What are the best ways in which producers can make the partners experience as effective as possible for all parties, including the end-customer?
The Financial Payoff
The Best-in-Class performers who do provide their channels partners with support, achieve these results:
According to research by the Aberdeen Group in 2011
81%
of Best-in-Class performers provided the following tools to their channel partners:
1. Dedicated resources responsible for managing all channel sales
• Channel and Partner Executives with P & L responsibility
2. Centralized, online partner access to product, process, promotions, etc.
• Include channel selling partners in their compensation, training and incentive
program initiatives
• Support an online portal to engage in channel management and selling activities.
3. Support their channel with sales forecasting and analytic tools.
• Real time Results and Benefits
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The answer is to have a more substantial partner relationship, in which more aggressively supported indirect sellers add more producer revenue, and do so within a model allowing better visibility up and down the hierarchy. Aberdeen Group Research “The Extended Sales Enterprise: Channeling Better Results”, 2011.