This year’s SMB Live events, coming to 25 cities across the United States, include a day of new in-depth and hands-on marketing content, and a day of 300-level technical training to modernize your organization’s technical skills and marketing capabilities. You’ll leave SMB Live with the tools you need for cloud business growth and to be prepared to help modernize your SMB customers to Office 365 and hybrid cloud with Microsoft Azure, Hyper-V, and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Space at these SMB Live events is limited. Register today to secure your spot at the event in the city nearest you.
Day 1 – Business and Marketing | Day 2 – Technical |
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| Attend and participate in this interactive, hands-on workshop with step-by-step, prescriptive guidance to build a marketing campaign that targets your SMB customers.. We’ll also cover the Office 365 licensing options and best practices on managing current cloud customers to drive adoption, utilization, and upgrades. Level 200 for BDMs and Marketing roles For more details, see the agenda at the bottom of this post. | Technical experts will show you how to use the latest Microsoft server and cloud technologies to deliver hybrid cloud solutions to small and midsize organizations. Level 200–300 for Technical roles For more details, see the agenda at the bottom of this post. |
What’s different? In our previous SMB Live business events, we addressed the philosophy of building an effective marketing campaign. Now, we’ll drill deeply into specific guidance for executing your marketing campaign with new training and interactive hands-on sessions that will share and explain best marketing practices to help your business execute and drive sales. | What’s different? In our previous SMB Live technical events, we helped partners identify opportunities to enable their SMB customers to increase efficiency and productivity in the cloud. This course includes more than 90% new, 300-level technical content including presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs to teach you how-to effectively deliver hybrid cloud solutions to SMBs. |
| Who should attend? C-level executives and practice managers, as well as marketing and sales professionals who want to take their baseline marketing to the next level | Who should attend? Technical Decision Makers, IT Professionals, and Consultants who sell and/or consult with SMB customers |
Cities, dates, and links to register for each day
Registration for these events is on the Partner Learning Center. To register, you must be a member of the Microsoft Partner Network. To associate yourself to your company’s MPN profile, follow the steps here. If you need help with registration, email plcteam@asentus.net.
To register, click the date for the session you want to attend.
| City | Day 1 – date and registration | Day 2 – date and registration |
| Bellevue, WA | February 25 | |
| New York, NY | March 11 | |
| Nashville, TN | March 11 | |
| Sunnyvale, CA | March 12 | |
| Indianapolis, IN | March 12 | |
| Charlotte, NC | March 18 | |
| Cleveland, OH | March 17 | March 18 |
| Denver, CO | March 18 | March 19 |
| Boston, MA | March 18 | March 19 |
| St. Louis, MO | March 18 | March 19 |
| Salt Lake City, UT | March 24 | March 25 |
| Tampa, FL | March 24 | March 25 |
| Downers Grove, IL | March 24 | March 25 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | March 25 | March 26 |
| Detroit, MI | March 25 | March 26 |
| Philadelphia, PA | March 31 | April 1 |
| Houston, TX | March 31 | April 1 |
| Fort Lauderdale, FL | April 1 | April 2 |
| Los Angeles, CA | April 14 | April 15 |
| Hartford, CT | April 14 | April 15 |
| Dallas, TX | April 14 | April 15 |
| Atlanta, GA | April 15 | April 16 |
| Minneapolis, MN | April 15 | April 16 |
| San Francisco, CA | April 21 | April 22 |
| Washington, DC | April 21 | April 22 |
Agendas
| Day 1 Marketing Workshop – Attract customers. Grow sales. 10:00AM – 4:30PM | Opening: Cloud trends update Marketing Workshop: Differentiate yourself within a crowded marketplace and accelerate your sales engine
Cloud growth acceleration modules
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| Day 2 Technical Training – Modernize with Hybrid Cloud 9:00AM – 5:00PM | Class introduction: Windows Server and Azure Hybrid opportunities Modules, demos and labs Module 1: Maximizing hardware utilization with Windows Server 20132 R2 and Hyper V
Module 2: Assessing & Migrating (moving) customers to Windows Server 2012 R2
Module 3: Speed up Azure deployment with Azure Solution Accelerators for SMB
Module 4: Hybrid Identity with Active Directory, Office 365, and Azure
Module 5: Implementing cost-effective storage
Module 6: The “Need to Know:” Next generation of Windows, Skype for Business, Windows Server Module 7: Offers, incentives, and support Wrap up and Q&A |