Partner Path

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Be proactive in winning over your sales, services & training teams. If you’re struggling to get your company to adopt a partnering model – you’re not alone. In our recent roundtable with twelve senior channel chiefs, we discussed the challenge of conveying partner relevance across an organization. This group of seasoned executives have led channel efforts at some of the largest and most partner-friendly technology vendors – and even they are struggling to get all teams in their companies on

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Managed Services Platform

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Apple Podcasts: [link] Spotify: [link] Youtube: [link] Let’s admit it. Those of us in IT tend to be reclusive. It’s in our nature to “avoid” seeing the customer and instead do our work at our desks - after all, it’s where are able to accomplish the most. However, let’s consider stepping away from our desks and seeing what we can accomplish when we choose to be present with our customers.

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Impact

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Defining big data allows you to derive more value from partnership marketing , and the seven Vs sum it up pretty well: . Volume Velocity Variety Variability Veracity Visualization Value. How big data makes a major difference in partnership marketing. Whether you employ traditional marketing tactics like paid ads or leverage cutting-edge partnership strategies, data plays a crucial role in growth.

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Stellar Partnerships

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Modern dating is a minefield. There are endless sites that claim to find you the perfect match or you can try your luck with Tinder or Bumble and hope you won’t get swiped left. It was much easier in my day when you could rely on introductions from friends or bagging an attractive groomsman at a wedding. Finding the right corporate partner can be equally challenging.

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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.

Be Partner Ready

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In the previous blog , I examined the first of the four purses (the HR purse) that non-profits & social enterprises can tap into when approaching corporates for resources & cash. As a reminder, the 4 purses are: 1) HR, 2) Philanthropy, 3) CSR, and 4) Marketing. Let’s dive into the Philanthropy purse today. The Philanthropy purse is the most well-known to changemakers, who live and breathe philanthropy.

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Partnership on AI

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Share. Our Blog. /. Press Release. Other. Partnership on AI applauds the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. PAI Staff. October 5, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. Content Row. Click here to start editing. -->. The White House Office of Science and Technology announced a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights yesterday with “ five principles that should guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the American public in the age of artifi

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Hype

OCTOBER 5, 2022

I’ve caught up on some essential reading this weekend to be able to offer you a selection of the most inspiring thought pieces and research by world-renowned scholar and management thinker, Professor Henry Chesbrough.

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CenterPoint Group

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Managing your indirect spend can be challenging. Accounting for between 15 and 20% of total spending for most companies, it’s a complex feat, indeed, taking in numerous categories of goods and services and a battalion of suppliers. But you should know there are companies out there who are spending as much as 50% of total spending on indirect spend.

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INSEAD Knowledge

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Even if individuals are highly motivated to work together, they aren’t always able to do so effectively. That's because communication remains a key challenge. The human ability to communicate what’s in the mind is miraculous; no other species does it with as much richness. Even so, we don't do it perfectly. Communication is the grease that ensures an organisation runs like a well-oiled machine.

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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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Thinkers 50

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Gary Hamel has been inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2022. Here we share more about Gary Hamel’s work. Gary Hamel has been on the faculty of London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Lab. He has written 20 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history.

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Channel Insider

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Managed service providers (MSPs) have been around since the 1990s, handling repetitive, essential, and time-consuming operations in the IT ecosystem for businesses. Some of the key services they offer include infrastructure maintenance and monitoring, technical support, application deployment, and network management. According to Statista, the global managed services market was valued at $161.37 billion in 2021.

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CenterPoint Group

OCTOBER 5, 2022

So you have already completed a deep dive analysis into the criteria that you need your supplier to meet.

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INSEAD Knowledge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

When it comes to falling in love, people – broadly speaking – tend to fit into one of two categories. Those in the first category think the best relationships are formed quickly, spontaneously and organically. Fireworks and instant chemistry are par for the course, while trying to “make it work” is a sure sign that the relationship perhaps isn’t meant to be.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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

Planview Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. In the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), time is divided into Program Increments (PIs) to provide structure while maintaining agility.

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Compass Point

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I heard a recent job recruiting statistic that should give every business leader pause. Currently, for every 10 open positions there are approximately only 5 motivated and willing workers. This means that job seekers have the power, and likely will for many more years to come. Recruiting is certainly more challenging, but retention is an even larger concern.

