For
Release 7a.m. PDT
June
7, 2006
Microsoft
Announces New Small Business Specialist in Temecula
New designation distinguishes Vincent
Consulting Group, Inc. as an expert in small-business solutions and services.
Temecula — June 7, 2006 —
Microsoft Corp. today announced Vincent
Consulting Group, Inc. has become
the first Small Business Specialist in the Temecula metropolitan area.
To attain this new designation, Vincent
Consulting Group, Inc. has demonstrated expertise in planning and building
solutions for small businesses. As part of the Small Business Specialist
Community, Vincent Consulting Group,
Inc. will receive a rich set of benefits from Microsoft, including access
to training specifically designed for the small-business industry,
small-business marketing materials for reuse, special partner offers, and the
ability to use the Small Business Specialist logo in marketing materials, which
can help give the company a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
The Small Business Specialist Community, available as
a competency-like designation as part of the Microsoft® Partner
Program, was developed in response to input from customers and partners that
expressed a need to build easier connections that enable small-business
customers to quickly and easily identify technology partners best suited to
support them.
“Small businesses are looking for partner companies
that understand their unique business needs,” said Steve Guggenheimer, vice
president of small business for the Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partner
Group at Microsoft. “With resources like the Small Business Specialist
Community and the partner locator tool on the Microsoft Small Business Center
Web site, it will be much easier for Temecula’s
small businesses to identify local partners that are best able to address their
specific needs. We are confident this offering will help Vincent Consulting Group, Inc. reach its full potential by creating
more visibility, opportunity and demand in the local small-business segment.”
“Vincent Consulting Group, Inc. is
extremely pleased with our status as a new Small Business Specialist,” said Paul M Vincent, President at Vincent
Consulting Group, Inc. “This special designation allows Vincent Consulting Group, Inc. to
effectively promote ourselves to customers as having proven expertise in
delivering high-value, strategic solutions for small businesses. For Temecula area customers, Small Business
Specialist status provides Vincent
Consulting Group, Inc. with early line of sight to new products, services
and programs from Microsoft, which can extend the value we bring to our client
relationships.”
As one of the requirements for attaining Small
Business Specialist status, Vincent
Consulting Group, Inc. had to pass Microsoft’s Small Business Sales and
Marketing Skills Assessment, designed to test the company’s knowledge of the
dynamics and dependencies of the small-business market, as well as the value to
small business of several software solutions, including Windows® XP
Professional, Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows Small Business Server 2003. In
addition, at least one individual in the company had to pass a certification
exam that measures the ability to design and implement solutions for the small
and medium-sized business by using Windows Small Business Server 2003 and the
Windows Server System™.
The Small Business Specialist Community was announced
earlier this month at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2006. To enroll, partners can go to
https://partner.microsoft.com/smallbizspecreadiness.
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For more
information, press only:
Roseann M.
Vincent, Vincent Consulting Group,
Inc., 951-302-0428 Ex:7708 roseann@vincentcg.com