May, 2020

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How Leaders are Approaching Post COVID-19 Business

EGA

The unprecedented speed and impact of change experienced by leaders during 2020 have highlighted the need for global insights, agility, fast-action and collaboration for sustainable success. EGA connects open, committed, brave leaders with similar challenges and opportunities. Through proven peer collaboration and learning process, they overcome barriers, co-create new solutions and gain future-readiness.

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Stop overthinking it. take action.

Jake Jorgovan

Since COVID-19 hit, I've been in a bit of a panic. In January and February, I was literally working ~20 hours per week and spending all my free time working on fun side music projects. Then in a matter of weeks I was thrown back into heavy work on my businesses as I realized just how fragile they are. Through these weeks, I've gone through a lot of ups and downs. mental hurdles. epiphanies. and setbacks.

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WHAT YOU SAY YES TO DETERMINES WHAT YOU SAY NO TO

Be Partner Ready

My dear friend Susan Ryan, a brilliant artist and business coach, said this to me in the early days of Cavill + Co. It became a favourite saying, one that my students loved. But like all sayings, it took me experiencing it to truly get it. One day, I had several deadlines to meet and I’d made a promise to my man, Tyrone, that I’d finish on time (for once) and we’d cook dinner together.

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Strategic Thinking During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Partners Preceptors

By Rachel Luoma, MS, CAE Back in January when I decided to write this blog, my intended topic was staff training and on-boarding. Given the current climate with COVID-19, however, and the fact that many organizations had to furlough or lay people off, the topic just doesn’t feel relevant. We are experiencing unprecedented times right … Continue reading Strategic Thinking During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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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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Why Restaurants Fail

Ground Floor Partners

Walk around your city and you’ll probably see at least a few “for lease” signs in empty restaurant windows. According to a recent study by two economists using United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data, only 17% of restaurants fail within their first year – far less than the 90% restaurant failure rate claimed by some experts. But this low rate of failure may be misleading since a higher percentage of new restaurant openings today are by established, heavily capitalized restaurant grou

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While the Future will be Different, Tomorrow will Come

EGA

While the future will be different, tomorrow will come. By managing fear, keeping perspective and embracing new ways of working, we can each take the next step forward with PEACE. P erspective: Use this time to reflect, learn and adapt. E xploration: Alternative ways to work, connect, use technology, reach customers. A ction: Try something new, finish an overdue project, reach out to others virtually.

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Why entrepreneurs gain leverage by leveling up as a leader

Jake Jorgovan

"Wow. I feel like I am starting to really get it. to understand leadership." This is how I have been feeling lately. I'm rising, launching several new companies, and also seeing my existing companies evolve. But what is interesting is that this is not being accomplished by some brute force work ethic on my side. My businesses are rising because I'm finally understanding what it means to be a great leader.

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Collaborative File System you never knew you needed!

SamePage

Today we are introducing a new page type, the File Document. The file document is similar to all of our other page types. It holds just one individual file but adds all the Samepage goodness: Chat, tasks, events, adds a flexible preview, and automatic file versioning. Language.

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Podcast: Simplifying Cloud Adoption

The 2112 Group

POD2112: Nerdio’s Jo seph Landes on Simplifying Cloud Adoption. If we learned anything during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that cloud computing is the resilient resource it was always billed. Businesses leaned heavily on cloud-based resources and services to maintain operations as their staff shifted to work – from – home postures. At the same time, businesses – particularly SMBs – leaned on managed service providers to help them adopt, set up, and support their cloud services.

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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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Why Restaurants Fail

Ground Floor Partners

Walk around your city and you’ll probably see at least a few “for lease” signs in empty restaurant windows. According to a recent study by two economists using United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data, only 17% of restaurants fail within their first year – far less than the 90% restaurant failure rate claimed by some experts. But this low rate of failure may be misleading since a higher percentage of new restaurant openings today are by established, heavily capitalized restaurant grou

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Building Responsible AI with New International Partners

Partnership on AI

The Partnership on AI (PAI) strives to bring diverse organizations together in pursuit of responsible artificial intelligence. We have seen the power of the positive change that can occur when Partners from different geographies and areas of expertise gather to deliberate and evolve the practice of responsible AI. . Today, we are thrilled to be expanding our community by bringing on board four international members to the Partnership. .

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Hackathons: What Are They and How to Run Them

Hype

Take two seemingly unrelated words, "hack" and "marathon," and put them together to describe one of the most popular and powerful problem-solving techniques in the past decade.

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How to generate quick revenue with a reactivation campaign

Jake Jorgovan

There is a tactic I have used twice now at Lead Cookie to generate significant sales increases. It's a simple concept, and it's one that any established business can use. It's the reactivation campaign. In short, you reach out to every prospect you have ever spoken to before with a new offer. In this article, I dive into what a reactivation campaign is in more detail, and share how we did this successfully twice at Lead Cookie.

