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Product and Service Reviews Tip the Scales for B2B Decision Makers
The reviews are in. B2B buyers do indeed give customer reviews a big thumbs up as decision-shaping information when buying products and services. According to a survey by G2 Crowd, a peer-to-peer business solutions review platform provider, and Heinz Marketing, a B2B marketing and sales acceleration firm, more than 90% of decision makers said they are more […]
What Happens When You Build It — And They Don’t Come? The Case for Partner-First Channel Marketing Portals
By Cameron Avery, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Zift Solutions We all know the famous line from the film Field of Dreams: “If you build it, they will come.” While that magic may work with the ghosts of baseball, it doesn’t hold up with channel partner marketing portals. Far too many channel organizations discover this […]
ChannelChat: Partner Feedback Drives Enhancements to Gemalto Channel Program
With the strongest growth at Gemalto, a digital security firm, coming in regions where the company had a channel-centric philosophy, its already robust Cipher Partner Program was clearly instrumental in the success of its partners. But as the digital security market has become increasingly more technical and crowded with more and more competitors, Gemalto recognized […]
It’s Time to Get Better Returns on Your Channel Capital Investments
By Ted Dimbero, Co-founder and Senior VP Services and M&A, Zyme Selling through indirect channels can sometimes feel like the blind leading the blind. Resale partners’ sales and supply data are available, but much of it is manually collected, months old and plagued with errors. Companies that leverage channel sales compensate for these inefficiencies with large […]
ChannelChat: Strategic Partner Selection, On-Boarding Are Key to Aptos Channel Success
The rapidly expanding global partner program at Aptos, Inc., a market leader in retail technology solutions, captured the spotlight at the company’s annual global sales kick-off meeting in October. For fiscal year 2017, Aptos and its partners collaborated on a record number of projects. And in 2018, the company predicts that a greater share of […]
Zift Acquires Elastic Grid; Deepens Concierge and Managed Services Offerings
Zift Solutions, a leading supplier of enterprise channel management solutions, has acquired Elastic Grid, a cloud-based channel marketing platform backed by creative services. “With the acquisition, Zift furthers its commitment to delivering the very best technology, services and support to drive real channel success for customers — and solidifies its position as a forward-thinking channel […]
Allbound Appoints New President, Secures Round of Venture Funding
Allbound, a leading partner relationship management (PRM) platform, has named Mike Chadwick as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. A veteran tech executive, Chadwick is taking the helm from Allbound founder Scott Salkin, who will remain on the board of directors and serve as Chief Innovation Officer, focusing on product and brand strategy. Allbound also announced […]
Why Prescribed and Personalized Marketing Is Needed for the Channel
By Jeff Mesnik, CEO, ContentMX As a technology marketer, you know that building demand generation campaigns takes planning and coordination. Your message is deliberate and coordinated and the sequence and timing of communications are relevant and important. Demand generation is filled with both long term and short term strategies, all for the purpose of identifying […]
Case Study: To Win SMB Business, Xerox Overhauls Channel Partner Platform
With more than 5,000 partners helping to boost Xerox’s global annual sales to $11 billion, it’s hard to imagine that the enterprise operated anything less than a well-run channel program. But when the company determined that the small and midsize business segment represented a significant opportunity for growth – and that 75% of the overall […]
Channeltivity Adds Channel Partner Training and Certification Function to Its PRM Solution
Channeltivity has introduced a channel partner training and certification module to its cloud-based partner relationship management (PRM) solution. The new module was designed to deliver the rich functionality of a learning management system that is tailored to the unique needs of channel programs and available directly from their full service partner management hub. By seamlessly […]
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