Cgs channel enablement services nn bm

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Proven Channel Enablement Services

Computer Generated Solutions, Inc.200 Vesey StreetBrookfield PlaceNew York, NY 10281-1017

Doug StephenSenior Vice President & Country [email protected]


Agenda

Introduction to CGS

Channel Enablement Program Overview

CGS’ Partner Enablement Tactics

Channel Enablement Contract Examples


Who is CGS?

30 years of excellence

5,000 professionals

17 locations worldwide

Stable, privately owned, debt-free, and profitable since its inception in 1984

Multi-shore global delivery in 18 languages

Portfolio of award-winning solutions and services

Served more than 3,500 clients in 40 countries


Who

WE are a private, a

profitable, 30 year old technology and services firm with a

global footprint.

WE have over 5,000 professionals across North America, Latin America, Europe and

Asia with global delivery capabilities and

expertise across leading IT vendors’ platforms.

WE are a provider of channel enablement services that deliver substantial increased

sales through IT vendors’ SMB partners, including

the development of partner learning and

training courses.

is ?CGS

CGS’ Channel EnablementProgram


What Differentiates CGS From Other Channel Organizations?

CGS’ partner recruitment, enablement, sales activation and support program is the most comprehensive, innovative and cost effective channel partner enablement program in the IT industry.

The true measurement of a successful SMB partner enablement program is the incremental revenue that is realized sequentially, quarter over quarter. CGS’ Channel Enablement Program is designed to deliver significant sales results through the channel partners.

Our portfolio of innovative and successful channel enablement services are “proven” with some of the world’s largest IT vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Lenovo, Trend Micro and others.

A “Proven” Channel Enablement Program


What Differentiates CGS From Other Channel Organizations?

A “Proven” Channel Enablement Program

Executives on our staff have over 30 years of indirect channel sales and channel business develop ment experience on a worldwide basis working for some of the world’s largest IT vendors.

You will be interfacing with seasoned professional channel executives that have encountered the same chal lenges you face in

the channel from an IT vendor’s perspective.


IT Vendors Achieve Their Channel Goals with CGS

CGS provides “proven” Channel Enablement Services designed to achieve the following objectives:

• Recruit qualified net-new partners that will “commit” to selling your solutions and services

• Eliminates the 80/20 rule

• Enable and accelerate partners’ sales growth and reduce IT vendors’ partner management costs

• Substantially increase incremental partner sales quarter-over-quarter

• Sales activate dormant partners• Through CGS’ proven tactics, CGS will deliver substantial incremental

sales through partners that previously were not actively selling your products and services


We Win Partners’ Mindshare and Deliver Substantial Incremental Sales

• Partner Recruitment: Recruit only the partners that will “commit” to becoming certified…Delivers partners that will sell

• Partner Engagement: Understand partners’ business objectives and jointly develop training, marketing and go-to-market plans

• Partner Enablement: Guide and assist partners to become sales and technically enabled

• Marketing Programs: Consult and assist to develop marketing programs that result in qualified sales leads

• Sales Activation: Quickly “sales activate” partners’ sales teams through CGS’ proven Sales Accelerator Tools and tactics

• Support: Provide ongoing partner nurturing, support,

guidance and “frequent” telephone communications

A Proven Comprehensive Program

Summary: CGS’ Channel enablement Program

EngageRecruit

Enable

Sales Activate

Promote

Manage

Support


Sample:CGS Partner Enablement Tactics


Increase Number of High Quality

Resellers

SUBSTANTIALLYINCREASE

RESELLER SALES

Obtain Commitments to

Engage

Accelerate Sales Activation

Proactively Support & Drive

Sales

CGS will identify the Partners who are experienced selling the solutions that align to your solutions and markets

Most importantly, CGS will “QUALIFY” every Partner prior to recruiting them to ensure they will commit to enroll in training and actively sell your solutions

Identify, Recruit & Enable “Committed” Partners

Market Sales Activate

Assist to Locate Collateral &

Develop MKTG Programs

Assist in All Categories of Sales Including Pre-Sales Assistance to Close

Deals

Support & Admin

Proactively Support & Prog Admin/Reports

Sales Activate and Support Partners

Recruit

Recruit Only Partners That

Will Commit to Enroll in Training

& Sell your solutions

Engage

Establish Relationship, Identify Bus.

Goals, Develop Training Schedule

Enable

Assist to Enroll in Training, Provide CGS’ Sales Tools , Establish Sales &

MKTG Plans

Segment & Target

Identify High-Value Partner

Targets By Vendor’s Solution

Type, Vertical Markets & Geo’s

SAMPLE: CGS Reseller Enablement Program

Typical Reseller Categories

Platinum

Gold Resellers

Silver Resellers

Registered Resellers

Net-New Recruits - Optimized -

INCREASE SALES

Mindshare Loyalty

OPTIMIZE SALESAssist Partners to Achieve

Gold & Silver Status

ENABLE & SALES ACTIVATATIONAssist New Partners to Become

Quickly Enabled & Sales Activated

QUICKLY ENGAGEUnderstand Business Goals and

Establish Enablement Plan


FullySales

Activated$153.8K

Engaged$12.0K

Enabled$24.8K

Example: How CGS’ Tactics Increase the size of the Partners’ Sales

Averaged Size Sale From Point of Engagement to

Fully Sales Activated:

This is a factual example of how CGS is increasing partner sales for one of our current clients

Winning Partners’ Mindshare Drives Up Sales


Review:Sample Multi-ProgramChannel Engagement


Sample CGS Engagement: Multiple Channel Programs

Sample: Current CGS Engagement with the WW Leader of Open Source

Recruit & SupportISVs

Manage “WW” ISV

Unification Program

Provide single point of contact to recruit and assist ISVs to

certify & market their solutions

Provide single point of contact for Tier II – III ISVs

Worldwide

Manage & Increase

Sales of SMB Partners

Support & Increase Sales of High Volume

Partners

Provide CGS Resources to Support

ICAM Function

Provide single point of contact and engage, enable, sales

activate and provide support

Predominately large Direct Marketing Resellers such as PC

Connection, etc.

