September, 2019

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Ed Rigsbee’s Raw & Unedited with Dwight Holcomb: Lean Membership Marketing

Rigsbee Research

? [link] Ed Rigsbee, CSP, CAE, interviews Dwight Holcomb, author, “The Lean CMO-How Small Marketing Budget Can Produce Big Results” featuring Five Marks of the Lean CMO 1. Always Learning 2. Lightning-Fact Results 3. Positive ROI 4. Know Your Niche 5. Efficient and Effective Campaigns Three Codes to Thinking Lean 1. Asking the Right Questions […].

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Managing Ecosystems — ASAP Webinar

Alliance Strategy

By Ben Gomes-Casseres Excerpts from webinar for Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, presented in July 2019. This 35 minute video covers: The post Managing Ecosystems — ASAP Webinar appeared first on Alliance Strategy.

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Promoting Worker Well-Being in the AI Integrated Workplace

Partnership on AI

The integration of AI into the workplace poses a range of opportunities, as well as complex challenges. Not the least of these is the issue of worker well-being – specifically, developing best practices for promoting the well-being of all workers alongside AI’s introduction. This topic is a key aspect of PAI’s mission, and was at the center of a two-day workshop co-hosted by PAI and the Ford Foundation in New York in August, 2019.

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Get Your Partner Portal Home Page Right: 4 Ways To Keep Partners Coming Back

Chaneltivity

Channel Consultancy AchieveUnite recently posted an article on their blog laying out the importance of your partner portal to your partner’s success, including 4 specific ways to keep partners logging in. The article also includes samples of both an effective and poor portal to use as inspiration for laying out yours. It also includes a list of the most commonly used links within portals, including Deal Registration , Training , Pricing , and more. “The home page of your partner port

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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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We Need All of our Alliances to be Agile!

Phoenix Consulting Group

In early 2018, my colleague Laura Powers, an Agilest Icon, and I held a workshop on Agile Partnering. One of our attendees was Kristina Scott, Sr. Director Partner Enablement, Marketing, Operations at Seclore. Seclore is an emerging security software startup with a broad ecosystem of channels, technology alliances and OEMs. A year after the workshop, Kristina remarked “Thinking back to the workshop, I’ve come to appreciate that “we need all of our alliances to be agile.”.

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What's New? Better Management Tools For Team Pages.

SamePage

Teams in Samepage are where most of your work gets done, so it naturally makes sense for us to improve how you're able to work inside of your teams. Among the dozens of small improvements we make every month, two stand out for making life easier for our users. Language.

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3 Must-Have Qualities of a Great B2B Inside Sales Partner

SFE Partners

One proven way B2B firms are scaling revenue is by evolving how they think about inside sales pipeline generation. But even if you know the best practices that guarantee telemarketing success , executing them is another matter. To do inside sales right requires expertise and resources that you might not have right now.

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Why We’re Creating a Dedicated Research Fellowship to Advance Diversity and Inclusion in AI

Partnership on AI

Despite many years of awareness of the problem, the AI and technology field at-large continues to suffer from a severe lack of ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity. This ongoing crisis is particularly pronounced within the technical teams designing the next generation of products – products that impact people from a wide range of backgrounds, often different from the teams developing them. .

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Train Partners Effectively and They Will Reward You

Chaneltivity

A strong channel partner training program is key to a successful channel program. . This isn’t simply a task you want to check done on and move on. Even your most seasoned partners will need key details and training on your products and solutions to be successful. It’s about creating the right content that will enable your partners to be successful, delivered in a way that they’ll be willing to use.

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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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Appeeling Fruit

Compass Point

. Ready to build a business that can run without you? Register for a ValuePoints Workshop! APPEELING FRUIT. How this owner and his daughter grew a business that had their competition calling. Business Challenge: From a small startup to a multi-million dollar business, this owner began looking to the future. While the company was growing, it was not in a sustainable way.

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The Stormy Challenges of an In-House Referral Program

Impartner

“The number one factor driving successful referral programs is a fully-engaged advocate base.” Developing software in-house is always a risky business. This is as true for referral programs as it is for other types of software systems. Marketing lead-gen teams must fight through stormy weather when having to design requirements from scratch while simultaneously navigating the turbulent waters of IT concerns and project priorities.

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The "Business Value" of a Great Sales Team by Marty O'Neill

Dinkel Business Development

In 2012, 15% of accredited business graduate schools offered a curriculum in sales. In 2016, the probability that a college graduate, regardless of their major, would work in sales at some point in their careers, was greater than 50%. In 2016, less than 100 of the roughly 4,000 US colleges had sales programs or even sales courses. So, we are left to ponder the impact on business when only a small fraction of the 170,000 yearly MBA grads or the approximately two million undergrads know anything a

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It’s a People Business – Managing Personas in your Channel Program

Channel Assist

The best channel programs will always have a blend of personas that you need to manage effectively.