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Impact

OCTOBER 7, 2022

You spend a great deal of time setting up your affiliate program. No attention to detail is left out, from creating promotional assets to investing in a partnership tracking platform. But what if you build it only to find out no one signs up? That scenario may be a real possibility if you don’t take one of the most crucial steps in successful affiliate marketing — developing a stellar affiliate program landing page.

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INSEAD Knowledge

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Growing up playing in the mud around Manila’s rice fields, Joy was blissfully unaware of the fact that she was poor. Her father was a farmer and her mother a bank worker, enduring an existence they hoped their daughter would escape. It was only when she received a scholarship to a top university in Manila that Joy realised just how poor she was. Despite this obstacle, she found the more she mixed with fellow scholarship and international students, the more her confidence bloomed.

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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

Tackle.io

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By most accounts, selling B2B software has grown increasingly difficult over the last few years. In fact, 75% of buyers say their average buying cycle has increased in length over the last 24 months as buying committees expand and enterprise purchase cycles lengthen, according to Forrester. As economic uncertainty looms, procurement processes are becoming more rigid and buyers are scrutinizing their budgets as they brace for impact.

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Impartner

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Although it may not be the newest tech on the block, email newsletters are one of the best ways to keep your resellers informed about your latest products and services. Besides helping you build your brand and keeping it top of mind, the personal touch that newsletters offer can also help to strengthen the relationship you have with resellers. However, this can only happen if you are providing valuable content.

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Frost & Sullivan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

SAN ANTONIO – October 6, 2022 – Based on its recent analysis of the Global Secure Access Service Edge Industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Palo Alto Networks with the 2022 Company of the Year Award for delivering Prisma SASE, a top choice in mind for SASE solution among global business, to consistently connect and secure customers’ hybrid workforces, regardless of whether users are remote, mobile, or working from an office. “Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma SASE is one of the few clou

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Binfire Collaboration Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Human Resource landscape has revolutionized immensely. There has been increasing pressure for Human Resource departments to pay more attention to value-adding activities. Furthermore, organizations have realized the essence of integrating Information technology into their HR functions. The integration has resulted in the birth of Electronic HR management (E-HRM), which relies heavily on cutting-edge technology that ranges from corporate portals to state-of-the-art intranets.

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Tackle.io

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By most accounts, selling B2B software has grown increasingly difficult over the last few years. In fact, 75% of buyers say their average buying cycle has increased in length over the last 24 months as buying committees expand and enterprise purchase cycles lengthen, according to Forrester. . As economic uncertainty looms, procurement processes are becoming more rigid and buyers are scrutinizing their budgets as they brace for impact.

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Impact

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Partnerships Experience Academy (PXA) provides a wide range of educational content and certifications to expand your affiliate and partnership marketing industry knowledge. As a publisher, you now have more opportunities to advance your skills with two new courses. Trackonomics – Publisher Tools Basics and Pressboard – Publisher Tools Basics provide a high-level overview of how the functions of each tool make content publishing and monetization easier.

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Frost & Sullivan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

With the acceleration of digital initiatives, cloud adoption, and workforce mobility, the business environment has changed dramatically. Users, applications, data, and workloads are now everywhere. These changes make the traditional hardware-based approach of enabling access and backhauling traffic to one single data center location obsolete as it can no longer meet the fast-changing business needs of today’s digital world.

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Market Source Inc

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Thriving at MarketSource for 20 impressive years, Program Manager Eric Parham is a problem-solver, coach, team advocate, and relationship builder. The post Employee Spotlight: Eric Parham appeared first on MarketSource.

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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.

Remarkable Partnerships

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“Understanding the needs of a business is the starting point of any project” John Williams. Right now in the middle of this cost of living crisis we need to be able to understand how things currently are for businesses. It’s therefore important that we have empathy with the people you build partnerships with. Running a business is more complicated than its ever been, and business leaders are operating in overwhelm.

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Impact

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Singapore — Oct 5, 2022 — Lotus’s Malaysia, a leading hypermarket chain in Malaysia has partnered with impact.com, Southeast Asia’s leading partnership management platform, to run the country’s first hypermarket affiliate marketing program. E-commerce and online shopping has skyrocketed since the pandemic, with the number of digital consumers in Southeast Asia expected to reach 380 million by 2026.

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Frost & Sullivan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – October 6, 2022 – Frost & Sullivan , renowned research and consulting firm, recognizes SentinelOne , the leader in autonomous cybersecurity, with the 2022 Global Customer Value Award. In times of economic uncertainty, organizations seek maximum ROI from their technology investments, particularly operational staples such as cybersecurity.

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