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*Partner-Sourced Revenue Tactic:* The Account-Development Play

In the world of SaaS and services partnerships, one of the most-effective strategies for sourcing revenue and extending your salesforce, without additional internal costs, is by running account-development plays. Whether you’re a services partner looking to attract sourced revenue from SaaS partners or a SaaS company aiming to leverage partners for more-comprehensive account-development, this approach […]

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MDF Programs That Generate Real Pipeline (Not Just Activity)

Most MDF (Market Development Funds) programs in B2B SaaS waste 50 to 70 percent of their budget. The waste isn’t because the budget is too large. It’s because MDF gets framed too narrowly as marketing money and gets allocated to partners who can’t or won’t run the activity that generates pipeline. The defensible MDF model […]

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Joint Demand Generation: How to Run Co-Marketing That Converts

Joint demand-gen campaigns with partners produce 2x to 4x the ROI of solo demand-gen when designed correctly. They produce 0.5x or worse when designed wrong. The difference comes down to four design decisions: shared ICP definition (not “everyone we both sell to”), single owner accountable for execution (not “joint ownership”), pipeline attribution captured at the […]

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Partner Content Syndication: A Field Guide for B2B SaaS

Partner content syndication is one of the cheapest pipeline sources in B2B SaaS, but most programs underperform because they treat syndication as a logo-swap exercise rather than a structured demand motion. The defensible model: syndicate content into partner audiences only when the content is independently valuable to that audience, attribute leads at the syndication source, […]

*Partner-Sourced Revenue Tactic:* The Account-Development Play

In the world of SaaS and services partnerships, one of the most-effective strategies for sourcing revenue and extending your salesforce, without additional internal costs, is by running account-development plays. Whether you’re a services partner looking to attract sourced revenue from SaaS partners or a SaaS company aiming to leverage partners for more-comprehensive account-development, this approach […]

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*B2B Sales Reps:* A Guide to Keeping Partners from Wrecking Your Deals

The fear of a partner “screwing up your deal” is a common one for sales reps. While partners can bring expertise, resources, and reach to your efforts, a mistake can quickly unravel all your hard work. This concern is valid. Bringing any new human – partner or not – into a deal adds risk. For […]

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*B2B Partnerships:* Why They Should Matter to Sales Reps

Understanding the value of business-to-business (B2B) partnerships is crucial for your sales reps. Often, when thinking about partnerships, fears and concerns come up. Questions about deal management, partner spend, and the overall impact of having somebody else involved in the deal can lead to a spiral of negative thoughts. However, these fears are valid only […]

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*Sales Preference:* How to Know When Someone is a Supporter, Opponent, or Neutral and Where to Concentrate

In the complex sale, generating group consensus is the name of the game. This means the goal should always be to definitively determine who’s in your corner and who’s not in your corner, so you’re taking the appropriate actions. A misdiagnosis here will almost certainly result in unwanted surprises down the road.  If someone’s in […]

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Account Research *Best Practices in Mid-Market* and Enterprise B2B Sales

Account Research is all about answering the question, “Does this account have a need for what we’re selling and to what extent?” The best B2B sales reps in the world are consultative in nature and take great pride in solving customers’ challenges. If your customer doesn’t have challenges your solution solves for, then why spend […]

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*Tips for Setting* the Initial Close Date in B2B Sales (with contest for sales managers to run)

That initial close date is one of the hardest dates to pick for most sales reps. Most think, “Who cares? It’s going to change anyway once we get into the deal.” And that may be the case, but if you try diligently to get as close to the mark as possible from day one, it’ll […]

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*The Five Stakeholder Types in Sales* That Can be Opponents or Blockers (and how to overcome them)

In the complex sale, there are typically about five stakeholders on average and sometimes many more. Every stakeholder comes complete with their own experiences, biases, and aspirations; each of which will have an impact on your deal. It’s pretty easy to spot your biggest supporters, but can sometimes be very difficult to spot your biggest […]

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*How to Best Leverage a Supporter* in Mid-Market or Enterprise Sales Cycles

Generating group consensus is the name of the game in the complex sale, which is typically associated with mid-market and enterprise sales scenarios. No single person makes the decision on the buying side, so it’s important to convert as many stakeholders as possible into supporters. The vendor with the most support, or the right kind […]

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*Stakeholder Research* Best Practices in B2B Sales

While account research will help you prioritize which accounts to target and what pain points to focus on, accounts don’t make decisions; people do. And in B2B sales, decisions aren’t made individually either. You’ve got to generate group consensus, which is the name of the game. The good news is that because there are multiple […]

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How to Prioritize Which Accounts to Target First in *Account-Based Selling*

Whether it’s the beginning of the year and you’re staring at your new list of net new target accounts or you’re midway through the year and simply need a pipeline boost, prioritizing which accounts to target first is an essential part of attaining quota. This should be an objective and systematic process. For us, it […]

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