The Proof is in the Data
This is Why You Should Pursue Partnership-Led Revenue Growth
Partners who frequently co-sell drive 51% higher revenue growth, 65% higher close rates, and 54% larger deals.
Only 40% of partner marketing development funds are utilized annually on average — the majority expires unclaimed.
Typical partner GTM activation still averages 18–24 months.
91.7% of cybersecuity technoloty is sold through and with partners
(Canalys 2024; GTM ISV + Cloud Partner program research, 2024–2025; Omdia, Worldwide Cybersecurity Market Summary )
The Managed Services Providers (MSP) Market Performance Footprint
Managed services is a $608B+ global market growing at 13% annually — nearly double the broader technology industry, six times faster than the world economy, and 50% faster than SaaS and cloud infrastructure.
82% of organizations are already outsourcing some or all of their IT — and that number is growing.
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) represent just 7% of Technology Services Distributor gross billings despite driving the highest deal values of any partner type when they do engage
(Omdia / Jay McBain, MSP Evolution Virtual Event, November 2025, via Channel Dive, December 2025)
North America is 43% of the world’s IT spend — but only 33% of its distribution.
The channel is where global growth actually happens, and the data proves it. If your partner motion is not a top 2 priority, you’re leaving your biggest market on the table.
(Omdia, 2026)
The top 6 distributors control 79% of North America.
The top 15 distributors now hold 67% of the $531B global distribution market — and in North America, the top 6 control 79% of it. Vendors are actively cutting their distributor lists down to the biggest players.
For a small-to-mid-sized ISV or service provider, that’s 79% of your market where you’re one line item inside a giant’s book — easy to overlook, hard to activate. We help make you impossible to ignore.
The smartest play isn’t all-eggs-one-basket with a single mega-distributor. It’s a deliberate global + local mix — hyperscaler, distributor, and the regional partners who own the relationships in their market. We help you build the right blend, then turn it into revenue.
(Omdia, 2025–2026)
The data is clear on the effectiveness of a well thought out business model and market positioning strategy.
Ask yourself: do you have the expertise, assets, and business operating model in place that is needed for you to transform the investments in your business and partnerships into a scalable, revenue producing, attractive business?
ExSailIQ 360° partners with Managed Service Providers (MSPs/MSSPs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators (SIs), Value Added Resellers (VARs) and the extended channel network to advise on, build, execute, and implement go-to-market business solutions. We help you:
Build a worthy ecosystem. Qualify your existing partners and filter in production-ready partners.
Build a go-to-market and RevOps academic and training foundation partners can sell from.
Build the content and assets that fuel all other journey stages and allow leverage of one strategic voice universally.
Launch programs and plays that move partnerships from foundation built to "live in market".
Scale what's producing results across channels, partners, regions, and go-to-market (GTM) motions.
Prove performance so you can lead transformation and drive growth with the data needed to defend and grow your budget.
Go-to-market (GTM) is how you take your offering to market and win customers. It's the strategy behind who you target, how you position yourself, what you say, and how you convert prospects into paying customers.
Partner marketing is how you grow through strategic relationships—software vendors, channel partners, referral networks, strategic alliances. We help you gain and retain quality partnerships, and make your partnerships produce revenue.
Break into or deepen your position in the technology market by launching technical and managed service-based products. Equip yourself and teams to build the buyer language, industry credibility, and compliance fluency that separates tech-specialized companies and founders from generalists.
Content marketing is how you attract, educate, and convert prospects - whether inbound or outbound - through valuable content your ideal customers resonate with.
Expand the sections below to see how we think about supporting your technology and managed service partnerships across every stage of your direct and alliance-led growth trajectory.
What We Help You Build:
Service 1: GTM Strategy Floorboard
Deliver comprehensive go-to-market (GTM) strategies vs a standard marketing plan. A GTM strategy works backward from a revenue target to determine what investment is required, which markets to prioritize, which buyers to focus on, and what campaign architecture will get there.
