I have simply gone bonkers! Must be the Indian summer here in Seattle but I can’t help posting up more of our content for your pain and pleasure. As you know – it is a fine line between pain and pleasure!
Serisouly folks – I will also start to post up pages from the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Primer title that my company, SMB Nation Inc., published under our SMB Nation Press imprint. Heck – when you own the copyright and you have over 10,000 pages of cumulative content…better to share than hoarde!
So – today I start these postings. This is the FOREWORD for the book that helps you prepare for the 70-282 and 70-631 Microsoft Certification Exams. Enjoy 
enjoy…harrybbbb
Harry Brelsford, CEO at smb nation www.smbnation.com
Microsoft Small Business Specialist SBSC, MBA, MCSE, MCT, MCP, CNE, CLSE, CNP
PS – did u know I host an annual conference in Seattle each october for SBSers and SMB consultants? This year we help launch SBS 2008 and Essential Business Server (EBS) between October 4-6!
Foreword
Are You Ready for the New
SMB Revolution?
Humanity’s advancement can be charted along a timeline of exploration and innovation. From the advent of fire to the age of the microchip, mankind has steadfastly charted new paths, set new directions, headed for new horizons.
It’s in this spirit that we celebrate the beginning of another great journey. It may not seem to be the simple genius of sliced bread or the noble sacrifice of a mission to Mars, but Microsoft’s entrance into the small/medium business (SMB) partner space is certainly worthy of notice.
Some would say it’s about time the software giant more aggressively played in the important, growing market beyond the Fortune 1000. Others would counter Microsoft has already reached all markets, if only through trickle-down theories. Either way, a more formal strategy is emerging, and the book you’re holding here is a good guide for those ready to blaze an expanded trail.
Kudos and congratulations to Beatrice Mulzer, emerging SBS guru, for writing this helpful volume. Microsoft Small Business Specialist Primer sets out to help IT professionals prepare and certify themselves for careers as Small Business Specialists. In an industry beset by outsourcing, automation, and general malaise, IT professionals could do much worse for themselves by coming to the same conclusion Microsoft obviously has: Working with businesses of all sizes drives continued commerce and offers new avenues for growth and development.
That’s a message we at Certification Magazine can certainly get behind. Since our
first issue in the days before the burst of the IT bubble, we’ve been preaching the
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message of continued growth, ongoing learning and creative solutions to problems of all types, from technology trials to careers stuck in neutral. Even with recession worries seemingly less pressing, the new opportunity for expansion Microsoft is offering couldn’t be timelier. We can certainly hope Microsoft Small Business Specialist Primer and the Small Business Specialist certification it supports are just the first salvo in a barrage of books, certifications and opportunities for Microsoft to interact with its channel and channel members to take advantage of the certified skills of a loyal army of IT experts. At Certification Magazine, we support the three-sided partnership that can breathe new life into the careers of individuals and into businesses small, medium and super-sized. In Harry and Beatrice’s thorough work, you’ll find a roadmap to a new specialty, a guidebook to new challenges and directions to sustainable success. It’s a new era for the certified IT professional. Are you ready to take the one giant step into small-medium businesses? |
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Tim Sosbe
Editorial Director
Certification Magazine www.certmag.com
