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Channel Partner Recruitment: A Practical Playbook

What is channel partner recruitment? Short answer: Channel partner recruitment is the process of finding, qualifying, and signing the partners who will actually sell, service, or implement your product. It is the front door of a partner program, and it decides more about the program’s results than any later stage, because you cannot enable or […]

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Partner Channel Marketing: What It Is and How It Works

Short answer Short answer: Partner channel marketing is marketing you run with and through your partners to reach their customers, instead of only marketing direct to your own. It covers co-branded campaigns, through-partner demand generation, market development funds, and partner enablement content, and it works when it is tied to a sales motion and to […]

Channel Marketing Best Practices That Actually Work

Short answer Short answer: The channel marketing best practices that hold up are the ones that tie every joint activity to attributable pipeline: a real joint value proposition, funds tied to outcomes, plays that fit the partner’s audience, agreed lead routing, and attribution that shows what produced. They work because they treat channel marketing as […]

Partner Marketing Program: What It Is and How It Works

Short answer Short answer: A partner marketing program is the structured way you plan, fund, and run demand generation together with your partners so both companies create pipeline neither would create alone. It works when the joint activity produces attributable pipeline and both sides can see it, and it fails when it turns into logo […]

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Partner Recruitment Strategy: A Practical Guide

Targeting the partners worth signing from an ideal partner profile, not from inbound interest.

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Partner Segmentation: How to Tier a Partner Roster

Tiering a partner roster so the partnerships team spends its hours where they actually pay off.

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How to Build a Partner Program

Sequence four pillars before launching the portal: profile, attribution, activation, and pipeline.

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Salesforce ISV Partner: Tiers, Path, and 2026 Playbook

A Salesforce ISV partner is an independent software vendor that builds a product on the Salesforce platform and sells it through the AppExchange. The motion combines product distribution, joint go-to-market with Salesforce account teams, and access to a buying audience the partner could not reach alone.

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MDF Programs That Generate Real Pipeline (Not Just Activity)

Short answer: most MDF (Market Development Funds) programs in B2B SaaS waste 50 to 70 percent of their budget. The cause is structural, not size. MDF gets framed too narrowly as marketing money. It then goes to partners who will not run the activity that drives pipeline. The fix is a defensible MDF program that […]

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Why Partner Programs Fail: The Five Structural Causes (and How to Fix Them)

Partner programs in B2B SaaS fail for predictable structural reasons, not for lack of effort. The five most common failure causes: missing executive sponsor, unclear partner ICP, no partner-influenced revenue accountability, weak partner activation (especially the motion and reinforcement layers), and absent operational rigor (attribution, forecast cadence, executive reporting). Get one of these wrong and […]

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*Double, Triple, and Quadruple* Your GTM Dollars Through Partners

Market Development Funds (MDF) used to get a bad rap (covered below), but when deployed properly and productively, they’re critical for efficiently expanding into new markets or segments. Although it may sound obvious, MDF are funds specifically allocated to developing markets. This can take shape in many forms, like events, sponsorships, advertising, or any marketing […]

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