Sponsored Groups
Sponsored Groups
Is your group listed below? If not, have your group leader signup now! Members, visitors and the group itself receive Sponsored Group benefits, so you might consider checking out one of the groups listed below to see if you would like to join up... or sign up.
AustraliaSign-Up Your Group
If you are the leader of a Local IT Pro Group and not yet registered for sponsorship by SBSmigration.com, you can sign up immediately with our simple sponsorship registration form.
25% Discount for Your Members / Visitors
SBSmigration.com has established the Community Membership Benefits Sponsorship to assist Local IT Pro Groups with recognition, visibility and membership development. The sponsorship is a simple but valuable process for your group as a whole, and those who participate as members or prospective members attending a meeting. There’s no cost to the group to obtain a sponsorship, and no purchase commitments involved. Sign-up, and then you members or visitors can use the discount if they wish. Your organization will be listed on the communities page at the SBSmigration.com website to help other IT Pros who are out customers in your region locate you.
The discount is specific to new Swing It!! Professional Library Kit Subscription which is itself a follow-up product option available only to the owner of a Swing It!! Technician Kit. Therefore, as an opportunity to your organization, this 25% discount offer will direct and encourage SBSmigration.com customers in your area visit your website, and to seek out and participate in local IT Pro communities.
SBSmigration.com is introducing four new Swing It!! Technician Kits (Swing Migration project guides to four different domain scenarios), plus a new Swing It!! Professional Library Kit Subscription product bundle consisting of all four reference guides and tools together with continuous updates, related support, and benefits for an entire year. The standard website pricing of the Professional Library Subscription is $195 (US dollars), but under this sponsorship, members of local IT Pro groups can obtain a further 25% discount off that price. You can learn even more about both of these products at the Order Now section.
Jeff Middleton (founder of SBSmigration.com) participates year round in Community Outreach tours worldwide and events to assist Local IT Pro Groups with visibility, awareness, and membership development. Jeff welcomes the opportunity to be invited as a speaker or mentor for local community groups. This sponsorship program is another element of goodwill being offered in the spirit of community development, and building value to participation and education among small business IT Pros.
FAQs: Sponsorship Benefits
Q: Are there qualifications for sponsorship?
This sponsorship is intended to be helpfully inclusive, not editorial or judgmental. Therefore, the award evaluation will focus upon a basic verification that the organization indeed exists and adds value locally. Within the discretion of SBSmigration.com to review and decide, here are some positive characteristics:
- Organization is Active – Typically meeting on an active month to month basis.
- Professional Development – SBSmigration.com wishes to aide community groups who are fostering technical or business awareness and identifying value to IT Pros who participate for professional development and relevant communication at the local level.
- Small Business Orientation – Ideally, the sponsorship embraces a group which is a catalyst to actions or education that benefits small business customers through the participating IT Pros and membership guidelines.
Q: How does your organization benefit from sponsorship?
- Visibility and Prospective Member Referrals – The details you submit in your application to identify your organization and contact details will use listed directly in the public SBSmigration.com Communities website section. This will provide visibility to help potential members from your region become aware of your group, and how to contact you to participate in your organization. This listing also helps your own members who visit SBSmigration.com to know this specific discount is available to them.
- Value and Participation – Many groups seek to obtain price advantages as a volume or cooperative buying group. SBSmigration.com offers this price break to embrace your opportunity to either draw potential members, or reward participation.
Q: How do members or participants in your group benefit?
- Subscription 25% Discount – SBSmigration.com provides a 25% discount on new Swing It!! Professional Library Kit Subscription as a benefit your group can extend. Your group may choose offer this either (a) to your members only if you have established a uniform membership criteria such as a fee, or (b) as a perk to offer generally to members and prospective members who attend at least one meeting in person.
Q: How can your organization apply?
Go to www.SBSmigration.com/it-pro-community/signup.php and complete the application, it’s not much more than identifying contact details and characterizing your organization in one sentence. No purchase is involved, and this application can be submitted even if you do not own a product from SBSmigration.com. When your status is approved, you receive a discount Key by email. You then provide the Key to your members to use in obtaining the discount when they make a purchase.
- A person your group guidelines authorizes to do so must apply for sponsorship by SBSmigration.com. Submit general contact details and a brief statement about the organization that you want to identify to the public.
- You normally receive acceptance by email to the address you provided within 24 hrs.
- Once the sponsorship is approved, a unique discount Key for your organization is provided to you by email. You are then responsible to make it available to your members, or prospective members, which ever you prefer.
- Any member or prospective member of you organization may use that Key to obtain the specific benefit being offered, a 25% discount on the Swing It!! Professional Library Kit Subscription.
Q: How is the product discount Key handled?
- Obtaining and Managing the Key – The Key will initially be sent to you by email. In addition, you can manage the saved information about your group shown on the SBSmigration.com website, or obtain the discount Key by visiting the SBSmigration.com website. You will need to logon with a secure access.
- Only you can provide the Key to your members – SBSmigration.com does not provide the Key directly to your members, we will send that request back to the leader contact you provide. We don’t request your member lists, there’s no way to validate who is a member of your group or participated in your recent meetings. Yet, the only involvement by the group or leader is to provide the discount Key (it is an alphanumeric character sequence) to the participant who wants to use it.
- Your Key is Unique – The Key is unique for a particular group, and therefore uniquely valuable to your group alone, without a limit on the number of times the Key may be used. However, SBSmigration.com retains the right to evaluate and obtain reasonable verification that the Key is being used within the intended purpose to benefit membership development and participation. SBSmigration.com also reserves the option to issue a different Key or revoke an existing one at it’s discretion.
- How to share the Discount Key with members – You are welcome to communicate the discount Key in any convenient manner without making it public or available to non-members. For instance, you could email it to members individually or as a group, or post it on a private members only site. If you want to post a public announcement that this benefit is offered to members and attendees, do so without providing the actual Key itself as part of the announcement.
Q: How is an order place to obtain the discount?
- Normal Ordering Process – The Swing It!! Professional Library Kit Subscription is a purchase option available only to an existing owner of a current Swing It!! Technician Kit. Therefore, the normal order processing system for Kit Owners at SBSmigration.com is used, and the discount Key must be submitted at the time of the order being placed. It’s in option shown in the check-out screen during the order steps.
Q: Does this sponsorship expire or can it be terminated?
This sponsorship program is intended to be maintained indefinitely, though it is also subject to a mutual commitment of goodwill. An organization may give notice at any time to discontinue participation without penalty to the organization, its members individually, or impact upon any subscription previously established under this program. An established sponsorship remains within the discretion of SBSmigration.com to withdraw entirely and or as a public listing of an organization from the SBSmigration.com website.
- Your organization has no obligation to endorse or promote SBSmigration.com, only to make your members aware of this opportunity and be responsible to provide the discount Key accordingly. The Key to your members without making the Key itself available to the general public or non-participating members or prospects.
Q: Does this sponsorship allow us the logo use of the SBSmigration.com or it’s products on our website or literature?
Naturally, SBSmigration.com welcomes the opportunity to have a place of honor on your website if you wish, but it’s certainly not required. If you would like to use logo artwork to present, please contact us.