Tag: Ancillary

Today’s workforce is multigenerational and this can present both opportunities and challenges to those charged with management positions. How do you get the best from a multigenerational workforce? What will motivate and inspire a millennial is going to very different to what will motivate and inspire a baby boomer. So how do managers work with … Continued

For those of you that work in a sales role you know how important sales lead qualification is. It is the step in the sales process that can ultimately lead you to winning more business, and wasting less of your time. This brief article and video from Engage Selling by Colleen Francis is short and … Continued

When it comes to your Managed Services business, we talk a lot about what your business model should look like and what you need to be doing in order to be successful. What is not often discussed is how you should approach or even start to consider the steps and process associated with the sale … Continued

The Cloud and it’s aaS business model has promised to offer businesses a more consistent revenue stream. It has also offered businesses the promise of being a potentially much more profitable business model than traditional IT business models. The latest research however is showing that this is not actually always the case and there are … Continued

The Managed Services Business model has been a much researched and discussed topic in the IT industry over the past few years. While it is no longer new, it seems that many organisations are still grappling with how to successfully transition their business models across to a Managed Services Business model and how to identify … Continued

At this time of year it is always interesting to see what is predicted in terms of trends for the year ahead in our industry. The cloud was of course highly evident in the recent years, along with the Internet of Everything and Cyber Security. So what does 2017 hold? In this article from Forbes, … Continued

As a vendor, evaluating and addressing underperforming channel partners and distributors is an ongoing challenge. While the channel provides scale and reach that vendors can only obtain through the use of channel partners, it does mean that an element of control is lost when it comes to the ‘extended sales force’. This raises the question, … Continued

A large chunk of a buyer’s journey for any product or service is now completed online. The sales and marketing consultants Sirius Decisions recently completed some research that not only supports this statistic but also adds that this statistic is in fact true, no matter who the buyer is, be it a normal everyday consumer … Continued

The benefits of channel enablement and training when it comes to the channel are clear and undisputed. The more your partners know about how to sell your solutions, the more success you and they will have. The problem is that, as a vendor, it can be very difficult to get your channel partners to complete … Continued

PC world recently published an article from Moheb Moses about the subject of Distribution and where it fits in the future for the IT Channel. The common assumption is that distribution is becoming less relevant to the IT channel due to the many changes that have taken place around technology delivery. With less product to … Continued