Wed.Jun 27, 2018

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Why Your Partner Planning Process May be a Train Wreck & How to Get Back on Track

Successful Channels

Why do partners dread business planning with their vendor teams? Because it is one of the most unsatisfactory, waste-of-time activities they participate in every year. Typically, the only part of joint business planning that is “joint” is done with a vendor channel account manager. Ninety percent of the value of most partner business planning processes goes one way – from the partner the vendor.

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How to Close More Deals with the Federal Government (Hint: Avoid the GSA Schedule)

SFE Partners

Chances are, you’ve had at least one of these thoughts about business-to-government (B2G) sales: The process is too complicated. The sales cycle is too long. There’s only a small chance of success.