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Find the "Joint" in Joint Marketing Planning:
JMP Approaches That Work
Channel Management Insights is a monthly publication with best practices for channel marketing professionals.

by Anna Johnson
The Top 10 Focus Areas- 2011
Think about your marketing arsenal, tricks of the trade, your marketing mojo, and ask yourself three questions: What’s working? What needs improvement? What will give you an edge over the hundreds of other vendors/manufacturers vying to do joint marketing plans with your channel partners? The last question is probably the most important question but hardest to tackle. Joint marketing planning is intended to help partners and vendors work in smarter ways to find the right customer at the right time and to deliver the goods in the most efficient way possible. But how do you extend the benefits of JMP, focus your resources, and do so in a way that makes it rewarding for partners?

 
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1:1 Marketing Planning: It's Not Just For Top Tier Partners Anymore!

by Craig DeWolf

Over the last decade there has been a growing trend in partner relationship management toward a 1:1 marketing and business planning process between the marketer and its key partners. This is a process which requires marketers to work with individual partners to discuss and review the go-to–market (GTM) strategies of each, ultimately identifying the mutual opportunities with both current clients and new prospects that capitalize on the commonalities. Of course, executing against this plan will require an investment by the vendor, but hey, that was going to happen anyway—best it goes towards a defined plan with stated goals, right?

     
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