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Priming the Pump Through Channel Sales Training

Sales and Marketing Management

Training your channel partners can increase market penetration, improve customer satisfaction and enhance the relationships that are vital to your go-to-market strategy. The post Priming the Pump Through Channel Sales Training appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade. their skills.

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Don’t Neglect Channel Partner Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

If your go-to-market strategy relies heavily on channel partners, that’s one more step you are removed from your ultimate end-user. Training is essential to having success with channel partners, and just as in-person sales calls shifted to virtual due to the global pandemic, so too has channel partner training.

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A Step-By-Step Guide to Setting Up a Successful Channel Strategy

Alice Heiman

Do you have a channel strategy in place? You may have channel partners as part of your go-to-market strategy, but do you have a strategy that includes how you will support your partners’ success? . I know our audience is excited to hear how to create or improve their channel program.

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Channel Partner Training Software: 5 Features to Consider

BrainShark

Channel partners are more likely to sell products when they are familiar with them and recognize their value. So to increase mindshare, you need to make it really easy for your channel partners to learn about your products as part of their daily workflow. The right channel partner training software can help with this.

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Keeping close to channel partners

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan As with everything else in 2020, many B2B companies’ relationships with channel partners, which are critical to their success, have been disrupted. The “surprise and delight” treatment that is widely used to keep internal employees engaged is equally effective with channel partners.

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The New Sales Channel

Partners in Excellence

Channels “partners” have been a part of sales ever since sales have existed. Channels are a high impact route to market, they enable us to connect with customers we can’t easily connect with. We train them, we provide marketing programs, content. This concept is called channel conflict/contention.