Google I/O Holiday pre-sale: sign up today!

The Google Enterprise team is pleased to extend an invitation to sign up for Google I/O -- taking place on May 19-20 in San Francisco, CA -- at a special reduced price. Please sign up here. We look forward to seeing you at I/O!

December Webinars: Google Docs & Sites

This month we will be holding two webinars to help your clients expand their usage of Google Apps, and achieve business goals:

Get more out of Google Docs
Thursday, December 3
10:00 a.m. PT, 1:00 p.m. ET
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Get more out of Google Sites
Tuesday, December 15
10:00 a.m. PT, 1:00 p.m. ET
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We hope you'll join us!

October Webinars: Google Apps Security & How to Demo

Join us this month for two new Master Seller Webinars. Learn how to demo next week, then, at the end of the month, get all your questions answered around the security of Google Apps.

How to Demo Google Apps- Register
Learn the art of demoing from Google Sales Engineer Giraldo Hierro. Giraldo works daily with enterprise customers to demonstrate and sell Google Apps. He'll share tips and tricks on how to demo, and even show off his own demoing skills.

Security from the Ground Up - Register
Google Enterprise Director of Security, Eran Feigenbaum, will walk you through how Google builds security into Apps from the ground up. Learn why data is safer in a Google data center, get prepared to handle tough questions around security, and ask your own! Starting now, we'll be taking questions using Google Moderator: http://shortlinks.gepportal.com/appssecurityquestions

How Google tackles IT security

We've got a great collection of Google security folks coming together for a live webinar this coming Thursday, Oct 1st at 11am PDT.

Learn more about it here:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-google-tackles-it-security-and-what.html

Please check this out if you can - this is an important collection of topics and its a popular one amongst solution providers and prospective clients.

Live Webinar: Configuring Postini Services

Integration and management of Postini services with Google Apps has been a challenge for many of our resellers. However, these services, Google Message Security (GMS) and Google Message Discovery (GMD), are powerful features that can help you win new Google Apps customers and provide a compelling upsell.

This Wednesday Horizon Info services, an authorized reseller specializing in Google Postini Services, will join us in a live webinar to provide a guide to proper GMS activation, setup and configuration, and tips to help you upsell customers with GMD.

Postini Administration with Horizon Info Services
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
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Join us to get an overview on GMS and GMD, tips to avoid common configurations errors, and how to upsell customers.

Premier customers can now be transferred immediately to a reseller account

Effective immediately Premier customers will now be refunded for the remainder of their 12 month term when they transfer under a reseller's account.

Many resellers have Premier customers who aren't currently under their reseller account. Most commonly this is due to the reseller qualification process requirement to deploy an initial Premier account before their reseller account is created. Previous to today, resellers wouldn't be able to transfer these clients until their 12 month renewal date UNLESS the customer was willing to forfeit the remainder of their paid term and start a new 12 month term

We're happy to say that we're now able to remove this requirement to choose between waiting until the next renewal date or choosing to forfeit paid service. The customer still needs to start a new 12 month term with their reseller, but now they'll be refunded for unused service on their previous term.

More information on how to transfer a Premier customer to a reseller account is in our Help Center:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=142336
including a note for customers on where to find the necessary transfer token and when to expect their refund:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33321

We hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity to bring all of your Premier clients under your reseller account management.

Millions 'go Google' - join us on Twitter

We recently launched our biggest corporate marketing campaign of the year to increase awareness of Google Apps and leverage momentum as more and more businesses 'go Google.' We're asking customers to tell us why they've switched from Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes to Google Apps, and the response has been strong. We're using various media channels to spread the word and want to get our partners in on the action.

To learn more about the campaign and how you can participate on Twitter, join our live webinar this Thursday.

#goneGoogle Marketing Campaign
Thursday, August 27, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
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Get a sneak peak of what we've done...

Billboards in four major US cities share some of the typical IT frustrations that might make people want to switch.



We also developed two resource centers that share customer stories and address specific benefits around switching from Microsoft Exchange (google.com/apps/exchange) and Louts Notes (google.com/apps/notes). We're doing various types of online advertising to promote these so you may see our 'gone Google' banners around.

Don't know much about Twitter? Just want to learn more about this new campaign and how to align your marketing message? Don't forget to register for our webinar this Thursday.