with the launch of SBS 2008...
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Tue, May 20 2008 3:07

Small Business Events in Australia this week

Body: I didn't know about it until today, but the New South Wales government have labelled this week as Home Based Business week and they are running a host of seminars all around the state all related to home based and small business. Looking through...
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Mon, May 19 2008 17:24

Funny view on what Microsoft does conveyed by children

Body: Microsoft Australia are doing a cute viral marketing campaign which is aimed to raise awareness of it's Office 2007 product and at the same time donate money to charity. They have said they will donate up to $100,000 to charity based on this...
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Mon, May 19 2008 7:19

Microsoft learns from their mistakes with the SBSCs

Body: In a great example of Microsoft listening to the SBSC partners and learning from their mistakes, Robbie has advised that they are marketing to our SMB customers. http://blogs.technet.com/sbsaustralia/archive/2008/05/15/microsoft-smb-customer-profiling...
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Thu, Apr 3 2008 3:39

Are you running a business or a hobby?

Body: Interesting question huh. Many of us in the SMB IT Pro sector have more fallen into our business rather than actively planned our business. As such many of us treat it more as a hobby that we make money out of than a business that can sustain itself...
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Wed, Mar 19 2008 17:59

Business Blogs I read - Pt 2

Body: Another round of blogs that I read focused on the business side of SMB IT consulting. Some of these are not direct answers to your business problems, but ideas for future directions you might want to take. BlogStorm Online Marketing is one of those...
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Mon, Mar 17 2008 18:47

Business Blogs I read

Body: I get asked from time to time by many SMB IT consultants about which business blogs to read. Here's a few that have interesting stuff on them this week. I'd recommend you take a look and see for yourself if they strike a chord with you....
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