Mon.Dec 28, 2020

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The Second Universal Challenge Enterprises Face While scaling Revenue-Generating Partnerships (Part 2 of 3)

PartnerTap

This is the second installment in our three-part series on scaling revenue-generating partnerships. You can find the first article, and the first challenge, in the series here. Universal C hallenge #2: can’t co-sell without the right data, access, insights, and technology. There are many companies that have invested in teams of people to manually account map and connect sales reps with partners on a case-by-case basis.

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How Customer Portals Bring Your Business into the Digital Age

Magnetrix

Every day there are new enhancements emerging from a number of technology and software companies. The digital age is among us and available to us are a range of new, advanced capabilities designed to make our lives easier. As technology grows, our businesses need to grow with it. Is your business ready for digital improvements? This digital era has impacted businesses in a way that we all probably never thought it would.

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How to Optimize Product, Pricing, and Packaging for Cloud Marketplace

Tackle.io

Product, pricing, packaging; this trio trips up both new and veteran Marketplace sellers, but for different reasons. . New sellers often aren’t sure how to translate their current business model into a Marketplace listing, especially considering some of the nuances and limits between platforms. On the other hand, Marketplace sellers that have been transacting for a while may wonder how to embrace new Marketplace features and leverage updates to pricing models. .

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How to Motivate Channel Sales Partners

Magnetrix

As a company that sells through channel partners , it is expected that they work towards increasing corporate sales. But depending on others to drive revenue can be a difficult task. Channel partners are relied on and trusted to perform and meet their goals, therefore, doing an effective job at selling is essential. The challenges companies face with this kind of sales method is; how to get channel partners to go above and beyond to meet and exceed goals?

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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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Typical M&A integration costs: From 1% to 7% of deal value, regardless of deal size

BTD Consulting

This finding from EY in October 2019 generally reflects our own experience here at BTD, and has remained largely consistent over the 20 years in which we’ve been supporting client integrations. Costs are similarly not inherently different by sector, nor even by the type of deal completed (vertical vs horizontal, bolt-on vs ‘merger of equals’). While deals (or more accurately) integrations that aim to deliver significant cost reductions tend to need the most up-front investment (eg in back-office

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Lance Raley joins Beyond the Deal

BTD Consulting

From 1 September 2020, Lance Raley has become a Director at Beyond the Deal (BTD). Lance is a senior executive who brings over 20 years’ experience in organisational transformation, turnaround, development, and top-line improvement in both international and growth-phase companies in the energy, manufacturing and industrial sectors. Announcing the appointment, Nick Palmer, US Partner said, “In the years I’ve known and worked with Lance, his primary concern has always been addressing our cli

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3 Ways Using Your Portal’s Training Module Keeps Partners Motivated During a Pandemic

Magnetrix

The news of Covid-19 created a rippling effect through the business world. We’re all busy creating contingency plans for what may come next but the truth is, the virus is quickly evolving and creating uncertainty of what's going to happen next and when things will return to normal. So, what can we do now as we wait for the virus to blow over?

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BTD’s Spotlight on Alliance Management: Glancing Back, Looking Forward

BTD Consulting

Create value. Increase value. Build or buy or borrow. Your menu. Most successful companies partake of all three. BTD’s deep roots are in maximizing clients’ “buy” success: Beyond the Deal. Now we have broadened our capabilities to serve clients across the spectrum of “inorganic” growth – from M&A and Divestments to Strategic Alliances and JVs. Beginning in early 2000, I led Andersen Consulting/Accenture’s clumsily named MAASCE – Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances Strategy Center of Excell

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Top 5 Features of a Customer Portal

Magnetrix

A customer portal is a digital solution that is customized to your brand and delivers better customer service while reducing costs and increasing revenue. There are many customer portal features that contribute to your business in different ways. We’ve outlined the top 5 features of a customer portal that are must-haves for any business. Improve customer engagement.

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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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Helping them help you: The buyer’s role in a successful separation pre-deal

BTD Consulting

Background: A UK listed engineering business brought BTD to help them acquire a global computer analytics business put up for sale by the parent firm. The buyer saw a unique opportunity to complement cutting-edge computer analytics with their current business offerings.? Unlike previous acquisitions the buyer had made, this deal was special. It represented a once-in-a-lifetime transformational opportunity to reposition themselves in the market as a digital business, to increase their capabil

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Social-Distancing for Businesses: 3 Ways Portals Help Close the Gap

Magnetrix

As social-distancing becomes our new temporary normal, businesses are being impacted by recommendations to shift to exclusive online working environments. To make the most of remote working, we’ve highlighted the top 3 benefits shared between customer success portals and partner relationship management portals that will help get your business through this difficult time.

