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Reseller Program: What It Is and How to Build One

Short answer Short answer: A reseller program is the structure that lets partners buy or sell your product for a margin and take it to their own customers under a defined agreement. It matters because resellers can carry your product into markets and accounts your direct team never reaches, but a reseller program only produces […]

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Through-Channel Marketing: What It Is and How It Works

Short answer Short answer: Through channel marketing is demand generation a vendor runs through its partners, supplying campaigns, content, and funds so partners market to their own customers under their own brand. It matters because partners own trusted relationships a vendor cannot reach directly, but most of these programs underperform because they push vendor material […]

Partnership Marketing: What It Is and How to Run It

Short answer Short answer: Partnership marketing is joint marketing between two companies that combine audiences, content, and channels to generate demand for a shared value proposition. It matters because a co-branded campaign borrows the trust and reach of both brands at once, which is why a partner webinar or joint guide usually outperforms the same […]

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 […]

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Channel Management: What It Is and How It Works

What is channel management? Short answer: Channel management is how a vendor recruits, enables, and runs the partners who sell or influence deals on its behalf, so that partner-sourced revenue is predictable rather than accidental. It is the operating discipline that sits between signing a partner and getting paid through one. Done well, it turns […]

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Channel Partner Strategy Plan: How to Build One

What is a channel partner strategy plan? Short answer: A channel partner strategy plan is a written statement of which partners you will invest in, why they will sell you, and what revenue that will produce, with the motions and metrics to get there. It is the difference between a partner wish list and a […]

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SaaS Channel Partner Strategy: What Works

What is a SaaS channel partner strategy? Short answer: A SaaS channel partner strategy is a plan for growing recurring revenue through partners whose economics reward retention and expansion, not one-time resale margin. It recognizes that a SaaS deal is the start of a relationship, so partners must be chosen and paid for the whole […]

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AEs vs CSMs: Who Owns Partner Referrals?

What is the difference between AEs and CSMs on partner referrals? Short answer: AEs vs CSMs on partner referrals comes down to motion: an AE owns a referral when it is a net-new sales opportunity that needs to be qualified and closed, while a CSM owns it when it is an expansion or relationship play […]

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Partnerships Team Structure: How to Build It

What is partnerships team structure? Short answer: Partnerships team structure is how you organize the roles, ownership, and reporting lines of a partner program so the work of recruiting, activating, co-selling, and measuring partners has a clear owner at every step. It is the difference between a program where revenue is someone’s job and one […]

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MEDDIC Partnerships: Qualifying Co-Sell Deals That Close

What is MEDDIC for partnerships? Short answer: MEDDIC partnerships is the application of the classic sales qualification frame (Metrics, Economic buyer, Decision criteria, Decision process, Identify pain, Champion) to co-sell and partner-sourced deals, with a partner-side mirror on every letter so the host AE and the partner counterpart qualify the same opportunity on the same […]

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Partner Battle Card: Building One AEs Actually Use

What is a partner battle card? Short answer: A partner battle card is the one-to-two page AE-facing enablement asset that names the joint value, the named buying personas, the co-sell motion, and the head-to-head competitive position when a host product and a partner product are sold together. It exists because AEs cannot remember the joint […]

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Execution Discipline in Partnerships: A 2026 Field Guide

What is execution discipline in partnerships? Short answer: Execution discipline in partnerships is the operating habit of running a small number of joint motions on a fixed weekly cadence, with named owners on both sides, a written artifact for every step, and a forecast-grade metric that finance accepts. It is not heroics; it is the […]

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Alex Buckles Partnerships POV: 5 Operating Rules

For broader industry context, see Partnership Leaders’ practitioner community. What Does Alex Buckles Think About Partnerships? Short answer: Alex Buckles’ partnerships work is grounded in one operating belief, partnerships is a measurable system, not a relationship motion. I run Forecastable, an independent third-party professional services firm that designs partner-led GTM systems for B2B SaaS companies, […]

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OEM vs Reseller: A 2026 Comparison for Programs

What is the difference between OEM and reseller? Short answer: OEM vs reseller is the decision between embedding your product inside a partner’s offering (OEM) versus letting a partner sell your product as-is alongside theirs (reseller). The two motions look adjacent and produce opposite operating models. The economics, the legal posture, the support model, and […]

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