Is Channel Marketing Just Random Acts of Marketing? Peter Thomas of Averetek - Sales Pipeline Radio
Mar 28, 2021
Let's start with what channel marketing is.
- It is a severely under-resourced segment with most marketing departments.
- It's someone that sells your product outside of your organization.
- It's called many things: local marketing, indirect marketing.
If you pay a person to sell, and they hit the market with a number/goal, you know you either got your investment in them back, or surpassed, or lost the investment. When you go to indirect model: Product/thought leadership at one company
Selling and marketing at another company, so now you have two companies to align.
$1000 invested - what does that turn into?
Did it convert to $10000 or is it $1000 I didn't get back?
This makes companies hesitant to invest in it. So, typically companies put one person on the channel marketing.
Example: a $2.2B company with 35K employees, 40% of revenue comes from channel, and they have ONE marketing resource. How can you be effective with that type of opportunity.
Averetek does this in a frictionless way. This allows Janet to drive more through the channel because they can get their own materials.
Listen to the rest to find out where you and your company may be missing opportunities by not allocating resources effectively.
About our guest:
Peter Thomas is the founder and CEO of Averetek. Peter combines his observations with partner behavior data from the Averetek platform, sharing this knowledge to help clients attract, engage, and monetize their partners more effectively. This team of marketers, engineers, and product developers seek new ways to engage channel partners through software and services. Since its beginning in 2000, Averetek has grown to manage more than 70,000 reseller organizations and 300,000 registered users.
Why it matters:
In Averetek’s work with brands, Peter has found that companies focus too much time and money on the top 10% of their channel partners. The remaining partners simply need the right nudge to shift from opportunistic to strategic sellers. When brands devote more attention to the 90% segment, they drive more leads, close more sales, and grow their business.
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