We build and deliver:
Market segmentation and total addressable market (TAM) analysis — defining how big the opportunity is and which slice to pursue first
Competitive intelligence and analyst relations — understanding the landscape your clients are competing in and how to position against it
Customer and market research methodologies — gathering the insights that make strategy credible, not assumed
Buyer journey mapping across complex buying committees — accounting for every stakeholder involved in the purchase decision, from economic buyer to technical evaluator to end user
Full-funnel GTM planning with financial modeling — connecting campaign activity to pipeline and revenue targets, calibrated to your business model whether that's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) recurring revenue, usage-based consumption, enterprise licensing, or marketplace transaction volume
Strategic road mapping with phased tactical implementation — so you know what to do now, next, and later
Big Rocks identification and alignment — defining the 3-5 non-negotiable strategic priorities your campaigns, programs, and content decisions must ladder up to; ensuring every GTM motion connects to a measurable business priority
Business case development for leadership and board audiences — giving your teams and business leaders the tools to get internal buy-in before investing in growth marketing services and resources. This could be enabled with quarterly or half year reporting tools, business case submittal documents, and more.
We teach you how to take a 360-degree step back — auditing what exists, what's broken, and what's missing, communicating to internal teams, external partner stakeholders, and customers effectively — before recommending a path forward. This is the discipline that builds trust with internal teams, with executives, and with customers as fast.
Service 2: Messaging & Positioning Framework Development
Without a messaging foundation, every new campaign becomes a ground-up positioning debate — wasting time, diluting your business' brand, and producing content that doesn't connect or convert prospects.
We build and deliver:
Value Proposition Framework (VPF) and Messaging and Positioning Framework (MPF) assets across all types:
Brand and company-level messaging — the overarching story the organization tells about who they are and why they exist
Solution messaging — how specific products, services, or offerings are positioned against buyer pain points
Industry and vertical messaging — how the same solution speaks differently depending on who's buying it, what industry they operate in, and what they care about most. Whether your client serves healthcare systems, retail brands, financial institutions, government agencies, manufacturers, fashion houses, or creative industries — the message has to meet the buyer in their world, using their language, speaking to their specific priorities.
Campaign messaging — focused, time-bound narratives built around a specific campaign objective
Partner acquisition messaging — why a potential partner should align with your client's program or ecosystem
Joint and co-sell messaging — how two organizations tell a unified "better together" story to shared buyers
This includes:
Narrative design and messaging hierarchy across strategic (why it matters), operational (how it works), and tactical (what to do) levels
Deep buyer persona development — not broad titles like "IT decision makers" but specific roles, priorities, daily challenges, and buying motivations
Segmentation and use case focusing — identifying which buyers care most about which outcomes
Industry-specific positioning with compliance and regulatory language where relevant — for clients in healthcare, financial services, government, manufacturing, and other regulated environments
Competitive positioning and objection handling — preparing clients and their sellers for the conversations that determine wins and losses
'Proof and evidence' documentation across revenue impact, time savings, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and quality dimensions — giving every stakeholder in the buying decision the evidence they need to say yes, champion the solution internally, and defend the purchase to leadership
Build once, deploy everywhere — across seller outreach emails, pitch decks, landing pages, sales scripts, partner enablement, campaigns, and events.
Service 3: AI-Augmented GTM Execution
Learn how to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your workflows as a capability — one that accelerates the strategic work you're already doing without replacing the judgment that makes it valuable.
Most people use AI to generate content faster. That misses the point entirely. The real opportunity is in how you structure the conversation and working sessions with the tool — what you feed it, in what order, and how you validate and refine the output against your strategic foundation. Feed AI a vague prompt and you get generic output. Feed it the right inputs — buyer personas, competitive context, industry language, messaging frameworks, campaign objectives — and you get a strategic accelerator that compounds your expertise instead of diluting it.
We teach you how to build structured prompt matrices — organized frameworks that capture your VPF/MPF inputs, persona details, use cases, industry language, and competitive context — and feed them systematically into AI tools like Claude.ai, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and similar platforms. The result is faster messaging development, sharper persona research, more consistent content production, and campaign planning that reflects your client's reality rather than a templated approximation of it.
We teach you:
How to structure discovery inputs for AI tools so outputs reflect the specific context and strategic foundation that you are aiming to capture
How to develop messaging and positioning frameworks and value propositions using structured prompt matrices built for systematic reuse across clients and engagements
How to use AI for persona research, competitive intelligence, campaign planning, and content production at scale
How to evaluate, refine, and approve AI outputs against your strategic and messaging standards before anything goes to market
We also show you how to read AI output the way an editor would, identify what needs a human hand, and keep and/or bring your voice and your customer's POV back into the work in the event it gets lost in translation and workshopping with the AI tool.
