CompTIA ANZ Channel Community Launches

As you may have already seen in the press, CompTIA, the largest non-profit IT Channel Trade Association in the world, have launched a channel community here in ANZ. This Community is dedicated to local technology resellers, service providers, distributors, vendors and channel associates. It seeks to be the voice of the entire ANZ IT channel … Continued

Volume Partners – Selection vs. Collection

Author: Ian Maclean Over the last few years, Channel Dynamics has conducted many research projects around understanding problems relating to the partner ecosystem. In many instances, the research highlighted that vendors were not focusing enough on recruiting the right partners, or that partners were being on-boarded in a haphazard manner. In other words, anyone could … Continued

The Recurring Dream Of Subscription Software

The hottest topic in the IT Channel right now has to be businesses transitioning to the cloud. This is a hugely relevant article focused on companies making this leap to a subscription based revenue model. As the article states, ‘the transition of software from on-premise to the cloud is nothing short of a revolution’ and … Continued

Why Self Image Matters In B2B Sales

The sales process is not often simple. Obtaining sign off on a deal of almost any size requires many meetings and presentations to different people within a business. Sales people spend these meetings proving the value of their solution and specifically how it will help solve a customer’s problems. It is well known that as … Continued

Channel Loyalty In 2015

We are hearing and reading so much about the changing landscape of the channel. We hear how the evolution of Cloud means that businesses need to make fundamental changes to their business models and the way they go to market. It is a case of either evolve with the industry or you won’t survive. These … Continued

How To Sell To Different Personality Types

We come across all sorts of people in our working lives, all with different personalities. Further to this, we have to find a way of working with these different personalities to get our jobs done, whatever they may be. While people generally don’t sit neatly into pre-defined personality categories, you can normally group people broadly … Continued

Your Incentive Program May Be Producing Poorer Results

Many of us have to motivate or incentivise people that we work with as part of our job. Most of you reading this piece would work with sales staff or channel partners that you need motivate and incentivise every quarter in an effort to reach sales targets. Either way we tend to use financial incentives … Continued

Nine Disruptive Channel Marketing Trends For 2015

Chris Kenton, the founder of the organisation SocialRep, recently wrote an article published on LinkedIn about the channel marketing trends tipped for 2015. Based on a larger body of work that Chris is completing, he interviewed a large number of Channel Marketing Executives and Managers to understand what challenges they are facing in growing partner … Continued