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Jul 14

Sage Summit Diary

Sage Summit 2011 Daily Audio Wrapups

Each morning the writers for Summit Diary met at 6am for a 1 hour walk to the top of the highway overpass and back. As we met other conference participants we invited them to join us for our morning walk.

Sadly since most normal people are still sleeping at 6am in the morning – we only had one person who tagged along during our walks.

Rather than have our collective wisdom, bicker and arguing go to waste – this year we used an iPhone and the Cinchcast app to record our discussions. What follows are 4 days of summaries where we have a group discussion (pardon the background noise as we’re often walking near the highway) about the important topics of the Sage Summit conference from the prior days.

Most of these recordings are under 15 minutes in length – and some are as short as 5 minutes. Here’s our summary and insight into what we found interesting at Sage Summit 2011.

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Jul 12

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Sage Summit Day One – Audio Wrapup

The first full day of keynotes and sessions has come to a close. Lots of interesting first day announcements – including an almost total rebranding of Sage’s North America product portfolio, interesting news about Sage Exchange (connected services for Sage Payments) and some interesting information on the costs for the MAS 90 Online product which Sage has announced will become available in Q4 2011 (hopefully October 2011).

This morning Robert, Peter and I walked for an hour. We recorded the first 13 minutes of our thoughts for those who many not have made it to Sage Summit — or for anyone looking for some additional views on the announcements.

First a disclaimer – the opinions expressed on these summaries are our own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of anyone else (that’s why they call them personal opinions silly). In some cases we may have partially complete information so use our discussions combined with your own thoughts to form an independent conclusion.

Listen to Day One Sage Summit Audio Recap

Jul 11

Walking with Wayne and Robert

This morning I chose to participate in a unique experience.

I got up before 6:00 am – voluntarily. (Please understand that I’m usually don’t open my eyes before 8:00 and typically if I’m getting up at that ungodly hour, it’s because my 5 year old is tapping me on the shoulder asking if he can get up and play.)

So, why did I venture into this brave new, unknown world?

I had the opportunity to go for an early morning walk with industry legend Wayne Schulz. Most folks in the Sage family know Wayne – he’s been out there blogging, tweeting, social networking, you name it for years. He continues to push his own boundaries and set the bar higher for himself and for the rest of the Sage channel. He offers a unique perspective on our industry sprinkled in with a heavy helping of technology and tools.

Joined by our fellow co-blogger and all-around awesome gentleman, Robert Wood from DDF Consulting Group, and SageCRM project manager specialist, Dan Cousins from DCAA, we had a decent walk and discussed topics including reseller best practices, Sage policy changes, cloud computing, integrated Sage CRM (my personal favorite topic) among many other things that impact us as partners in the Sage channel.

A big part of the conference is getting a chance to talk about what’s working, what’s not, what others are doing, etc. Sure – we can do it over the phone or in our LinkedIn groups but sometimes (oftentimes?) face-to-face is the best way to collaborate.

Plus, as an added bonus, you get to burn off some calories from all the calorie-rich foods available at the conference.

If anyone would care to join us, we will be outside the Gaylord tomorrow at 6:00 am. It might be worth your time. I certainly feel it was.

PS. Wear light clothing. It was ugly humid out there – even at 6:00 am.

Jun 29

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Listen to Mahan Khalsa’s Let’s Get Real Or Let’s Not Play For Free

Apparently I’m all about the free (or cheap) lately. The Stephen Covey organization has released Mahan Khalsa’s Let’s Get Real Or Let’s Not Play on audio for free via a podcast on iTunes.

“How does this relate to Sage’s Summit Conference?” you may ask. Well, if you’re going to attend any of Ed Kless’s sessions this is an old favorite of his going back many years. Mahan Khalsa does a great job explaining modern day sales processes.

Plus it will give you something to listen to on the flight or train as the case may be.

On iTunes via Ed Kless

Image via The Marmot

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