Service 4: Strategic Consulting Positioning
Transition from vendor to trusted advisor — and price accordingly. The gap between agencies that get hired for campaigns and agencies that get hired for strategy usually comes down to positioning. We help you build the positioning, packaging, and communication strategy that earns you a seat at the table with leaders in your space and executive buyers.
This includes:
Developing thought leadership positioning grounded in your real expertise and track record — not generic industry commentary but specific, credible points of view that attract the clients you want
Building a case study portfolio that demonstrates transformation, not just delivery — showing what changed for the client, not just what you produced
Creating competitive differentiation against larger agencies and niche specialists — defining what you do that others don't, and making that impossible to ignore
Structuring advisory retainer and engagement models that reflect strategic value — moving away from hourly billing toward outcome-based and retainer pricing that compounds
Developing the client-facing communications — proposals, onboarding language, quarterly business review (QBR) framing — that reinforce strategic partnership at every touchpoint
Pricing strategies and frameworks — how to position value before you name a number, and how to ensure your rates reflect the outcomes you deliver, not the hours you log
What We Help You Build
Service 5: Partnership Marketing Activation Strategy
We teach you:
Partner recruitment and readiness assessment — We help shape how you evaluate which partners are activation-ready before investing in joint marketing and sales programs with them. This service includes point-scoring models that bring objectivity to help inform your partner prioritization decisions across any industry or existing partnership structure or tier.
Define and reinforce the partnership growth model — clarifying mutual commitments, resource access, co-marketing funding eligibility, program requirements, and how both sides will work together to produce; this is the foundational alignment conversation that prevents mismatched expectations from derailing joint campaigns and partner network programs
Joint Value Proposition (JVP) and joint messaging framework development — building the "better together" story that captures:
what products, services, and solutions that each organization is architecting together
what outcomes the partnership delivers to shared customers
how that better together story is packaged and narrated to shared customers and prospects
Executive alignment strategies — getting leadership on both sides of the partnership committed to the same goals, investment levels, and success definitions before programs launch
Joint Marketing Plan Development — Give every stakeholder a clear lead and revenue projection forecasted across H1 and H2 campaigns. Give your strategic, operational, and tactical marketing and sales teams across your organization and your partner's organizations insights into the plan you will be executing, when, and who owns what within it.
Partner recruitment and onboarding email communications — outreach sequences, program invitation emails, and participation requirement communications that bring activation-ready partners into the program with clear expectations from day one
What you walk away with: You will begin building foundational elements of a strategic partner network who drives high-quality lead pipeline and recurring, incremental revenue. Your partners will know and understand what they're signing up for and are committing to when joining and engaging within your partner network program. A joint, cohesive narrative, "better together" story, and value proposition framework that attracts targeted and shared buyers. You will build and walk away with a joint marketing activation and co-sell roadmap that compresses market readiness and product offer launch timelines from 18 months to 6 months.
Service 6: MDF Optimization & Marketplace Strategies
Most organizations with partner marketing funding programs leave a significant portion of that money on the table every year because they don't have the system to plan it, deploy it, and document it in a way that survives the reimbursement and approval process. We teach you to help build that system.
MDF utilization strategies — how to plan, submit, execute, and report on MDF so dollars get used, claims get approved, and every dollar spent ties back to pipeline. (In technology ecosystems, this is called MDF. In alternative industries outside of tech such as retail and distribution channels, this may appear as co-op advertising funds or vendor marketing allowances. The principles and disciplines apply across all of them.)
Competency-driven MDF unlocking — how earning partner program designations, specializations, and certifications opens access to higher funding tiers most partners don't know they qualify for.
