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The year 2024 paints a vivid picture of the future of sales: a turbulent landscape of intensifying competition, evolving customer expectations, and relentless pressure to adapt. To thrive in this environment, businesses must embrace holistic growth strategies that transcend traditional models. In this context, Sales-as-a-Service (SaaS) emerges as a transformative approach, offering unparalleled efficiency, scalability, and access to specialized expertise. 

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5.06 billion
That’s how many people use search engines worldwide, adding up to around 98% of internet users!

The Changing Landscape: The Age of the Partner

With the constant ongoing shifts in the B2B world, partner channels have become a lifeline for growth and sustainability. These strategic partnerships are often what hold the key to a business's success. Gone are the days when companies could rely solely on their internal resources and capabilities to thrive; we now live in an era where global disruptions and rapid technological advancements are constantly reshaping the way we do business. 

This has ushered in a new era of "The Age of the Partner", where the spotlight has shifted away from a vendor-centric approach to a partner-centric one. With technologies like AI taking off and customer expectations on the rise, it becomes imperative for businesses to collaborate closely with partners who bring specialized skills, expertise, and market access to the table. 

If Partner Channel is the name of the game, think of Channel Partner Management (CPM) as your trusty playbook, enabling you to build and nurture enduring relationships to drive mutual success. Whether you’re just starting a partner channel program or looking to optimize your existing one, this blog will provide valuable insights into how you can manage your partner channel successfully.

The B2B landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. Gone are the days of siloed decision-making and linear sales cycles. Today, complex buying journeys orchestrated by multi-stakeholder teams, coupled with pre-purchase research that often bypasses sales reps, necessitate a drastic shift in approach. Sales leaders and their teams must become adept navigators, attuned to the subtle currents of change that will reshape the 2024 sales landscape.

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New year, new demand gen tactics? In this dynamic world of business where evolution is constant, staying ahead means leveling up; and our blog is your one-way ticket to decoding demand gen growth. Businesses are prioritizing new and innovative ways of staying ahead of the game, from harnessing the power of intent data for precision-targeted outreach to exploring new and innovative methods of optimizing ROI measurement. As these dynamics continue to shift, we need to shift with them or risk getting left behind. 

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The past couple of years, there's been a remarkable shift in how companies perceive and prioritize their customers, evolving from a mere transactional relationship to a full-blown commitment to being “customer-obsessed”. And this is true across any landscape, customer success included. From being a mere support function to being recognized as a strategic pillar for business growth, this domain has undergone quite the transformation. Gone are the days when customer interactions were merely part of a routine; the current landscape champions the art of cultivating lasting relationships. 

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Picture this: the business world, a bustling marketplace where every player is on a quest for growth. In the midst of this hustle and bustle, the partner channel takes center stage, a network of collaborations and alliances that can make or break a company's trajectory.

A Forbes survey on corporate executives and video usage revealed that 75% of all executives claimed watching work-related videos on business websites at least once a week, and more than 50% claimed that YouTube was the most popular video search engine used to watch those videos. As the dependence on video content increases for corporate executives, it has become imperative for B2B marketers to apportion a sizeable budget to video marketing initiatives.  

We understand that jumping onto the video marketing bandwagon can be a daunting task, and we are here to ease the transition by providing some actionable tips on elements that make up a successful video marketing plan. If you have in fact already started your video marketing campaigns, this check-list will help you determine if any aspects are missing from your plan.  

Here are the most important aspects of a video marketing plan: 

Who wouldn’t want to be in the top three results of search engines and attract organic traffic in the form of qualified visitors to their website? But, unfortunately this is not always possible if you only rely on your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts only. To ensure that your website attracts a substantial amount of traffic at all times, it is important that along with SEO, you also devote resources to paid search ads.