Channel Marketer Report

The Pedowitz Group Wins Partner Excellence Award At #MUS13

The Pedowitz Group, a revenue marketing agency, received the Revvie Award for Partner Excellence for the second consecutive year. The announcement was made during the Revvie Awards ceremony at the 2013 Marketo User Summit, which was held April 8-10, 2013, in San Francisco. In addition, six Pedowitz Group customers and partners also received Revvie Awards, […]

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FieldOne Exec Shares Best Practices In Partner Onboarding

An increasing number of organizations are striving to include added services and benefits to their hardware and software offerings. However, in addition to developing a consistent revenue model for all channel players, it is imperative that partners are equipped and empowered to sell all products and services to get maximum value from new opportunities.  In […]

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Using Gamification To Drive Partner Loyalty And Sales

An increasing number of organizations are recognizing the value of gamification in driving customer and employee engagement. In fact, research from Gartner has indicated that by 2015, 70% of Global 2000 organizations will use gamification in some way. Vendors, brands and manufacturers can leverage gamification as a tool and inherent business strategy to drive efficiency […]

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Monetate Unveils New Partnerships At #AgilitySummit

Monetate, a testing, targeting and personalization platform for online marketers, announced three new partnerships with data management platform providers during its annual Agility Summit.  These new partnerships include: Aggregate Knowledge, a media intelligence company which offers advertisers and agencies the capability to pinpoint where to reach highest-performing customers;  BlueKai, an enterprise data activation solution for […]

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CampaignCore Helps Streamline Local Marketing Planning And Execution

The Problem: Brands and manufacturers rely on their partners and franchise owners to deliver quality experiences to end-user customers. A key facet of these exemplary interactions is providing timely offers, messages and other content that is relevant to target audiences and guides them along the browsing and buying journey seamlessly. However, marketing knowledge and skill […]

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B2B Content2Conversion Conference Adds Speakers From IBM, Cigna, Avaya And Adobe

Speakers from Adobe, IBM, Cigna and Avaya have been added to the agenda at this month’s B2B Content2Conversion Conference, taking place April 22-23 in New York at The TimesCenter. “It’s an honor to us that key marketing leaders from companies large and small are recognizing the B2B Content2Conversion Conference as a must-attend event,” said Andrew Gaffney, […]

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Dell Boosts Partner Engagement With Technical Community

Dell is making moves in the social space by creating a thriving community for its channel partners. In addition to the company’s dedicated social media page on the PartnerDirect partner portal, Dell has launched a new PartnerDirect Technical Community on its TechCenter web site. Company officials said the PartnerDirect Technical Community was designed to add […]

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Analyzing The Vendor/Retailer Relationship

By Guy Swarbrick, Senior Consultant, EMEA, Channel Enablers On the surface, it’s a difficult time for any vendor that sells to consumers through traditional retail channels. Household name retailers are disappearing on a regular basis: in the UK, Comet and Jessops have gone in the last six months, with HMV teetering on the brink; Virgin’s […]

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Two-Thirds Of ISVs Say Partners Are Vital To SaaS Success

Avangate has released results of a Forrester Consulting commissioned study, the Technology Adoption Profile (TAP), which confirms the increasing role of the channel, especially in the emerging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space. The majority (79%) of ISVs surveyed reported that their channel partner program will play a strategic role in growing SaaS revenues. In addition, 66% of respondents said that channel partners […]

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Marketing Operations Goes From Misfits To Major Players

Marketing operations is no longer an island of misfit projects, inhabited by IT guys spitting out reports and financial types poring over budgets. Today’s data-driven B2B marketing organizations rely heavily on marketing operations to improve the performance, effectiveness and accountability of the overall marketing efforts. “The demand for measured marketing coupled with the evolution of […]

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