CGS resources interact between field sales and the partners for

sales opportunities and support


Additional ExamplesOf CGS’ ChannelEngagements


Case Study: PC Vendor – North American Dealer Channel

A Worldwide PC vendor was ranked number four in PC sales at the time of our engagement. Their goal was to increase sales through their Tier-2 dealer network.

PC Vendor’s Goal

CGS identified the valid PC dealers. obtained their objectives for joining the vendor’s partner program, an understanding of their business model, number of sales/tech employees and geographic sales coverage

We provided the compelling reasons to sell our client’s PCs, including several very important categories such as:

Engagement & Sales Activation

They had 7,200 Tier-2 inactive PC dealers that had delivered little or no sales in the previous two to three years. Vendor had minimal information about these dealers

This was a multi-year contract.

Each year CGS delivered a minimum of 30% increase in sales, sequentially each quarter.

We delivered a minimum 40% increase in sales each year.

The average cost of sales was less than 3%.

The vendor’s General Manager stated “CGS delivered higher revenue growth than we were able to achieve”

Results

• Margin/Profit: The dealers had no knowledge of this information. They were delighted when informed.

• Sales Accelerator Material: We developed one-page documents that provided the dealers’ sales reps with the key information required to easily and confidently sell the vendor’s products

• Product/Margin/Spiff Configurator: We developed this tool for our sales team to be able to identify the optimum products that matched the dealer’s need within 5 seconds on the telephone call.

• The Major Differentiator: We won the dealers’ mindshare through the direct support CGS’ experienced channel sales reps provided, including pre-sales support.

• The dealers frequently commented that no other IT vendor provides direct support. This level of CGS support assisted them to win more sales and increase their profit margin.


Case Study: IT Vendor – Worldwide Software Reseller Program

The goal was to increase the SMB sales of the vendor’s five software brands through the recruitment of new channel partners in North America and Europe.

Goal: Increase Software Sales

• All of the program goals were achieved.

Results

• CGS and the vendor identified the list of new partner candidates that would be recruited by CGS in North America and Europe.

• CGS is a leader in delivering new qualified partners that will make commitments to become certified and actively sell the vendors’ products

Best-In-Class Partner Recruitment

• Every partner recruited was required to agree to a timeframe to attend sales and technical training courses to achieve applicable certifications.

• CGS eliminates the 80/20 rule

• Recruited over 2,200 new SMB partners.

• Over 75% of the new partners delivered sales

• Delivered substantial net-new incremental revenue quarter-over-quarter

Sales Activation Success Factors

• Direct Support: The SMB partners were provided direct support by CGS that won the mindshare of these partners. No other IT vendor provides this level of direct support to their Tier-2 SMB partners

• Pre-Sales Support: CGS’ resources were certified on the vendor’s five software brands and provided pre-sales guidance and assisted the partners to close sales.

• Sales Accelerator Material: We developed one-page documents that provided the partners’ sales reps with the information required to easily and confidently sell the vendor’s software brands.

Engagement

• Once the partners were recruited, CGS engaged in discussions and provided direction and support that accelerated the partners timeframe to become certified, develop their marketing plans and finalize their go-to-market strategies.

• Each partner was assigned a CGS experienced channel sales rep as their primary support contact.


Case Study: WW IT Vendor – Mid-Market MSP Program

The vendor had several hundred MSPs that were being supported by the vendor’s in-field sales representatives.

The goal was to identify and recruit new “high quality” MSPs that aligned to stringent parameters in terms of size, market focus, market share and current sales derived from their MSP business.

The vendor decided to implement the MSP recruitment campaign in a cost effective manner versus utilizing their expensive in-field sales reps. In addition, the vendor wanted to maintain the in-field sales reps focus on generating sales through the current MSPs versus being diverted to target new MSP candidates.

Goal: Increase Number of MSPs MSP Recruitment Campaign

Through call-out campaigns, CGS’ experienced channel sales team contacted the recruitment candidates’ decision maker and through a series of questions identified the MSPs that met “ideal” and “high potential” criteria.

• For the qualified MSP candidates, CGS’ team stepped through the vendor’s MSP Program financial incentives, key program benefits, marketing support, support resources and identified the MSPs that had high interest in joining the vendor’s MSP Program.

CGS developed detailed business profiles on each qualified partner that expressed high interest in the vendor’s Program.

• The partner profiles were reviewed with the vendor’s sales management

• CGS provided a warm transfer for each qualified partner to the appropriate vendor’s in-field MSP sales reps.

• The vendor’s MSP sales reps became responsible for the management of these highly qualified MSP partners.

Partner selection criteria and the recruitment list are vital to the success of any partner recruitment campaign. CGS ensured that the new MSP partner selection “criteria” was well defined and the recruitment list contained high quality targets.

CGS and the vendor developed the criteria for “ideal” and “high potential” MSP recruitment candidates. This effort would ensure that new MSP partners recruited were “high quality” partners that had already made the transition to the MSP sales model and would be able to drive volume sales.

• CGS’ recruitment tactics eliminates the 80/20 rule.

MSP Partner Recruitment Parameters

ResultsCGS qualified and recruited over 300 quality MSPs within the first three months of the program.


CGS has developed the proven processes required to win partners’ mindshare and consistently attain optimum sales results year-over-year

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