Channel Management Blog

Our blog features channel management tips, best practices and expert insights to help you get the most out of your PRM and create a successful partner program.

Sep 12, 2014
Deal Registration Best Practices

The overarching best practice in deal registration is to design your process with partners’ interests in mind, and they’ll register deals without too much prompting from you. If a partner’s relationship with your company and product is serving them, they’ll register deals.

Channel Success, Deal Registration, Partner Relationship Management System
Jul 9, 2012
What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You

Lack of visibility into the channel is one of the most common contributors to a failed indirect sales initiative. There’s no way around it: you can’t manage in the dark, and you can’t build effective strategy on guesswork. When management lacks easy access to channel data—visibility into partners’ profiles, recruitment pipeline and partner performance, geographic […]

Channel Management, Channel Success, Deal Registration, Indirect Sales Channel, Partner Recruiting, PRM (Partner Relationship Management)
Jun 20, 2012
Smash those Silos from Your Indirect Sales Channel

Silos have their use – if you’re a farmer – but you don’t want them in your channel. The more obstacles between vendors, partners and their marketing teams, the less productive the channel. Anything that prevents information flow between these three parties is essentially blocking revenue. Creating an Information Hub When you have one place […]

Channel Management, Channel Marketing Strategy, Channel Success, Deal Registration, Indirect Sales Channel, Partner Portal Software