Channel Partnerships

Partnerships as a growth channel: what the fastest growing SaaS companies have already figured out

January 4, 2022

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In 2021, the number of interactions during the typical buyer’s journey jumped from 17 to 27. Coupled with the ever-increasing number of solutions available, companies are struggling to stay top of mind of their prospects.

But what have some of the fastest-growing SaaS companies have figured out? Building far-reaching ecosystems of business partners — affiliates, ambassadors, referrers, and resellers — allows them to close more deals, generate more leads, and drive more web traffic.

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Horizon Media

The company’s mission is “To create the most meaningful brand connections within the lives of people everywhere.” By delivering on this mission through a holistic approach to brand marketing, Horizon Media has become one of the largest and fastest-growing media agencies in the industry, with estimated billings of over $6.3 billion and over 1,200 employees.

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Lead on optimizing overall customer experience Orchestrate omnichannel personalization Focus on traffic/leads generation and target company-wide lead goals. Drive quality leads, key account management, and support field sales Develop relationship-based customer insights Lead key account mgmt. and demand space goals.

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Engaging Partners in Customer Success

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Customer satisfaction is the degree to which a customer is happy with your product or service. Solution providers have always cared about creating satisfied customers; they are their customers too (and those customers may be even more valuable to their business than to yours). Solution providers typically sell a bevy of products and services to the same customer. The partner often carries several vendor product lines – possibly hundreds – which they leverage to put together a solution for a customer business need or opportunity. They want the products or, more importantly, the solution to satisfy customer expectations so they can continue to sell them more stuff.

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The Search Marketer’s Playbook for Offline Conversions

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Marketing mix modeling best practices: Understanding why regional data delivers more accurate results than national data

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

Organizations have been placing increasingly more emphasis on making data-driven marketing decisions in recent years. Especially since the onset of COVID-19, the demand for insights on how to craft the optimal marketing budget allocation plan has risen markedly. Marketers rely on guiding principles like Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) to determine which marketing channels will drive the highest return and optimize marketing budget allocations to maximize business outcomes.

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Partner marketing goes mainstream and budget dollars follow

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

This includes traditional tactics as well as new approaches such as account-based marketing, behavioral analytics, and mobile and omnichannel marketing. Even as the landscape has shifted, however, the value partnerships offer has remained steadfast. Foundry’s third Partner Marketing Study (previously conducted in 2014 and 2019) set out to document the perceived value of partner marketing programs as well as how companies are implementing them. The survey of 379 professionals who give and/or receive partner marketing funds found that the value of such programs has grown over time and an uncertain economy has not influenced investment plans.

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Five Ways Distribution Unleashes the Power of the Channel

whitePaper | October 3, 2022

International expansion is the right path for any business seeking to grow exponentially and a proven way to do this, for technology vendors in particular, is to use Distributors. A recent report published by the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) finds that almost two-thirds of vendors surveyed said they would increase investments in indirect Channel Programs managed in collaboration with Distributors in 2019.

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Spotlight

Horizon Media

The company’s mission is “To create the most meaningful brand connections within the lives of people everywhere.” By delivering on this mission through a holistic approach to brand marketing, Horizon Media has become one of the largest and fastest-growing media agencies in the industry, with estimated billings of over $6.3 billion and over 1,200 employees.

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