Vladfire 7: Community & Your Business with Mark Taylor

Last but not least is the “community value” presentation by Mark Taylor. You’ve heard Susanne talk about the general success of the community-based initiatives and their value to Readycrest. You’ve heard Tom talk about the importance of networking to a one man band. Now it’s Mark’s turn.

Mark is a partner/owner of Chorus IT, Microsoft Certified Partner in UK. Mark talked about the value that the community has for a larger partner. His business is growing past $1M in revenues and he also found a way to both contribute and benefit from the SMB community. He also recently started a CRM blog so go check that out once you’re done watching the episode.

All in all, very nice and successful guy. I interviewed him for one of the future episodes for Vladfire community profiles and the interview pretty much kicked off with him talking about how he has been successful with CRM deployments. It will really be one episode to watch as many people talk about CRM, few are actually successful (reference revenue number above) with it. Well worth 10 minutes of your time if you ask me.

Runtime: 10 minutes, 6 seconds.

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Note: Last of the WWPC Small Business Symposium UK presentation. I can tell from the previous 3 episodes that you really liked it so take a second to thank Susanne, Mark and Tom for putting this together.