Sat.Mar 18, 2023 - Fri.Mar 24, 2023

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Ecosystem Liftoff: It’s Time to Get On Board

Partner Path

No longer a trend, partner ecosystems are the new reality. Maybe I’m jaded because I’ve been writing about partner ecosystems for so many years. In fact, we’ve mentioned it as a “forward-looking trend” for the last five years in our end-of-year channel predictions webinar. It’s not forward-looking anymore. In fact, we're in year two or year three of the new reality where the people, programs and systems are in place to engage and support large partner ecosystems.

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The 3 expenses of inaction

Stellar Partnerships

My neighbour Jimmy has lived in his house for 60 years. The suburb at that time was full of recent migrants and tradies and people scorned the old Victorian weatherboard houses. Now it’s full of investment bankers driving Teslas. Real estate agents will always tell you that the best time to buy was last year. When Jimmy tells me how he bought his house for the equivalent price of a designer handbag, then they may have a point.

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Inspiring community through partnerships with Zero Co Founder Mike Smith

Impact

The partnership life cycle is about more than just individual sales. With eye-catching content and talented publishers on your side, brands can build communities that last. Plus, most consumers ( 64 percent ) appreciate brands promoting their values. Sharing long-term roadmap or sustainability milestones helps customers engage with your larger goals.

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New Channel Partner Manager? Here’s How to Excel in 6 Ways

Chaneltivity

It’s your first day on the job as a channel partner manager: the world is your oyster! While there’s something freeing about that, the flip side is feeling overwhelmed. How do you narrow your focus? What should you really care about? The answers to these questions may differ slightly based on the type of company you work for. But there are a few things the best partner managers do — regardless of industry — that you can replicate.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Do you have what it takes to be a great Director of Strategic Partnerships?

Hype

Becoming a great director of strategic partnerships is no easy feat. Becoming a director of any kind is a challenge in itself but directing strategic partnerships is a unique role that requires a particular combination of skills, experience, and personality traits that set you apart from the rest. However, with the right mindset and dedication, anyone can achieve greatness in this field.

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IEEE Recognized by Forbes as a Leader in Standards and Consortia

ISTO / IEEE

The Role Of Consortia And Standards In The Industrial Sector Authored by: Christine Boles Forbes Councils Member Forbes Technology Council | This was a Council Post 10 February 2023 “Over the past decades, consortia and standards have become an important component in many industries’ operating models. This is a result of hundreds of organizations working together for many years to find a better way to collaborate.

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Expected MSP Services: What All MSPs Should Offer

Channel Insider

Expected managed service provider (MSP) services are offerings you can include in your packages to remain competitive. These expectations have recently increased, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Users now want MSPs to incorporate additional services such as managed backup and recovery, data protection, desktop management, cybersecurity, storage, and networking services.

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7 Partner Engagement Best Practices When Setting up a Partner Portal

Magnetrix

Are partners not logging in or engaging with your partner portal as much as you'd hoped they would? Do your partners consider your portal to be “a mess”? Partner engagement starts with you. Partner engagement with your portal starts with a good partner experience. If the experience you're giving your partners is lacking, assess your partner experience strategy first before concluding that nobody wants to engage with your partner portal.

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Write For Us to improve your website SEO ranking

Binfire Collaboration Blog

Congratulations, you have started a new business, created a new website, and now you want to attract buyers or readers to your site. We have the best solution for you, just write for us! You see, to bring new visitors to your site, you need search engines to rank your site for the content you provide. One thing to do is SEO (search engine optimization), and the other is content marketing.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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What is multi-channel attribution? Basics and best practices

Impact

What is multi-channel attribution? Multi-channel attribution is the process of identifying which touchpoints during a customer journey result in a sale. Businesses do this to determine which marketing channels generate the best return on investment (ROI). Today, most customers engage with businesses through multiple touchpoints before converting. Few customers purchase on their first interaction with your business.

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Increase Your Quality of Hire with These 12 Pre-Employment Assessments (Pt.2)

TRG Blog

However, with an increase in the number of bad hires and early attrition rates, recruiters cannot rely solely on the flawed traditional hiring approach. The incompetence of bad hires can cost an organisation in many different ways. One of the greatest threats is the desire or immediate need to fill the employment position.

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Zenarate Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Reducing Costs and Improving Customer Experience in Contact Center to Deliver Value

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – March 22, 2023 – Recently, Frost & Sullivan assessed the contact center performance management market, and based on its findings, recognized Zenarate with the 2023 North American Customer Value Leadership award. The company infuses artificial intelligence (AI) into tools that streamline recruiting, onboarding, and training agents, as well as other non-contact center employees.

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3 Business Challenges That Inbound Call Centers Can Solve

Chameleon Sales

There is more to B2B lead generation than outbound sales! Strategic and effective inbound call centers provide services that are essential to retaining happy customers and generating more revenue in every industry. However, companies often don’t believe hiring an inbound call center is necessary. Why outsource customer support over the phone, live chat services, email, or social media when your internal team knows your business best?

