Cloud 1-2-3: Expand Your SMB Practice with Microsoft Azure

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Microsoft Azure, one of the fastest growing Microsoft products, provides flexible cloud platform designed to meet a variety of customer needs.  Building on the Microsoft Azure platform offers you a unique level of flexibility to deliver services and solutions that can easily be deployed in the way that best meets immediate customer needs, on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid cloud. There are many resources to help you learn about Azure and start to develop an Azure practice …including a great Cloud 1-2-3 Azure web series and a TS2 SMB Azure Boot Camp coming to a city near you in May.  We’ve consolidated the key resources below to help you jumpstart your SMB Microsoft Azure Practice.  Start today:

1) Register for the Cloud 1-2-3: Expand Your Practice with Microsoft Azure Web Series
2) Register for the TS2 SMB Azure Boot Camps
3) Follow the Get Started with Azure Checklist

1) Cloud 1-2-3 Web Series: Expand Your Practice with Microsoft Azure

These webcasts will feature Microsoft experts who will share sales and technical expertise about how to take advantage of opportunities with this fast growing cloud service. You will learn how to sell Azure and take a technical deep dive into the core Azure solutions including: virtual machines and virtual networks, backup services, websites and identity & access management.

Register here for one or all of the following webinars:

• April 9 – Getting started with Microsoft Azure
• April 16 – Tech Dive: Protecting customer data with Microsoft Azure Backup
• April 23 – Tech Dive: Easily extend customer networks with Microsoft Azure
• April 30 – Tech Dive: Microsoft Azure Identity Management and Office 365

2) TS2 SMB Azure Boot Camps

These daylong events will feature our Microsoft TS2 team who will demonstrate how to build a successful Microsoft Azure cloud practice in SMB. Space is limited and it will fill quickly. You can sign up today at the following link: REGISTER!

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3) Checklist to Get Started with Microsoft Azure:

Meet Microsoft Azure

□ Meet Microsoft Azure & Microsoft Azure 101

□ Azure Services Overview

□ Get familiar with the core Microsoft Azure scenarios

        -Learn how to create a virtual machine

        -Learn about Microsoft Azure backup

        -Learn about Microsoft Azure websites

□ How to purchase

Set up your Microsoft Azure practice

□ Learn about Microsoft Cloud Partner Programs

□ Enroll in Action Pack and receive a $100/month Microsoft Azure credit

□ Download and use Microsoft Azure internally

□ Investigate earning a Microsoft Azure competency to certify your skills

Hone your Microsoft Azure skills

□ Partner Learning Center Microsoft Azure training courses

□ Microsoft Azure Technical Training Kit

□ Sales Training

        -Answers to Common Questions for Microsoft Azure Pre-Sales

        -Driving Business Opportunities with Microsoft Azure

        -Microsoft Azure: Assessing the Feasibility of a Potential Deal

Create customer demand for Microsoft Azure

□ Demo the Power of Microsoft Azure

□ Connect with customers using Azure Ready-to-Go Marketing campaign

□ Sign customers up for the free one-month Azure Trial and get $200 to spend on all Azure services

□ Create customer quotes with the Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator

□ Host a Microsoft Azure event with Microsoft Community Connections

Manage your customer’s Microsoft Azure services

□ Setup a new Azure Pay As You Go account

□ Start adding customer sub-tenants to your account

Go-To Resources and Support

□ Microsoft Azure website or call 1-800-867-1389 (US)

□ Microsoft Azure Support

□ Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) members can use their designated MPN Support benefits towards Microsoft Azure support.

□ Microsoft Azure Scenarios – Single Slide Summary

□ Microsoft Azure ROI / TCO Tool

□ Microsoft Azure Customer Scenario Datasheet

□ Microsoft Azure Pack Whitepaper

□ US Azure Partners Yammer group (how to join here)

□ In the Cloud blog

□ Microsoft Azure YouTube Channel

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