Co-marketing campaign design and execution — how to build co-branded campaigns that meet partner program approval standards, tie directly to pipeline goals, and hold up in post-campaign reporting and reimbursement review; campaigns that get rejected or don't survive the claims process cost clients time, money, and program standing
Marketplace listing, activation, and optimization — how to get listed on the right marketplaces for your client's partnership model, drive traffic to their listing, and turn marketplace presence into measurable transaction volume; marketplace transaction volume is growing faster than direct revenue for the companies doing it well, and the agencies that understand marketplace activation will own that work
Channel-led marketplace strategies — understanding how distributor and reseller partners operate private offer programs that extend your client's marketplace reach to tens of thousands of global partners beyond what any vendor can build through direct motions alone
Private offer mechanics — how structured deal packaging through partner programs accelerates deal closure and simplifies procurement for buyers; including Seller Private Offer (SPPO), Channel Private Offer (CPPO), and Marketplace/Multi-Party Private Offer (MPPO) in technology ecosystem contexts, and equivalent structured deal mechanisms in other partnership models
Co-sell program participation — how to help your clients engage co-sell programs systematically so partner sellers are working deals with them, not around them — whether that's a hyperscaler co-sell motion, a technology alliance field engagement model, or a channel partner sales program
Deliverable: MDF optimization playbook + marketplace strategies and templates
What you'll deliver to clients: Unlocked co-marketing funding their competitors are leaving behind, marketplace presence that drives measurable transaction volume, and co-sell programs that produce partner-sourced pipeline instead of just partner agreements.
Service 7: Co-Sell Enablement & Deal Registration
Co-sell is what happens when your client's sales team and their partner's sales team pursue the same opportunity together — coordinated, not competing. Sometimes, sellers don't know when to bring a partner in, deal registration gets skipped, partners can't carry the joint story without the right enablement and partner support, and opportunities take longer than they should to close, or risk not getting closed at all. We teach you how to build and deliver the infrastructure that makes co-sell systematic for your clients and helps their sellers and their partners effectively work deals together.
We teach you:
Lead management and CRM hygiene — helping your clients define funnel stage definitions (from initial engagement through partner-qualified opportunity to closed-won), lead handoff processes between marketing, sales, and partner sellers, qualification thresholds, deal registration Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) alignment between your client's system and their partner's platform, and shared responsibility frameworks that ensure no lead falls through the cracks between organizations
Deal registration workflows — how to build the processes that ensure opportunities get registered correctly, on time, and in a way that protects co-sell credit and partner relationships
Joint messaging alignment for co-sell motions — ensuring your client's sellers and their partner sellers are speaking the same language in front of the same buyer, so the joint story holds up when it matters most
Making co-sell native to your client's sales process — translating marketplace and co-sell mechanics into the frameworks your client's sellers already use so co-sell feels like an enhancement to their existing process, not a separate track requiring new forms, new steps, and new stakeholders
Co-sell execution playbooks — step-by-step guidance for how your clients and their partners engage accounts together, from first touch through close
Field sales enablement — teaching your client's field sellers when and how to engage partners, what to ask for, and how to position the partnership in front of buyers
Co-sell program navigation — including hyperscaler co-sell programs like AWS Co-Sell Operating Standards (COSS) and Microsoft Azure Co-Sell (MACC) for technology ecosystem clients, and equivalent structured co-sell motions for other partnership types
Partner Service Level Agreement (SLA) frameworks — defining the mutual commitments across lead response times, follow-up cadences, and shared accountability
What you'll deliver to clients: Sales teams who understand and execute co-sell systematically, clean deal registration, faster sales cycles through coordinated partner engagement, and lead management infrastructure that ensures nothing falls through the cracks.
Deliverable: Co-sell enablement playbook + lead management plan + deal registration templates
Service 8: Partner Attribution & Revenue Tracking
Help build the infrastructure that proves what the partnership's marketing and operations efforts actually contributed. We teach you how to build and deliver the attribution and reporting systems that keep your clients' partner programs funded, growing, and defensible to leadership.
We teach you:
Attribution frameworks — built on the lead management and CRM hygiene infrastructure from 'Co-Sell Enablement & Deal Registration', attribution only works effectively when leads are captured, staged, and tagged correctly from the start; we teach you how to define and implement the frameworks that separately track and report partner-generated revenue (opportunities that originated from a partner) and partner-influenced revenue (opportunities where a partner contributed to an existing deal's acceleration or close)
CRM tagging infrastructure — how to build the tagging and data capture systems inside your client's CRM that make attribution clean, consistent, and auditable — so leadership can trust the numbers without questioning the methodology
Performance dashboards — how to design and deliver the reporting views that give your clients and their leadership real-time visibility into partner activity, pipeline contribution, and revenue impact across their portfolio
Revenue density tracking — measuring how productively each partner is generating revenue relative to the investment made, which surfaces which partners are worth more investment and which need development or exit conversations
Partner quality signals and ecosystem performance indicators — the leading indicators that reveal partner maturity, program alignment, and engagement health before pipeline data catches up; these are the signals that naturally open conversations about portfolio optimization, partner development, and recruitment readiness
Portfolio-level analysis — helping your clients see the full picture of their ecosystem's health, performance, and opportunity — not just individual partner snapshots but the portfolio as a whole
What you'll deliver to clients: Clean partner attribution data that leadership can trust, board-quality reporting that makes the partnership budget defensible, proof of partner ROI, and the performance visibility that informs smarter ecosystem decisions over time.
