{"id":468,"date":"2012-11-13T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Make-SQLskills-part-of-YOUR-team-with-discounted-consulting.aspx"},"modified":"2012-11-13T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:03:00","slug":"make-sqlskills-part-of-your-team-with-dedicated-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/make-sqlskills-part-of-your-team-with-dedicated-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Make SQLskills part of YOUR team with dedicated consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We&#39;re there as part of your team when you need us, without the hassle of contracts and scoping calls. We realize that many of you want to have access to the best SQL Server resources on an ongoing basis and so&nbsp;we&#39;re now offering dedicated consulting through prepaid hours with a discount. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The idea is that you pre-pay a certain number of remote consulting hours that are valid for&nbsp;two years from the date of purchase and you can use them for consulting, architecture, design\/code reviews, upgrades, migrations, hardware planning, performance tuning, health checks, 1-1 mentoring, virtualization, I\/O subsystems, baselining, testing, and more, with access to the whole team. You can also convert some of the hours to onsite work or Immersion Event attendance too.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Your company&nbsp;benefits in multiple ways:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We get to know your environment and&nbsp;we become part of your extended team, perfect for larger enterprises with diverse consulting needs<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Getting a discount for buying hours in bulk<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">No longer having to deal with multiple invoices and contracts with limited hours<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Access to whoever on the team best fits your current needs<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">You&#39;re basically buying a practical insurance policy for your SQL Servers.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The plan has three options:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">100 hours pre-paid with a 7.5% discount<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">200 hours pre-paid with a 10% discount<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">400 hours pre-paid with a 12.5% discount<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And we can discuss larger blocks of hours, as we have done with several of our enterprise clients.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">You can convert some of the hours to Immersion Event registrations at the early-bird rate for the class, and you can also convert some of the hours to onsite visits. We provide guaranteed next business day response for incidents, but usually we&#39;re there helping our clients the same day. We just don&#39;t do 24-hour on-call. If you exhaust your hours, you can pre-pay some more, with the appropriate discount.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We&#39;ve already signed up some of our existing customers who want no-hassle access to the best team in the business.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">If you&#39;re interested in getting the same level of service, just send us an email at <\/font><a href=\"mailto:request@SQLskills.com?subject=Prepaid consulting hours\" target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">request@SQLskills.com<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;re there as part of your team when you need us, without the hassle of contracts and scoping calls. 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