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How to Grow Your Consulting Firm with Niche-Driven SEO

Jake Jorgovan

You don’t need millions of visitors to grow a B2B company. That’s a myth. What you need is qualified traffic: people actively searching for your consulting services with intent to buy. In 2025, B2B growth comes from mastering the right digital levers: SEO strategy, content marketing, and online visibility tailored to your ideal client. This guide breaks down 10 core principles that drive real business growth, higher conversion rates, and better return on investment.

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Future-proof your corporate partnerships with our groundbreaking programme: Remarkable10

Remarkable Partnerships

At Remarkable Partnerships, we’ve spent over a decade helping hundreds of charities unlock strategic, high-value corporate relationships. That experience has shaped our most ambitious initiative yet: the latest round of our transformational 12-month accelerator programme, Remarkable10. This isn’t a training course, it’s a hands-on, results-focused journey designed to drive real change.

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Are You Playing to Your Strengths as an Alliance Manager?

Peter Simoons

Alliance management is rarely straightforward. The role demands strategic insight, influence without authority, and the ability to navigate complexity both within your own organisation and with external partners. With all the moving pieces, it’s easy to lose sight of your own development. Where are you strong? Where might you be relying too much on instinct?

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How & Why MinIO Wants to Bring AI Storage to Channel Partners

Channel Insider

Object storage vendor MinIO recently announced an enhanced partner program and strategic approach to building on its success through services and solutions providers. Channel Insider spoke with Vice President of Global Partner Sales, Mike Marinchak, about the new program and why MinIO is poised for explosive growth. Updated program led by recently hired channel sales vet Marinchak joined MinIO in May following a multi-decade career with stints in the channel programs at NetApp and Pure Storage.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The Role of Channels and Alliances in Driving Ecosystem Success

Mindmatrix Blog

Success in today’s business landscape isn’t achieved in isolation—it’s powered by strategic collaborations. Channels and alliances are business arrangements between companies, where each company collaborates to achieve shared goals while maintaining independence. These business arrangements enable companies to scale, innovate, and grow in ways that are simply not possible through direct operations alone.

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The Future of Partner Enablement: From Enablement Gaps to Global Advantage Best Pratices

ZinFi

Best Practices Guides. Unlock the full potential of your partner ecosystem with proven strategies for global enablement, scalable infrastructure, and behavior-driven transformation. Download your COMPLIMENTARY COPY of The Future of Partner Enablement: From Enablement Gaps to Global Advantage Guide. Unlock the full potential of your partner ecosystem with proven strategies for global enablement, scalable infrastructure, and behavior-driven transformation.

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Ataccama’s Partner Advisory Board & Snowflake Availability

Channel Insider

Data trust company Ataccama recently established its Partner Advisory Board to drive platform innovation, guide AI strategy, and unlock new value for its enterprise customers. Meanwhile, the organization has also made its unified data trust platform, Ataccama ONE, available on Snowflake Marketplace. PAB a way to go ‘deeper’ with strategic partners The board is a global cohort of data management leaders designed to deepen alignment across Ataccama’s technology and services ecosystem, providing ma

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6 Proven Tips to Increase Conversation Rates in B2B Outreach

Chameleon Sales

Conversations are the lifeblood of B2B sales. In today’s competitive landscape, sparking meaningful dialogue requires precision, clarity, and persistence. At Chameleon Group, we’ve distilled our learned best practices into six strategies that consistently elevate conversion rates: 1. Refine Your Targeting The foundation of effective outreach starts with clean, well-segmented data.

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Mindmatrix, the leader in Ecosystem Orchestration Solutions (EOS), adds Alliance Management Module to its Bridge Platform

Mindmatrix Blog

Mindmatrix , the leader in ecosystem orchestration solutions (EOS), has expanded the capabilities of its next-generation PRM and partner marketing platform , Bridge, with the launch of a powerful new Alliance Management module. With the increasing complexity of multi-vendor partnerships, co-sell motions, and co-marketing initiatives, Bridge provides a unified platform to manage every stage of the alliance lifecycle—from onboarding and enablement to joint pipeline management and performance track

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Building a Podcast Studio on Any Budget: What You Need to Sound Professional

Jake Jorgovan

Sound quality can make or break a podcast. Listeners might forgive shaky content, but not bad audio. In fact, clear sound makes you seem more credible and keeps people tuned in. A 2018 study called Good Sound, Good Research found that people tend to see speakers with clearer audio as more trustworthy and competent. The good news is, you don’t need a massive budget to sound professional.

