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Five Reasons Why Strategy is Vital

Remarkable Partnerships

Somerset Maugham once said, “We live in uncertain times.” As we emerge from the pandemic it is essential that leaders plot a clear path ahead. Strategy has never been so important. Oxford Languages defines strategy as follows, “A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.”

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Partnerships: A Dynamic New Customer Acquisition Channel for Retailers and eCommerce in Southeast Asia

Impact

The retail and ecommerce sectors have seen significant growth as many consumers have shifted from in-store to online shopping throughout the pandemic. This is especially evident in Southeast Asia.

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Tips on Managing a Grant and Scholarship Program

Partners Preceptors

By: Lindsey Rowan Now that you’re an expert in launching a new grant or scholarship after reading my previous blog four years ago, I suspect you have quite a few to manage. Perhaps you now have an official grant and scholarship program with more than 10 opportunities as our 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization does.

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Top eCommerce Live Chat Outsourcing Agencies, Services, Providers & Companies

Jake Jorgovan

With top eCommerce sites like Amazon blazing the trail to personalized customer experiences, online shoppers are impatient with poor website customer experiences. Because of sites that use smart technology for personalized experiences, consumers have been taught to expect similar interactions with other eCommerce sites like yours. They expect fast, personalized service, and if they don’t get it, they will go someplace else and you’ll lose the sale.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Internal Strategic Alliance Definition

Peter Simoons

Tip 18: Create an Internal Strategic Alliance Definition. As mentioned in the previous post , clear communication is the cornerstone towards the success of your partnership. Part of the art of clear communication is using terms that you and your partner, in theory, both understand and have a clear definition of. All too often, we assume that your understanding of a term is also their understanding of the same term.

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Partner Ecosystems: Unlocking The Formula For Growth

CoSell

Where’s that crystal ball when you need it? Imagine if we knew exactly which strategies and tactics would result in success. We’d have advance knowledge that would help our sales organizations sell smarter and work smarter.

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Tips on Managing a Grant and Scholarship Program

Partners Preceptors

By: Lindsey Rowan Now that you’re an expert in launching a new grant or scholarship after reading my previous blog four years ago, I suspect you have quite a few to manage. Perhaps you now have an official grant and scholarship program with more than 10 opportunities as our 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization does.

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The Mindset for Partnership Prospecting

Stellar Partnerships

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t- you’re right”. Henry Ford. Were you watching the Olympics and Paralympics? I’ve been in awe of the skills, dedication and sheer grit of the athletes competing. The world was looking forward to seeing Simone Biles, the USA gymnast, add to her cabinet of gold medals. But something went awry.

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Five Lessons From Xiaomi’s Path to Smartphone Supremacy

INSEAD Knowledge

Xiaomi’s leadership team idolised Steve Jobs. Now, it seems the student has become the master.

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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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5 Key Sales Trends To Boost Growth For 2021

CoSell

Are you searching for the best ways to boost growth in 2021? If so, you want to have more high-quality leads, warm introductions, timely opportunities…to close more deals.

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Tips on Managing a Grant and Scholarship Program

Partners Preceptors

By: Lindsey Rowan. Now that you’re an expert in launching a new grant or scholarship after reading my previous blog four years ago, I suspect you have quite a few to manage. Perhaps you now have an official grant and scholarship program with more than 10 opportunities as our 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization does. So, now what? How do you manage the copious and consistent marketing objectives and submission deadlines that hit at all different times throughout the year?

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The Benefits of Moving to a Digital Subscription Business Model

Channel Insider

The technology market moves in cycles, and one of the most extended cycles has been moving from a subscription model to sales of hardware and software and, most recently, back again. Both models have advantages: the sales model is more tactical, and the subscription model is more strategic. This move back to a subscription model begs the question: Why we started with this model, why we moved away from it, and then the drivers and benefits for moving back.

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Key Business Snapshot: US & Argentina

Powerlinx

With a longstanding relationship of deep economic ties, United States stands as Argentina’s third most important trading partner of goods & services, with trade volume amounting to more than $16bn in 2020. As one of its main exports to the US, Argentine wine exporting firms have leverage in terms of quality, technology adoption and long string of acquired knowledge to further develop the US market for their products.

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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 Sales Enablement Gives You Competitive Advantage

CoSell

In a rapidly changing environment, sales teams need to have the best tools, training, and support. It’s not a complicated concept.

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Two Real-World Stories: Cultivating a Single Source of Truth

Planview Blog

How does a large enterprise cultivate a single source of truth across teams, departments, continents, and solutions? Planview enlisted not one, but two global Fortune 500 customers to tell their transformation stories during a “ Fireside Chat: Power of Having One Single Source of Truth.” Each company is a trailblazer in evolving PPM to meet stakeholder needs and achieve strategic objectives.

