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Co-Selling First Principles

Co-Selling First Principles

TL/DR To see faster growth from co-selling companies must embrace and enforce the first principles of common decency when selling with partners. Much like the golden rule we all learned in kindergarten, these co-selling first principles sound obvious, but can are hard...

Partner KPIs Next-gen Sales Leaders Will Track in Every Account

Partner KPIs Next-gen Sales Leaders Will Track in Every Account

In today’s sales landscape, if your company has a vast partner ecosystem and your sellers aren’t engaging with partners daily, you’re missing out on significant opportunities. With 6 - 7 partners influencing each buyer and customer, it’s critical that your sales...

9 Step Co-Selling Enablement Framework

9 Step Co-Selling Enablement Framework

TL/DR PartnerTap is sharing this 9-step process for co-selling enablement to give companies a clear framework to enable their sales teams to co-sell effectively with partners.  We get lots of questions about how to enable and incentivize sales teams to co-sell...

The official definition of co-selling

The official definition of co-selling

TL/DR Here’s the official definition of co-selling: co-selling is the active collaboration between sales people across different companies so they can source, influence or accelerate a sales process.  Co-selling is a verb.  Direct sales and channel sellers...

The Co-Selling Movement

The Co-Selling Movement

I co-founded PartnerTap in 2016 to help sales reps co-sell and win more with partners. This wasn’t an easy problem to solve and there weren’t any co-selling solutions in the market. I know - because I was at SAP Concur at the time and I searched far and wide for a...

New Ecosystem Role: Co-Sell Quarterback 

New Ecosystem Role: Co-Sell Quarterback 

TL/DR: The Co-Sell Quarterback is a very cool role emerging in companies with large partner ecosystems. A Co-Sell Quarterback gets to be very strategic and proactive, drive top-of-funnel co-selling conversations at scale, track and get credit for net new pipeline...

Shifting Vendor and Partner Power Dynamics in Co-Selling

Shifting Vendor and Partner Power Dynamics in Co-Selling

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...

Five New Co-Selling Leadership Opportunities

Five New Co-Selling Leadership Opportunities

Earlier this year I 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 five new co-selling leadership opportunities this creates within companies.  If you missed it,...

Co-Sell Transformation Pitfalls

Co-Sell Transformation Pitfalls

As outlined in The Sales Transformation Imperative in 2024, companies realize they need a new sales playbook to support modern buyers and win deals with more complex dynamics. Building a high-performing co-selling motion with your best partners is the answer. When...