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Partner Newsletter: What It Is and How to Run One

What is a partner newsletter? Short answer: a partner newsletter is a recurring communication sent to a company’s partners to keep them informed, enabled, and active. In 2026, the ones that work are not announcements; they are activation tools that drive a specific partner action in every send. A monthly roundup of company news is […]

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Channel Marketing: What It Is and How It Works

What is channel marketing? Short answer: Channel marketing is the practice of generating demand through your partners rather than only through your own direct team. It equips resellers, agencies, and technology partners to market your product to their audiences, and it measures the pipeline that motion produces. Done right, it turns partners into a demand […]

Partner Marketing: What It Is and How to Run It

What is partner marketing? Short answer: Partner marketing is marketing done with and through your partners to reach audiences you could not reach alone. It spans co-branded campaigns, joint content, referral and affiliate motions, and technology-partner integrations, all aimed at borrowing a partner’s trust and reach. The goal is pipeline that comes recommended, not cold. […]

What Is Channel Marketing? A Clear Definition

What is channel marketing? Short answer: Channel marketing is marketing that generates demand through your partners rather than only through your own direct team. It equips resellers, agencies, and technology partners to promote your product to their audiences, and it measures the pipeline that motion returns. In short, it is marketing that reaches buyers through […]

Partner manager reviewing color-coded partner segment lists on a tablet in a calm modern office, soft amber light from the right.

Partner Newsletter: What It Is and How to Run One

What is a partner newsletter? Short answer: a partner newsletter is a recurring communication sent to a company’s partners to keep them informed, enabled, and active. In 2026, the ones that work are not announcements; they are activation tools that drive a specific partner action in every send. A monthly roundup of company news is […]

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Partner Onboarding: A 90-Day Operating Cadence That Compounds

Partner onboarding is the structured 90-day program that takes a newly signed partner from contract close to first sourced deal. Most teams treat onboarding as a one-week checklist; the partners who actually produce revenue went through a 90-day cadence with weekly close dates, an executive sponsor, and a forcing function on the first joint deal. […]

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Partner Enablement Platform: What It Is and How to Choose

A partner enablement platform is the software layer that delivers training, certifications, sales assets, deal-registration workflows, and co-sell…

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Partner Enablement Software: A 2026 Buyer’s Guide

Partner enablement software is the category of tools vendors buy to train, certify, equip, and coordinate external partner reps at scale.

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Partner Certification: What It Is and How to Design It

Partner certification is the structured assessment a vendor uses to confirm that a partner rep can sell, implement, or support the vendor’s product to a…

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Partner Activation: Turning Signed Partners Into Sellers

Partner activation is the structured process of turning a newly signed partner from “logo on a slide” into “selling, registering deals, and producing…

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Partner Activation: The Work That Turns Enablement Into Pipeline

Partner activation is the work of getting partner sellers, technical teams, and customer success people to actually run deals alongside the vendor. The industry calls this enablement; the work that produces revenue is activation. Most B2B SaaS partner programs invest heavily in enablement content (training portals, certification badges, recorded courses) and underinvest in activation (motion […]

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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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