Black Blade Training Partners' business model is structured for providing administrator, end-user, and developer training to their customers. Training Partners help their customers' user bases become productive with their organizations' new technologies.

One Thing Leads to Another

The hardest part of getting training work is converting a prospective customer into an active customer. Getting the prospect to sign the first training contract can take many months of sales work. Let us do that for you. As a Black Blade Training Partner, we will refer you to customers who have purchased one or more Black Blade products and have expressed a desire to empower their users through training.

Once we refer one of our customers to you, that customer becomes your customer. You have very easily gotten "your foot in the door". Once you start training a new customer's users on Black Blade products, you can easily suggest additional ways to grow your relationship.

Training Potential for our Products

Different Black Blade products have different training requirements.

docBlock: The docBlock adds virtual document support to the SharePoint platform. It allows multiple users to edit the same document at the same time without overwriting each other’s changes or locking the entire document. The docBlock tends to generate training work targeted at content managers. Content managers are responsible for creating and maintaining the virtual document templates, securing virtual document sections with a more granular security model, and applying distinct workflow to virtual document sections and virtual documents. Customers may want additional training for converting existing documents into virtual documents and incorporating virtual documents into their information architecture. This is a good product for which to provide training if your goal is establish a reputation for information architecture training.

SharePoint Zip: SharePoint Zip allows users to upload or download multiple files and folders in SharePoint simultaneously by packaging the files into Zips. This is an enormous time and bandwidth saver. SharePoint Zip generates training work targeted at content managers and end users. This is a nice product to provide training for if your goal is to gain a reputation for end-user training.

Why doesn't Black Blade do Training?

We have focused on product development, pure and simple. Managing a training company requires a very different business model and financial management structure. We want to stay focused on what we do well, and share our success with our partners.

Want More from an Existing Customer?

As a training partner, you probably already have several existing customers and a whole host of previous customers that you wouldn't mind doing more with. Consider reselling Black Blade products into your customer base to generate additional revenue from your existing relationships.

Featured Training Partners

	Partner	Region
	Combined Knowledge Combined Knowledge has been specialising in the development and delivery of SharePoint Training, Education and Adoption since 2001 when the product was first launched and was known as 'Tahoe server'. As our chosen area of specialisation, our key aim in developing our business was to not only offer training classes but to provide organisations with a solution for their SharePoint deployment, from the product installation through to development, customisation and then ensuring successful user adoption.   We extended our deliverables beyond the our extensive training portfolio of classes to also incorporate our end user adoption solution product and services as we understood that for a SharePoint implementation to be successful, the organisations user community had to understand and adopt the product.    We have been delivering successful SharePoint training and adoption solutions to organisations on a worldwide basis over the last 10 years, and have a catalogue of global organisations and blue chip companies that have gained the knowledge and experience they require of SharePoint through our classes and gone on to successfully roll out the use of SharePoint across their organisations, and enabled them to further support their users over the lifetime of the product. Many of our trainers are leading experts that speak at Global seminars and User Groups in topics from Technical and Architecture to User Adoption and business process.	Europe
	MindSharp Mindsharp is a global education company that specializes in providing solutions using Microsoft enterprise products through our OnPath™ for SharePoint educational process and consulting services. Mindsharp's nationally recognized experts are committed to providing you with high quality educational opportunities and innovative business solutions. In our capacity as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Mindsharp is dedicated to helping our students and clients increase productivity with secure, scalable collaboration, communication, and messaging solutions.   Equipped with years of industry knowledge and expertise, Mindsharp's team of instructors and consultants provide a robust portfolio of cost-effective educational and consulting services. With our collective knowledge and portfolio of services, Mindsharp has developed a proven track record of helping organizations of all sizes implement powerful business solutions that create a sustainable improvement in individual and organizational performance	North America

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Contact partner-info@blackbladeinc.com for information about becoming a Black Blade Training Partner.