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Enterprise PRM Software: Powering Scalable Channel Growth for Large Organizations

ZinFi

Enterprise PRM software is crucial for large organizations to manage and grow their indirect sales channels. It automates complex processes, enhances partner engagement, and provides deep insights for strategic decision-making and predictable revenue growth. Key Takeaways: Manages complex partner networks Automates critical channel processes Boosts partner engagement and loyalty Provides data-driven insights Ensures global consistency and compliance PRM Software: Driving Growth in Today’s

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Ingram Micro Launches Xvantage Enable AI Program

Channel Insider

Global channel distributor and platform company Ingram Micro has launched a new program designed to enable success in the AI era. New program brings enablement and tech solutions to partners ready for growth The new offering is a multi-step, targeted approach that guides partners through a variety of enablement resources, covering both the technical and business aspects of enabling AI adoption in customers.

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How to pay content creators in 2025: 7 proven payment methods that drive results

Impact

Content creator compensation has become a critical business priority in 2025. The way you pay content creators directly impacts partner retention, campaign performance, and your brand’s long-term success. With the creator economy valued at over $250 billion , establishing fair and strategic payment structures isn’t just important—it’s essential for competitive advantage.

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How to Build Competitive Channel Programs: Advice from 7 Channel Experts

The tech world is crowded. And that means the stakes for channel management have never been higher. How do you cut through the noise? Are SPIFFs, business plans, and marketing development funds really worth it? Get real-world, boots-on-the-ground insight into what it takes to build a partner relationship management motion that attracts, trains, retains, and motivates the right partners.

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Is your next deal destined to succeed or fail before you've even selected a target?

BTD Consulting

Some companies consistently succeed in M&A while others consistently fail, deal after deal. This year, BTD is taking some time to explore why, and will be presenting our findings at this year’s Merger Integration Management Forum in Amsterdam. Most M&A and integration professionals know what it takes to deliver long-term value from an acquisition: clear objectives, a programmatic structure to integration, and detailed planning among many others.

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Should Your Business Be Using Cryptocurrency?  Some Legal Considerations

Tishkoff

The adoption of cryptocurrency by businesses is growing rapidly. Digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum are now used for payments, investments, payroll, and more. This technology promises efficiency, speed, and global reach. However, legal and regulatory obligations remain complex and continue to evolve. The regulatory landscape is marked by a patchwork of overlapping federal and state requirements.

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Automated Deal Registration Software: Revolutionizing Channel Sales for Unprecedented Efficiency

ZinFi

Deal registration software helps companies grow sales. Businesses rely on partners to reach more customers. These partners include value-added resellers (VARs), distributors, system integrators (SIs), managed service providers (MSPs), referral agents, and strategic alliances. They act as crucial extensions of a company’s sales team. Partners bring local knowledge and deliver products and services.

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Salesforce Raises Prices as AI Investment Grows

Channel Insider

Salesforce is set to increase prices across several of its major product lines starting August 1, citing continued investment in AI and product development. The company says the change reflects “the significant ongoing innovation and customer value delivered through our products.” Slack and core products affected The upcoming changes include a 6% average price increase for the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, and select Industry Clouds.

