Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 10, 2023

But with the time and cost of recruiting, onboarding, and training new reps, this can be prohibitive. Another way is through channel sales or third-party partners. In fact, according to research cited by McKinsey , current B2B customers use more than ten channels to interact with suppliers. What Are Sales Channels?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A channel partner is a company that sells products and services for a technology manufacturer or vendor. What is a channel partner? Channel partners basically onboard other people to sell your product for you. But by far, the option that could potentially bring you in the most sales is resellers and sales channel partners.

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As a business leader, you understand the importance of providing seamless customer support across multiple channels. Customers today expect to connect with companies through the channel of their choice, whether that’s chat, email, phone, or social media. What is customer service software?

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As a business leader, you understand the importance of providing seamless customer support across multiple channels. Customers today expect to connect with companies through the channel of their choice, whether that’s chat, email, phone, or social media. What is customer service software?

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Allego

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Yet few organizations harness the speed and ubiquity of mobile to advance their training initiatives. The current state of corporate learning—clunky technology, sporadic training events and poor access to internal expertise—doesn’t do enough to help them succeed. One of them is through formal training.

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Openview

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad. Channel – Cons.

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Allego

JUNE 14, 2022

Hybrid work has disrupted traditional training and the financial services industry—with its emphasis on personal relationships—faced unique issues. As Voya’s one-person training team, Voya Financial ’s Jeff Lovanio has his work cut out for him. Allego: How did you get to be the person in charge of training and development at Voya?

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Allbound

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Being a channel manager isn’t an easy job. While a Google search will provide plenty of “best practices” for channel management, we wanted to take a deeper dive. In this post, we sought advice from leaders that are on the front lines of channel management. We spoke with three channel leaders from different industries.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past three decades, Sugata has worked for companies like Honeywell, Phillips, and Dell, building global teams across direct and indirect channels. Sugata has a unique specialty in solving complex industry problems that create new business opportunities through channel ecosystems, which led him to found his company ZINFI in 2008.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 18, 2019

When executed effectively, channel sales can allow your company to grow and expand rapidly. In order to be successful, you must strategically build your distribution channel network and follow the right steps to develop a strong, ongoing relationship with each channel partner. What is a Channel Sales Program?

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Allbound

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Marketing is all about building brand awareness and customer engagement in order to turn leads into customers, and channel marketing is all about achieving cost efficiency while reaching end users through your channel partners. In many cases, a vendor will syndicate social media content to multiple channels (e.g.,

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Allbound

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Ways to Make It Easier for Your Channel Partners to Sell More of Your Product Faster. The best way to succeed in channel sales is by arming your channel partners with the right tools, resources, and skills to be able to sell your products easily and quickly. Offer the Right Training and Tools. Enable Through Collateral.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 26, 2017

Multi-channel selling presents many challenges to sales and marketing managers and strategists. And, the more diverse and numerous your sales channels, the more likely you are to encounter some or all of these problems. How Does Configure-Price-Quote Help Manage Multi-Channel Selling? The name says it all.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 1, 2016

As a manufacturer, you know the important role of your channels. The ability to sell indirectly through channels gives you the ability to focus on what you do best: developing, designing and producing a product. Channel managers face many challenges, but some are more prevalent than others. Lack of visibility into the channel.

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PandaDoc

MAY 16, 2024

In this article, we’ll cover how you can measure indirect sales success and discuss the four main types of indirect sales strategies: distribution , dealership , franchising , and merchandising. There are four main types of indirect sales strategies: distribution, dealership, franchising, and merchandising. What is indirect sales?

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Avoids wasted efforts on marketing channels or strategies that do not align with the target market. Here are the key differences between the two: Scope and Focus Go-to-Market Strategy (GTM): Encompasses the entire process of bringing a product to market, including product development, pricing, distribution, sales, and customer support.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Avoids wasted efforts on marketing channels or strategies that do not align with the target market. Here are the key differences between the two: Scope and Focus Go-to-Market Strategy (GTM): Encompasses the entire process of bringing a product to market, including product development, pricing, distribution, sales, and customer support.

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Allbound

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The best, most successful channel partnerships are built on a strong foundation that consist of establishing a business plan, educating, and training on the product or service, and ensuring a clear vision and mutual understanding of goals—from day one. What Is Channel Sales? an event planner partners with a caterer).

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Allbound

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The best, most successful channel partnerships are built on a strong foundation that consist of establishing a business plan, educating, and training on the product or service, and ensuring a clear vision and mutual understanding of goals—from day one. What Is Channel Sales? an event planner partners with a caterer).

