Simple Pleasures

We have finally concluded our Sharepoint forum event yesterday. After one month of planning, preparation and execution, we managed to pull through one day of pure Sharepoint bliss. Thought it has been tiring for me, I'd say it is just as satisfying to see a lot of interest the customers on Sharepoint. It was also a chance for me to know the challenges customer's face today in this new product and how to maximize its capabilities.

We have taken home a lot of leads. We manage to arrange a lot of meetings also with some potential customers in the next two to three weeks. And I'm so excited to work on these opportunities and close a sale that I can call my own.

I am also thinking about doing some product development on top of our latest offerings. A consultant from another partner firm whom I had the honour to work with had suggested that we should consider creating core products which some of their partners had done on top of Sharepoint. However, my company is driven towards a different strategy to meet our numbers, sad to say). How I wish we had enough resources to do the product planning and road map to develop a product that sells. It is a waste to see talents wasting their time everyday chasing opportunities without any clear distinction of what we are supposed to do.

Francis and I started to talk about brainstorming for solutions that sells. My head has been flooding with ideas since yesterday. But I guess true solution selling is not how creative you can be but how you can crossover technology over functionality that works for customers. Having said that, I'd say we still need to do lot of homework, research and heart to make this happen. I also pray that we get enough support to make this all possible.

Celebrated by monicai at 7:02 PM

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