Check Point Software Technologies has significantly upgraded an app that was launched to encourage partner reps to perform activities that are proven to drive growth and profitability. The Check Point Engage app has been enhanced to enable market-tested practices drive demand and customer value, report on the them, and be able to reward sales reps […]
By Leah Allen, Vice President of Growth Marketing, Model N Now more than ever companies should be looking at ways to tighten up revenue operations to stay agile and be ready to bounce back when things return to normal. For most high-tech companies, channel sales typically represent 70% or more of an organization’s revenue. Companies […]
By Claudio Ayub, Chief Strategy Officer, Perks WW Channel Vendors provide marketing automation tools and content in abundance to their partners across different stages of the sales cycle. However, many partners don’t really know what to do with them. Indeed, a recent SiriusDecisions’ survey concluded that only 17% of partners really use these tools. How […]
Channel practitioners have an expanded list of channel program solutions from which to choose. According to a recent review by Jay McBain, Principal Analyst of Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems at Forrester, the number of companies offering channel program boosting solutions ticked up significantly to 159. Forrester’s previous review of the universe of channel technology solutions […]
By Tom Silk, Chief Executive Officer, WorkStride FACT 1 — All channel marketing champions know the importance of incorporating learning and education into at least part of their overall channel partner strategy. FACT 2 — It’s super hard to get the folks in the field to pay attention to optional training. I remember a conversation early on in […]
Q2E, provider of a cloud-based digital transformation platform, has been awarded a second U.S. Patent in the area of gamification. The patent covers expanded features, including the ability to pull data from third-party applications such as CRM, engineering, sales and operations which can then be used in accumulating and calculating points. Managers and administrators can […]
The Channel Marketplace, an online and human-driven resource that enables technology vendors to access solutions and expertise that address their indirect go-to-market opportunities and challenges has been formed by a group of 10 channel technology and services companies. The Channel Marketplace features a concierge service, in which real people will help technology vendors and channel […]
With more than 75% of commercial transactions flowing through indirect channels, few companies have the option to not focus more attention on optimizing their partner sales and marketing programs. But as channel experts stressed in the eight sessions included in the Channel Marketing agenda of last month’s B2B Marketing Exchange in Scottsdale, planning, implementing and […]
Impartner, a pure-play partner relationship management (PRM) and channel management platform provider, will acquire the through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) business from partner automation solutions provider TIE Kinetix. With this acquisition, which includes TIE Kinetix’s full suite of contemporary brand control and demand generation technologies, Impartner will provide a more holistic channel management platform to help companies […]
Transforming channel marketing programs to address prevailing challenges and seize new business opportunities will be addressed by the profession’s most influential thought-leaders at the B2B Marketing Exchange (B2BMX) in Scottsdale, AZ, February 24-26, 2020. In presentations, panel discussions and workshops, attendees will hear how channel professionals will strive to exceed expectations and hurdle obstacles by optimizing […]