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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

Rethinking Partner Enablement For Cloud

Author: Cam Wayland We are working with a vendor that is transitioning its portfolio of products and partners to be more annuity or XaaS orientated. This includes evaluating their partner enablement material and approach so either existing or new partners could successfully sell the Cloud or XaaS solutions. Our findings suggest that using the same … 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

Rethinking The Value Of Customers In A Cloudy World

Recently we have been working with a number of service providers building out their channel and XaaS offerings. The first part of the process is helping them to clearly define their target customer, and as a result what will be the best type of partner to acquire and service this customer. The second thing we … Continued