General Consultant Discussion

Has anyone heard anything about upcoming Inspire Tour dates? Have you been registered to any and been notified of any changes?

We're scheduled for the April 9th stop in Cleveland. We have several customers going. Haven't heard about any changes, yet. What are you hearing?

There are 4 stops - including Cleveland - that are no longer on the tour website ( http://go.na.sage.com/InspireTour ) . There were initially 14 stops and now there are 10. Also researching all the missing stops and there is no longer an Eventbrite registration for them. http://www.eventbrite.com/o/sage-2071714191

Awesome...I've got to find out soon if they're still on. If not, that'll really suck.

In the February 2015 channel newsletter they mention Houston and Charlotte in March - but no Puerto Rico. In the latest March 2015 channel news they mention Chicago, Cleveland and New York. But only NY is still on the Sage site and the Evenbrite (Google for the link) for Chicago and Cleveland is no longer reachable. Here's the March 2015 Channel News - Events http://cdn.na.sage.com/sagemail/SageMail/Sage_Channel_News_031015_Events.html

There may be alternate explanations - it could be sold out and they pulled the registration or it could be a computer glitch in their registration. At this point I'm just asking if anyone has heard anything because simply by looking at the site I can see only 10 total events whereas there were 14 previously.

Gotcha...I'll keep you posted on what we find out.

I heard from another person that the events not on the Sage site have been cancelled. No reasoning. Still asking. If anyone hears more let me know. I believe these are the days that are no longer on the calendar for Inspire: San Juan, PR March 24 Chicago, IL April 7 Cleveland, OH April 9 Montreal, ON May 21

See ya

Yep, Well... isn't that a fine ""how'd do you do?

we considered many factors"" none of which we're going to tell you about.

Are they implying on this that Sage Summit is going to become a global event?

Word is that new CEO Stephen Kelly has put the kibosh on specialty conferences (like X3). The X3 Global Conference in Istanbul had initially been cancelled altogether, but now is being repackaged as a 'Sales Conference' primarily to introduce X3 to the host nation. When I inquired last, about two weeks ago) about the value in xkzero attending the Istanbul sales conference I was told that a whopping 1 (one) North American partner registered and scant few Sage direct folks attending. Summit is now the supposedly the global conference, or at least will be for the next 3 years or so. Until they change that...

From our standpoint it just looks bad to our customers. We were asked about CPE credit, so we sent a message to Sage last week to ask if the Cleveland Inspire tour would count. We got a reply that yes it would. As recently as yesterday, we were in front of our customers ""talking up"" the event ...