Kevin Royalty contributes knowledge in supporting small and medium business channel partners, technology consultants and resellers at well-respected annual educational conference

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA, March 19, 2010 – The major worldwide SMB community organization, SMB Nation, announced today that Kevin Royalty has committed to present at its 5^th Annual SMB Nation Spring conference in East Brunswick, New Jersey, April 30 – May 2, 2010.

The small and medium business (SMB) channel partner segment that attends this show will learn from Kevin Royalty over the course of a three-day professional conference. There is an emphasis on bona fide actionable takeaways that will include how to integrate Kevin Royalty main points into the existing technology consulting and reseller practices common to all channel partner attendees to drive immediate success, increased sales and profitability. More importantly, the channel partner will be better equipped to serve its existing and new small business customers. Relevant SMB-related technology offerings have always been an important target of SMB Nation’s 45,000 member “tribe” composed of a robust consulting and reseller customer base.

Kevin Royalty will deliver the following speech at SMB Spring 2010:

GS103 Backup here, backup there, backup everywhere

Speakers: Kevin Royalty and Amy Babinchak

By now everyone knows that backup has changed. We’ve gone from tape backing up data only to the wonderful world of hardware independent image backup and restore.  Suddenly the options are endless. We can backup workstations incrementally, a whole server every 15 minutes, we can store them locally, on removable media, send it off-site or all three! But will your client pay for all of this wonderful new backup technology? How do you present it to them? Amy and Kevin will discuss the various technologies and show you what they are doing for their clients and how to sell it.

GS107 Leveraging Windows Home Server in a small business

Speaker: Kevin Royalty

Did you know that Windows Home Server (WHS) is surprisingly popular inside small businesses? Well it’s true!  Although initially aimed at consumers by Microsoft, WHS is becoming known as the backup solution of choice among savvy IT Pros.  In this session, Kevin Royalty, Microsoft MVP, SMB community leader and WHS expert, shares tips, best practices and his experience incorporating WHS into a successful IT practice.  And finally, learn about how to put this knowledge into practice by selling an exciting new storage platform from HP that will add value to your SMB IT solutions and improve your managed services portfolio.

“Right now, there’s an incredible opportunity stemming from the recovering SMB market.  If SMB Nation tribal members want to take advantage, they’ll have to show their customers how well they can meet their needs, producing value and adding capabilities,” said Harry Brelsford, CEO at SMB Nation.  “An independent VAR/consultant/.channel partner can go into a small business as a consultant, with value-centric solutions.  If a VAR has that coveted relationship where he functions as an trusted business IT advisor, he or she is in a good position to profit from SMB technology wave.”

The reseller must be able to tailor and market an overall SMB technology solution around the new wave of technology investments being made by small business customers.  That requires knowledge of what products, services and peripherals might best suit his end-users.

“It’s SMB Nation’s vision to have its SMB Nation Spring 2010 conference attendees constantly thinking about how to make the end-customer sale more comprehensive, turning themselves into an essential resource by creating a sophisticated infrastructure,” Brelsford continued.  “To do this, they need to know what trends offer the most potential right now, and what products they can combine to fit the bill.  If we can identify that for our resellers, we all come out successful. And that journey starts right now with a critical and comprehensive overview offered by Kevin Royalty. ”

To learn more about attending SMB Nation Spring 2010 (East Brunswick NJ, April 30-May 2, 2010) and join hundreds of SMB Nation tribal members, please visit www.smbnation.com or call 1-888-SMB-NAT1.

About SPEAKER
Since 1986, Kevin has been satisfying the needs of clients as an IT professional. As a highly successful author and consultant, with both a programming and network engineering background, he is a frequent public speaker at industry conferences and public computer shows.

Kevin serves as President of the Cincinnati Network Professional Association, President of the Cincinnati Small Business Server Users Group, Member of Microsoft’s Small Business Specialist Advisory Board, Member-at-large of the IAMCP Cincinnati chapter, and sits on the board of the Information Technology Advisory Team for the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and CincyTechUSA.
Kevin has been recognized by Microsoft as a leading expert on their Small Business Server product line since 2006. The “Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) designation is a rare honor that is bestowed on a small number of people each year. It recognizes product expertise, community leadership, and willingness to help others. Kevin is a nationally known Small Business Server expert, author, and regular speaker at industry conferences.
Kevin is a Computer Science graduate, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and is certified by Microsoft for support of their Small Business Server products.

http://smbnation.com/Events/SMBNationSpring2010/Speakers/tabid/291/Default.aspx#Kevin-Royalty

About SMB Nation
SMB Nation is a publishing and events company, targeted at the small and medium business (SMB) channel partner/reseller/consulting/VAR community.  SMB Nation spreads the knowledge of SMB technology trends through its conferences, books, SMB PC magazine, online services, and world-wide seminars, workshops and accredited Pocket MBA certificate (an academic partnership with Aspen University).  As an active participant in the technology community, SMB Nation has a long history of enthusiastic advocacy and evangelism. The SMB Nation tribe exceeds 45,000 followers worldwide.

The company was founded in 1999 as Matthew\Brelsford Associates and became SMB Nation in early 2003, to promote the books and consulting services of Harry Brelsford, the author of a successful series of books written for the global SMB IT consulting and reseller community. Initially the community conversations focused on Microsoft small Business Sever (SBS) but has expanded into SMB infrastructure alternatives, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), cloud computing and business technology consulting best practices Harry Brelsford is a popular conference speaker on SMB technology consulting topics and sits on several advisory boards in the SMB technology industry. He also serves as the Dean of the School of Technology at Aspen University. .

Today, SMB Nation conferences, seminars and workshops bring forward-thinking IT consultants, technologies and vendor sponsors together, sparking new opportunities in the SMB space.  Being THE information source for SMB technologists worldwide, SMB Nation delivers complete business solutions to help consultants and resellers better manage their business, technological and marketing needs.  Whether it’s delivered in print, online, or in person, everything SMB Nation produces reflects our unshakeable positive belief in the power of information to spur a profitable global community. Visit www.smbnation.com and www.telephonation.com for more information.

Contacts: Kevin Royalty
Total Care Computer Consulting
kroyalty@totalcarecc.com
859-640-2641

Contacts: Harry Brelsford
SMB Nation
harryb@smbnation.com
+1 206 915 3072