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I posted on this in the general area - however I think we should license a copy of Gotowebinar and start having a monthly series of seminars that we brand around 90 Minds and encourage members to invite customers to. I'm not entirely sold that Sage is benevolent in their recent ""tests"" of roadshows where not all partners were invited. If anything I think Sage's trend is to ignore the partner and go direct to the customer. The time is now for us to get out ahead of this before we wake up in 9 months and realize all of our customers are getting invitations to roadshows from Sage that we (as partners) are not invited to. Just think of our customers chatting up with some competitors who did get the invitations.. ?

Back in February, I suggested hosting our own 90 Minds Customer Conference to head Sage off at the pass, control the message ourselves and reinforce us as the trusted advisors for our clients. It fell on mostly deaf ears. Is it time to revisit?

Yeah I think in some way it should - I'm just thinking smaller scale where we have monthly scheduled webinars. I'm also being approached by third party vendors like Tony Brown at Acom and I think the era of us hosting freebie webnars is probably over and we should think about a fee based plan if they want to present (unless we of course invite them). I don't trust Sage that they are ""testing"" a series of roadshows that are exclusive and only available to some partners by invitation. I think we need to keep this low key - setup a monthly session or two that occurs via GotoWebinar - maybe we have 90 Minds members give some feedback before the presentation, record them, etc. I think this is a must do and I'm glad I came up with the idea

Yes @PeterWolf now that @WayneSchulz thought of it, it's a good idea. :)

I started my reply to Peter with a bunch of four letter words for stealing my idea -- but I wasn't sure people would know it was a joke...

Actually if you are going the monthly webinar route, you are welcome to take credit. I think we should think bigger and bolder if we want to see some impact. Virtual tradeshow baby.

I like the GTW idea. Devil is in the details. Would members be able to use it for their own use?