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DURHAM, North Carolina – May 7, 2019 (live from Empower MSP) – SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced
May 2, 2019 | Written by: Mike Fino
Passing quality sales leads from our salespeople to partners is crucial to bolstering a thriving partner ecosystem, and data shows that the faster we can pass these leads on, the greater the chance of closing the deal.
According to a 2017 study by IBM’s Chief Analytics Office (CAO), sales leads that are passed within a 48-hour 
window close with 10 point higher win rates than leads passed within a longer time frame.
But making this happen in a 48-hour window in an ecosystem as large as ours is not as easy as it sounds. Business opportunities need to be vetted and matched with partners based on a myriad of pre-identified parameters, such as their performance, product expertise, customer experience, industry expertise, local proximity, and social network.
On April 5th SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), announced its customer conference is set to return to Amsterdam, Netherlands May 7th and 8th. Although the conference will focus on security, the agenda will include sought-after keynote speakers, product updates, networking opportunities, and various educational content across business, technical, sales, and marketing topics.
March 20th 12:00 to 1:30 pst
Michelle McBain, Nancy Williams, Carrie Simpson, and Karl Palachuk
A first for the MSP Tech Talk series – a conversation with women leaders driving success in the SMB technology community. We hit the following topics: diversity, inclusiveness, product/program design input, harassment, youth and STEM/STEAM, management and much more. And we even have Karl Palachuk back as he sits on the Executive Committee for CompTIA's Advancing Women in IT Community for 2019.
March 6th 12:00 to 1:30 pst
Jeff Ponts and Douge Greene
Head for the hills! The 5G mobile standard is leaving the labs and headed out into the wild. And your traditional telco isn’t happy. Will it be the sad demise of bundle cable offerings because you can literally cut the cord and stream directly? Does this solve the rural broadband corundum? Can your car now drive you home from the bar late at night because it can maintain connectivity ala autonomous driving? It’s not if – the only question is WHEN. Hint: It’ll be in your lifetime. Attend this session to (a) learn what 5G is (b) what it means for you and (c) can you make money with it.
SMB Nation Webinar Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST
Presented by: Harry Brelsford
After a decade of research, Harry has updated his Rules of 12 from the infamous "SMB Consulting Best Practices" to offer a refreshed set of guiding principles.
Today, Axcient, a leader in business availability and cloud migration solutions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), announced the appointment of David Bennett as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective March 4, 2019.
Bethesda, Maryland – February 5, 2019 -- The ASCII Group is proud to announce it has reached an exciting milestone as the company celebrates 35 years of providing a membership-based community to North American MSPs, VARs and solution providers.
February 20th 12:00 to 1:30 pst
Kevin Hunter, Karl Palachuk and Kat Zommers
No Tech Talk quarter is complete without a dive into MSP marketing. Love it or hate it – ya’ got to do it! The good news is that we’re providing under to hood tips and tricks to grow your brand and audience to drive customer awareness and, yes, conversions. Help us help you – please attend if it’s the ONE marketing lecture you sit through all year. LOL.
Teams has become a “THING” that we can no longer ignore. What started out as MSFT’s response to Slack has crossed the aisle to marry voice and data.
Knowledge is power. We know that for each hour you invest in yourself as a technology professional, you get ten hours of productivity out of your useful life.