A lot of people wonder if they actually need PRM or CRM. After all, time is always moving too fast and at times it may seem that there is always a new software tool that is constantly vying for attention. You also have the partnership ecosystem which is exploding right now, and all of it is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down
A partner will help a vendor to extend the presence that they have. A vendor can then hire another direct rep and then build a team. The vendor will be outsourcing sales to others in this instance. One direct rep can easily cover a huge amount of territory, but a partner rep can cover multiple partners, each of who have their own salespeople and therefore can cover a much bigger area.
You have probably heard quite a lot that email inboxes are now being overwhelmed and bombarded. There are huge amounts of newsletters out there and it’s important that you are able to stand out from the crowd. Newsletters are also a fantastic way for you to aggregate a lot of information at once so you can cut down on the idea of sending out multiple emails.
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