Urgent: Seeking UK SBSC partners for Windows Vista Competition

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Microsoft have been involved in a competition with “Small Business Challenges” for small businesses to win up to 10 Windows Vista Ultimate laptops, plus the help of a Microsoft Small Business Specialist. To be in with a chance of winning the customer has to simply tell us their biggest IT challenge in no more than 50 words. Challenges should be IT based.

A panel of judges will then select five businesses who stand to gain the most from Microsoft software. Each will be given a Windows Vista laptop  - which will be theirs to keep- which they must use to address their challenge. All five businesses selected will be set several tasks to complete over a week using their laptop and Windows Vista. Microsoft will fund, up to the value of £1K, for an SBSC partner to set up the customers new laptop and then provide IT support over that week (anticipated a maximum of around 30 minutes a day) to assist with the IT challenges set to the customer.

The overall winner will be the business judged to have deployed their laptop most effectively. They will win up to 10 Windows Vista laptops (number dependent on the size of the business) as well as the help of a Small Business Specialist to overcome their IT challenges. Again, Microsoft will fund the SBSC partners time which should equate to around a day's work.

The competition has now closed to customer entries and we are in the process of selecting winners and identifying appropriate SBSC partners to take the roles outlined above.

Interested in being one of our SBSC partners?

Here's what's in it for you:

  • Free publicity of your business – in the SMB supplement that will accompany this activity each partner will identified with a brief synopsis of their business. This supplement will go out in a number of big name publications including Vista Magazine, What Laptop, PC Plus, Computer Arts, 3D World and .NET magazine. In total these magazines have a subscription base of 203,240 people! See here fore details of the last supplement.
  • You will be paid for the work you carry out and may even generate additional business with the customer as a result
  • This will promote the SBSC partner channel

So...

Are you an SBSC partner and interested in taking part?

Are you proficient in Windows Vista?

Are you able to dedicate time to this activity week commencing 19th January?

Want to know more?

If so, please email sbscuk@microsoft.com stating where you are based. Partners will be selected based at random and where possible in closest proximity to the customers. Terms and conditions will apply. This is only open to UK SBSC partners.

Get in touch now! If you are selected this will be a great bit of guaranteed business for the new year and with hopefully minimal effort.