Sales Pipeline Radio

Let's start with what channel marketing is. It's called many things: local marketing, indirect marketing. It's someone that sells your product outside of your organization. It is a severely under-resourced segment with most marketing departments. 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 or selling and marketing at another company,  you now 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 channel marketing. Example of 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? For Example: marketing resource, Janet, is reactive to channel requ