Nearly half (48%) of distributed marketers cite “lack of marketing expertise” as a top challenge, while 56% point to “maintaining brand consistency” as a channel-wide issue. Regardless of their industry, national brands struggle to streamline and automate marketing, so partners can put a more tailored, personalized spin on their content and campaigns. This infographic, courtesy of […]
By Scott Yates, Founder, BlogMutt Let’s say you have a son or daughter graduating from college. This is a great accomplishment, and you and your child will understandably want to announce it in some special way, possibly with printed cards created just for the occasion. That’s great. Now, let’s also say that you visit a […]
By Scott Yates, CEO and Co-Founder, BlogMutt.com Startups, by nature, can’t play by quite the same rules as large corporations or even traditional small businesses. They have a different set of circumstances, advantages and disadvantages, so they have to invent their own rules. While larger companies can’t operate exactly like a startup, all types and […]
Office supply vendor and retailer OfficeMax is dipping into the channel world through a new “store-within-a-store” concept in which the brand is establishing a network of retailer “partners.” As of January 2013, 25 retailers including A&P and Safeway are part of the OfficeMax partner network, according to Matt Gruber, National Account Manager of New Business […]
Vendors and OEMs are feeling the pressure to optimize content marketing strategies and stand apart from competitors in a crowded marketplace. While developing memorable and compelling thought leadership via white papers, E-books, webinars, and even infographics and blogs, is a daunting task in itself, distributing content to partners efficiently is a whole other struggle for […]
Acronis, a provider of disaster recovery solutions, recently announced the worldwide rollout of social syndication tool, socialondemand, to select partners worldwide. Following a successful trial of socialondemand during October 2011, Acronis has white-labelled the patent-pending social media offering as its own, under the AcronisGoSocial brand name. AcronisGoSocial will be used to share and distribute targeted […]