In May this year our CEO, Cassandra Gholston, delivered a keynote at the Women of the Channel West conference in Palm Springs about the shifting power dynamics between partners and vendors and the new opportunities this creates for co-selling. During this talk she...
I was recently asked to map PartnerTap’s capabilities to the B2B customer journey. When I got off the phone, I realized I should have asked “Which one? The old B2B customer journey or the modern one?” For the past 20 years the customer journey has started with a...
Co-selling is suddenly the hottest topic in partner, channel, and sales circles. Why? Because companies are realizing the old sales playbook is broken and finally making sales transformation a top priority in 2024. Co-selling transformation is a journey that requires...
As I mentioned in Sales Is Broken Part 1, traditional B2B sales is broken. Most sales reps didn’t hit their quota in 2023 and sales leaders were uniformly thrashed for failing to hit their targets. Many companies pointed to the general market conditions in 2023 or...
TLDR: Traditional B2B sales is broken. Deal dynamics today are exponentially more complex and sales reps have less influence and control over the sales process today than they did ten years ago. Operationalizing a high-performing co-sell motion with your partners is...
TLDR: Run a Partner Shuffle Co-Sell Play with PartnerTap Are your partner managers or channel account managers moving around and getting new partners in Q1? Is Q1 typically a slow start where the team waits for their new assignments and gradually builds rapport? Turn...
Sales reps changing territories in Q1? Use PartnerTap to get them quick wins with partners. Win the territory shuffle and go from dead quarter to best quarter.
Does your sales team co-sell with partners? If so, to what degree, and with how many partners? Some companies like Microsoft and SAP Concur have very sophisticated co-selling motions with their top partners. Others are just starting their partner-first journeys....
Over the past few months I’ve had lots of conversations with Fortune 500 executives about how to make their co-sell initiatives successful after investing in PartnerTap. These massive companies are all in different stages of their co-sell transformations and...
Over the past few months I’ve had many conversations with executives about their new “PartnerTap Co-sell Programs”. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but my first piece of advice has been “Don’t call it your PartnerTap Co-sell Program”. I then remind them of all the...
