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How Marc Benioff’s Vision for Cloud-Based Service Lifted Up the Innovations of over 3,000 Entrepreneurs

PartnerTap

While Benioff is not credited with creating software as a service, he is considered one of its earliest adopters and biggest proponents. Five years later, Partnertap has a solution for sales reps as well as channel and alliance managers. Today, we all know it as software as a service.

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Creating a Repeatable Sales Model in a Targeted Vertical

Phoenix Consulting Group

A Salesforce Alliance manager, Gary recounts a story that during a sales team meeting he had with a Salesforce partner, that was the only answer he got. Although I would love to take credit for that quote, it was actually the response of VP of sales when a partner described their value proposition as “we do everything”.

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Busting Myths About Listing, Selling, and Managing a Cloud Marketplaces Business

Tackle.io

I thought that people would come in, basically swipe their credit card or their Amazon EDP, we’d have an agreement. And it was a head count, who was Global Alliances management, focused on this. The ecosystems are changing. So I way over-thought it. How many listings? We had no tribal knowledge. That’s fine.