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The Sales Transformation Imperative in 2024: Co-Selling

The Sales Transformation Imperative in 2024: Co-Selling

2024 is the year companies admit the old sales playbook is broken and invest in sales transformation. Buyers have changed how they buy products and services for their companies and deal dynamics are exponentially more complex. Selling to the modern buyer in this more...

Sales Is Broken Part 2: Buyers Don’t Want to Talk With Sales Reps

Sales Is Broken Part 2: Buyers Don’t Want to Talk With Sales Reps

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...

B2B Sales Is Broken Part 1: Deals Are More Complex & We Must Adapt

B2B Sales Is Broken Part 1: Deals Are More Complex & We Must Adapt

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...

Go Beyond Random Acts of Co-Sell

Go Beyond Random Acts of Co-Sell

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....

Stop Focusing on the Lone-Ranger Sales Rep

Stop Focusing on the Lone-Ranger Sales Rep

Have you ever noticed how the sales reps and deals that get called out for praise usually sound like a superhero storyline? There’s the big opportunity. Winning the deal requires a grueling battle against a villainous competitor. There’s a last minute plot twist that...

Why Is Co-Selling Suddenly So Important?

Why Is Co-Selling Suddenly So Important?

Have you noticed a change in how executives talk about growth this year? The tone is different, there’s more concern and anxiety in their voices. At the beginning of 2023 all the talk was around the macroeconomic forces slowing down purchases. It was generally assumed...

7 Strategies for Enterprise Co-sell Success

7 Strategies for Enterprise Co-sell Success

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...

How to Build, Brand, and Launch Your New Co-sell Program

How to Build, Brand, and Launch Your New Co-sell Program

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...