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Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards: Want to Win? Here’s How!

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Jun 05, 2025

Being named a Microsoft Partner of the Year can transform your business—but crafting a winning nomination requires strategy. 

 

Join us for an exclusive webinar on June 11th at 10:00 am CDT where past winners & industry experts will reveal insider tips on:  

 

✅ How to tell a compelling story in your nomination  

✅ Key strategies to showcase measurable impact  

✅ Common pitfalls to avoid 

Seats are filling fast—secure yours now! Register here

As a thank you for attending, all guests will receive a copy of the eBook "Winning the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards."  

Published Jun 05, 2025
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  • Samridhi1609's avatar
    Samridhi1609
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 18, 2025

    Just a heads-up for anyone working on their POTYA 2025 submission: there's a mismatch between the character count guidance and the actual behavior of the submission portal.

    The guidelines say the 8,000-character limit for the executive summary excludes spaces, but the portal is definitely counting them. That’s cutting down our usable space by around 1,300 characters—which is a lot when you’re trying to tell a compelling story.

    Would love to see this clarified or corrected soon so everyone’s working with the same expectations. Has anyone else run into this?

    • adrianne608's avatar
      adrianne608
      Brass Contributor
      Jun 19, 2025

      I 100% expected this. It's been 8000-characters TOTAL for years now. My guess is that they'll clarify the guidelines, rather than changing the character limitation in the award portal.

      • Samridhi1609's avatar
        Samridhi1609
        Copper Contributor
        Jun 19, 2025

        Hi! Microsoft has since updated the nomination tool to no longer count spaces as characters. 

  • Shimaa_Eshiba's avatar
    Shimaa_Eshiba
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 13, 2025

    Hi,
    I have missed the webinar! Where can I watch the recording, please? 

    • adrianne608's avatar
      adrianne608
      Brass Contributor
      Jun 16, 2025

      There was no webinar. Only a Q&A in the forum.