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Always be opening

Stellar Partnerships

The British businessman James Goldsmith was famous for his many wives and amorous adventures. He once offered this advice after his third marriage, “if you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy”. When partnerships managers finally get to a yes with a new corporate partner, it’s fair to say you’ve just lost your warmest prospect. An old-style approach to sales is ‘Always be Closing’, which was popularised in the film Glengarry Glen Ross.

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Dell Technologies: Changing the World through Multi-Cloud and Big Data

Channel Insider

Dell Technologies has gone far beyond its roots as a PC upgrade business run out of Michael Dell’s dorm room. If you haven’t been paying attention, the company is now one of the biggest global IT products and services providers, with an impressive vision and roster of customers willing to sing its praises. I was at Dell Technologies World 2022 this week and was impressed by the breadth and depth of the offerings I saw – and how deftly the company highlighted these achievements.

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Agility Inc.

Thinkers 50

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Five Strategies to Successfully Onboard New Hires

Aepiphanni

So, you’ve started your business and now you’re ready to hire a team and start delegating tasks. How do you begin the process of onboarding new employees to your company? It may be one business process to which you’ve given little thought. After all, the excitement of even just seeing your business begin to take […].

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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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Advantages of Outsourcing Inside Sales

Chameleon Sales

In our last blog , we discussed the challenges of developing insides sales systems. If your organization is leery of trying to set up your own inside sales system, we will discuss some advantages of outsourcing inside sales because in today’s competitive global market, whomever closes the sale fastest wins. So, by the time many organizations can set up their inside sales force, their competitors have crossed the finish line and are gearing up for the next race.

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Thinkers50 Radar 2022: Basima Tewfik

Thinkers 50

Basima Tewfik is an award-winning professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Basima is most known for her work on rethinking what we know about imposter syndrome at work — a phenomenon with upsides that may not have been recognized in the past. Her research has been selected as a finalist for the Academy of Management’s William H. Newman Award, which recognizes outstanding papers based on a recent dissertation.

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impact.com Adds Myer, Crocs, Compare The Market, Waggly And VistaPrint To Rapidly Expanding ANZ Customer List

Impact

The post impact.com Adds Myer, Crocs, Compare The Market, Waggly And VistaPrint To Rapidly Expanding ANZ Customer List appeared first on impact.com.

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MSSP Case Study: How VARS Focuses on Strengths and Outsources the Rest

Channel Insider

It can be tempting for managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) to take on new service areas. The latest statistics come out about the growth in the cybersecurity market and management decides the organization needs a bigger piece of that expanding pie. Or a couple of big customers request advanced services that might require a Security Operations Center (SOC) or sophisticated threat intelligence and threat hunting capabilities and the temptation to go all

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What a Standards & Compliance Program Is (& Why You Need One)

ITA Group

What a Standards & Compliance Program Is (& Why You Need One). Successful channel leaders might not know of standards programs by name, but they probably know they need one. A standards and compliance program incents channel partners to consistently meet key performance indicators (KPIs) across various operational efficiencies. Perhaps, as a channel leader, you’ve been searching for a way to increase partner profitability, enhance customer experience and create brand consistency across all chann

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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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8 Ways Technology Can Help Hotels Succeed In the Next Decade (Pt.1)

TRG Blog

The hospitality industry will likely never be the same again. This isn’t necessarily bad news, though. Right now, industry leaders are thinking about how to evolve their businesses—embracing innovation and planning ways to ensure stability and long-term success.

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Helping your partners sell better: It’s not complicated

Mindmatrix

Suppliers often wonder why their channel relationships are not yielding the expected results. One of the reasons that Suppliers notice is weak product marketing at the partner’s end. As a vendor it is difficult to comprehend why your channel marketing is not up to the mark even with you providing all the marketing collateral to your partners. Here’s why–Your channel partners are just not using your marketing materials!

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Five Reasons Why Your MSP Should NOT Become an MSSP

Channel Insider

With cybersecurity services in strong demand because of rampant ransomware , software supply chain and critical infrastructure attacks, many managed service providers (MSPs) have moved into the managed security service provider (MSSP) space. And many more are considering it. While security can be a lucrative market, it also isn’t for everyone. Here are five reasons why an MSP might NOT want to transition into the MSSP sector.

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The Pitfalls of Flaunting Your Social Status

INSEAD Knowledge

Ditch the luxury logos if you want to be seen as a cooperative team player.

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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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Manufacturing Agility: Medical Tech Leader Reduces WIP by 70%

Planview Blog

As a global leader in medical technology grew in size and complexity, it struggled to achieve the manufacturing agility required to perform at scale. That’s when Planview LeanKit became part of their story. With LeanKit, the company’s globally distributed teams are able to connect strategy to delivery, plan and replan with agility, and empower their teams to focus on what really matters: Improving the lives of the patients they serve. “LeanKit has come to be recognized as an applicat

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Channel Leaders 2022

ForzaDash

ForzaDash Identifies Top Channel Leaders of 2022 in Inaugural Awards. May 05, 2022 11:00 ET | Source: ForzaDash. WALLINGFORD, Conn., May 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ForzaDash, a forerunner in managed service provider (MSP) channel development, announced its first-ever Top Channel Leaders List for 2022 from an extensive worldwide group of 300+ applicants of executives who are leading the field in partner and vendor growth.