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Mindshare APAC deepens their relationship with impact.com to continue developing the affiliate and partnerships industry in APAC

Impact

SINGAPORE—21 March, 2023 — Mindshare APAC (a division of the WPP group), a full-service media agency with a highly specialised global affiliate and partnerships unit, has strengthened its strategic partnership with impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform driving partnerships for more than 2,500 brands. The growing needs of brands for more sophisticated affiliate marketing strategies and their desire to expand within the region have resulted in a tighter partnership betwee

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Increase Your Quality of Hire with These 12 Pre-Employment Assessments (Pt.1)

TRG Blog

Today, different types of pre-employment assessments have changed how hiring is conducted globally. Human Resource Managers have traditionally used telephonic and face-to-face interviews to fill employment positions.

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Cloud-based Solutions Accelerate the Transformation of Industrial Operations with Smart Digital Capabilities

Frost & Sullivan

It’s common for organizations to struggle with cross-functional alignment, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) teams. A lack of cooperation and trust between functions leads to inconsistencies in technical standards, cloud-based solutions, and cybersecurity policies, which can impact an industrial organization’s security posture and cyber risk.

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Agile vs Scrum: Taking a Look at Similarities and Differences

Collaborative Leadership Team

Agile and Scrum are often used interchangeably, and while they contain some similarities, they are separate entities. That’s why it’s only natural that you may be wondering if Scrum and Agile are the same. Luckily, we’re here to help you understand the nuances between these two approaches so you can apply them to your organization. Agile vs Scrum Explained When it comes to Agile methodology vs Scrum methodology it’s important to note that technically speaking, neither of them is a “methodology”.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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impact.com Appoints New Chief People Officer to Lead People Growth and Excellence

Impact

Michelle Denman brings over 30 years of world-class employee success expertise to the partnership management technology leader as the company aims to further grow and establish its culture of excellence NEW YORK—March 21, 2023 — impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, announces today the appointment of Michelle Denman as Chief People Officer (CPO).

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5 Factors Determining Success or Failure in the Shift From Project to Product

Planview Blog

Five years ago, Planview CTA Mik Kersten outlined the “turning point” in his bestselling book, Project to Product: How to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Software with the Flow Framework. He was referring to the ground-breaking shift of digital innovation from the hands of a few tech giants and unicorns to the many enterprise organizations powering the world economy.

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Shure Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Providing Enhanced Experiences That Transform Workplaces into Collaboration Hubs Employees Want

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – March 21, 2023 – Recently, Frost & Sullivan assessed the audio conferencing rooms market and, based on its analysis, recognizes Shure with the 2022 Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award. The company transforms meeting rooms into high-impact collaboration spaces that help organizations improve their performance and strengthen their outcomes.

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Strategies (and Examples!) To Improve Local Government Transparency

ClearPoint Strategy

These ideas will get you on track toward complete transparency.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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What is Performance Marketing? The different types, benefits, and KPIs

Impact

45 percent of marketers say performance marketing has become a significant part of their marketing strategy since 2020. Amid marketing tactics that are notoriously difficult to measure and track, the real-time metrics used in performance marketing make it stand out. Key takeaways Performance marketing is any marketing activity where brands only pay partners when buyers take predetermined actions.

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Sales Ecosystem: An Overview

Mindmatrix

Having a strong sales ecosystem is the key to driving sales revenues. Especially, in the B2B channel space where partner mindshare is elusive and vendors are in fierce competition, vying for partner attention, it is becoming increasingly important to study the sales ecosystem , its components, and understand how to build a channel sales ecosystem that is fundamentally strong.

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Volkswagen Takes its Electric Ambitions Up Another Notch with New Targets for 2030

Frost & Sullivan

Even as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in key sectors across the EU have been falling, emissions from the transport sector continue to increase. In 2021, road transport accounted for nearly three quarters of all EU domestic and international transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the EU committed to more than halving its GHG emissions by 2030, it has become imperative for automakers to balance revenues with regulatory compliance, and economics with environmental considerations.

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Mindshare, impact.com strengthen partnership in developing affiliate, partnerships industry in APAC

Impact

The post Mindshare, impact.com strengthen partnership in developing affiliate, partnerships industry in APAC appeared first on impact.com.

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How to Measure the ROI of IT Operations

IT is viewed as a cost center by organizations. In troubling economic times, this puts intense pressure on IT to demonstrate value for IT investments. Register for this webinar to learn how to quantify the intrinsic benefits of IT using analytics.

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AdTech experts reveal top seasonal marketing trends and strategies for APAC

Impact

The post AdTech experts reveal top seasonal marketing trends and strategies for APAC appeared first on impact.com.

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New Chief People Officer appointed by impact.com

Impact

The post New Chief People Officer appointed by impact.com appeared first on impact.com.

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