Episode 6: Weighing The Benefits Of Marketing Automation Marketing automation is coming to the forefront to improve efficiencies among B2B organizations, as well as vendors and their partner networks. While there are multiple benefits to these platforms, including better sales and marketing alignment, companies must take certain steps to optimize adoption, and ensure they’re taking […]
Episode 6: Tackling The New Buyer Paradigm Today’s buyers are taking a more strategic approach to researching and considering potential solutions and technologies. As a result, it is imperative that vendors and their partners to understand these new buying strategies, and implement new marketing tools and tactics to stand out in a crowded marketplace. During this […]
Content is quickly becoming a critical part of the equation for all B2B marketers, especially in the channel, where partners are looking for tools to drive leads and engagement at a local level. With 90% of organizations utilizing content in some shape or form, according to the Content Marketing Institute, white papers, E-books, videos, webinars […]
Channel conflict remains a top challenge for vendors today, with partner sales teams competing for new opportunities and loyal customers. To ensure more efficient deal control and decrease opportunities for partner-to-partner deal conflict, Kaspersky Lab, a provider and developer of secure content and threat management solutions, recently announced enhancements to its reseller deal registration program. […]
Industry shifts and market changes — such as the continued shift to cloud operations and managed services — also are motivating vendors to rethink their incentive strategies. Rather than implementing short-term initiatives, organizations are honing in on more long-term, loyalty-generating strategies that will contribute to yearly lead gen and sales goals.
The Problem: The continued proliferation of end-user data across digital and physical channels has led to a new level of complexity for channel marketers. Online marketing strategies, such as search engine marketing and optimization, social media, and digital content present opportunities for organizations to optimize lead and demand gen efforts. However, poor reporting and visibility […]
Countless research studies have honed in on the gap between vendors’ expectations of sales and marketing success, and partners’ overall capabilities to meet and exceed these expectations. To ensure successful channel marketing initiatives, organizations must “look at what partners have and what else they’re going to need to be successful,” said Heather K. Margolis, Founder […]
At this year’s RetailNOW conference, developed by the Retail Solutions Providers Association (RSPA), the growth of consumer-grade devices, SaaS business models and mobile payment will come to the forefront, offering technology providers, resellers and end-users in retail and hospitality the education to thrive and survive. The event will take place July 29, 2012, to Aug. […]
The consumerization of IT is changing the way people buy and manage desktops. As a result, SMBs and large-enterprise service providers are considering the benefits of Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) models. As a provider of DaaS offerings and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions, Desktone has announced its new partner program: The Desktone Powered Program. Developed to provide […]
DOCUWISE, a Managed Print Solutions (MPS) provider and Artisan Infrastructure, the wholesale Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, have partnered to provide VARs and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) a turnkey managed print solutions to deliver to their customers. DOCUWISE’s Print Environment System Organizer platform is now available as a template in Artisan Infrastructure’s Certified Solution Ecosystem, to allow […]