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MicrosoftMore marketplace webinars available in October
More marketplace webinars available in October, including NEW sessions on Marketplace Rewards and selling multiparty private offers (for channel partners).
▪ Developing your virtual machine offer (10/22): Join for a review of the required technical configurations to make Virtual Machine apps and how to publish virtual machines offers to the Azure marketplace. Learn how to publish a VM offer and integrate the solution from the Azure Portal tool to Partner center; how to setup Tenants; how to create different plans to best suit your customers’ needs; how to use Cloud-init within the Azure Portal, and more!
▪ *NEW* Using Marketplace Rewards benefits to increase your app sales (10/22): this session that covers the availability and eligibility requirements for Marketplace Rewards; the tier-based model based on marketplace performance; highlights of partners' success with Marketplace Rewards and the ROI of activating benefits; advice for integrating benefits into marketing efforts; and, tips on optimizing each benefit.
▪ Developing your container offer (10/23): Learn how to set up and develop the new Azure Container Offer used to deploy containerized solutions as Kubernetes Apps from the Azure Marketplace.
▪ Channel Partners Office Hours Q&A: Start selling using multiparty private offers (10/24): This session will explore the basics of selling a multiparty private offer and highlight best practices observed from leading Microsoft commercial marketplace partners. During this session you will learn about selecting the right ISVs to begin your marketplace sales journey; equipping your sales teams to have simple customer conversations that lead to pipeline; key deal qualification questions that you should ask on every marketplace deal; and, how and when to deliver your marketplace message to your Microsoft contacts.
Find our complete schedule here:
https://aka.ms/MTMwebinars
Hi Brooke,
I would suggest referencing the video tutorials at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/training/assets/collection/mastering-professional-service-offers#/Private offers allow publishers selling a product through the marketplace to provide unique terms and pricing to an individual customer. These private offers are based upon transactable public plans, published to the marketplace. See partner docs and customer docs regarding private offers.
If you currently have listing-only "consulting service" offers, you can modify and republish these offers as transactable "Professional Services" provided they meet the criteria outlined in documentation and certification policies. Only services delivered virtually, not in-person on location, are currently eligible.
Note: An existing listing-only service that is updated to sell through Microsoft commercial marketplace will be removed from public storefronts (not discoverable through search) and will only be available to customers in US, UK, or Canada (currently supported markets).
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- Justin, are there any plans on a webinar to show you how to create a private transactable consulting offer? I have tried, but I am getting stuck at creating the offer, it doesn't let me select any of my existing consulting listings. I've never done a private offer, or a transactable offer, so I don't know what the gotchas are.
Hi Brooke,
I would suggest referencing the video tutorials at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/training/assets/collection/mastering-professional-service-offers#/Private offers allow publishers selling a product through the marketplace to provide unique terms and pricing to an individual customer. These private offers are based upon transactable public plans, published to the marketplace. See partner docs and customer docs regarding private offers.
If you currently have listing-only "consulting service" offers, you can modify and republish these offers as transactable "Professional Services" provided they meet the criteria outlined in documentation and certification policies. Only services delivered virtually, not in-person on location, are currently eligible.
Note: An existing listing-only service that is updated to sell through Microsoft commercial marketplace will be removed from public storefronts (not discoverable through search) and will only be available to customers in US, UK, or Canada (currently supported markets).
- Thanks Kyle! I'll go through all these links.
