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Why is the SMB space so important to your business?

The Small to Medium Businesses in the U.S. make up for over 90% of all companies! Most of these companies cannot afford the cost of the internal infrastructure resources like trained IT staff and high powered servers. With Microsoft's cloud products any SMB can equip themselves with PC management, corporate mail solutions, websites and a blog in minutes. 

That wasn't the good news. The good news is that they will need trained professionals to accomplish the lofty goals they have for getting current with technology and what better way than to reach out to a competent Microsoft Partner? This is the great news, that Partner can be and should be you. 

According to the U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/ 
·             There are over 10,837,269 SMBs in the U.S. with less than 99 employees ( Over 95% of all businesses )
·             The SMBs in the U.S. make up for 60,866,558 employees ( average of 6 employees per business )
·             These SMBs make up for over 2 Billion dollars a year in payroll!

When you take it all into consideration - the Microsoft cloud offering is the best thing to happen to the SMB market since the internet.
I'll write more about how to get this done in a post on my new site at www.microsoftpartner.info which is designed to give you the 1 2 3 on how to succeed as a partner in the Microsoft Partner Eco-System. 

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