Deliverable: Attribution strategies, frameworks, and templates + reporting dashboards
Service 9: Campaign Orchestration for Partners
We teach you how to design and orchestrate full-funnel partner campaigns with the right mix of channels and campaign types for your clients' partners, buyers, and program requirements — across any industry.
Campaign Channels:
Virtual — webinars, summits, immersion days, fireside chats, roundtables, content syndication
Digital — display advertising, social media campaigns, Account-Based Marketing (ABM), email nurture and subscriber programs, newsletter strategy, marketplace listings, and landing pages
Field and In-Person — roadshows, conferences, workshops, executive briefings, executive dinners, partner prospecting programs, and account mapping workshops
Campaign Types:
Awareness — thought leadership, brand amplification, co-branded visibility across partner and client audiences
Lead Generation — gated content, webinar registration, demo requests, event attendance, and marketplace-driven lead capture
Lead Nurture — email sequences, retargeting, follow-up content, and case study delivery that moves qualified leads toward purchase
Account-Based Marketing (ABM) — targeted account programs, personalized outreach, and buying committee engagement coordinated across partner and client teams
Co-Sell Activation — joint field programs, partner prospecting competitions, and deal acceleration campaigns that drive partner-led and partner-sourced pipeline
Technical Enablement — solution workshops, certification programs, and immersion days that deepen partner and buyer understanding of joint solutions
We also teach you:
Channel role definitions and campaign-to-funnel mapping — which channels drive awareness, which generate leads, which nurture, and which activate co-sell so your clients' campaign investments are allocated with precision
Vertical-specific campaign conversion intelligence — which campaign types drive highest engagement and pipeline per industry and solution segment including security and compliance, data and analytics, public sector, healthcare, financial services, infrastructure, manufacturing, construction, logistics, real estate, fashion, retail, hospitality, entertainment, food and beverage, and more
Co-branded asset production workflows — how to build and manage the asset production process across two organizations, including approval workflows, brand compliance, and co-branding standards
Partner-led outreach programs — joint contact lists, CTAs, and CRM hygiene guidance that enables partners to run outreach motions on behalf of your clients
All campaigns mapped to funnel stage, vertical-specific conversion intelligence, and partner program compliance requirements.
What you'll deliver to clients: Systematic multi-channel partner campaigns that generate partner-sourced pipeline.
Deliverable: Campaign orchestration framework + asset production strategies and templates
Service 10: Joint Revenue Forecasting
Help your clients answer the questions: what will this partnership produce, and how do we know? We teach you how to build and deliver the financial models that connect partner marketing investment to pipeline and revenue outcomes.
We teach you:
Forward and backward financial modeling — starting from an investment to project expected pipeline and revenue, or starting from a revenue target to determine the investment, campaign volume, and partner activity required to hit it
Business model-specific conversion benchmarks — building models that reflect how your specific partnership generates revenue, whether that's a technology and MSP co-sell motion, a retail co-op program, a brand licensing partnership, or a distribution channel relationship; a SaaS ARR model converts and closes differently than a consumption-based marketplace deal, and the forecast needs to reflect that
Funnel stage velocity mapping — realistic timelines from initial engagement through partner-qualified opportunity to closed-won, by business model and campaign type, so your clients can project when investment will turn into revenue
Cost of Ineffective Action (COIA) analysis — quantifying what stalled, ad-hoc, or under-resourced partner programs are actually costing the business in lost pipeline and missed revenue; this is often the most powerful conversation starter for getting leadership to invest in systematic partner marketing
MDF and co-marketing investment allocation modeling — distributing available partner funding across partner tiers, campaign types, and program requirements with projected return per dollar spent
Board-ready ROI reporting — a number leadership can trust and a story they can defend in quarterly reviews and budget conversations
What you'll deliver to tech clients: Financial justification for partner marketing investment, forecast models executives trust, and the budget case that gets programs properly funded.
