A recent survey by OneAffiniti, a through-channel marketing support company, discovered that vendors can win the loyalty of a large percentage of their partners by offering marketing support programs. Monetary incentives were tagged as the most popular motivator by two-thirds of the respondents. But 40% of the partners said that offers of marketing services make […]
Daniel Hawtof has been named Chief Product Officer at WorkStride, a provider of channel incentive and employee recognition solutions. In this role, Hawtof will be responsible for driving the launch of platform product enhancements as well as developing the future product development roadmap and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining WorkStride, Hawtof was Vice President of […]
Ingram Micro has launched a new digital marketing program. Designed to enable channel partners to establish a meaningful digital presence for their brands, Ingram Micro Partner Connect simplifies the complexities of digital marketing with personalized, premium digital marketing content delivered as-a-service. Launched in beta earlier this year with members of Ingram Micro’s Trust X Alliance community, the […]
Forrester has put a spotlight on partner relationship management (PRM), a not-so-new but somewhat low-profile channel supporting solution category. In its recent report – The Forrester Wave: Partner Relationship Management, Q4 2018 — the research firm noted that companies have invested in PRM since the early 2000s. But “as CRM started to grow significantly in […]
The B2B Marketing Exchange will feature an expanded agenda of channel marketing sessions. As the conference moves to a new venue, the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale, February 25 – 27, the channel track has been expanded to include as many as eight sessions and workshops. “We fully expected that our channel sessions would be well received […]
Impartner is offering enhanced data-assisted decision-making capabilities with the Fall ’18 release of its partner relationship management (PRM) technology. It’s upgrade solution will now mirror transactional data into a data lake optimized for analytics. As the technology learns, the company said, it will provide predictive, prescriptive data-backed recommendations to channel manager to help them continually […]
The successful collection, management and analysis of data will be critical to the success of small and medium channel partners in 2019, according to a recent survey by the Channel Institute, a training and certification body for channel business professionals. Channel marketers continued to raise concerns about the ability or interest of their small and […]
Winn Technology Group and Averetek have entered into a strategic partnership, establishing collaborative marketing solutions for clients in the technology sector. The partnership between Winn and Averetek will expand the combined expertise of both firms in the channel marketing arena. Averetek, a provider of channel marketing software, has enhanced its lead generation platform with the […]
Zoom, an enterprise video communications technology provider, has introduced a new channel charter featuring a series of initiatives designed to make the experience of working with the company easier and more profitable for reseller and referral partners. The channel charter is a focal point of Zoom’s program to expand its global footprint, grow into new customer […]
Xerox is enabling its channel partners with a new set of marketing resources to help them market and sell the company’s managed print services and its ConnectKey-enable workplace assistants. The new resources and a re-designed partner portal reinforce Xerox’s commitment to deliver value-added benefits to its channel partner community, the company said. Now mobile-friendly and […]