3/23/2010
WES36PAL: Four Plans That Can Change Everything
Wednesday 3/24/2010 12:00 AM EST
Learn about the importance of planning for your business, leadership, life and legacy. Understand the value of integrating the quarterly planning into how you run your company and your life, and the true meaning of the saying, “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” These are proven and valuable planning tools that will help assure success if you use them to drive business and personal growth through execution. Partners will receive 4 planning worksheets that walk them through the steps of creating these four plans.
https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?ActivityId=565276&UserMode=0 10/22/2009
We recently had a member transfer to another HTG group of partners similar in size to his organization and may have an opening for you in our group. Here is a list of our members:
Cohen Barnes, TBC Net, Inc., Sycamore, IL, http://www.tbc.net
Nick Bock, Five Nines Tech Group, Lincoln, NE, http://www.fiveninesgroup.com
Hardin Byars, Intellinet, Atlanta, GA, http://www.intellinet.com
John Endter, E Squared C, Minden, NV, http://www.esquaredc.com
Bob Guchee, Parsec Computer Corp, Yakima, WA, http://www.parseccomputer.com
Eric Kehmeier, Integrated Business Technologies, Broken Arrow, OK, http://www.integratedbt.com
Kathy Labozzetta, i3 Business Solutions, LLC, Grand Rapids, MI, http://www.i3businesssolutions.com
Robert Lindley, Innovative Systems, Inc., Little Rock, AR, http://www.isi.cc
Dave Sobel, Evolve Technologies, Fairfax, VA, http://www.evolvetech.com
Mo Vij, General Informatics, Baton Rouge, LA, http://www.geninf.com
Reed Wilson, Palmetto Technology Group, Inc., Anderson, SC, http://www.palmettotg.com
Please drop me an email at rlindley@isi.cc or call me at 501-217-8484 x101 if you are interested in learning more about HTG5 Peer Group. Our next meeting is November 2nd & 3rd in Orlando prior to the ConnectWise Partner Summit.
The HTG peer group experience is a unique forum for technology industry resellers who are serious about implementing a model for success in their own businesses through sharing and collaboration of best practices.
No single company has a monopoly on good ideas. Other IT companies like yours have the same issues, ask the same questions, and face the same problems. We network similar companies based on their size, number of employees, relative lines of service, ownership structure, and markets served to find unique solutions to common problems.
Because HTG peer groups are national in scope, members are not operating in competing markets. The result is an intimate network where the expectation of confidentiality is an underlying facet of the group’s inherent design.
The agenda for each meeting is designed around the felt-needs of the group and toward meeting the concerns and issues that face you in a fast-paced, increasingly complex business.
For more information: http://www.htgpeergroups.com 10/7/2009
This free series offers 25 webcasts designed to help partners grow their business by learning best practices from other successful partners. You will not hear any marketing fluff, only relevant information you can use today that will help you grow your business.
Managing Your Business Through a Slow Economy with Key Performance Indicators
Michael Cocanower; Dan Hay
10/7/09 9:00 AM PST
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The past year has been a challenging one in almost every industry, and technology is no exception. That being said, if you’ve made it through the last 12 months, it shows your resilience as an organization. Fortunately, many leading indicators are starting to point upwards. What that means is that now is the time to act to get yourself strategically positioned for the recovery. During times like these, key performance indicators (KPIs) become more important than ever before. In order to emerge stronger than your competitors, you need to watch the right numbers, and make sure your organization is making the right amount of progress in the right areas. Attend this webcast presented by two of the top partners in the US when it comes to KPIs. We will discuss which KPIs are the most important to watch over the next year, and how you should adjust your ‘every day’ KPIs as we move from recession to recovery. By making the right adjustments in how you monitor KPIs, and making sure you are watching the appropriate KPIs, you will position yourself with a competitive advantage over others in your marketplace.
How to Create a Lead Generation Campaign that Gets Results
Kendra Lee
11/4/09 9:00 AM PST
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Lead generation is expensive and often unproductive. Your objective is qualified, interested prospects, but in today’s tough economy your challenge is significantly multiplied. You can’t rely on your sellers’ cold calling efforts to drive the number of leads your company requires.
You need a demand generation approach that can reach your target contacts exactly when they’re looking for the services you offer, draw them in, and fill your pipeline. Such a plan sounds complex, resource intensive and cost prohibitive but it doesn’t have to be. You can use the resources already available to you to create lead generation campaigns that gets results.