Deliverable: Revenue forecasting strategies and templates + ROI frameworks
Service 11: Partner Program KPIs & QBRs
Help your clients define what successful partner marketing engagements are, how they are tracked, and how those results get presented. We teach you how to build and deliver the performance infrastructure that helps turn partner program activity into data your clients and their leadership can understand, act on, and invest in.
We teach you:
KPI frameworks covering the full joint engagement funnel from initial engagement through closed-won — defining what gets measured at every stage so your clients and their partners are aligned on what success looks like before programs launch
QBR templates and presentations for both internal leadership reporting and partner-facing business reviews — structured formats that demonstrate value, surface expansion opportunities, and strengthen relationships at every review cycle
Deal wins tracking systems — documenting and attributing wins - and touchpoints, timelines and motions within - to specific partner activities so teams can replicate success and clearly see ROI
Partner check-in deck templates for regular program touchpoints — structured, efficient check-in formats that keep partners engaged and informed without consuming disproportionate time
Executive reporting packages — board-ready summaries that give leadership the partner program performance visibility they need to make investment decisions
Partner-facing QBR decks and check-in presentation templates your agency can deliver directly to your clients' partner organizations as part of your partner marketing service offering
What you'll deliver to tech clients: Data-driven partner performance reviews, data-driven performance optimization
Deliverable: KPI framework + QBR templates
Service 12: Partner Graduation & Portfolio Optimization
Not all partners perform equally — and treating them as if they do is one of the fastest ways to drain a partner marketing budget without producing results. Partner portfolio optimization is the discipline of knowing which partners to invest in more, which to develop, and which to phase out — based on data, not relationships or assumptions. We teach you how to build and deliver the performance frameworks that make those decisions objective, defensible, and systematic for your clients.
We teach you:
Partner graduation criteria across performance tiers — defining the objective thresholds that determine when a partner moves from pilot to established, from developing to strategic, or from active to sunset; this applies whether your client has three strategic partners or three hundred channel partners across a global ecosystem
Performance scorecards covering four dimensions:
performance and forecast alignment (are they hitting the targets they committed to?)
funding and stability (are they deploying available co-marketing funds effectively?)
pipeline and executive engagement (are they generating opportunities and showing leadership commitment?)
and operational readiness (are their CRM, deal registration, and reporting processes working?)
Investment allocation models — how to help your clients distribute partner marketing budget and resources based on partner performance data, not relationships, history, or who emails the most; objective allocation is what turns a partner marketing budget from a political decision into a strategic one
Partner development plans — structured roadmaps for partners who have the potential to graduate to higher investment and program tiers but need targeted support, enablement, or co-marketing investment to get there
Partner quality assessment — evaluating alignment to program standards, GTM maturity, and revenue contribution trajectory so your clients always know which partners are worth developing and which aren't
Sunset criteria — clear, objective indicators for when to pause, reduce, or exit a partner relationship; having explicit sunset criteria protects your clients from the political difficulty of ending underperforming partnerships without data to support the decision
Revenue density improvement over logo growth — helping your clients shift portfolio focus from how many partners they have to how productively those partners are generating revenue; this is the mindset shift that separates partner programs that scale from partner programs with stagnantly grow
What you'll deliver to tech clients: Objective portfolio decisions grounded in performance data, revenue density improvement across the active partner ecosystem, and systematic partner investment that compounds over time instead of spreading thin across too many dormant relationships.
Deliverable: Partner graduation framework + portfolio optimization playbook
What We Help You Build:
Service 13: Technology Buyer Language & Sales Cycles
Learn how technology buyers actually buy — and why most agency pitches miss them. We teach you:
B2B tech buying committee dynamics across verticals:
executives (CMO, CRO, CTO, CDO, CIO, COO)
technical evaluators (Cloud/Enterprise Architects, DevOps, Platform Engineering)
security and compliance stakeholders (CISO, VP InfoSec, Head of GRC)
data and analytics leads
This includes:
economic business decision maker and buyer vs. technology or service users vs. influencer distinctions
technology sales cycle dynamics across 1-18+ month enterprise deals
procurement process navigation
technology decision criteria at each buying stage
insight on how messaging must shift altitude — from strategic (board and C-suite) to operational (VP and director) to tactical (manager and practitioner) — to move a deal through a complex buying committee without losing anyone.
