Making It Big In Small Business 2006

Imagine attending a dinner party with the top 15 SMB consultants\resellers, learning all about their awarding winning business model recipes and engaging in invaluable "table talk." That’s what this book is about!

Over 350+ pages, long-time respected Windows Small Business Server (SBS) consultant, trainer and writer Beatrice Mulzer digs deeps and uses her honed investigative reporter skills to extract the "secret sauce" from each profiled incumbent. She was granted unusual access to these extremely busy top performers. Along the way, she built a "two-way trust relationship" over months of interviews that allowed her to extract unique individual and professional insights not normally shared by these SMB success kings and queens.

Specific SMB consultants and resellers profiled include Microsoft Small Business Server Advisory Council members, SBS MVPs, Microsoft Certified and Gold Partners (including worldwide annual partner award winners) and other "thought leaders" you will find extremely interesting and informative:

• Matthew Dickerson (Australia), top reseller, consulting practice owner, worldwide award winner
• Mariëtte Knap & Marina Roos (Netherlands), SBS-MVPs, successful consultants and SmallBizServer.net portal queens (the Magical M&M’s)
• Nigel Mulholland (Northern Ireland), leading international reseller, award winner
• Arlin Sorsenson (USA), top reseller, consulting practice owner, SBS Channel Advisory Council member
• Curtis Hicks (USA), award winner, top reseller, consulting practice owner, SBS Channel Advisory Council member
• Michael Cocanower (USA), top reseller, consulting practice owner, SBS-MVP, SBS Channel Advisory Council member
• Jeff Middleton (USA), SBS Migration Kit creator, SBS-MVP
• Vladimir Mazek (USA), SBS thought leader, owner\operator of SBS off-premise hosting service and e-mail service.
• Harry Brelsford, (USA) SMB Nation founder, original SBSer, author, speaker\trainer
• Tim Loney (USA), top reseller, consulting practice owner, IAMCP board member
• Fredrick Johnson (USA), minority community leader, consulting practice owner, SBS-MVP, SBS Channel Advisory Council member
• Marc Harrison (USA), top reseller, consulting practice owner, SBS Channel Advisory Council member
• Grey Lancaster (USA), SBS-MVP, SBS "Grandfather" and long-time SBS thought leader
• Laura DiDio (USA), long-time SMB analyst, Yankee Group

Honorable mentions include up-and-coming SMB consultants\resellers from India, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Australia and USA.

Join Mulzer on her international journey around the SMB world and reap the benefits from her intensive research efforts to find out what makes these inner circle SMB people "…so successful." Along the way – you’ll pick up specific business and technical tips and tricks that will pay the cost of this book over and over.

Your first smart move is to buy this book rather than trying to recreate its content from scratch. Imagine attending countless conferences and workshops to credibly try to earn the inside confidence of these SMB barons and baronesses followed by hundreds of hours of interviews? Or would you rather read a chapter a day over lunch from this book and be a much more successful SMB channel partner in just over a fort night? The choice is obvious. Purchase this book and start walking a new path to increased profitability and greater professional and personal happiness!

PS - This is written in a warm, friendly manner that is readily readable. Most enjoyable and you'll love the tight editing, improved format and perfect content!

Beatrice Mulzer is a long-time SMB consultant, trainer and writer. She has co-authored two other SMB and Windows Small Business Server 2003 books and she speaks in over 60+ worldwide annually with a focus on the USA, Europe and India. She is the editor of SMB Technology Watch newsletter and holds the MCSE and Microsoft Small Business Specialist titles in addition to being an MCT.