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Programs Insight
The Key to Successful Partner Programs: Unleash the Power of Behavior Change
Partner programs within the indirect channel play a crucial role in driving business growth and expanding market reach. While financial investment is often considered a main factor for success, there is a compelling argument to be made that...
IT firms facing challenges around sales enablement and marketing
There have been a couple of interesting pieces of research recently regarding both the sales and marketing functions within IT businesses. The first is that we’ve seen sales enablement, both as an industry and organisational function, grow...
You want to move on, but how do you take your partners with you?
We’ve seen some seismic shifts in the IT channel in recent years. Last week we sat down with Juniper Networks’ global channels leader, Gordon Mackintosh, at the vendor’s Partner Executive Forum in Madrid. There, we talked about the company’s plans...
The evolving role of the B2B sales team
We’ve spoken a lot lately about the channel’s resilience in these tough times. in fact, many partners are feeling optimistic about the coming year. However, research released this week provides some sobering statistics. The study by revenue...
What are the 3 biggest trends for channel marketers in 2023?
Channel marketers will face some unique circumstances in 2023. That’s according to the founders of Coterie Community, who weighed in on what will matter to marketers over the next 12 months. A dedicated forum for partner and channel marketers,...
How can vendors better engage with partners?
We talk a lot about how the partner ecosystem in evolving. New partner types and business models are forcing vendors to re-evaluate how they can successfully engage channel partners. How can they remain current and relevant to their partners in...
Vendors and their Partners – Worlds Apart
This is a story of two worlds and how they impact each other. Firstly welcome to Vendor’s world, where you eat, sleep and breathe your product. After all you have spent a lot of time perfecting and crafting it into technology solutions that make a...
Partner ABM – What is it and is it right for you?
Whether you are a vendor or a partner... Account Based Marketing (ABM) is certainly not new in the B2B Marketing world – it’s growing exponentially, and more and more marketers are getting on board. Although some dismiss it as just the next ‘big...