We also teach you technology business model fluency:
how SaaS companies measure success in ARR, NRR, and churn
how usage-based and consumption models think about expansion and retention differently
how enterprise licensing deals move through procurement versus product-led growth models
how marketplace transaction models layer in co-sell and revenue sharing mechanics
Understanding the business model your client runs changes how you position, price, and communicate — and it's the difference between sounding like a generalist agency and sounding like someone who's been inside their world.
Deliverable: Technology buyer playbook + persona templates
Service 14: Technology Compliance & Regulatory Expertise
Master compliance positioning across the technology verticals where regulatory language is a prerequisite for credibility.
We teach you how to position compliance as a competitive differentiator, so your client earns buyer trust from the first touchpoint and compounds it through every conversation that follows:
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance language — including Protected Health Information (PHI), Business Associate Agreements (BAA), and Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) certification — for HealthTech and Healthcare IT;
System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) and security certification positioning for security and infrastructure buyers
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and SLED public sector requirements
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) levels for defense contractors and organizations operating within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB)
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) for payments and FinTech;
North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC-CIP) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for critical infrastructure and energy;
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity frameworks;
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) positioning for financial services.
Deliverable: Compliance positioning guide + messaging templates by vertical
Service 15: Technology Industry Positioning
Build agency credibility inside the technology market across the verticals where B2B SaaS, ISVs, MSPs, and cloud ecosystem companies operate. We help you identify technology buyer's challenges, develop technology industry use cases for your solutions, case studies and proof points that show buyers you understand their world — not just how to produce for it.
This includes:
positioning as a tech-specialized agency versus generalist and IT-focused marketing agencies competitors
creating thought leadership across key industry verticals that resonate with your ideal clients
building the solution type fluency that makes your positioning land across the verticals and solution categories we have serviced:
Public Sector and GovTech
Financial Services and FinTech
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Manufacturing and Industrial IIoT
Energy and Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity and Cloud Security
Data and Analytics
DevOps and Observability
Cloud Migration & Optimization
Device Management and Edge Security
Customer Experience and AdTech
Telecommunications
Media and Entertainment
Retail and eCommerce
We also teach you how to leverage and engage within the channels technology buyers actually use:
analyst coverage
third-party research
industry associations
tech media
Deliverable: Technology industry positioning frameworks + case study templates
What We Help You Build:
Service 16: GTM Readiness Assessment & Content Audit
Before building anything, you have to know what exists, what's missing, and what's working. Jumping to execution before the strategy is sound is the fastest way to produce content that doesn't convert and campaigns that don't compound. We teach you how to take the 360-degree step back that makes every subsequent engagement more focused, more defensible, and more valuable to the client.
We teach you how to:
Conduct GTM readiness assessments that evaluate your client's go-to-market (GTM) maturity across strategy, messaging, content, and operations
Surface content gaps — identifying where the buyer journey breaks down because the right content doesn't exist at the right stage
Analyze competitive positioning — understanding how your client's narrative stacks up against alternatives in the market
Audit sales and marketing operations — evaluating how well strategy, content, and execution are aligned across teams
Assess technology stack — identifying whether the tools in place support or hinder the GTM motion
Score overall readiness — giving clients and internal teams a clear picture of what needs to be built, fixed, or retired before campaigns launch
This discipline makes you indispensable and separates strategic consultants from agencies that wait to be told what to produce.
Deliverable: GTM readiness assessment framework + content audit templates
Service 17: Content Strategy & Editorial Planning
Content strategy is what separates agencies that produce from agencies that plan — and planning is what makes production sustainable, scalable, and tied to resolving client challenges and driving business outcomes such as consistent pipeline instead of activity-based metrics.
We teach you:
Content pillar development — identifying the 3–5 strategic themes that anchor everything a client publishes, ensuring every asset serves a purpose beyond filling a calendar
6–12 month editorial calendar planning — building a publishing cadence tied to business goals, campaign windows, industry events, product launches, and partner activation moments
Channel distribution strategy across owned (website, blog, email), earned (PR, analyst coverage, organic social), and paid (sponsored content, display, syndication) channels
Podcast and video content strategy — planning, scripting, and editorial direction for audio and video programs that build authority over time
Search engine optimization (SEO) keyword mapping — connecting content topics to what buyers are actually searching for, supporting organic discoverability alongside paid and partner-driven traffic
Performance frameworks — measuring what's working, what's not, and what to do next based on real engagement and pipeline data
Event-moment content planning — building content programs around high-value moments like major industry conferences, product launches, partner activations, and demand generation programs
Deliverable: Content strategy framework + editorial calendar templates
Service 18: GTM Campaign Planning & Design
Learn to design full-funnel GTM campaign systems tied directly to revenue targets. A campaign with the right architecture connects every asset, channel, and call to action to a measurable outcome at every stage of the buyer journey.
