With limited resources and budgets, partners are looking to their vendors to go the extra mile with relevant, targeted marketing content.
Whether you are creating content for partners, or wanting content support from your vendors, there is one message coming out loud and clear from our research. For marketing content to drive positive actions and create leads, it must show a real understanding of the intended audience, be crafted specifically for their needs and weave together the expertise and USPs of both vendor and partner to create differentiation. This can only be achieved through the development of close partner marketing relationships and a structured, collaborative approach to joint go-to-market campaigns.
Vendor-produced content has always played a significant role in partner marketing. With massive pressure on resources and budgets, many partner marketers view good vendor content as an efficient and effective way to differentiate themselves – but the reality is slightly different.
Our recent survey of partner marketers looked at the true opinions around vendor content. Whilst the appetite for content is clearly high, partners are only really going to use it if it is targeted, relevant, and personalised.
So, how do you get more partners to use the content you produce? Here are our recommendations:
There is no doubt marketing content plays a hugely important role throughout the end-to end customers buyers’ journey. Investing the time and effort in creating powerful, differentiated content that can be tailored with partners and personalised to your joint customer’s specific needs, is worth its weight in gold. Not only will it help bring in leads quicker, it will also go a long way to you help you in developing profitable long-term relationships with your partners.
Hilary Salzman
Director & Head of Value Proposition Development