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Allego

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Once upon a time, “personalized training” meant printing the names of workshop participants on their handout folders. Today, this key component of modern learning means exactly what it says – sales training that is genuinely personalized , genuinely “just for me.”. What are the advantages of personalized sales training?

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 6, 2020

As you may be familiar with the term “direct sales”, especially since the name itself is very straight forward, but what is channel sales and how your business can benefit from it? What is Channel Sales? Essentially, it is a method of distribution, which is typically done by segmenting sales operations through a third-party.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Channel sales present a challenge for several industries, but it’s a particular concern for manufacturers. Additionally, some organizations struggle to clearly define the difference between channel customers and the end-user. Let’s explore the key success factors for manufacturers to maximize sales through indirect channels.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 8, 2024

Sales Challenges Facing Enterprise Businesses Enterprise organizations operate on a massive scale, with distributed teams, lengthy sales cycles, and complex product catalogs. Onboarding Challenges: Getting new reps trained and ramped up to full productivity is time-intensive and expensive. Customers engage in whichever way they prefer.

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Cincom Smart Selling

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Why should you care about CPQ and multi-channel sales? For many enterprises, especially those that are currently operating via a direct or single-channel sales organization, the lure of adding channels and going to an indirect model is strong. Three specific challenges faced when moving from single to multi-channel sales.

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Cincom Smart Selling

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Why should you care about CPQ and multi-channel sales? For many enterprises, especially those that are currently operating via a direct or single-channel sales organization, the lure of adding channels and going to an indirect model is strong. Three specific challenges faced when moving from single to multi-channel sales.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Our recent article, “ Can Distribution Pricing Managers Work Remotely? ,” was clearly a hit. Providing Training and Guidance Even though web conferencing tools have made huge strides in the last few years, nothing beats face-to-face meetings for training and guidance.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In many ways, managing multiple sales channels is like climbing that mountain—it looks easy until you really get into the process, and then the challenges and difficulties become all too apparent. If you currently manage a multi-channel operation, you know how naïve this statement sounds. You Need Channel Management.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The asset management industry’s ongoing evolution is creating significant change for distribution leaders. As you’d expect, the industry’s evolution is driving major change in the way firms train and support their wholesalers. Fund wholesalers in particular are under enormous pressure. Turnabout is Fair Game.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2024

Embracing Training and Defining Roles One of the first hurdles to overcome is the fear of the unknown and the potential for missteps online. Gillum points out, “ They want training…they want to know how to do it right. The key is to be strategic, authentic, and always aligned with the company’s values and goals.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Marketing Strategies Overview of the overarching marketing strategies, including product positioning, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Place: Distribution channels and logistics. Marketing Budget Allocation of budget for each marketing activity and channel. Content creation and distribution strategy.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Marketing Strategies Overview of the overarching marketing strategies, including product positioning, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Place: Distribution channels and logistics. Marketing Budget Allocation of budget for each marketing activity and channel. Content creation and distribution strategy.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Why has a multi-channel approach become more important? Buying is now a continuous and dynamic process in most industries, not a linear funnel ; it’s an on-going motion picture, not a selfie or snapshot in one channel. Multi-channel selling is required here and in most industries. Buying a car is an example. Answer: Yes.

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Allbound

AUGUST 8, 2018

Making the decision to invest resources in starting a channel partner program can be daunting, sending even the most risk-averse entrepreneurs into a cold sweat. It can also expand your distribution channels, improve your industry knowledge, support your marketing efforts, and increase your lead generation.”.

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Allbound

AUGUST 8, 2018

Making the decision to invest resources in starting a channel partner program can be daunting, sending even the most risk-averse entrepreneurs into a cold sweat. It can also expand your distribution channels, improve your industry knowledge, support your marketing efforts, and increase your lead generation.”.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Unlike traditional retail models, direct sales bypasses middlemen, such as wholesalers and retailers, allowing companies to maintain more control over their product distribution and the customer experience. This is often more costly and time-consuming as the need to vet, hire, and train salespeople are all involved.

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Pipeliner

MAY 19, 2024

The journey from being a specialist to a visionary leader involves intentional growth and training. We agreed on the importance of adaptable and flexible leadership approaches, especially when managing diverse and distributed teams. online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP!

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SBI

MARCH 18, 2021

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Allego customers were already fairly savvy given many of them were using Allego to keep their distributed sales teams connected pre-pandemic. One-size-fits-all skills training is inefficient and wasteful.

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