Sage News and Discussion

Sage has two webinars happening today Tuesday 9/20/11: 1:30 pm EDT - New Sage Payment Service Program Rollout - I am not sure what this is about but some on LinkedIn complained the old SPS disallowed people from carrying competitive products (and my guess - though I haven't looked the legalese - if you picked up competitive products your commissions might stop). Description: Expand sales, differentiate your business and retain and grow your customer base with Sage Payment Solutions. Offering credit card, debit card and ACH transactions has never been easier. Learn how Sage Payments has removed the burden of PCI compliancy through integrated services, while providing a new residual revenue stream to its partners. Link: http://sage.adobeconnect.com/sagepaymentslaunchregistration/event/registration.html 2:00 pm EDT - Sage Re-Branding Update - Speaker Dennis Frahmann, EVP for Sage Marketing, will cover some of the more common concerns that have been raised in individual feedback sessions with partners or advisory boards. Link: http://sage.adobeconnect.com/e496a7cmsba/event/registration.html

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I'm not sure why they scheduled both of these right up against each other. The Sage Payments doesn't seem to have any announcement yet. I was of the impression that there was some news to be announced but so far 46 minutes in it's just the standard sales pitch for SPS.

Overview of SPS Services - new addition seems to be the web sales center where you can get easier quotes for customers.

Our goals in branding

First look at Sage's branded house - common story around who Sage is

Showing an example of Kinkos/FedEx - -still no real explanation of how this branding helps the products integrate - if at all...

Wouldn't that be FedEx 100, FedEx 200, and FedEx 300? Sorry.

Final results [for product names] will be based upon detailed testing..."" Meaning, we'll see what sticks? Clear as mud.

Nothing really new here. They've already shown this slide deck around pretty widely. I feel as if there's a lot of back pedaling around explaining why it's taken so long to get this information out. Absolutely no discussion around technology confusion, brand confusion with overseas. All this talk of connected services really does not get my heart beating very fast because I cannot see us playing a role in training/consulting. Anyone want to learn the ins and outs of an email newsletter connected service so they can offer it to a one-off deal at a customer? My guess is connected services = stuff Sage sells direct.