Tue.Dec 31, 2019

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How To Achieve Better-Together Partnerships

Successful Channels

Like chocolate and peanut butter or caramel and sea salt, your partnerships can be the best and the most complementary relationships possible. Imagine if all your channel partnerships were 1+1=5 where both parties win all the time. This is not as elusive as you may think. All your partnerships can be as good as donuts and coffee, or any of these examples above if both parties are committed to each other’s success.

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A Channel Marketer’s Fantasy: Closed Loop ROI Management

Successful Channels

One of the biggest fears of a channel executive is making investment decisions with incomplete information on activities with uncertain forecasted outcomes. It is particularly anxiety producing to invest in marketing or sales actions, where the supplier marketer has little control over how it is planned, executed or measured. Channel executives today are being measured on the return they can generate on all channel investments and need more certainty in the way this process is managed.

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How to Plan, Manage, and Measure Strong Channel Business Partnerships

Successful Channels

I have been looking for inspiration on the “how-to” process for building deeper channel partnerships. Specifically, I am looking for what producers (i.e., manufacturers, software companies, etc.) can do to build stronger and more committed partnerships for their channel. I decided to look at what great thinkers from today and before having had to say about how to build lasting collaborations.

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The Ultimate Partner Performance Dashboard

Successful Channels

Consolidated Channel Dashboards are as Rare as Some of the Greatest World Treasures: Channel executives have been searching for solutions to provide comprehensive dashboards for their partners and channel managers for many years unsuccessfully. The promise of a single place to monitor, manage and measure all elements of a channel program has been simply unattainable.

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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