While I was down under at the MAXfocus partner conference in Melbourne, Australia, I talked to a couple of the sponsors in the back of the room. Mark Winter from Rapid Fire Tools was promoting their Network Detective product. Rapid Fire Tools (www.rapidfiretools.com) already has a presence in Australia. Mark was here to meet partners…
While I was in Australia for the MAXfocus Partner Conference, I was quite impressed with their plans to data mine their own tools. I caught up with Dave Sobel, Director of Partner Community for LogicNow (MAXfocus). Dave’s team is responsible for the MAX partner conferences and they did a great job with this one. I…
Dave Seibert joins me for a look at tapping into Community Knowledge. This conversation flows from a presentation I saw Dave give in Anaheim last year at the SMB Techfest (www.smbtechfest.com). In fact, I liked the presentation so much that I asked Dave to create a new version for the SMB Online Conference. There are people…
SMB Nation’s Get Connected happens August 4-5 and focuses on Office 365, Windows 10, and Azure. Listen to all the details here.
We had a great time in Nashville for Robin Robins’ Big Seminar – www.robinsbigseminar.com. I love this event because it’s crowded with great partners who are totally dedicated to working ON their business (see my Small Biz Thoughts Blog post on this). In this podcast, I interview four folks: Jan Spring from eFolder, Jeff Dryall from…
This is the first report of two I’m doing on the Channel Partners Conference in Vegas last week. The primary reason I attended is that many, many, people at the Channel Pro SMB event in Baltimore kept asking me if I was going. I went a little early and connected with some folks. Then I stayed…
I am fundamentally lazy. Or busy. Or both. As a result, I sometimes captures interviews while I’m out and about and then don’t post them up right away. I’m going to be doing some catch-up here. I’ve got three quick interviews for you here. They are: Steve Noel, MSP Evangelist for Axcient Jeff Dryall, Directory…
I just got back from the big ChannelPro SMB Forum in Philadelphia. For more information on next year’s events, visit http://events.channelpronetwork.com/. At the event, I talked to a number of vendors. Here is present some quick shout-outs from Datto, Buffalo Tech, Excel Micro, Lenovo, and StorageCraft. Most importantly, I had a chance to hang out…
I had a good visit with Rob T. Rae from Datto at the GFI Max 2014 conference this week. Later in the day, Datto was awarded both Best in Show and Best Exhibitor Interaction awards. Datto is a backup and disaster recovery company with about 400 employees worldwide. They’re big in Canada, Europe, as well as…
Don’t miss the July 15th episode of Odd Tuesdays which features a special peek into this year’s 3rd annual Online Conference put on by Karl Palachuk and the Small Biz Thoughts team! The Systematic Success 2014 Conference was a tremendous success. The online event grows by the year and always features well rounded and timely business advice…
