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AWS ACE Program: How Co-Selling With AWS Works

What is the AWS ACE program? Short answer: The AWS ACE program, short for APN Customer Engagements, is the mechanism AWS partners use to share opportunities with AWS and co-sell deals together, submitting deals into AWS through the ACE pipeline so AWS sellers can collaborate on them. It is the connective tissue of the AWS […]

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Partner Incentive Program: Design One That Produces

What is a partner incentive program? Short answer: A partner incentive program is the set of rewards, tiers, and payout rules a vendor uses to pay partners for the behaviors that produce revenue. It works when it pays for the specific actions that lead to pipeline, and it fails when it pays for signings, logos, […]

Partner Marketing Agency: What They Do and When

What is a partner marketing agency? Short answer: A partner marketing agency is an outside firm that plans and runs marketing through and with your partners, from co-branded campaigns to through-partner demand and MDF programs. It exists because most in-house partner teams have the relationships but not the marketing capacity to activate them at scale. […]

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 […]

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*Better Control Your Sales Cycle* by Documenting, Tracking, and Leveraging Your Prospect’s Evaluation Considerations

We’ve all been in situations where we’ve lost a deal and had no clue as to why. I’d just sit there and stew on it, combing through every interaction I had with them, second guessing my pricing, wondering if maybe I could’ve had better executive alignment, or maybe my competitor just flat-out outsold me. It […]

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