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The Changing Face Of Co-Op Marketing [Infographic]

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of local businesses participate in digital media co-op programs, up from 40% in 2012. However, there is a significant knowledge gap between these local businesses and the large brands they represent. In fact, 50% of brands believe local businesses don’t understand digital marketing. This infographic outlines results from a study developed by Borrell […]

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SproutLoud Helps Streamline Brand Compliance And Advertising On The Local Level

The Problem: Channel marketers struggle with a variety of challenges in working with distributed organizations. It’s not always easy to maintain brand compliance while allowing partners to customize marketing materials with their local business information. This is especially true with web sites. Consumers want to be able to find the nearest location for a product […]

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Netsertive Helps Bridge The Digital Marketing Divide

The Problem: These days, shoppers search online before they head out to a store. They research their options, compare local offerings and form purchase-defining opinions, but still make their final purchases in-store. When brands and retailers don’t have a strong, coordinated and local online presence, they run the risk of valuable sales opportunities slipping through […]

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How Channel Partners Should Invest MDF To Accelerate Profitable Growth

By John DeSarbo, ZS, and Darren Yetzer, Semdrive   Not so long ago, “lunch-and-learns,” sporting events and trade shows were the keys to a channel partner’s marketing success. Marketing was about getting “butts in the seats” — i.e., assembling as many IT buyers in a room as possible in the hope that the sales team […]

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Three Steps To Ensure Your MDF Allocation Drives Growth In 2015

By John DeSarbo, ZS, and Darren Yetzer, Semdrive  IT buyer behavior continues to change, and vendors are acting accordingly. Customers increasingly look to online resources to help guide their IT purchase decisions. They research online, utilize social channels and avoid speaking with sales representatives until they are ready to buy.  In response, the technology industry […]

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Marketing Best Practices In The Digital Era

By Chris Gaebler, Kaspersky Lab North America The digital era has brought about tremendous changes to the marketing industry, from content, to ROI, to measurability and everything in between. As marketers it’s our job to evolve with the times and use new and innovative methods to ensure our campaigns are effective and the results are […]

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SproutLoud Offers Localization Tools To Empower Channel Marketers

The Problem: With local searches constituting 24% of all Google queries, and 45% of all Yelp searches happening on a mobile app, the interdependence of brands and local businesses is more evident than ever before. Businesses rely on brands for marketing resources and assets promoting the products and services that bring customers through the door. […]

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The Keys To Creating An Optimal Partner Training Plan

A key hurdle for vendors striving to better enable partners to improve sales and marketing efforts is determining where to spend resources and which partners to target first, according to Heather K. Margolis, President of Channel Maven Consulting. “The more strategic organizations are in determining which partners to target and where to spend resources, the […]

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Think Twice Before Emailing To Your CRM Database

By Rich Harrison, CEO, SMTP.com SMTP.com is regularly approached by well-intentioned marketing directors with a “great idea”: Why not capitalize on the countless email addresses sitting in our CRM application via an email marketing campaign?  It doesn’t matter if they are large Fortune 1000 companies or small businesses; to them, this is great idea.  From […]

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