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John DeSarbo, Principal, ZS Associates
As the cloud services market matures, small and mid-sized business buying behavior is evolving rapidly. IT vendors are investing heavily to enable and expand their SMB channels to capitalize on ever increasing demand for new SaaS and IaaS offerings. Unfor ...
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Dan Hawtof, VP - Business Solutions, Global Channel, Blackhawk Engagement Solutions
www.bhengagement.com/services/channel/
The perception: You’re too busy. Managing campaigns, payouts, channel partners and sales leave you with zero time to affect change within your current program, much less implement a new one. The reality: If you don’t communicate a great channel program, n ...

Theresa Wabler, VP, Global Marketing, Blackhawk Engagement Solutions
www.bhengagement.com/services/channel/
Looking for ways to make your channel incentive budget work harder and smarter in 2015? Standard sales SPIF programs aren’t working. Blackhawk Engagement Solutions has research-based insights into the best ways to drive pre-sales, sales and post-sales beh ...

Dan Hawtof, VP - Business Solutions, Global Channel, Blackhawk Engagement Solutions
www.bhengagement.com/services/channel/
It’s no secret that getting your reseller partners personally invested in selling your products is good for business. But when Blackhawk Engagement Solutions conducted a recent survey of channel marketers, we found that only 52% of vendors are paying ince ...

Sir Nick Scheele, Former CEO, Ford Motor Company
Building brands is not an easy business, especially when the product you're trying to sell is regarded as being unreliable. In this engaging whitepaper, former Ford chief Sir Nick Scheele discusses premium brands, marketing and the car industry, with part ...

MikeSpellecy, Corporate Vice President, Managing Consultant, Maritz
Vendors and their customers have specific goals for their businesses and expectations for each other. Unfortunately, they don’t always align. In this whitepaper, Michael T. Spellecy of Maritz shares insights and strategies designed to better integrate the ...

Mike Spellecy, Corporate Vice President, Managing Consultant, Maritz
Michael Spellecy of Maritz shares strategies designed to help vendors and channel partners build better business relationships and facilitate the co-creation of next generation programs. This whitepaper sheds light on the research-based approaches that le ...

Elay Cohen, Former VP, Global Sales Productivity, Salesforce.com
Lead management is a big pain point for many companies. Even if the leads are flowing in at a good pace, it often takes too long to follow up, or worse, some may fall through the cracks entirely. Without measurements, companies are unable to evaluate prog ...

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This is exclusive content that has been conducted by CMP and Baptie & Co giving you a unique insight into partner attitudes to a whole set of key channel issues, challenges and programs, plus the views of the vendor community. Listen to this recording ...

Rod Baptie, CEO, Baptie & Company
Vendor and solution provider communities are jointly responsible for creating a strong and viable channel which is mutually beneficial for both parties. But they have contrasting view on what they derive from the channel and where they would like to see i ...

Bob Kaplitz, Professor, University of Dallas
Blogs and other new technologies have transformed online marketing and altered the way in which companies communicate with existing and prospective customers. Deployed correctly, blogs are a powerful tool in the battle to win and retain the attention of u ...

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Vendor and solution provider communities are jointly responsible for creating a strong and viable channel which is mutually beneficial for both parties. But they have contrasting view on what they derive from the channel and where they would like to see i ...

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This exclusive whitepaper identifies significant divergence between the attitudes of vendors and partners, as well as agreement in unexpected areas. It uncovers opportunities to improve partnering arrangements, and outlines some of the current and future ...

Bob Snyder, Editor-in-Chief, Channel Media Europe Ltd
As the IT industry’s manufacturers diversify their product ranges into Consumer Electronics, many IT manufacturers seem to think they will make these CE products and sell them unopposed to our traditional IT channels. Instead, the advent of consumer IT ...

Lesley Hansen, Group Marketing Director, TeleWare
Lesley Hansen offers her thoughts and insights from 20 years of marketing experience in the IT/Telecom sector on ways that marketing can work to link engineering, sales and marketing to increase sales by delivering products the customers really want.

Ladd Timpson, Former Global Director, Partner & Channel Marketing, Novell
Trends are undeniably important. But what is really key, argues Novell's Ladd Timpson, is to first ensure you have the fundamentals in place that will allow you to keep your partners happy and respond to industry developments. This whitepaper details b ...

Russell Kern, President, The Kern Organization
It’s nice to have your company and product pop up when a prospective customer is searching for information about your category on Google or Yahoo. But how do you accomplish it? What role does search play? How and why are your customers using it? At what s ...

Lesley Hansen, Group Marketing Director, TeleWare
A number of vendors are moving from products to managed services. This whitepaper explores how services can be effectively offered to the SMB space via partners. It covers problems including: •how to maintain your brand when your products are white-lab ...

Julie Parrish, Chief Marketing Officer, NetApp
Do you want your partners to be able to build predictable and profitable businesses around you? Proper execution is, of course, very important. But this informative whitepaper argues that real differentiation comes from: • The way you balance your channe ...

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