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.

Oct 8, 2014
Best Practices for Business Planning in the Channel

No one likes planning, right? But we might as well face facts: joint planning with partners as part of your channel management strategy is a critical best practice, and vendors that make the effort are much better positioned to have a successful channel. Here are three key practices for doing the planning in a way […]

Channel Management, Channel Marketing Strategy, Deal Registration
Sep 23, 2014
Channel Management ROI

Everyone wants to maximize the channel management ROI. Channel management software, increasingly known as partner relationship management (PRM) software, is tightly intertwined with CRM, but delivers the specific requirements needed to run a successful channel program. Listen to Jason Jacobs, CEO of Channeltivity, discuss Channel Management ROI and how “the only thing that creates value […]

Channel Management, Channel Success, Partner Relationship Management System, PRM (Partner Relationship Management), PRM Solution
Sep 18, 2014
3 Marketing Development Funds Best Practices That Work

Three best practices for a successful marketing development fund program. Hint: is not about control, but incentives and guardrails.

Channel Marketing Strategy, PRM (Partner Relationship Management)
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
Jun 30, 2014
Gartner says “Tech Sales Has Lost Its Mojo”: Empower Your partners

It’s not news that most B2B buyers are doing their due diligence almost entirely online, long before any sales person enters the picture. As an unfortunate bit of fallout from this change, Gartner research shows how far sales has fallen in buyers’ eyes as a result. In Gartner’s survey, tech buyers rank sales at the […]

Channel Marketing Strategy, Channel Success, Indirect Sales Channel
Jun 27, 2014
In the News: Easing Deal Registration Management

Our customer ForeScout Technologies Inc. was featured with us in TechTarget’s latest article on deal registration software. Deal registration programs have traditionally proven to be a headache for both partners and vendors, but new solutions like Channeltivity’s partner relationship management system simplifies the process. Learn how Channeltivity is changing the deal registration management experience in […]

Deal Registration, Partner Relationships