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How Are People Actually Using AI in Their Partner Programs?

Learn about 7 use cases for AI in partner programs, with real-life anecdotes straight from teams testing, iterating, and learning what works.…

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Liz Melton

June 30, 202510 min read

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How Are People Actually Using AI in Their Partner Programs?

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Deal Registration Best Practices

Channel Ops

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 relationsh…

dana4 min read

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Feeding Your Channel Partners High Quality Leads

Channel Management

Feeding Your Channel Partners High Quality Leads

For most things, you get out of them what you put into them. The channel is no different, but too often vendors enter the channel to reduce internal head counts and cut costs, with the idea that the c…

dana3 min read

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Determining the ROI of Your Channel

Channel Management

Determining the ROI of Your Channel

Everyone is looking to get an ROI read on their indirect sales channel, especially those organizations that are just starting out with a partner program. If you’ve been tasked with managing this initi…

melanie3 min read

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What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You

Channel Management

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 …

melanie2 min read

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Structuring a Partner Program to Get the Partner Behaviors You Want Part 1

Channel Management

Structuring a Partner Program to Get the Partner Behaviors You Want Part 1

If you’ve ever had a spiff program not work the way you’d hoped, you already know that partners can behave in completely unexpected ways… Or are they really that unexpected? With a little forethought,…

melanie2 min read

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The Channel as Search Engine Optimizer

Channel Management

The Channel as Search Engine Optimizer

Five Steps for Dominating SEO Using Your Channel Lets face it: The reason you build a reseller channel is to accelerate your company’s sales ten times faster than you could by building a direct sales …

melanie3 min read

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The Truth about the Magic Hockey Stick

Channel Management

The Truth about the Magic Hockey Stick

It looks so nice on the channel partner revenue graph — a line inclines gradually for a year or so, and then makes a sharp upward turn, the shape of a hockey stick. Everyone thinks their indirect sale…

melanie3 min read