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Welcome to the Channel Focus Community Content Library. Download from a growing body of whitepapers, documents, videos and recordings of webinars by leading experts and fellow community members. Below are some of the latest documents that have been uploaded to the Library. You can sort through by Author; Title and Date. You can also search for the right document using the categories section or the site search function.

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Michael Hartmann
General Manager, Small & Medium Business EMEA - Microsoft

WEBINAR: How to Engage with Your Breadth Partners on Public Cloud

With Public Cloud Services, your go-to-market changes dramatically and one of the preferred sales motions might be to go direct. Yet to build on your assets in the partner channel and to get reach, you should have a strong partner strategy. How is Microsoft engaging their breadth partners in... View document

Ian Kilpatrick
Chairman - Wick Hill Group

WEBINAR: Best Practice for CAM’s from a Distribution Perspective

CAMs are a key component of success, or failure, in developing and managing business through and with the channel. Their energy, skill, drive and engagement can make the difference between a successful, strong growing  relationship and loss of traction. ... View document

Mark Whitby
Vice President Sales and Marketing EMEA - Seagate Technology

WEBINAR: Understanding and Delivering What the SMB Reseller Community Needs

In any partnership, having open and honest communication is key to building trust and loyalty. SMB resellers today have many choices today from the proliferation of competition in vendor technologies.  

Choosing the partners that the resellers will leverage is important, and often... View document

Ian Moyse
Sales Director - Workbooks.com

WEBINAR: How do you Build a ‘Dual’ Channel Strategy to Meet the Needs of Both a Traditional and a Cloud Offering?

Listen to the webinar presented by Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director - Webroot

Channel partners are diversifying their businesses away from product resale and offering services to take more advantage of the rapid growth in cloud computing.  The resellers’ bread-and-butter... View document

Monique Gibelli
Director, ISV Business Development - Microsoft

WHITEPAPER: Building A ‘Best In Class’ Enterprise Channel In Latin America

This white paper by Monique Gibelli focuses on building a best in class Latin America enterprise channel based mainly on the author’s experiences whilst working at Nortel Networks, Citrix and Microsoft. It starts with a review of what comprises a typical partner ecosystem... View document

Sandy Carter
VP SWG Channels and Social Media Evangelist - IBM

WHITEPAPER: From a Whisper to a Scream: Marketing 2.0

This white paper by Sandy Carter shares lessons learned by IBM on social media marketing and covers an IBM approach to adding social media into its marketing mix. It explains and emphasises that the philosophy on social media is that the best use is to mix it with traditional marketing tactics... View document

Sandy Carter
VP SWG Channels and Social Media Evangelist - IBM

WHITEPAPER: Penetrating New Markets

Concerned about the risk of entering a new market? You should be. Any move will require major investment and have a very real risk of failure. To make your move a successful one, you must understand your customers, your own potential and the nature of the market.

Here, Sandy Carter, VP,... View document

Michael Kelly
Founder and Managing Director - TSL Channel Marketing

WEBINARS: The 5 Pillars of Systematic Partner Recruitment Campaigns

Does your channel recruitment strategy follow a best practice, formal methodology? Is it systematic, measurable and optimised for the current environment? Has it adapted for disruptive changes such as cloud computing?

In this presentation, the founders of IT channel marketing... View document

Tina Lauzon
VP Marketing - hawkeye

WHITEPAPER: Partner Segmentation - Best Practices

Best practices in ranking and prioritizing your partners.

As margins shrink and competition soars, optimizing partner performance and channel investment are critical. They Key to your success is to enable your channel partners, but this task may be more difficult than it first... View document

Michael Kelly
Founder and Managing Director - TSL Channel Marketing

WHITEPAPER: Enabling Partners to Win “White Space” Business

First, it is more difficult for any lead generation team to gain traction and identify opportunities in those accounts. Whether it is a vendor lead generation team, business partner, or agency team, it is going to be tougher to break into those accounts in the first place and have them talk to... View document

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