Getting Honest About Partner Certifications and Differentiation
Partner training and enablement are essential, but vendors need to do better in defining and measuring the true value of these programs. ...
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Jul 2020
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Jun 2020
Big Idea: Expand Enablement to Everyone
Making training available to everyone will cultivate a strong, capable labor pool while showing empthy to partners and their families. ...
26
May 2020
Reviving the 100-Mile Channel Concept
As disease and technology conspire to keep people separated, the local channel has the potential to bring vendors, partners, and customers closer together. ...
13
Jan 2020
Combating Channel Blindness Through Substitution
Many vendors’ management and investors fail to see the value contributed by partners; taking partners out of the equation can help them see more clearly....
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Dec 2019
2019 Channel Lessons for the Next Decade
Here are four lessons vendors and channel chiefs can reflect upon while thinking of their strategies for 2020 and beyond....
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Nov 2019
Making Referrals More Than Opportunistic
New 2112 research finds that defined missions and formal structures make referral programs more consistent and valuable to vendors and partners....
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Oct 2019
The Ill-Founded Temptation of Going Direct
Channel partners have many shortcomings and problems, but value to vendors and their go-to-market strategies isn’t among them. ...
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Sep 2019
We Don’t Have Partnerships; We Have Relationships
Vendors need to recognize that they don’t have channel partnerships, but relationships that need cultivation and support to generate returns on investment....
09
Sep 2019
The Deceptive Power of a Few Good Partners
Focusing on a handful of partners often comes with unforeseen costs....
03
Sep 2019
5 of the Most Overhyped Channel Trends
These trends and ideas are much discussed and unnecessarily generate a disproportionate reaction by channel chiefs....
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May 2019
Everyone Is a Reseller Now
Technology interdependencies and customers’ need for multivendor solutions are making technology vendors suppliers and resellers simultaneously....
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Apr 2019
Get a Dog If You Want Loyalty
Partner loyalty is overrated, distracting, and, sometimes, a dangerous metric. Instead, vendors should create economic models and conditions that inspire partners to commit to a common vision....