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I met for 15 minutes this morning with Richard Duffy who is with Accumatica. Long story short they are looking for a way to either present to our group at MOTM or possibly begin a section of 90 Minds specifically for Accumatica partners/consultants. I was non-committal, told him our agenda was set, etc. In light of the inattention Sage is paying the Sage 100 product line I think it may be a good idea for us to have a discussion about the pros and cons of diversifying the 90 Minds group. As of now what I could see us doing is offering them a sponsorship opportunity of some sort, get to know them, then perhaps after MOTM make further decisions around their possible involvement. Again, i made no offer or promise to them beyond that I would speak to the group and have an update within the week.

Online demo: http://www.tryacumatica.com/

Richard is a great guy (huge SAP B1 online evangelist previously). He and Dawn Jaeger came to meet with Clients First at our annual meeting in Vegas. They (currently) have the right partner attitude, the right pricing, the right recurring revenue model. What I wasn't so convinced of was the product functionality and the user interface wasn't particularly sexy. He did say they were working on that.

In situations where I post a request for comment and only one person chimes in I'm going to take it as ""We don't care - do what you want"" .

I think with the present attitude of Sage management, the logical step is to provide an avenue for diversification. The devil is in the details. At this point, we don't know if there are any open spots in February. We have already turned down xTuple. Do we go back and offer something to them? Or do we ask a MOTM member who is selling the product to do a session? We already have some sessions scheduled with this in mind. I would like to see what is out there, though there is little chance that I would ever pick up any new software myself. If I had an opportunity and I thought the prospect would be better served, I would be tempted to partner with (or pass the lead on to) another reseller. But unless I actually see the product, I can't make that informed decision. So yes, engaging with Accumatica AND others is a good idea. All the large sales oriented resellers are doing it.

We have had two publishers inquire about speaking: xTuple (who we had member give an overview of) Accumatica To make things easier I recommend we: a. Offer any unpurchased vendor member spot(s) (vendors who have not paid by 12/31) b. $3,500 per speaking slot - would be a general session (@ThereseLogeais - would we have room? ) c. Only to xTuple or Acumatica - iow we are not opening and going after the three or four other likely candidates (can re-examine for future MOTM) d. Deadline to get on the calendar 1/9/15 We have no idea whether either of these folks will be open to paying any money however we at least need a plan to provide them with what their options are.

I would be open to testing this out by extending a session to both Accumatica and xTuple for the 2015 MotM. I think the $3500 fee is reasonable as that is the going rate for the session slot for Vendor Members.

I agree with Peter they would need to be vendor slots

I will be working on the sessions again today. Jeff has forwarded confirmations of paid vendor members so i have a better idea of slots available. I have confirmation for MOST of the other presenters but not 100%. Will let you know later today.

Thanks Therese - potentially we would want two general sessions - one for Acumatica and one for xTuple. I know this may be tight so before I talk to Acumatica or xTuple again (which is really only going to be to tell them that yes we have interest and @PeterWolf will be in touch or no sorry which in that case we won't need to followup). In either event once we know if we would have capacity I will let both organizations know and turn them over to @PeterWolf for discussions on $$.

Works for me.

@ThereseLogeais - is the session layout somewhere in Google Docs and if so can you reply with a link -- and if not can we please do it in Google Docs so we have a place where we can all access and view the agenda. Thanks!

I was working on it earlier but had to hop on a conference call. I will save it to Google docs in a bit.

That's what I'm trying to get a handle on.

Thanks - it makes it easier to reference especially since it looks like we may be tight with vendor member presentations

Link to latest session agenda. Still a work in process.... https://docs.google.com/a/community.90minds.com/spreadsheets/d/1LFBr-fmD-D1Sn8WLZ6OvmUzp6yfBaynF5QWGEt3IZcI/edit#gid=870367480

This looks good - only question is the best marketing/referral sources seems like it may be a duplicate.

What a great lineup! You've done an amazing job with this Therese. I have two suggestions (take them or leave them). 1) If I'm participating in the marketing session, we should keep the session on day two as I probably won't be there until later on the 20th. 2) for the annual contracts, Wayne is the master of annual contracts. Is there any way to get him in the mix too? If we don't want to step on Jerry's toes, I understand. And maybe Wayne is tired of repeating this stuff for all of us? :D

Why, yes it was. Thanks for the catch @WayneSchulz . And I agree @PeterWolf about Wayne and annual contracts but since he is in several other sessions, I thought I would call on another.

I think the sessions are very interactive so I'm happy to add from the audience.

I will add my kudos as well @ThereseLogeais . With over 70 attendees at this juncture with more to follow, I think the offerings are very robust and wide ranging. I am looking forward to this awesome event.

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