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Tips on Running Weekly Sales Meetings

By Sridhar Ramanathan | Posted on February 2011 in Channel Development

Do you find weekly sales conference calls to be onerous, de-motivating, unfocused, and often a poor use of time? Unfortunately, this is more often the case than not. Here are tips based on our playing the interim sales exec role for a dozen or so technology clients. Would love to…

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Does Cold Calling Really Pay Off?

By Sridhar Ramanathan | Posted on September 2010 in Channel Development

One of the fond memories I have of my HP days is when very high level executives would roll up their sleeves and play “individual contributor” just to stay grounded in the business. Rich Sevcik, GM of HP’s “mini-computer” division (the HP 3000 competed against the DEC VAX and AS/400)…

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Lessons Learned on Customer List Development

By Sridhar Ramanathan | Posted on August 2010 in Channel Development

Bill Reed, Sam Young, and I have been running several appointment setting campaigns for numerous tech clients with surprisingly outstanding results. We use a very unique, proprietary approach called Vector, which is resulting in 65% to 75% of our completed appointments rated as “good” to “excellent”, meaning they are moving…

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What's the most effective demand gen approach?

By Bill Reed | Posted on February 2010 in Channel Development

I recently posted some discussions on LinkedIn that asked the question: what’s the most effective telemarketing and lead generation approach for technology companies? This triggered some excellent responses and lively discussions, as well as a few questions. To follow is a brief overview of the discussions, and a few answers…

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Time for that Annual Partner Satisfaction Survey?

By Anne Merkert | Posted on February 2010 in Channel Development

Thinking about surveying your partners to assess your channel program and prioritize objectives for the coming year? We recently conducted such a survey for a global software organization, and despite current challenges in the economy, we heard channel partners asking for some fairly common resources.

Attention. You may host weekly…

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CIO Tells Us How to Sell to CIOs

By Sridhar Ramanathan | Posted on October 2009 in Channel Development

I had a great conversation with my dear friend and neighbor, Walt Thinfen. He’s the Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Visioneer, a high tech company here in Pleasanton, California. I took the opportunity to get his thoughts on how our clients and other technology vendors could do…

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Announcing Aventi’s Vector for Channels

By Sridhar Ramanathan | Posted on August 2009 in Channel Development

I’m very pleased to announce a new Aventi Group’s offering masterminded by our very own Bill Reed. Aventi’s Vector for Channels is a deliverable made up of methods, tools, templates and even a bit of software aimed at helping technology clients optimize channel sales. Specifically, Vector for Channels is intended…

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