Red Hat, an open-source solutions company, is providing its distributors and resellers with a digital platform to deliver daily-updated data on renewal performance and exclusive Red Hat sales insights. A component Red Hat’s Partner Renewals Engagement Program (PREP), the Renewals Intelligence platform features a suite of interactive dashboards that allows channel partners to gain a […]
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 […]
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, […]
P2P Global, an open ecosystem and marketplace that enables collaboration among diverse partner and technology companies, has announced an offering for technology vendors. The Technology Partner Sponsor program enables vendors to distribute leads to their partners on the platform, collect referrals from any P2P Global-enrolled solution providers, and share information about their products and service […]
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 […]
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 […]
By John Guido, Founder and CEO, P2P Global While at first pass “partnering agreements” may not appear to be a hot topic, they are a vitally important aspect of channel ecosystems, partner-to-partner engagements, and collaboration within the IT channel. Up until now, there has been a consistent set of inefficiencies related to partner-to-partner engagements, and […]
Crossbeam, a provider of a collaborative data platform that enables vendors and their partners to determine overlapping accounts, has introduced a “free tier” offering that allows companies at no charge to use of its platform including access to thousands of overlapping data points with their partners. Crossbeam also announced that Redpoint Ventures has led a $25 Million Series […]