In this session with Kendra Lee, prospect attraction expert and author of the award-winning book Selling Against the Goal, you’ll discover:
- Why most lead generation efforts fail and how to avoid it
- Your objective with a campaign
- The golden rule of successful prospect attraction
- What a successful lead generation campaign looks like
- The 4 components every campaign must include
- How your definition of a lead changes your campaign
- 10 Tips for writing a successful email campaign
- Actual results you can expect
- Resource requirements to be sure to plan for
- Strategies to secure vendor funding
Leave with fresh how-tos to create campaigns that’ll attract prospects and fill your pipeline.
Virtualization: Defined. Building your Virtualization Practice and Solution Offerings
Dave Sobel
11/18/09 9:00 AM PST
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Virtualization is becoming mainstream, and are you ready with your practice? Learn from Dave Sobel, author of “Virtualization: Defined. A Primer for the SMB Consultant”, how to build your consulting practice, get trained and offering solutions, and solutions you can start delivering right away. Learn about server consolidation assessments, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures, and how to deliver high value solutions to your customers.
Leveraging Community and Peers to Grow your Business
Arlin Sorensen
12/2/09 9:00 AM PST
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Do you struggle to find the right answers to overcoming the roadblocks that can prevent your company from going to the next level? Join Arlin Sorensen and others from the partner community as they discuss how to leverage the power of peers and communities to find solutions to the challenges every business faces. Be it learning to overcome sales management struggles, hiring your first employee, marketing effectively – someone has done it before and the key to getting to the other side is to leverage that knowledge and experience rather than learning it all on your own. It is happening and the group will share real world examples and more importantly the impact that deep relationships have had in helping them grow their businesses.
Should you go Vertical?
Robert Lindley
12/16/09 9:00 AM PST
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Moderator: Robert Lindley, President, Innovative Systems, Inc.
Panelists:
Dave Sobel, CEO, Evolve Technologies
Garrett Brucker, Principal, Solve IT, LLP
Robert Lamm, President, Lamm Technical Resources LLC
Industry analysts and many Microsoft partners have demonstrated that focusing your solutions to address the specific needs of vertical markets can help your company improve the success of its sales and marketing efforts, improve your competitive positioning, and build sustainable customer loyalty even in a weak economy.
In this session, a panel of partners will discuss how they focus on specific vertical market solutions at their company and what this approach has meant to their success. The panel will discuss the following topics:
- Why is it important to focus on vertical markets?
- Which tools can help you create a vertical strategy?
- What is the potential return on investment?
- How can you get started?
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Get it on your calendar and plan to join us!
Join Microsoft partners and employees from around the world
for a time of fellowship and prayer
at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
New Orleans Marriott at the Convention Center
859 Convention Center Boulevard
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Click Here to Register Today!
 Boyd Bailey has accepted our invitation to come to New Orleans to be our speaker for the 2009 Partners in Christ prayer breakfast!
Boyd is founder and Chairman of Wisdom Hunters, LLC and is the author of two devotional books, Infusion and Seeking Daily the Heart of God; Boyd is also founder of Ministry Ventures, a venture capital firm for early stage ministries which has helped 45 start-up ministries raise over $15.5 million and impact over 35,000 people for Christ. Prior to Ministry Ventures, Bailey was the National Director for Crown Financial Ministries. He was instrumental in the expansion of Crown into 30 major markets across the U.S. He was a key facilitator in the 25 million dollar merger between Christian Financial Concepts and Crown Ministries. Before Crown he and Andy Stanley started First Baptist Atlanta’s north campus; and as an Elder, Boyd  assisted Andy in the start of North Point Community Church. In college he bought a service business with five employees. This business endeavor financed his education and the equity from its sale was the economic launching pad for his graduate school experience.
Boyd Bailey was born in Huntsville, Alabama and received his Bachelor of Arts from Jacksonville State University and his Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Seminary in FT. Worth, Texas. Boyd and his wife Rita live in Roswell, GA. They have been married 30 years and are blessed with four daughters and two son-in-laws who love Jesus!
Again this year we will be providing all attendees a free book, Boyd’s Infusion devotional.
We also will be having prayer time on Mon, Tues, Thur and Fri mornings at 6:30 AM. It will be held at the Residence Inn New Orleans Convention Center at 345 St. Joseph Street. Exact room location will be in the daily update where we will count down the days to WPC and the Partners in Christ breakfast. If you won’t be in New Orleans, or aren’t in the technology business, we ask you join us in praying for our industry and the marketplace ministry we are working to establish. We need God’s touch to make things happen for His glory and honor and praise. Hope to see many of you in NOLA.
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