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US Shale Industry Consolidation – Key Webinar Takeaways

BTD Consulting

The US shale industry is consolidating. It’s happening now. On Monday, September 28 th , Devon and WPX Energy announced terms that create a dominant player in the Delaware Basin. These deals will continue, perhaps accelerating as leaders strive for survival, medium-term success or merely profitable exit. Within the next two years, BTD expects the number of companies in the space to fall by over half.

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Stop Making These 3 Channel Management Mistakes (Podcast)

Magnetrix

To listen to the podcast, click here. Narrator: Welcome to Channel Journeys, the podcast for channel professionals that will enable and inspire you to create your best channel journey ever. Meet and learn from channel experts who share authentic stories of their channel victories, defeats, and lessons learned along the way. Here's your host, Rob Spee, a channel chief on a never ending quest for channel knowledge and adventure.

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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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MAKING THE BOAT GO FASTER: Accelerate your upcoming integration with BTD’s new Supported Integration Framework

BTD Consulting

Over the years, Beyond the Deal has worked with organisations of all sizes from established sector leaders such as E.On and Coca-Cola to entrepreneurial firms of 50 employees using innovative ways to break into their market. We’ve learned that – while the depth and level of detail may vary, the fundamental steps to achieving successful integration remain largely the same, regardless of deal size or sector.

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4 Ways to Engage Customers and Partners During a Pandemic

Magnetrix

Amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases, face-to-face communication is no longer a viable option. With bans on travel and social-distancing in effect, organizations are experiencing a high degree of uncertainty in several aspects of their business. One new challenge they are now facing is how to communicate with partners and customers, keep them engaged , and quickly provide them with timely information.

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Announcing BTD’s Advisory Board

BTD Consulting

Beyond the Deal (BTD) is delighted to announce the establishment of an Advisory Board for our business. Working closely with the Partners, the BTD Advisory Board will help shape and support our strategy and team as we grow and strengthen our services going forward. Current Advisory Board Members include: Roger Maynard, Chairman of British Airways Pension Scheme and the former Director of Investments and Alliances at International Airlines Group (BA/Iberia) Nigel Bridges, Founder and CEO of Beaco

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What Is PRM Software and How Can It Help Your Business?

Magnetrix

It almost seems like every single business operates with a partner (or ten). And no wonder. With a host of benefits ranging from cost-savings to potential tax benefits, the advantages that your business gets out of partnerships can truly transform your overall performance and business growth. Yet, having the partnerships themselves on hand is one thing, and being able to manage them adequately is a whole different challenge.

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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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DESIGNING, PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING YOUR INTEGRATION – GOING BACK TO BASICS

BTD Consulting

Most believe – supported by lots of evidence – that getting value out M&A is difficult, and far less consistently successful than it needs to be. While this is true, it’s important to understand that just because something is difficult to do, that doesn’t mean that it’s complicated or hard to understand. In fact, many deals fail because people overcomplicate integration post-close.

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How a PRM Can Change Your Channel Partner Strategy (Partnernomics Podcast with Dr. Mark Brigman)

Magnetrix

To listen to the podcast, click here. Original title: " How a PRM Can Change Your World" Aired on December 15, 2020. What is a PRM (partner relationship management)? For those who aren’t channel partnership professionals, or who don’t work in areas that commonly use PRM, Dr. Mark Brigman asks, starting from the ground floor, “what is a PRM?

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Back to Basics – Demystifying Integration Design, Planning & Execution – Step 1: Starting the Journey

BTD Consulting

M&A integration: Challenging to deliver, yet not complicated to understand. Success comes down to a few basics. Often missed or mis-applied, they are easy to spot in hindsight. To succeed, you must keep them in sight throughout the tumult of the deal. Over 20 years, on over 100 engagements, Beyond the Deal has fine-tuned its approach to integration design, planning and execution.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Back to Basics – Step 2: Confirming your Integration Objectives and Benefits

BTD Consulting

Back to Basics – Demystifying Integration Design, Planning & Execution M&A integration: Challenging to deliver, yet not complicated to understand. Success comes down to a few basics. Often missed or mis-applied, they are easy to spot in hindsight. To succeed, you must keep them in sight throughout the tumult of the deal. Over 20 years, on over 100 engagements, Beyond the Deal has fine-tuned its approach to integration design, planning and execution.

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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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