Best Practices Articles
The Future of Channel Marketing: Leveraging AI and Generational Shifts for Growth
Channel marketing leverages artificial intelligence and generational workforce shifts to deliver hyper-personalized partner engagement, self-service digital platforms, and data-driven execution that future-proofs ecosystem growth. Organizations relying on legacy manual processes...
Maximizing Growth Through Integrated Channel Marketing Strategies
Channel Marketing is the strategic coordination of marketing, sales, and vendor alliances to drive revenue through a distribution ecosystem. It transitions the business from linear resale transactions to a sophisticated,...
The Evolution of Channel Marketing in the Modern Ecosystem Era
Channel marketing has evolved from linear transactional resale into a dynamic ecosystem strategy where vendors, distributors and diverse partner types collaborate through automated platforms to drive integrated go-to-market programs and...
Mastering Channel Marketing: In-Depth Insights and Proven Strategies
Channel marketing enables businesses to expand market reach and accelerate revenue growth by collaborating with third-party partners who distribute, promote and sell products across established networks using automation platforms aligned...
Channel Marketing Techniques: Driving Partner Incentives through Point Systems
Partner incentives are a crucial component of channel marketing programs and are designed to motivate and reward partners for their efforts. These incentives help to drive partner engagement, loyalty, and...
The Importance Of Channel Marketing for Partner Ecosystems
A partner ecosystem is a network of organizations that work together to deliver a complete solution to customers. The companies that collaborate are made up of software vendors, hardware manufacturers,...
How to Build the Channel Marketing Agency Business
Channel marketing has come into its own. Forrester not only suggests that the channel marketing services business is directly linked to the third wave of business process automation, and but...
Lead Management Using Channel Marketing Software
More and more vendors are focused on an indirect sales (channel) model. Beyond the initial stages of fulfilment and support engagement, a major activity for these vendors is lead management....
Channel Marketing Software In the Remote World
The world has been on a rapid digitization trend over the past few decades, but 2020 rocket-fueled the adoption of many digital platforms starting with tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams...
How to Build a Channel Marketing Agency Business
Forrester’s analyst Jay McBain believes the channel marketing services business represents the ”third stage” of business process automation, and predicts the through-channel marketing automation software market—including tens of thousands of...
Three Tips for Hiring Channel Marketing Professionals in a Tight Labor Market
Struggling to hire? You’re not alone, and the difficulties extend well beyond the US. Even at the global level, we are experiencing an unprecedented shortage of qualified prospects across multiple...
5 Mistakes Most Channel Marketing Teams Make
During the past decade, around 500 enterprise organizations have invested into some sort of through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) capabilities to enable their partner base. However, in most cases these channel...