Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
a. Sales
b. Marketing
e. Training Delivery
Benefit
= ROI
Investment
Benefit Revenue
(incremental) (the least)
= ROI
(the most)
Timing:
What you invest in today with
partners, you’ll get the value of in
9-12 months (or longer)
Cloud Cloud
Managed Services • On Premises Services On Prem
Services 4% HW
9%
On Prem hardware & 9%
26%
HW
28% software down Managed
Services
All 18% All
Project services • Project based services
based revenue = services down revenue =
Services 51% 55%
38% Project
On Prem • Managed and based On Prem
SW cloud services up Services SW
21% 28% 19%
Q: What was your estimated mix of revenue in 2015, among the following major product/service categories? (n=411)
PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
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Executive Leadership
VP of
Channels &
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Alliances
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Discussion Topics
ROI Drivers
Third Tier
• Co-selling or sales teaming success
SALES • Engagement in strategic account planning
Second Tier
• Total revenue (including influence)
• Partner-led or “sourced” revenue (vs. fulfillment)
VP of • Breadth of customers sold to
Sales
•
Foundation
17
Third Tier
leadership content created
• Early stage lead nurturing and progression
18
Third Tier
• Customer Satisfaction ratings
Both sales
• RMA (returns) rate - %
Second Tier
and delivery!
• % of sales of Premium Service
• Rate of multi-year agreement sales
VP of
Services
or
Support • Support-to-product attach sales rate (%)
• Renewal sales rate (%)
Foundation
• Break-fix deployments
• Level 1 & 2 calls managed
• Escalations (or lack thereof) to L3/L4 support rep
19
Second Tier
• Number of demos/proof-of-concepts conducted
VP of
• Number of assessments/discovery sessions conducted
Services
20
ROI Drivers
SG&A Expenses:
• Wages & Benefits
• Training
• Rent & facilities
• Office supplies
• Marketing & advertising
• Postage and printing
• Depreciation
• Utilities
• Insurance
• Vehicles
• Repairs & Maintenance
• Bad Debt Write-offs
• Accounts Receivable aging
Net Profit or Loss $$$$$$
SG&A Expenses:
• Wages & Benefits
• Training 3. Training
• Rent & facilities
• Office supplies
• Marketing & advertising 4. Marketing & Advertising
• Postage and printing
• Depreciation
• Utilities
• Insurance
• Vehicles
• Repairs & Maintenance
• Bad Debt Write-offs
• Accounts Receivable aging
Net Profit or Loss $$$$$$
SG&A Expenses:
SG&A Expenses:
• Wages & Benefits
1. Wages & & Benefits
• Training 3. Training
2. Training
• Rent & facilities
3. Rent & facilities
• Office supplies 4. Office supplies
• Marketing & advertising 4. Marketing & Advertising
5. Marketing & advertising
• Postage and printing 6. Postage and printing
• Depreciation 7. Depreciation
• Utilities 8. Utilities
• Insurance 9. Insurance
• Vehicles 10. Vehicles
• Repairs & Maintenance 11. Repairs & Maintenance
• Bad Debt Write-offs 12. Automation systems
• Accounts Receivable aging 13. Bad Debt Write-offs
Net Profit or Loss $$$$$$ 14. Accounts Receivable aging
SALES: 1. Headcount
Foundational 2. Incentives (rebates,
1. Transactional revenue Deal Reg., SPIFs)
(resale, OEM, sell-in) 3. Discounts
4. Program Development &
Tier 2/3 communication expense
2. Influence revenue 5. Marketing funds
6. Training expense (content
development & delivery)
7. Automation systems
8. Other Infrastructure
30%
31%
25% 27%
20%
15%
15% 15%
10% 12% 11% 11%
5% 8%
0%
All Vendors Hardware Software Service Provider
Source: 2015 Vendor Benchmark, IPED (N – 94 for 2014 data)
Q: In order to understand your channel investment-to-revenue ratio, please estimate your total channel budget or investment as a percent of your indirect revenue/influence revenue for your product categories.
g. Other
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John Machado
Vice President
C 617.784.9771
jmachado@thechannelco.com
The Channel Company
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