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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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How to Nurture Gen Zs for Leadership Roles

INSEAD Knowledge

The first decade of an employee’s career path used to be relatively straightforward: Enter a company as an individual contributor and gradually work your way up to a managerial position. But climbing the traditional corporate ladder is no longer the default – or necessarily desired – path for many young workers, according to a recent survey by British recruitment firm Robert Walters.The results suggest a growing disdain for people management and disillusion with mid-level management roles among

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How Great Leaders Learn – Coaching Legend David Clutterbuck

Thinkers 50

“We need more wise leaders” Inducted into the Thinkers50 Coaching Legends in 2024, David Clutterbuck has authored, co-authored and edited more than 75 books and hundreds of articles. He has delivered over 2,000 conference papers and also co-edits the Routledge EMCC Masters in Coaching and Mentoring series. Here he is interviewed by Marshall Goldsmith of the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

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Caught between clicks and caution: The marketer’s trust dilemma

Impact

Bylines and articles of impact.com, the leading partnership marketing platform globally. See these features of impact.com in news and media.

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Next-Gen PartnerOps Video Podcast featuring Kyle Hayes – AI-Powered PartnerOps: The Next RevOps Frontier

ZinFi

AI-Powered PartnerOps: The Next RevOps Frontier In this insightful episode of the ZINFI Partner Ecosystem Podcast, Sugata Sanyal , Founder & CEO of ZINFI, sits down with Kyle Hayes , Founding Partner at Ecosystem Revenue Dynamics. Together, they explore the fast-changing world of PartnerOps, fueled by AI and driven by the foundational principles of Revenue Operations (RevOps).

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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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Flexera ITAM Report: IT Teams are Losing Visibility

Channel Insider

Flexera, a leader in technology spend and risk management, recently released its new survey, the Flexera 2025 State of ITAM Report, which found a decline in complete visibility across the tech stack. IT pros finding pressure to optimize while losing visibility across the stack Despite rising pressure for teams to optimize costs, Flexera’s report highlights that visibility across the stack has decreased from 43 percent to 47 percent year-over-year.

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AEC Transaction News

PSMJ Resources Blog

June 16, 2025 – Tampa, FL – Ardurra Group Inc. , a national engineering and consulting firm, announces the acquisition of Janus Research, Inc. , a firm specializing in cultural resource management. This acquisition adds archaeological and historic preservation expertise to Ardurra’s portfolio and supports infrastructure projects with regulatory compliance needs.

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New to Partnerize: Persistent Tracking Amid Google’s Parallel Tracking Update

Partnerize

Partnerize partners that currently use parallel tracking can immediately implement the Partnerize tracking support solution for their Google Ads. Not yet joined to Partnerize? Sign up to work with the world’s leading brands and access our step-by-step guide for parallel tracking support implementation. The post New to Partnerize: Persistent Tracking Amid Google’s Parallel Tracking Update appeared first on Partnerize.

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Content creator affiliate strategy: How Charlie Chang hit 80% affiliate income with searchable video content

Impact

Meet Charlie Chang : a creator and entrepreneur who has masterfully built his business so that a staggering 80 percent of his income flows directly from affiliate marketing. With a YouTube channel attracting 1.3 million subscribers , his journey offers a potent lesson: it’s less about chasing virality and more about understanding and serving a specific audience with high-value content.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Unlock Channel Growth: Key Benefits of PRM Software (ROI, Revenue & Shorten Sales Cycles)

ZinFi

PRM software boosts channel growth, ROI, revenue and shortens sales cycles. It centralizes and automates partner management, streamlining recruitment, onboarding, enablement, co-marketing, co-selling, and incentives. While powerful, PRM software is not a magic solution; success requires aligning skilled people, optimized processes, and well-defined programs with the platform.

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Deepgram Introduces Enterprise-Ready Voice Agent API

Channel Insider

Voice AI platform for enterprise use cases, Deepgram, is making its Voice Agent API, a single, unified voice-to-voice interface, generally available. Voice-first AI agents: why Deepgram thinks the future lies in speech-to-text solutions The interface enables developers to have complete control over building context-aware voice agents to power natural, responsive conversations.

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You Already Have an LOI. Here’s Why You Still Need an M&A Advisor

PSMJ Resources Blog

A buyer made an offer. They seem trustworthy. Why pay an advisor when the offer is on your desk? In the current very heated M&A market, PSMJ has run into this situation often. Some owners think of cost avoidance and opt to sign and go it alone. But they are probably settling for a price far less than the current market value with a firm who might not actually be the absolute best fit.

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