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Whitepaper: The Rise of Specialized Partners in the Channel - What does it Mean for your Business?






Rod Baptie, President, Baptie & Company
This paper outlines how new non-technical partners are starting to find great success partnering with Channel vendors.

Rod Baptie, President, Baptie & Company
Join the Channel Focus Community and special guest Rod Baptie for a webinar revealing the results of the 2016 Channel trends survey. This annual survey is completed by channel executives of leading companies in the industry and is the survey that tracks t ...

Rod Baptie, President, Baptie & Company
Join the Channel Focus Community and special guest Rod Baptie for a webinar revealing the results of the 2016 Channel trends survey. This annual survey is completed by channel executives of leading companies in the industry and is the survey that tracks t ...

Taylor Macdonald, VP of Channels, Intacct
An excellent, and underutilized, source of revenue opportunities may exist and could be easier to tap for your business than you think - by providing rewards for partners or consultants who refer business to you rather than actually deliver the solution. ...

Olivier Choron, CEO and Founder, purechannelapps
Get an insight from channel partners around their social media challenges, what they need from their vendors and in reality what they are currently receiving. It’s time to make a change, and receive the exposure you and your channel partners deserve.

John DeSarbo & Alex Southworth
ZS recently surveyed 100 U.S. hardware and software providers to assess confidence in their 2016 channel growth plans. The survey produced some surprising results. While the vast majority of vendors feel that have defined the right opportunities for th ...

Jay McBain, CEO, ChannelEyes
The pace of change in the indirect sales world has been mind-numbing over the past few years. There are new business models and partner types popping up seemingly every day - driven by technology, economic challenges and customer behavior. Combine thi ...

Tom Gorey
Cloud Services that are contracted for term agreements have been favored by telecommunications and enterprise application suppliers for years. They benefit the suppliers offering services, their partner channels, and ultimately the End User Customers by c ...
WEBINAR: Effective Partner Engagement: The Top Channel Incentive Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them






Chris Becwar, Director of Product Marketing, Revitas, Inc.
Every year, good partners are getting harder to find, attract, and retain. So incentives are playing an increasingly important role. But rather than simply throwing larger sums of incentive money at partners, savvy channel leaders are discovering that the ...

Rich Blakeman, Managing Partner, MHI Global
In this study, we grouped the activities and behaviors of successful channel sales professionals into five core competencies: 1. Channel Core Fundamentals 2. Channel Business Acumen 3. Influencing Skills 4. Partnership Planning 5. Lead ...

Alfredo Gulrich, Direcotr of Channel Marketing Solutions, TIE Kinetix
Channel marketers and executives are always looking to increase sales and marketing efficiency and effectiveness to and through partners. That’s why so many are experimenting with TCMA today. Join TIE Kinetix’s Alfredo Grulich, Director of Channel Marketi ...

Carmen Sorice, Senior Vice President, Channels, Sungard Availability Services
Effective Partner recruitment and onboarding begins even before you launch your first communication to your partner prospects. Developing the right "partner profile" early in the process will help you focus on the recruitment and enablement tools that me ...

Jennifer Hartwell, Product Marketing Manager, Revitas, Inc.
Featuring highlights from a primary research study performed by the Channel Focus Community on behalf of Revitas, this white paper explores the needs and desires of different types of channel programs from the voice of partners. It also then contrasts the ...
WHITEPAPER: An Analysis of Their Challenges and Opportunities – What are Your Partners Really Saying?






Rod Baptie, CEO, Baptie & Company
As vendors, we need to put ourselves in the shoes of our partners. Through a series of conversations with various partners of different types, I questioned them on their needs their challenges and opportunities. In this whitepaper I’ve tried to condense ...
WEBINAR: In the New Model is Specialization Key? And if so how do you Enable Partners to Specialize






Matt Wilson, VP of Channel Partner Programs, Cologix
Specialization is more than just a partner sales strategy, it is a necessity in the current complex and changing technology landscape. The days of reacting to every end user request and partners being all things to all end users is slowly coming to an end ...

Tom Gorey, Indirect Channels Leader
The technology industry is filled with upstart young companies and their larger, more established counterparts, all vying for the same market share. Few companies have the capacity and knowledge to meet the expansive consumer demand in the Telco industry. ...

Jennifer Hartwell, Product Marketing Manager, Revitas Inc.
How does your incentive program strategy hold up in today's competitive channel climate? This eBook explores the top four challenges of channel management and introduces strategies for building more effective incentive programs to engage your partners and ...
WEBINAR: Are the Telcos the 800lb IT Gorilla_ An Analysis of their Potential and Future Role in the IT Market Featured






Tom Gorey
Changing dynamics in the channel involve new and promising routes to market including the emergence of VADs, MSPs, SaaS, and the “cloud”. In this changing market, telcos play a vital role in offering connectivity for managed services, convergence of fixed ...

Rich Blakeman, Managing Director, MHI Global
End customers are continuing to change the way that they buy, creating a market mandate for vendors and partners to change the ways that they sell: being focused on the outside-in, in their coverage strategies and execution all the way down to the direct ...