e-bda sales training

Kevin Turner Microsoft COO strategy 100% aligned with e-bda offering

During the last WPC, Kevin Turner, the heavy weight COO of Microsoft ( mr. Transformation !), defined during the last day of the Worldwide partner conference his objectives for improving partners sales effectiveness. Kevin outlined the high priority for partners to understand "how their clients decide", and to do so it's key to execute this per Role and per Industry.

explore http://www.microsoft.com/digitalwpc/ for this keynote ( july 10th)

At e-bda we are very proud that Microsoft recognizes the importance of improving the effectiveness of partners by selling per vertical industries and by Roles. and because We built our strategy on our vision and by leveraging 20.000 participants feed back forms received over 8 years, we are very comfortable that Kevin Turner will boost the sales effectiveness of the Microsoft partner community.

visiting New Orleans

What a great experience, guides would warn you of all possible dangers going out at night.. we found a very "humanity rich" city, great music at the New orleans Jazz national historical park, you'll meet great musical Park guards in uniform performing a free 3pm jazz concert to tell you the origins ( bayou and creole) and demo some style evolutions overtime. The very same Guards recommended to spend our evening in a special "Rock & Bowl" , actually a bowling, situated on the first floor of an industrial building  see their web site : http://www.rockandbowl.com/ a must, people of all ages come there to dance , the band was fantastic, not a single tourist !! WOW!!

We went on a boat to visti the bayou : of course we saw aligators and some herons. Aligators respond quick to the captains' feeding of shamalows.. and fish. netx time, we'll try to find some more original and less crowdy tour.

Yesterday friday we went to the Mount Sinai temple, met a cousin of my cousin ( small world)! and spend the evening at a Cigar bar located on Tchoupatulas (Dos Jeffes) , our National guards were playing there with their band. good time, even if we were surprized to find cigar bars where people do smoke inside !! ( good old california).

We will absolutely come back soon and Microsoft organizing their next WPC in New Orleans, for sure e-bda may be back next year again !!

reduce your telephone costs

because we use extensivelly our mobile phones worldwide, and because we look very bad when we find out how much we paid for calling or beeing called from abroad i decided to opt for a cheap and effective solution:

buy a very basic mobile phone in the destination country ( $29 in the USA) and a prepaid sim card ( 450 minutes for $50). How cool this is to call your next hotel from this fancy and cheap tool.

you'll get a local number and save hundreds of your favorite Euros or USD.

i bought mine from Houston T mobile shop. great service ! it took me 15 minutes , thats all folks!!

expect more good prsactices soon.

welcome to Michel Brouste

We welcome Michel, who joined e-bda a month ago. Michel had served in several GM and Sales Management position within HP. Michel will accelerate the industrialization of e-bda, building a stronger distribution channel WW. Michel will also pay special attention to the quality and service level of our e-bda network(tm).

"Michel will be of great assistance to the management team of e-bda, he will bring his vision, experience and pragmatism to e-bda"

visiting Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference

this morning We attended to the first mass keynote from Alison Watson.

impressive Toyota Center : we were 10.000+ in there.

we expect more to come , with clear vision and more assertiveness from the speakers.

good business presentation by mr. Elop.

Great mobility demos,

great robotics one,

microsoft research also introduced an outstanding http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Malik and I will update you tomorrow.

cheers from a very hot Houston