When channel marketers logged off from the B2B Sales & Marketing Exchange (B2BSMX) online experience last month, they left with an armful of insights and information to better align their partner sales and marketing programs in 2021. Partner marketing teams at many channel-focused companies are often under-staffed and insufficiently funded, even at large organizations. As […]
More than seven months into an economy rocked by an unrelenting pandemic, some companies are beginning to get back to the business of investing in their operations, if mostly on must-have projects. But even as firms begin to explore how they can adjust their business to a “new-normal,” vendors and their partners need to focus […]
Brother International Corporation has launched a new online partner portal that consolidates Brother’s comprehensive suite of partner products, tools and training into an intuitive, companywide partner relationship management (PRM) platform. The new, unified portal — officially called PATH (Partner Authorized Total Hub) — was implemented to remove complexity for thousands of Brother Authorized Partners (BAP), […]
Channel management technology vendors are partnering with incentive program and rebate/MDF management tool providers to offer clients holistic partner program support solutions. Through-channel marketing automation technology (TCMA) vendor BrandMuscle, announced it has formalized a partnership with WorkStride, a sales incentives and rebate management company, to provide a seamless experience for managing the full range of […]
Even at large partner companies, marketing staff can be pretty lean. That’s why many of the more successful channel teams are working hard to provide partner sales staff with the tools and content necessary to engage customers and prospects all the way from the top-of-the-funnel to post-purchase support. At the B2B Sales & Marketing Exchange […]
While channel leaders often express some frustration about not being able to break the 80/20 barrier, a white paper by Channel Impact, a channel focused consulting firm and services agency, suggests that vendors will continue to focus their attention on their top performing partners and those showing the most potential for the future But now, […]
Maximizing partner engagement — an impossible dream for many channel program leaders – was given master-class treatment in the series of online presentation made during ChannelWeek at the end of August. The webcast series, hosted by Channel Marketer Report and its sister publication Demand Gen Report, offered deep-dive insights into why partner engagement remains so […]
Ansira, an independent global marketing technology and services firm, announced the creation of Ansira Channel and two other business units, Ansira Digital and Sincro. The move is in response to the rapidly growing demand for digital readiness in the marketplace and to hone the company’s specializations. Ansira Channel was created as a dedicated business unit […]
Impartner, the channel management platform and partner relationship management (PRM) provider, has completed its acquisition of the through channel marketing automation (TCMA) business from TIE Kinetix. The acquisition includes TIE Kinetix’s full suite of contemporary brand control and demand generation technologies, as well as an exclusive digital marketing transformation program developed and delivered in partnership […]
Lenovo has launched a new partner portal that provides a single access point to tools, resources and intelligent, personalized information that are most relevant to the partner’s needs, geographic markets and past history. The Lenovo Partner Hub, part of a company-wide multi-year digital transformation program for business partners, reaffirms the company’s commitment to fostering greater […]