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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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Internet in the Remote Working Environment

Chameleon Sales

Chameleon Group would like to thank our followers and readers for the support of our last blog. We received a lot of support on how we prepared and implemented change within our business. We plan on bringing our staff back into the office at some point in the near future, but we recognize that some businesses have decided that a remote work environment will remain their new way of doing business.

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Reviving the 100-Mile Channel Concept

The 2112 Group

As disease and technology conspire to keep people separated, the local channel has the potential to bring vendors, partners, and customers closer together. By Larry Walsh. Back when VARs still roamed the earth and managed service providers made house calls – more than 10 years ago – someone asked me about the size of the channel. I replied, “about 100 miles.”.

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The Effects of a Slowing Economy on Procurement and Supply Chain- How do Procurement Professionals Handle the Effects of Business Deceleration

CenterPoint Group

We’ve discussed the disruption to supply chains entangled in China in an earlier post. This post drills down a little deeper to examine the effects of a slowing economy on procurement and supply chain.

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How To Get Great Revenue Acceleration In Today's Tech Climate

PLM Alliances

The technology sector is extremely competitive. For decades, the key to success was technological innovation. You can look at all the big players and they all became success with a category creating product that redefined what customers could with tech. Innovation is no longer the safest path to a market advantage. But that innovation is becoming harder and harder to make happen.

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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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Channel Glitterati Unite to Help Shape Global, Regional and Industry Channel Agendas and Share Best Practices

Impartner

New Impartner Channel Chief Advisory Board assembles powerhouse group of channel thought leaders from those who regularly generate headlines, present keynotes at top channel forums, curate leading channel events, and are trusted channel advisors for top corporations worldwide. Salt Lake City, May 28, 2020 – Impartner, the world’s fastest-growing, most award-winning pure play Partner Relationship Management (PRM) and channel management platform provider, today announced a new Channel Chief Adviso

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The un-productization of Lead Cookie and evolution to higher-quality

Jake Jorgovan

"You really nailed it on the productized service front." - This is what a friend who I hadn't spoken to in a few years said to me the other day. I laughed because to the outside world, Lead Cookie did look like we nailed it as a productized service. And to be honest, at one point we did. but markets shift and industries change. In this post, I am going to share how we have been slowly "un-productizing" Lead Cookie.

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What is a Statute of Limitations?

Tishkoff

A Statute of Limitations is a law that sets the maximum time the parties involved have to initiate legal proceedings from the date of the subject occurrence or alleged offense, whether civil or criminal. The length of time a Statute of Limitations allows for a victim to bring legal action against the suspected wrong doer can vary from one jurisdiction to another.

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Examining the Wisdom and Purpose of Incumbency Protection

The 2112 Group

Vendors should make account protection an earned reward, not a guarantee. By Larry Walsh. In a recent consultation, a 2112 Brainstorm subscriber asked about incumbency protection programs and policies across the industry. The question was getting at the best practices for ensuring that partners of record have the first opportunity to renew a customer contract or engagement.

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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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Working from Home – Challenges Companies Face when trying to Organize and Supply a Workforce that is Operating Remotely

CenterPoint Group

And just like that, the world has changed. With the COVID19 virus raging around the globe, companies are compelled to do things differently.

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How to Use Partner Onboarding to Increase Your Return

PLM Alliances

Let's say you've previously recruited partners for your channel — maybe by referencing the key elements needed to do so in our recent partner recruitment blog — and obtained top-notch talent that is ready to sell. Now what? You can throw your partners to the wolves with all the necessary selling guides in the world, but this won’t ensure their success or commitment.

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What are the World’s Channel Chiefs Talking About Right Now?

Impartner

Impartner kicks off a new virtual discussion series featuring best practices, channel experiences given the impact of COVID-19, insights and strategies, personal care, and more. Earlier this month we launched Channel Chief & Chill , an informal drop-in discussion that takes place every week, and registration is available to channel leaders in North America and Europe from top corporations across several industries.

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Designing a Sales Organization for Success in Today’s Environment

Market Source Inc

With the COVID-19 pandemic leaving lasting effects, businesses, now more than ever, are relying on new and innovative ways to ensure business continuity. The post Designing a Sales Organization for Success in Today’s Environment appeared first on MarketSource.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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What is a legal injunction?

Tishkoff

A legal injunction is a court order to take a particular action or refrain from it. There are three types of legal injunctions: permanent injunctions; temporary restraining orders; and preliminary injunctions. Temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions can be issued by a court in a lawsuit to stop a party, or those acting in concert with a party, from continuing actions that will cause irreparable harm.

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Examining the Wisdom and Purpose of Incumbency Protection

The 2112 Group

Vendors should make account protection an earned reward, not a guarantee. By Larry Walsh. In a recent consultation, a 2112 Brainstorm subscriber asked about incumbency protection programs and policies across the industry. The question was getting at the best practices for ensuring that partners of record have the first opportunity to renew a customer contract or engagement.

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Subscription Management is also part of the user experience!

SamePage

Subscription management is not a core collaboration feature and not something you think about as part of the user experience. It's not something you use every day. If it gets the job done, why change? Language.