Sage 100

http://cdn.na.sage.com/SageMail/SageMail/_rev.Partner_reminder3.26.html @SageCRM @Sage300Technical

Is this for business partners or customers? Why don't they mention who the ""world class"" speakers are?

It says, ""Sage Summit will continue to provide opportunities to connect one on one with your customers"" and ""Exclusive partner content that will help drive your business"" so I'm assuming it is for partners. Can't hurt to register for updates!

I signed up for updates, but how do you take advantage of early bird pricing by 3/28... TODAY?

It says, ""You will be receving (sic) an email in the next few weeks with more instructions on how to register at the low $399 conference rate.

@DougHiggs it is just to get you the $399 price with no commitment. When registration opens in April then you are registering with the special code\email. They don't ask for anything now but your email information to reserver the price. They don't even send a confirmation to you after you register for the early - bird pricing.....

Only Sage would make you register so you can register. Stupid in my humble opinion.

Did anyone see this prior to today?

Absolutely agree @JohnLeonard but have they done anything normal lately?

Yes and I have registered twice because I couldn't find my original confirmation email . Found out they don't send one.... this is going to be such a mess....

@ThereseLogeais is in Evernote mailings evernote:///view/21955008/s270/860cbe31-c88f-4d59-aeab-aef6f0bade2b/860cbe31-c88f-4d59-aeab-aef6f0bade2b/e8d0277a-3183-484f-aa8b-0b63f877105f

One of those mailings I deleted, I guess.....

Got it... Lets hope this ""takes"" when April 9th arrives.

Another Sage big middle finger to the channel.

Talk about super secret discount codes....

I didn't see this email from Sage... now that is really super secret.

I did not get it either though I got notice from our home office that they did. Not sure why or whether the email only went out to office contacts. In my personal view it's just a real cheezy stunt to pull an ""all new and remodeled sign up now"" and have zero details except ""trust us it'll be great"" ... If this isn't a sign of the last gasp of the current regime I don't know what is.

I found about this deal on LinkedIn a couple days ago, under Sage Partners, Employee group. Still Sage didn't cover this very well but perhaps that was the intention, not providing too many discounts.

I don't think it was intentional. I think they're going for numbers. Sage UK is really impressed with the attendance we get at Sage Summit and I'm sure it's on a spreadsheet somewhere to get as many attendees as possible. The zero details is because they are still working out the details. At least they're not forcing us to pay before they release the details.

I'm sure Sage tracks the numbers, and knows this pays off big. I have one customer who attends every year and spends about $15K - $20K between Summit and the end of the year - EVERY year. Sage must have an analysis of this based on Summit attendance. Also applies to the channel and their customers, since we are more informed.

I'm more with John than Wayne on this one. They are completing the morph of Summit from partner-focused show to end user-focused show. Sage has become quite data-driven (LaBahn seems to live-eat-sleep them), and combined with larger market changes, has decided that Summit is justified by beefing up customer $$ spends correlated to Summit. Sage 100 and 300 are apparently in milk-mode; you don't partners as much compared to when new-customer sales were important. Sage 50 is clearly end-user pull-through, and if they can get a load of accountants to come and then choose Sage 50 over Quickbooks it's gravy. None of that relies on educating and firing up partners. X3 is a different game for now, but lead gen for it is more tied to Sage branding and market awareness. I wouldn't be surprised to see the more technical issues about x3 than any other product, recognizing the one partner segment that Sage thinks it really does need. Just more confirmation that the old days are gone, I think forever. And the cheesy ""sort of commit to go now and we'll sort of commit to provide something worth your time, partner"" approach is probably more because they just haven't had time to lock down some of the details they need in the midst of the very big change to the show's focus.