Help for small businesses think of, the possible

By Cindy Bates, Vice President, U.S. SMB, Microsoft Corp.

Yesterday was a bit of another day for me.   Instead of carrying out business meetings, I found myself paddling on rivers and riding on a rainbow.   This metaphorical rivers and Rainbow were of course.  In fact, I have in the morning do imaginative Yoga with a class of pre-K students at Carden cascade Academy in Hillsboro, Oregon.   This class teaches the children use their imaginations in the practice of yoga.

The class was by Jamie Hopkins of fantasy yoga, an Office 365 customers and ready for work contest winner.  Finish to work Contest winners get $50,000 in technology and business services, a Microsoft Executive to work for a day for them.  So, I packed my bags and headed up to Portland to experience a day in the life of the imagination of yoga.

Two sisters, Jessica and Jamie, along with her brother, Jon, make fantasy yoga.  It is a family company, focused on a simple, but to move important task inspiring children.  The fantasy Yoga team works in schools throughout the region to teach Portland children possible, friendly and thoughtful, and active and healthy present.

But it is not all fun and Yoga for fantasy yoga.  Because it is as passionate about their main task, the team very focused on building a strong and sustainable company.  After a morning yoga class with their students, I had the opportunity to spend the afternoon hearing on their business and long term goals.  I immediately came up with a few main arguments:

Technology breaks virtual walls : for a small company, roadblocks are to the growth and success. You can be customer or partner in the connection or technical in nature. For fantasy Yoga 365 has enabled the walls of the communication and collaboration, Office broken down them, which, like the addition of new employees without the excess cost possible to embrace a technology upgrade. Business class technology is a "must have":Soon after starting their business clear fantasy yoga, that they need better technology to realize their dreams. A massive technology upgrade for the tools with which a Fortune-500 can obviously not yet possible. That is when Office 365 joined and "everything changes". Jessica McClintic said of imagination yoga at our meeting, gave a custom E-mail address (name@imaginationyoga.com) have a sense of authenticity of weight and importance of the business. In other words, business-class technology for small businesses is a "must have". Passion with a plan: for so many small businesses, there is never a lack of passion. Most are wildly passionate about their ideas and companies. Instead, a plan to the passion successfully realize what's missing is often. Fantasy yoga... has both in spades. You've seen, growth and their business plan calls for more than 400% YOY more than 500% YOY growth this year. Much of this growth more teachers coming from the classroom to teach fantasy Yoga curriculum in schools, and they would like franchising their business in the near future. Office 365 empowers them more effectively and focus on what they can best.

Jamie, Jessica and Jon are wonderful and inspiring people, and I love the children, teach them, and their focus on the growth of the company came immediately from their mission, energized by their.  Hearing about their plans for the future, I realized that, with services such as Office 365, really small businesses think of Microsoft, the possible support.

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