Getting Honest About Partner Certifications and Differentiation
Partner training and enablement are essential, but vendors need to do better in defining and measuring the true value of these programs. ...
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Jul 2020
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Jun 2020
Big Idea: Expand Enablement to Everyone
Making training available to everyone will cultivate a strong, capable labor pool while showing empthy to partners and their families. ...
03
Jun 2020
Podcast: Need for Extreme Humanization
Tom Peters, the author of several best-selling books, including “In Search of Excellence,” joins Pod2112 to talk about the need for Extreme Humanization....
01
Jun 2020
Examining the Wisdom and Purpose of Incumbency Protection
Vendors should make account protection an earned reward, not a guarantee...
26
May 2020
Reviving the 100-Mile Channel Concept
As disease and technology conspire to keep people separated, the local channel has the potential to bring vendors, partners, and customers closer together. ...
20
May 2020
Podcast: Simplifying Cloud Adoption
Joseph Landes, Chief Revenue Officer at Nerdio, joins POD2112 to discuss getting more MSPs into cloud services....
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Apr 2020
Podcast: Sales in a Time of Crisis
Tiffani Bova, global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce, joins POD2112 to talk about the changing nature of sales and growth during and after COVID-19. ...
27
Apr 2020
Add Fiscal Health to Partner Attributes
Many resellers and service providers don’t have the cash reserves to weather a prolonged economic downturn, revealing how finances are just as important as technical certifications. ...
21
Apr 2020
Podcast: Resiliency of Managed Services
Fred Voccola, CEO of managed service tool provider Kaseya, says MSPs are resilient to economic downturns, but he cautions that the world is experiencing depression-like economic conditions that will adversely affect MSPs as much as their customers. ...
13
Apr 2020
Virtual Partner Connections Require Objectives, Structure
Vendors need more than just collaboration platforms; they need insights and strategies to make the tools more effective....
07
Apr 2020
Podcast: MSPs Securing ‘Work From Home’
SolarWinds’ Tim Brown, vice president of security architecture, joins POD2112 to discuss the security implications of work-from-home and how MSPs are coping with this surge in demand for support. ...
01
Apr 2020
Podcast: Customer-Centric Channels
Karl Fahrbach, chief partner officer at SAP, joins POD2112 to discuss the customer-centric model, how it applies to channels, and why it’s important even as the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic. ...