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Channel Partner Marketing Performance Marketing

Rethinking Event SOPs to Prepare for the Future of In-Person Events

For many a marketer, a significant portion of their budget and plan for 2020 was altered with the cancelation of in-person events in Q2 and beyond. Some have successfully pivoted to virtual platforms or smaller online roundtables, while for others, an entire quarter (if not year) of pipeline has all but disappeared. Unfortunately, there isn’t […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

Agile Transformation: Practice What You Preach

Almost two decades ago, software development was forever changed. A group of software developers and engineers conceived an idea to help return a focus on the customer. The frustrations with the rigid construct of planning and documenting software development, sometimes years into the future, had come to a boiling point. Thus, the Agile Manifesto was […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

10 Must-Have Channel Partner Marketing Technology Features

Channel partners are a brand’s most important advocate. When they are empowered, it means more sales for you, the brand. But do your partners have the tools and intelligence they need to create the best possible customer experiences? Now more than ever, brands have to pay as much attention to their partners as they do their customers if they […]

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Channel Partner Marketing CX + Loyalty Local Marketing Activation

Taking Care of Your Customers and Partners in the Wake of COVID-19

For brands with a distributed sales model, the projected shift in consumer purchasing patterns, especially, at a local level, will be significant in the coming weeks to months. Today’s sensitive landscape calls for an equally sensitive approach to the way brands interact with customers and how they provide experiences. However, now is the time to […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

Give Your Partners the Power to Own the Local Customer Experience

Editor’s note: Ansira Chief Client Officer Andy Arnold sat down with Facebook U.S. Global Solutions Vice President Michelle Morris recently for a chat at the annual Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Masters of Marketing conference in Orlando, Florida. They discussed the challenges and opportunities faced by brands that rely on partners for local sales. This […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

22 Best Practices Guaranteed to Improve Your MDF Programs

Editor’s note: In mid-June, we brought together some of our technology clients — Cisco, Sage, Citrix, and Red Hat — to discuss challenges and opportunities associated with market development fund (MDF) programs. We had lively debates and discussions, heard outside perspectives from Forrester and CDW, and shared program best practices. This is the fourth and […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

What Metrics Matter in Your MDF Reporting?

Editor’s note: In mid-June, we brought together some of our technology clients — Cisco, Sage, Citrix, and Red Hat — to discuss challenges and opportunities associated with market development fund (MDF) programs. We had lively debates and discussions, heard outside perspectives from Forrester and CDW, and shared program best practices. This is the third article […]

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Channel Partner Marketing Uncategorized

Ways to Enhance Your Brand-Channel Relationship (From Your Partners’ Perspective)

Editor’s note: In mid-June, we brought together some of our technology clients — Cisco, Sage, Citrix, and Red Hat — to discuss challenges and opportunities associated with market development fund (MDF) programs. We had lively debates and discussions, heard outside perspectives from Forrester and CDW, and shared program best practices. This is the second article […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

The Impact of Distributed Sales Models on Brand Growth

Editor’s note: In mid-June, we we brought together some of our technology clients — Cisco, Sage, Citrix, and Red Hat — to discuss challenges and opportunities associated with market development fund (MDF) programs. We had lively debates and discussions, heard outside perspectives from Forrester and CDW, and shared program best practices. This is the first […]

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Channel Partner Marketing Local Marketing Activation

7 Ways to Maximize the Return on Your Channel Marketing Programs

Many national brands with indirect sales channels such as franchisees, dealers, or resellers have allowed their channel marketing programs to run on autopilot. In truth, those programs — whether co-op, market development fund (MDF), or compliance — have the power to do much more. They just need some restyling. You and your partners can maximize […]