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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 […]

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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 Field Marketing: A Pipeline Operating Model

What is partner field marketing? Short answer: Partner field marketing is the regional, in-person and account-targeted marketing motion that two companies run together to build pipeline in a defined territory, against a named target account list and a closed-loop report. It covers dinners, workshops, roadshows, and joint local campaigns, and it is measured as a […]

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MDF Event: How to Tie Partner Events to Pipeline

Short answer: An MDF event is a customer-facing event funded fully or partly by a partner’s market development funds: an executive dinner, a happy hour, a roadshow, a workshop or a webinar. Most are run as brand work and produce nothing you can measure. The ones that work start from the outcome. We configure each […]

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Nearbound Marketing: What It Is and How It Works

Demand generation that runs through partners by borrowing their trust, measured as pipeline.

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

Short answer: joint demand generation 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. You need a shared ICP, a single accountable owner, lead-level attribution, and a structured handoff motion. Get those four […]

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Partner Content Syndication: A Field Guide for B2B SaaS

Short answer: partner content syndication is one of the cheapest pipeline sources in B2B SaaS. Most programs underperform because they treat it as a logo-swap, not a real demand motion. The model that works is simple. Syndicate content only when it is valuable on its own, attribute leads at the source, and build a follow-up […]

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Co-Marketing Campaigns That Actually Convert (and Why Most Don’t)

Co-marketing campaign design is where most partnership programs hit a wall. Two marketing teams with different brand voices, different audience targeting, different metrics, and different approval cycles try to ship a joint campaign in 6 weeks. The campaign launches late, both sides feel underserved, and pipeline attribution is unclear. The fix is structural: design the […]

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Channel Marketing Agency: When to Hire One, How to Pick One in 2026

Channel marketing agency in 2026: when to hire one, how to evaluate one, the four practical agency categories, and the pitfalls that kill engagements.

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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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