Partner recruitment is going to keep on occurring throughout the life of your channel program. It’s essential that you learn the best practices so that you can understand some of the most common pitfalls out there.
The job of a channel marketer is quite often undervalued. Channel marketers often have so many jobs to do and very little time to do it all in. A channel partner is expected to recruit new partners, find out what they are doing, why they are doing it and even distribute MDF as well.
If you want to try and boost your sales, it’s safe to say that partner programs are essential. So many companies spend time, energy, and money on developing and tweaking their reseller programs because it is one of the best ways to drive results. If you don’t feel as though your programs are up to scratch or if you want to ensure that you are hiring the best partner manager, then you can find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know, right here.
I get enquiries or asked all the time do I need to start building out sales through a third party? This can take a second to answer or a full hour-long conversation, but as with anything it’s your B2B SaaS business with a sales price point to the market, but the first question is why do you want to do this?
The conversation normally goes something like this:
‘Hi Stewart. we are growing sales through direct and it’s going well but now I have my Series A I need to spend that money to accelerate growth and I’ve been told that selling through third parties is a good thing to do…
Starting your own B2B SaaS channel program isn’t easy, to say the least and if you want to get the best result out of your marketing then you first need to make sure that you are in the right mindset to try and tackle all of the things that you need to do.
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Be Clear & Honest
It doesn’t matter whether you are trying to pitch a program that you have to your own internal team or whether you want to try and engage in a conversation with one of your partners