The best advice on building partner programs that produce forecastable revenue.
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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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 […]
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? 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 […]
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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What is partner-sourced revenue? Short answer: partner-sourced revenue is closed-won revenue from deals a partner originated (the partner brought the opportunity, not just helped along the way). In 2026, it is the cleanest, most defensible number a partnerships team can put in front of a CFO, which is exactly why it has to be measured […]
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What is partner tiering? Short answer: partner tiering is the practice of grouping partners into levels (typically by production, commitment, or capability) and matching investment and benefits to each level. In 2026, the tiers that work are earned on output, not assigned on logos or revenue size. A tier system is an investment allocation tool, […]
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What is a VP of Partnerships? Short answer: a VP of Partnerships is the senior leader who owns the partner revenue motion (strategy, team, and the partner-sourced number) and represents partnerships in the company’s revenue leadership. In 2026, the role is a revenue role, not a relationship role, and it should be hired and held […]
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What is a Chief Partner Officer? Short answer: a Chief Partner Officer is the C-suite executive who owns partnerships as a primary go-to-market motion, sitting on the leadership team and accountable for partner-driven revenue at the board level. In 2026, the role exists at companies where partnerships is not a channel but the channel. A […]
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Short answer: Always-on partner communications keep partners aware of you. On their own, they do not generate pipeline. The pipeline comes from partner account planning: dedicated, recurring account-planning sessions built on completed account mapping. Always-on comms are the wiring between those sessions, not a substitute for them. Crossbeam network data puts the average win-rate lift […]
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Short answer: OEM partnerships are commercial agreements where a hardware manufacturer lets another company’s product become part of what it ships, and lets a wider channel sell the result. Picture a server builder or a commercial mobile device maker. Around its OEM program sits a crowd. Software vendors want their product certified and embedded so […]
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B2B partnerships are commercial relationships between two business organizations designed to produce joint customer outcomes and shared revenue. The category covers reseller channels, technology integrations, services and SI alliances, marketplace co-sell motions, and a long tail of joint go-to-market relationships. Strong B2B partnerships compound on operating discipline; weak ones run on personality and produce inconsistent […]
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AWS ACE (the APN Customer Engagement program) is the operating mechanism that lets AWS partners track and co-sell deals with AWS field sellers. Partners that run ACE well produce co-sell revenue that compounds; partners that treat ACE as a back-office reporting task produce ACE pipelines that look full and don’t close. The thing that separates […]
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Partner incentives are the financial and non-financial mechanisms a vendor uses to motivate partner behavior beyond the baseline margin. Strong partner incentive programs are designed around four principles: tied to outcomes the partner team can actually drive, paid out fast enough to influence behavior, simple enough to communicate without a deck, and audited often enough […]
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What are partner onboarding best practices? Short answer: Partner onboarding best practices are the proven methods that take a new partner from a signed agreement to their first deal quickly and consistently, including a defined path, a real certification, early co-sell support, and a measured activation goal. They exist because most programs treat onboarding as […]
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My journey from Education to Operations has equipped me with a unique perspective and skill set that perfectly aligns with Forecastable’s mission to help businesses improve sales collaboration through partner co-selling strategies.
At Forecastable, I am passionate about empowering teams and organizations to unlock the full potential of strategic partnerships. By leveraging my expertise in communication, leadership, and operational efficiency, I contribute to creating seamless co-selling processes that align with business goals and deliver exceptional results.
The intersection of my educational foundation and operational experience fuels my dedication to fostering alignment, building trust, and enhancing collaboration between partners. I am driven by the opportunity to contribute to a platform that not only optimizes sales strategies but also strengthens relationships that lead to long-term growth.
Paul Johnson has 20+ years of software development and consulting experience for a variety of organizations, ranging from startups to large-enterprise organization with highly-complex needs.
Mr. Johnson has a long track record of successful technology deployments.
This, combined with his deep passion for machine learning and exceptional user experience design, allows him to lead our technical direction from the front with confidence.
After serving in The United States Marine Corps, Alex Buckles spent the next two decades as a student of revenue production and an advocate for innovation.
Along the way, he has helped numerous companies achieve double and triple-digit growth by crafting and executing high-performing go-to-market strategies, with co-selling at the center of each.
As a once-advanced technical marketer, an expert sales & partner professional, and a strong customer success advocate, Mr. Buckles understands the impact of these functions aligning not only on revenue production, but on the day-to-day execution of the go-to-market strategy. This concept of revenue-team alignment is what quickly became the foundation of Forecastable back in January of 2018.
In his free time, you’ll find him spending quality time with his children, one of whom is on the autism spectrum. 1 in 36 children in the U.S. are on the spectrum and boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed than girls.
With that in mind, Mr. Buckles plans on dedicating the rest of his life serving those living with autism, through his organization Pathways for Autism. From his perspective, there must be a scalable and financially self-sustaining infrastructure established to put as many individuals with autism as possible on a path towards complete independence as adults.
