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Partner Success Manager: Role, Skills, and Scope

What a partner success manager is Short answer: A partner success manager is the person responsible for activating signed partners and growing the revenue they produce, the way a customer success manager grows an account. It matters because most programs are good at signing partners and bad at turning them into producers, and the gap […]

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B2B Partner Marketing Strategy: To, Through, With

What a B2B partner marketing strategy is Short answer: A B2B partner marketing strategy is the plan for how you market to partners, through partners, and with partners, so partner relationships turn into pipeline rather than logos on a slide. It works when each of those three audiences has its own goal and the whole […]

Channel Partner Marketing Plan: Build the Template

What a channel partner marketing plan is Short answer: A channel partner marketing plan is the written, one-page artifact that says what you and a partner will do together this quarter to source pipeline, who owns each part, and how you will measure it. It turns a marketing strategy into a specific set of commitments […]

Channel Partner Marketing Strategy: Fund the Motion

What a channel partner marketing strategy is Short answer: A channel partner marketing strategy is the plan for generating demand through your partners, using co-marketing, funding, and partner-ready assets to produce pipeline in their markets. It is a through-channel motion you design and fund, not a one-off co-branded webinar you run when someone remembers to. […]

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When to Hire a Chief Partner Officer: 5 Triggers

Short answer: the triggers that justify the role The honest answer to when to hire a chief partner officer is after partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline is already material and repeatable, usually past $50M in ARR with a co-sell motion that produces without heroics. It is an altitude hire, not a fix for a program that […]

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Partner Program Certification: What It Is and Why

What is partner program certification? Short answer: Partner program certification is a structured way to verify that a partner’s people can actually sell, implement, or support your product to a defined standard, and to reward that proven competence with a badge, a tier, or access to better economics. It turns “we have a partnership” into […]

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Channel Director Job Description: Role, Skills, KPIs

What is a channel director job description? Short answer: A channel director job description defines the person who owns partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue for a company, builds and leads the team of channel and partner managers, and is accountable for the pipeline the channel produces. It sets the charter, the team, the partner types in […]

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Alliance Manager Job Description: Role and Duties

What is an alliance manager job description? Short answer: An alliance manager job description defines the role that owns a company’s strategic partnerships end to end, from the joint business plan to the co-sell pipeline to the revenue the partnership produces. It sets the scope, the responsibilities, and the way the role is measured, and […]

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Partnership Job Titles: A Guide to the Roles

What are partnership job titles? Short answer: Partnership job titles are the labels for the roles that build and run a company’s partner program, from a partner manager who owns day-to-day relationships up to a Chief Partner Officer who owns the strategy and the number. They exist to signal scope and seniority, and the catch […]

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Partner Certification Tracking: A Practical Guide

What is partner certification tracking? Short answer: Partner certification tracking is the practice of recording which of a partner’s reps have completed your training, what level they reached, and whether that certification is still current, so the program knows who is actually qualified to sell or deliver. It is the record-keeping layer under partner enablement, […]

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VP of Partnerships: Role, Responsibilities, and Bar

What is a VP of partnerships? Short answer: A VP of partnerships is the executive who owns the partner channel as a revenue line, responsible for the strategy, the team, and the pipeline and revenue that partners source and influence. It is a revenue leadership role, not a relationship-management one, and the difference matters: a […]

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Partner Manager: What the Role Is and Does

What is a partner manager? Short answer: A partner manager is the person who owns a set of partner relationships and, more importantly, the pipeline and revenue those partners produce, responsible for recruiting, enabling, and co-selling with them. It is a quota-adjacent role, closer to sales than to account management, and the best partner managers […]

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Head of Partnerships Job Responsibilities Explained

What does a head of partnerships do? Short answer: The head of partnerships job responsibilities center on one outcome, partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue, and everything else is in service of it. They own the program’s operating model, recruit and enable the right partners, run co-sell alongside direct sales, and report what the program produces in […]

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Partner Enablement Best Practices That Drive Revenue

What are partner enablement best practices? Short answer: Partner enablement best practices are the methods that get a partner ready to sell a real deal, not just to pass a course. They tie every asset, session, and certification to a named opportunity and measure success by partner-sourced pipeline rather than completion rates. The test is […]

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