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Finding Opportunity in Disruption: Pivot your Ecosystem Strategy

Phoenix Consulting Group

Shortly after the 2008 Great Recession, I dusted off a white paper written in the aftermath of the dot.com implosion in 2001. Based on discussions with the alliances leaders I learned that Cisco had doubled down on their alliance strategy to buffer the impact. Half of the assets and expenses are on your partner’s books.

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The Role of Influencers in Channel Marketing

Mindmatrix

Co-Hosted Events : Brands can team up with influencers and channel partners to host webinars, live streams, or virtual events. How Are Influencer Partnerships Different from Traditional Channel and Alliance Partnerships? An influencer marketing hub can facilitate this by providing tools and resources for seamless collaboration.

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Back to Basics – Step 4: Planning your Post-Close Activities

BTD Consulting

This timing will ensure that you’re ready to prepare a strong, informed deal announcement and Day 1 communications (see our white paper What Goes Up… on the impact of poorly-designed deal announcements). It will also flush out any final considerations on deal price and terms before negotiations complete (see below).

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Getting the Right Balance: To-, Through-, and For-Partner Channel Marketing Strategies

Zift Solutions

The primary difference is that all physical and digital assets are typically designed to be branded or co-branded by your partners. An alliance program between two suppliers that also includes direct sellers and respective channel partners could require a completely different distribution of activities.

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6 Reasons Your Channel Partner Program Needs a PRM Platform

Zift Solutions

Partners seem to want to access training, create marketing campaigns or co-branded collateral, and even see and manage their pipeline and booking reports on their own schedule.” Alliance partners typically will earn commissions. This partnership combines two (or more) products or services as a solution for the end customer.

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How & Why Partner Programs Are Changing With the Channel

Channel Insider

Partners are essential to our go-to-market strategy, and we are dedicated to providing them with the resources and support they need to thrive in the rapidly evolving DevSecOps landscape, said Ron Williams, co-founder and CEO at Kindo. We knew we would get a lot of how do I, as a partner, talk about these products and about Storj?