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Achieve Resilience with a Cloud-based PMS for Your Hotel Chain

TRG Blog

As new technologies and new challenges emerge , an advanced cloud-based property management system (PMS) can empower hotels and casinos to create scalable operations that foster greater visibility, utility, and efficiency. In this era when the hospitality industry is changing fast, legacy systems that silo each location as its own data centre will not successfully lead businesses into a new decade.

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How to Select the Right Platform to Manage Your Channel Sales

Magnetrix

Listen to the podcast with guest speaker: Jonathan Deveaux of Comforte AG. Aired on March 29, 2022. Table of contents: Introduction. Best practices for selecting a channel management platform. Consideration #1: External usability. Consideration #2: Integrations. Consideration #3: X factor. When is a solution necessary for channel management? Which organizations should adopt a channel management tool?

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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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Lytx Commended by Frost & Sullivan for Leadership in the Video Safety Solutions Market with Its Driver-centric Products

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio – May 5, 2022 – Frost & Sullivan recently assessed the North American video safety solutions industry, and based on its findings, recognizes Lytx ® with the 2022 North American Video Safety Solutions Company of the Year Award. The company develops products and experiences for its clients that enable them to save lives, drive revenues, and boost efficiencies.

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Five Strategies to Successfully Onboard New Hires

Aepiphanni

So, you’ve started your business and now you’re ready to hire a team and start delegating tasks. How do you begin the process of onboarding new employees to your company? It may be one business process to which you’ve given little thought. After all, the excitement of even just seeing your business begin to take […].

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Why Businesses in the Food & Pharmaceutical Industry Need GRC Software

TRG Blog

Food and pharma businesses have to secure their processes and for doing so, they need to have a platform that is sustaining all these responsibilities. That is when GRC software jumps in.

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impact.com Announces Continued Growth in First Quarter of 2022, Demonstrating Strong Demand for its Innovative Technology Supporting Brands, Publishers, Agencies and Channel Partners in the Thriving Partnership Economy

Impact

Highlights from the quarter include launch of The Partnership Economy book, expansion of client portfolio with over 200 new clients, key acquisition, new product innovations, and two c-suite appointments. NEW YORK—May 3, 2022 — impact.com , the world’s leading partnership management platform driving partnerships for more than 2,200 brands, announced today its continued momentum in the first quarter of 2022 driven by the company’s client expansion, acquisition of Pressboard , the premier analytic

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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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The New Path Forward: Media and Entertainment Leaders Lean into Digital and Remote-first Agents

Frost & Sullivan

The extended duration of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected every industry in different ways. For some digital-native companies, lockdowns, and other inconveniences were slightly challenging but manageable. For businesses in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry, however, the pandemic was a disruptive wake-up call, one that demanded a complete reassessment of how business was conducted, how products were delivered, and where and how customers were supported.

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When are Religious Organizations Exempt from Charitable Registration?

Pearlman + Pearlman

To view footnote, click on footnote number. While most nonprofits are required to register in many states to conduct charitable fundraising, religious organizations are generally exempt from the registration requirement. It’s important to be aware, however, that the scope of the states’ religious exemption varies. Therefore, religious organizations should carefully review each state’s statutory exemption to determine where they are exempt, and where they are not exempt and therefore may need to

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Do I need a Business Partner?

Company Partners Blog

Business Partners. There are few very successful solo entrepreneurs, even well known star entrepreneurs started with partners and having a Business Partner can bring enormous benefits: Combining key skills. One may be a great engineer, the other a talented marketer. Or there could just be parts of the business that need a specialist area of knowledge.

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Why Do Financial Services Need SaaS Accounting Solutions?

TRG Blog

Before we can answer the question above, we must first define what SaaS accounting is and how the Financial Services sector operates. From there, it will become clearer why and how the financial services industry can benefit from SaaS accounting solutions.

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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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Landis+Gyr Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Offering Customer Value Additions and Technology Innovation in the AMI Industry with Its Smart Metering Solutions

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio – May 4, 2022 – Recently, Frost & Sullivan assessed the global advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Landis+Gyr (SIX: LAND) with the 2022 Global AMI Company of the Year Award. The company develops products and solutions that match current market needs and anticipate future customer requirements.

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Are you a bad MSP?

Managed Services Platform

Apple Podcasts: [link] Spotify: [link] In your job, you most likely assume that you’re doing well. Why wouldn’t you? But, if most people think they’re performing well, how do we actually gauge that and test performance? It’s really easy to talk about what makes a good MSP, and that’s generally what we like to focus on. This is a touchy subject, but one that can really benefit you in your pursuit to be a great MSP.

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How I Tackle Marketplace with Ruthy Ross, Sailpoint

Tackle.io

Tell us about yourself. I lead the AWS technology alliance at SailPoint. I’m responsible for the global AWS partnership’s vision, strategy, and field enablement. . What does your company do? SailPoint is the market leader in Identity Security. With 94% of all identity-related data breaches being identity-related , SailPoint is more relevant than ever.