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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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Partnership on AI Calls for Visa Accessibility Globally to Accelerate Responsible AI Development

Partnership on AI

Policy Paper Provides Recommendations for Policymakers and the International AI/ML Community. San Francisco, CA, September 10, 2019 – The Partnership on AI (PAI) today published a paper to address the challenges experienced by the global artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) community in obtaining visas. Based on input from PAI Partners , AI practitioners, and PAI’s own research, this paper offers recommendations that will enable multidisciplinary AI/ML experts to collaborate with

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Edgeworth Security selects Channeltivity as their Channel Partner Management Solution

Chaneltivity

Charlotte, North Carolina, – September 17, 2019 – Channeltivity, a global leader in Partner Relationship Management (PRM) software solutions, today announces that Edgeworth Security, a video monitoring solutions company using artificial intelligence, machine learning, military-grade analytics, and cyber intelligence techniques to transform the security industry, has selected Channeltivity to provide their PRM solution in support of their channel growth strategy.

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Top 5 Must-Dos for a Successful Referral Program

Impartner

” Research on referral program success rates shows that broad promotion of a company’s referral program is a significant step in getting customers to refer multiple times. “ Organizations looking to develop a referral program have a lot to consider. Everything from finding the appropriate technology to determining the best date for launch to figuring out their reward structure, it all takes deliberate thought to make sure the right decisions are made.

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PAI Research Promotes Responsible Collaborations between People and AI Systems

Partnership on AI

AI systems promise to augment human perception, cognition, and problem-solving abilities. They also pose risks of manipulation, abuse, and other negative consequences, both foreseen and unintended. Today’s AI technologies interact with humans increasingly often and in varied contexts and modalities – a human might seek mental health services from a chatbot, use autonomous vehicles for transportation, and even learn from an intelligent tutoring system.

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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 ABOUT ML Taps Collective Wisdom

Partnership on AI

Developing best practices for emerging technologies, and making sure that they are put into play, is a challenging and often inaccessible goal for many organizations – especially for complex and unsolved topics such as AI ethics. The process consumes time and resources, often without a blueprint for how to proceed or clear definition of success.

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Top Corporations Report Dramatic Channel Revenue Growth in New Impartner Global Customer Survey

Impartner

Impartner PRM customers worldwide report an average channel revenue increase of 32.3 percent and 29 percent decrease in administrative costs. Seventy-eight percent of top corporations also say Impartner’s Partner Relationship Management solution helps them create a partner experience that’s a competitive advantage. Salt Lake City – September 11, 2019 – Impartner , the fastest-growing and most-award winning pure-play Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solution, today announced the resul

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Enterprise Print Management Leader PrinterLogic Creates ‘The Best Portal Partners Have Ever Seen’ Using Impartner

Impartner

Impartner Partner Relationship Management Helps PrinterLogic scale their channel, delight partners and gain insight into partner performance. Salt Lake City – September 5, 2019 – From deep in the heart of Utah’s Silicon Slopes, a seemingly endless stream of innovative tech companies continues to emerge, including PrinterLogic, a serverless printing infrastructure innovator.

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Visa Laws, Policies, and Practices: Recommendations for Accelerating the Mobility of Global AI/ML Talent

Partnership on AI

The post Visa Laws, Policies, and Practices: Recommendations for Accelerating the Mobility of Global AI/ML Talent appeared first on The Partnership on AI.

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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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Human-AI Collaboration Trust Literature Review – Key Insights and Bibliography

Partnership on AI

The post Human-AI Collaboration Trust Literature Review – Key Insights and Bibliography appeared first on The Partnership on AI.

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Human-AI Collaboration Framework & Case Studies

Partnership on AI

The post Human-AI Collaboration Framework & Case Studies appeared first on The Partnership on AI.

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4 Reasons to Engage Reps Equally for Optimal Revenue Growth

Channel Assist

Here are some tips to get it done right.

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New Partners To Bolster Perspective For Responsible AI

Partnership on AI

As we enter our third year as a global multi-stakeholder non-profit focused on the creation and dissemination of best practices in AI, PAI is proud to announce the admission of 11 new Partners to our coalition. The addition of these 11 new Partners brings PAI’s multistakeholder coalition to 100 organizations, representing some of the world’s leading academics, civil society organizations, technology companies, nonprofits and policy groups, active on five continents and in 12 countries. .

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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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The Partnership on AI Steering Committee on AI and Media Integrity

Partnership on AI

Advances in AI and computer graphics over the last several years are now being harnessed to create, modify, and disseminate modified or fabricated images, audio, and video content, often referred to broadly as synthetic media. These new content generation and modification capabilities have significant, global implications for the legitimacy of information online, the quality of public discourse, the safeguarding of human rights and civil liberties, and the health of democratic institutions—espec