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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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Jeremy Butt
EVP EMEA - Westcon

WEBINAR: Making your Partners’ Lives Easier

A sale to your channel partners often starts or is influenced by customer service. And some estimates put the cost for acquiring new customers at 6 or 7 times that of retaining existing ones. For many vendors, improving customer retention by just 5% can provide a dramatic improvement on profits.... View document

Richard Potts
Vice President of IBM Business Partner & MM Organisation, UK & Ireland - IBM

WEBINAR: How Do We Train our Partners to Move to Selling Real Business Outcomes to Their Customers?

This is a recording of presentation by Richard Potts, Vice President of IBM Business Partner & MM Organisation, UK & Ireland on “How Do We Train Our Partners To Move To Selling Real Business Outcomes To Their Customers?” 

Today, end user customers are... View document

Mike Haines
Director of WW Channel Incentive Strategy & Design - Microsoft

WHITEPAPER: Selling Successfully to the SMB Market

Learn how to build the right economies of scale to effectively sell to the Small-Medium Business market. With SMB marketing opportunities continuing to increase, customer demand dynamics changing and distributor focus evolving, channel companies must develop... View document

Bill Griffin
Vice President Worldwide Channel Sales - Autodesk

WEBINAR: Beyond the Transaction: How do you reward partners for the value they really bring?

Bill Griffin, VP Worldwide Channel Sales at Autodesk was voted the top speaker at our Channel Focus North America Event in San Diego 2012. So don’t miss out on the chance to hear this top rated speaker share his time and expertise with us. 

In this recorded webinar Bill will be... View document

Nick Eades
Chief Marketing Officer - Psion plc

WEBINAR: Joint Campaign Planning How do you make it Effective for You and Your Partners

View the WEBINAR: Joint Campaign Planning How do You make it Effective for You and Your Partners by Nick Eades CMO at Psion.

Nick gives us he's views on the inglorious seven reasons why most joint campaigns are ineffective and then takes you through real examples of simple, effective... View document

Wolfgang Ebermann
Vice President – SMSG CEE - Microsoft

WEBINAR: What Does it take for a Reseller to Migrate to the Cloud

Channel Focus Committee is a representative group of senior executives of the IT Industry. Their charter is to discuss and develop key channel trends, develop recipes, whitepapers , best practices which can be leveraged by Vendors and Channel partners to allow fast adoption to changing... View document

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

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