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Many solution providers are taking steps toward teaming up with resellers, but some aren’t laying the foundation necessary to ensure that both parties succeed.
Tweets Of The Week: Be An Industry Expert
Using tech tips, highlighting important industry news and displaying company awards, solution providers used social media to show off their best assets.
Strike The Right Tone With Your Marketing Efforts
There's an art to marketing, and the channel would do well to be a little more artful.
Tweets Of The Week: Its A Celebration!
Celebrating a holiday on social media is a great way to show off a fun company culture and take a break from serious business Tweets.
Tweets Of The Week: Stay On Top Of Current Events
Solution providers this week were tweeting about President Obama's TechHire initiative, security breaches, adding a channel spin to popular hashtags and even high-fiving a celebrity donating a 3D printed arm to a disabled child.
10 Marketing Tips From The Founder Of Geek Squad
Customers love scrappy underdogs, and the best way to make your company look like one is through a low-budget marketing campaign, according to Robert Stephens, the founder of Geek Squad.
7 Reasons To Increase Your Focus On Customer Lifetime Value
Even though sales, as a practice, is evolving in the IT channel, CLV still isn’t top of mind for every value chain organization.
Tweets Of The Week: Favorite Tweets From 2015 XChange Solution Provider
Take a look at some of our favorite Tweets from solution providers and their execs at the event.
XChange: These Mistakes Are Killing Your Brand
Branding doesn't mean spending millions, David Mayer, senior partner at Lippincott, said at 2015 XChange Solution Provider. However, solution providers do need to avoid some common missteps.
Tweets Of The Week: Show Off A Little
There's nothing wrong with showing off a little, especially when it comes to promoting your business on social media. Take a look at 10 solution providers that showed off their best assets this week.
Why Solution Providers Should Bet On Unified Communications
Solution providers should jump in on unified communications services opportunities in the fast-growing UCaaS market, an executive at 8x8 says.
Carbon Black CEO: Customers Looking For A New Approach To Security
Customers used to buy security technologies after a breach, but now they want to be more proactive, a trend that puts partners front and center, Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley says.
This Week In IoT: 5 Important Stories
Here are the biggest Internet of Things announcements this week for solution providers: from reports and partnerships to acquisitions and technology.
Blog Roundup: Is ‘Storage’ An Outdated Term?
What’s on the minds of solution providers? Each week, we look through their blogs in search of perspectives that can help boost your IT knowledge.
Why Solution Providers Need To Dig Deeper With Data Analytics
Growth-seeking solution providers should invest in building their data analytics practices, the CEO of Infogix says.
5 Reasons VARs Should Add Secure File Sharing And Collaboration
Amid many partner opportunities in security, here are five reasons VARs may want to check out secure file sharing and collaboration.
Test Center: PC Outlook 2016
Here's what solution providers need to know about reselling PCs in the down market of 2016.
10 Biggest Business Trends From This Year’s CES
These 10 products represent major business trends from this month’s Consumer Electronics Show.
5 Partner Opps In Dells New Cloud-Client Offering
Here are five opportunities for partners in the new Dell appliance for its Wyse for Citrix offering.
Fortscale’s New Channel Chief On Embracing Partners, Pushing User Behavior Analytics
Avi Legmann, channel chief for Fortscale, discusses the startup's channel plans, and why partners can benefit from adding UBA.