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Best Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services for SMBs

Channel Insider

First there was endpoint detection and response (EDR). The idea was to secure all endpoints – PCs, laptops, tablets, servers – against threats. However, the field became so complex and involved so many technologies that small businesses struggled with implementation, maintenance, and operations. Enter managed detection and response (MDR) as an outsourced service to provide these organizations with a wide range of protection and threat hunting services.

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10 Project Management Methodologies To Implement

ClearPoint Strategy

Have you ever initiated a project you were sure would be a huge success, but that never reached its potential because deadlines were missed and budgets were busted? This is where the value of good project management becomes clear. Having a structure in place to launch and complete projects that align with your strategic plan is critical to achieving your goals.

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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 Win In a ‘No Normal’ Selling Landscape

CoSell

There’s little question in anyone’s mind that “no normal” is a good description of the radical and evolving changes we’re seeing in the sales landscape. In B2B sales, it’s a time to look closely at how to win – especially in turbulent conditions.

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Nutanix’s Christian Alvarez on Establishing Channel KPIs

The 2112 Group

Christian Alvarez, senior vice president of worldwide channel sales and all routes to market at Nutanix, joins Channelnomics’ Changing Channels host Larry Walsh to talk about creating meaningful and contextual channel key performance indicators (KPIs). A common challenge among channel professionals is proving the relative worth of partner programs and productivity.

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Oh Yes You Can Sell AppDev – Even Without AppDev Expertise

Channel Insider

One of those core questions every MSP should be asking all the time is, “What can I do to grow more business?” The funny thing is that the answers are all around us. As a “channel insider” you may also be wondering how valid it is to call ourselves a “channel” anymore. For some the mission is still to move a product from a manufacturer to a distributor to themselves to their customer.

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Frost & Sullivan Reveals the Top 10 Global Economic Trends Shaping the Growth Prospects in 2021 and 2022

Frost & Sullivan

In an upcoming webinar, discover the transformative economic trends across regions and new investment opportunities. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Contact: Srihari Daivanayagam. Corporate Communications. P: +91 44 6681 4412. E: Srihari.Daivanayagam@frost.com. SANTA CLARA, Calif. –Sept. 7, 2021– As the world economy rebounds from the deep economic contraction in 2020, industrial recovery is expected to move in tandem with the global economic growth.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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5 Co-Sell Tips To Grow Your Business

CoSell

What’s the best way to grow your business? Whether you’re in a small business or a global enterprise, these tips work.

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Announcing the Thinkers50 2021 Innovation Award Shortlist

Thinkers 50

Nominations are in for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards for 2021. Over the course of the next several weeks, we will be highlighting the shortlisted nominees and their achievements. This week, we are sharing with you the 2021 shortlisted nominees for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, in partnership with Fujitsu. 1: Scott Anthony, Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud & Andy Parker.

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Data Protection Business Model Requires Nuanced Approach for MSPs

Channel Insider

Data protection has been a lifeline for many managed services providers (MSPs) during turbulent times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. A rise in ransomware attacks has forced more organizations than ever to rely on MSPs to ensure they can recover their data in the event their primary copy is encrypted by cybercriminals. The challenge MSPs face is that competition for that business is fierce.

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Complimentary access! SiriusDecisions Channel Sales Strategies Research Brief: Attracting Sales Talent – Targeting High Performers

Mindmatrix

Within b-to-b sales organizations, sales enablement plays a critical role in preparing new salespeople for success. But even before sales onboarding can begin, the enablement function must help find and engage top talent. This week, we share a SiriusDecisions Research Brief that takes a closer look at the four steps that must be completed during the target stage of the Sales Talent Recruitment.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Report Generation

ClearPoint Strategy

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Strategy reporting is essential to the success of your business. You can have a well-thought-out, perfectly crafted strategy that lays out detailed plans for future growth, but without doing periodic reporting, you’ll have a much more difficult time achieving your goals. That’s because reporting empowers your organization to do several things that are integral to strategy execution: It allows you to assess the organization’s overall performance , as

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Is a Multi-generational Workforce an Advantage or a Threat?

TRG Blog

Our current workforce is being filled with young fresh graduates, individuals that belong to a completely new generation, Generation Z (Gen Z). But did you know, including Gen Z, we are having four vastly different generations working under one roof? The gaping diversity in age, experiences, skill sets, technological understanding, and behaviours have definitely contributed to the already complex HR landscape we are facing today.

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Why Targeted Lockdowns Could Be Better for Everyone

INSEAD Knowledge

Covid lockdowns may be with us for a long time to come, but they could be made sharper, less painful and possibly even more effective.

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