Partner marketing 2022

whitePaper | January 8, 2021

Milestone Research has compiled the following trends to help the community maximize opportunities in 2021. Digital transformation became very clear with the pandemic. Businesses had become more digital to stay alive, and those more digital businesses when the pandemic began were better able to adapt. Digitization of products and services enables automation and personalization, which improves the user experience and increases efficiency.

whitePaper | January 12, 2022

This whitepaper is the third in a series devoted to the topic: “How to Engage the Channel for Successful SaaS Renewal Sales”. In our first paper, Sales Renewals: A Primer, we introduced the importance of both change and risk management when it comes to renewals. In addition, we identified proven management tactics to address the inherent challenges to the renewals business. Above all, our intent being to help companies ensure they have the right partners for the right offers. In the second paper, Best Practices for Leveraging the Channel, we dug deeper inside the vendor organization to examine best practices for engaging and enabling partners, in order to minimize preventable churn and eliminate “organizational dissonance”.

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

The goal of partner planning in a technology company is to ensure the right products are available to customers at the right time, all while managing cost. Sounds easy, right? As any channel leader knows, partner planning is a complex process that requires careful alignment with overall business goals. Through years of experience, our team of channel experts at Spur Reply have identified the essential elements of partner planning and are ready to share with you.

whitePaper | November 3, 2021

Effective partner relationship management (PRM) — always a challenge for even the most skilled channel leaders — is becoming increasingly critical to the success of well-established firms and start-up companies especially. Seismic shifts in the typical B2B buyer’s journey are demanding deeper and more timely data-informed evaluations of every vendor’s partner ecosystem.

whitePaper | December 1, 2021

No one fully understands the long-term effect COVID-19 will have on societies or regional economies. But the impact it’s having on brands is becoming clearer by the day. Customer loyalty to brands is low – and the cost of acquiring new customers is high. Marketers need to focus on creating and sustaining engagement with each and every customer. For their new e-book, “Deliver a Modern Digital CX: A Guide for Marketing Innovators,” Acquia worked with Vanson Bourne to collect the views of 8,000 consumers and 800 marketers across Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. Customer behaviors have shifted during the crisis and may not revert to pre-pandemic norms. The survey explores shifts in marketing and consumer expectations about CX and privacy. Download this Research Report to learn how marketers can transform their CX in fundamental, business-impacting ways.

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

One unifying statement can be made about 2022 – inflation was terrible. As Figure 1 highlights, the consumer price index increased by more than 7 percent each month this year – and that’s on top of 5%+ growth for most months in 2021.