Benefits of Using a Marketing Company to Achieve a Better Partnership

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Nowadays, various types of businesses are placed in different areas of the world in both the offline and online markets. And every business person should keep in mind that every business has some risk. Depending on the performance, one might gain significant profit or loss, but it has to be positively balanced to prevent bankruptcy - one of the worst things that can occur in this field.

And so it comes to a point where one tries to find strategies on how to earn more. Use of advertisements on television, broadcasting, and print media may have been utilized in this process. Likewise, there might have been some use of websites, events, and several other forms of invitation. All these things are great and broad in scope, but without sufficient data and statistics to prove their effectiveness, one might just be wasting significant amount of money.

To enhance the growth of one's business, one can make use of the skills of marketing companies. These companies have specialized tools and software that offer concrete, objective data, and not just hearsay information. They help in partner marketing and in creating or updating one's database.


During the initial stages, they try to identify the business potential. Using Partner Perceptual Mapping (PPM), an analytical tool similar to but better than surveys, they fine tune one's programs to get better results and greater rewards. This looks deeper into the programs of a partner to know where one can improve. It also gives an accurate idea of what one's partner is thinking about like the things they consider before going into partnership, such as company and market position, programs and offerings, relevance of ones business to theirs, and many more. The results are immediately seen in the form of a diagram and one is given a chance to compare two partners at the same time. Overall, it facilitates improvements in channel strategy and planning.

Another thing done at the outset is analysis of the partner gap. If one is falling behind, it might be caused by an inefficient partner or that there may be some components missing. Once this is known, one can then try to contact those which are lacking from the system. A marketing company can provide one with ideal partners based on ones needs and competition. They review one's targets, find those that match, and determine one's chances of earning through their use. At this stage, the marketing company will communicate with that partner to ones favor. The data services of this marketing company cleanses, improves, and organizes the database of one's partner to make it of great use in choosing lead channel campaigns.


Partner recruitment would take place wherein marketing companies look for top performing resellers who are currently unsatisfied with their company relations and commission changes. A marketing company is sensitive to these critical happenings. They understand what resellers need and want. And so with their help, one can gain the partnership of such a reseller increasing ones profitability and get significant growth in terms of shares.

As part of their consultancy service, the marketing company would help in forming a better relationship with the partners by various means including; partner development, using interaction centers, and bettering partner communications. Furthermore, there would be maximization of returns through partner co-marketing and partner fund management.

One could definitely benefit a lot of things from using the services of a marketing company. They specialize in partner marketing to help in finding the missing pieces from one's business. They help enrich the overall working environment with one's partners. They are capable of implementing data services by updating data which might be forty percent outdated from one's database. Other than this, their teams are often capable of speaking a variety of different languages and are also culturally aware of how business should be conducted from one part of the country to another. Overall, using a professional marketing company lends vast experience to businesses seeking to gain more through business partnerships, be it locally or globally.

Kathryn Dawson writes articles for Connection 2, channel partner experts who provide with lead generation, telemarketing, email and data services. With this cutting edge sales and marketing company help, you can increase your market share in new territories quickly and cost-effectively by engaging more productively with distributors, resellers, ISVs and systems integrators. Read more about channel partner marketing and integrated marketing programs today.

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