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Avangate CEO Shares Benefits, Insights Into The Cloud

 Episode 8: Carl Theobald, CEO, Avangate More vendors and manufacturers are considering how the cloud will impact their organizations, and more importantly, their channels. During this episode of ChannelChat, Carl Theobald, CEO of Avangate shares how the cloud is offering organizations a vast variety of benefits. In addition, Theobald discusses how his company helps both […]

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Wedge Networks Develops U.S. Reseller Channel

Wedge Networks, a provider of real-time content security and intelligence for high-performance networks, today has unveiled a reseller channel program for the U.S. The new program was designed to help the company develop new revenue opportunities for partners selling into the corporate enterprise, government organization and service provider markets.

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The Keys To Creating An Optimal Partner Training Plan

A key hurdle for vendors striving to better enable partners to improve sales and marketing efforts is determining where to spend resources and which partners to target first, according to Heather K. Margolis, President of Channel Maven Consulting. “The more strategic organizations are in determining which partners to target and where to spend resources, the […]

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Partner Enablement Comes Into Focus

An underlying predicament for the majority of vendors and manufacturers today is the 80/20 rule: 20% of a typical partner base generates 80% of total indirect channel revenue. Furthermore, findings from Channel Enablers have reaffirmed that while approximately half of partners produce about 20% of revenue, the rest of an average organization’s partner base doesn’t […]

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Elateral Helps Keep Branding Consistent Across The Channel

The Problem: More organizations are creating thought leadership content via E-books, white papers, infographics and webinars, among other mediums. With content marketing becoming a must-have for B2B organizations, vendors are striving to ensure partners have seamless access to marketing collateral at all times. However, efficient asset sharing and customization remains a leading struggle for most […]

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The End Of Co-Op?

By Dale Taormino, Senior Director, Marketing and Strategic Alliances, CCI Editor’s note: As part of a special arrangement, Channel Marketer Report is publishing a recent article from CCI’s Channel Champion Blog.  We talk to organizations daily about their promotional allowance programs (MDF, JMF, co-op, etc). In the past several years we’ve certainly seen a decline in the number […]

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Ingram Micro Adds Desktone To Cloud Marketplace

Desktone, Inc., a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) provider, yesterday announced that service providers in the U.S. and Canada can now access the Desktone Platform via the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. The Ingram Cloud Marketplace was developed to be an online resource for solution providers to shop, procure, provision and obtain invoices for their cloud […]

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ScanSource Releases New Services Group, Expands Reseller Support

  ScanSource, a value-added distributor of specialty technology products, has announced the development of the ScanSource Services Group (SSG), a new business unit within the organization. The focus of SSG will be on the planning and execution of custom value-added support programs and partners from the company’s reseller partners, according to a company press release.  […]

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New Research Shows Increased Focus On Local Marketing In 2013

National brands rely on affiliates to deliver hyper-local marketing messages and campaigns relevant to specific geographic areas. To ensure more successful initiatives, 91% of national brands expect to spend more or the same on local marketing in 2013 as they did in 2012, according to new research from Balihoo. Findings for the study, titled: National […]

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Webinar Spotlights Steps To CRM/PRM Integration

Organizations leverage CRM platforms to better track and manage interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. While this is a vital asset to optimal sales and marketing strategies and results, PRM is helping vendors and OEMs track partner qualification, success and progress in sales and marketing efforts. More organizations are recognizing the channel-wide value of […]

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