Channel Management Blog

Our blog features channel management tips, best practices and expert insights to help you get the most out of your PRM and create a successful partner program.

Sep 23, 2015
Maximize Channel Partner Program Growth

Channel partner program growth is a goal for many channel managers who aspire to excellence. But what is the best way to make that happen?

Channel Management, Channel Marketing
Sep 18, 2015
Featured Download: 5 Habits of Channel Manager Rock Stars

Channel manager Rock Stars are channel builders. They know how to sell, how to be strategic with partners and how to build an organization that will generate significant sales. Download our new ebook for free to learn what Channel Rock Stars all have in common and how you can adopt these habits into your own channel role. […]

Channel Management
Aug 26, 2015
Generate a Few Leads Before Partner Recruitment

It’s sort of a chicken and egg question: How do you service leads without partners, and how do you recruit and engage your partners without leads? The fact is you need to be doing both, but there’s probably more risk in starting with partner recruitment. Understand how it looks from the partner’s point of view. Having […]

Channel Management, Channel Marketing, Lead Distribution
Aug 5, 2015
5 Reasons Channel Managers Don’t Need a Mobile Strategy

Over the past two years all the buzz in the channel has been about having a mobile strategy. Mobile is the latest in a long line of shiny new things that seem to surface every other year, promising to “engage the channel”. Most people I talk to about “Mobile” cite statistics about the number of […]

Channel Management, Channel Marketing
Jul 24, 2015
Release: Full SAML SSO support & more

Our next release features full SAML SSO support and is going live this coming Monday, July 27th. Here are the details: Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 In addition to our proprietary SSO APIs, Channeltivity now supports SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language, an open standard for single sign-on) and can be configured to allow your Users to seamlessly […]

Channeltivity PRM
Channel Relationships: The Secret Sauce for Success

True channel marketing success comes from emphasizing channel relationships, because your partner organizations are made up of people.

Channel Management, Channel Marketing
Jul 14, 2015
Don’t Sign a New Channel Partner Without Reading This

Here’s a question to think about before you sign on a new channel partner: who else are they working with? A prospective partner’s current vendor list can provide some interesting insight into whether or not the two of you will make a profitable match.

Channel Management
Jun 17, 2015
From Sproutloud: Brand Compliance with Co-Marketing Funds

Our partner, Sproutloud just posted a great article on their blog “Why You Should Enforce Brand Compliance with Co-Marketing Funds“. We see this with our customers as well — they are happy their partners are marketing on their behalf, but experience challenges when their brand is represented incorrectly. From the post “Building your brand image is a big […]

Channel Management, Channel Marketing, PRM (Partner Relationship Management)
Jun 15, 2015
CRM Software Blog: Improve Access to the End Customer

Channeltivity’s article, Three Ways to Get More Access to the End Customer was recently published on http://www.crmsoftwareblog.com. Click through to read how selling via channel management means less direct contact with your end customer, but there are still plenty of ways to improve access to the customer insights necessary to compete effectively and win more business.

Channel Management
Jun 4, 2015
Channeltivity Advisor named a CRN Women of the Channel

Channeltivity congratulates Stacy Desrosiers, Director, Worldwide Channel Marketing at CTERA Networks for being named one of CRN’s 2015 Women of the Channel. As Channeltivity’s VP of Marketing and Business Development for two years before taking a position at Channeltivity customer CTERA, we benefited from her nearly 20 years of channel management and channel marketing expertise. She […]

Channel Management