Beyond Customer Feedback: The Keys to Knowing What Your Customer Really Wants
Kent Potts, EVP Marketing, Skura Corporation Today’s enterprise sales and marketing teams face some very unique challenges. The advancement of technology, the expectation of marketing materials to be readily available online and the expanding social ecosystem that provides insight and clues into prospective customers make the role of these departments more multi-faceted than ever before. […]
Is Your Partner Portal Not Living Up To The Hype?
Partner portals and PRM systems are top investments for many vendors; but they simply are not delivering optimal results. While these solutions were designed to help vendors amplify partner engagement and overall sales and marketing productivity, they are not being used effectively enough to make the investment worthwhile.
Lead Nurturing Evolves To Include More Customized Marketing Opportunities
Lead nurturing is central to the sales and marketing equation, helping businesses stay top of mind among current and prospective customers. In fact, companies that excel at lead nurturing generate 50% more sales ready leads at 33% lower cost, according to Forrester Research. However, vendors and partners both face similar challenges during the process: While […]
Generating Channel Leads Through Content
By Patricia Hume, President, Trapit Over a long career, most of my time has been spent managing channel operations for some of the best — IBM, SAP, and Avaya among them — drawn by the challenge of helping the business grow through the reach of “alternatives” to direct sales; distributors, resellers, service providers and others. […]
PartnerPortal Helps Vendors Improve Channel Efficiencies
The Problem: For any vendor, using an automated partner interface is a great start to managing an efficient channel. These interfaces typically support different channel modules, as well as forms for each of those modules. From time to time, modifications need to be made to these forms, which calls for custom programming by developers. This […]
DataGravity Partner Discusses The Data Debacle
Enterprises today are facing more unstructured data than they’re equipped to handle. Unlike structured data, which is typically collected, managed and viewed in a database with predefined columns and rows, unstructured data is data that “does not have an organized format,” noted Russell Ford, President and Chief Operating Officer of Qumulus Solutions, a managed service […]
7 Things To Look For When Selecting Channel Automation Software
Vendors and resellers face a series of day-to-day challenges, including: Tackling the ongoing need for brand control versus content personalization Content marketing fatigue Poor lead follow-up Ensuring data and information flows across the channel Does this sound familiar? If so, channel automation software can help. Download this white paper to learn the seven key “must-haves” […]
LiveHive Launches Insights 2.0
LiveHive has launched Insights 2.0, a sales acceleration solution designed to provide sales professionals with detailed, real-time information on prospect engagement. The update to LiveHive’s analytics platform is designed to provide inside sales professionals with the tools necessary to find warm leads and ultimately close deals faster. With the new release comes three new features: Opportunity […]
Secrets Of A Killer Blog Post: Content [Infographic]
Many organizations are using blogs as an outlet to show their unique positioning and thought leadership. However, for businesses just starting out, finding a compelling voice and making their blog a top destination for information and resources can sometimes be challenging. This infographic, courtesy of WhoIsHostingThis?, outlines the characteristics of a successful blog post.
hawkeye Channel Launches channelPlans Application
hawkeye Channel, a software and services provider for channel organizations, has added a new solution to its cloud-based channelConduit platform for indirect channel sales management. The new offering — called channelPlans — is designed to facilitate joint marketing planning between manufactures and their indirect channels. Used in conjunction with other marketing enablement solutions offered by […]
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