We teach you:
Campaign strategy and planning across the Flex Funnel — pre-market awareness through customer success and expansion, with each stage mapped to the right content type, channel, and conversion goal
Multi-channel campaign orchestration across 20+ campaign types spanning virtual, digital, and field execution
Funnel mapping and conversion benchmarking by industry and solution type — so clients know what good looks like for their specific market, not just generic benchmarks
Marketing Development Funds (MDF)-eligible campaign design for partner-led programs — built to meet program compliance and reimbursement standards from day one
Workback schedule development — mapping every campaign asset, approval, and launch milestone to a realistic timeline that accounts for partner readiness, funding windows, and internal capacity
Asset planning by funnel stage — ensuring the right content exists at every buyer touchpoint before the campaign launches
How to build campaigns that flex — for regulated industries, complex buying committees, partner ecosystems, and non-linear revenue paths where the standard funnel doesn't apply
Deliverable: GTM campaign planning framework + Flex Funnel campaign templates
Service 19: Thought Leadership Content
Build the buyer trust that makes sales easier before a prospect ever enters the sales process. Thought leadership should be designed to consistently demonstrate that your client understands the buyer's world better than anyone else, and is the credible, trustworthy choice when the time comes to act.
We teach you to develop and deliver:
eBooks — medium to long-form, research-backed content that establishes authority and generates qualified leads
Whitepapers — technical and strategic documents that demonstrate depth and earn credibility with evaluators and decision makers
Long-form blog articles — SEO-adjacent, persona-specific content that builds organic visibility and nurtures buyers between campaigns
Executive LinkedIn and social series — thought leadership content that builds personal brand authority alongside company brand credibility
Podcast episode strategy and scripts — editorial direction and scripted frameworks for audio content that compounds authority over time
We also teach you:
How to develop a Point of View (POV) content strategy — giving clients a distinctive perspective that buyers recognize, reference, and return to
How to repurpose long-form content into derivative assets across formats — turning one eBook into blog posts, social series, email sequences, and event presentations
How to sequence thought leadership across an editorial calendar so it builds authority systematically rather than publishing disconnected pieces
Promotional ad creative briefs for thought leadership amplification — LinkedIn sponsored content, Google display, and programmatic ad creative direction that drives qualified traffic to gated assets and campaign destinations
Deliverable: Thought leadership content strategies and framework + asset production templates
Service 20: Event & Summit Content
High-value event moments including summits, conferences, immersion days, roadshows, executive roundtables and more. We teach you to build the full content program that drives engagement before, during, and after the event itself — so attendance translates to pipeline, not just impressions.
We teach you to develop and deliver:
Webinar presentation decks — structured, on-brand, and built to drive the specific action you want attendees to take
Event one-pagers and solution briefs — concise, credibility-building leave-behinds that work as hard after the event as during it
Pre- and post-event email sequences — driving registration before, engagement during, and follow-up action after
Promotional social media content — building awareness and urgency across organic and paid channels in the lead-up to the event
Speaking engagement materials — executive presentations, panel talking points, and keynote frameworks
Partner-facing event content — webinar decks and event materials built for partner audiences including program launch webinars, partner enablement sessions, and co-sell readiness presentations
Promotional ad creative briefs — event registration ads, awareness campaigns, and retargeting creative direction across LinkedIn, Google, and programmatic channels that drive attendance and engagement before, during, and after the event
This covers:
Virtual summits and online events
Customer immersion days
Roadshows and field activations
Fireside chats and executive roundtables
Major industry conferences (i.e., AWS re:Invent, RSA Conference, Microsoft Ignite, Splunk.conf, and others)
Partner-led field moments and co-sell events
Deliverable: Event content strategies and framework + full-suite asset templates
Service 21: Sales Enablement Content
Equip sales teams and partners to have better conversations and close faster. We teach you to build and deliver the enablement assets that support actionable GTM strategy at every stage of the sales cycle — from first outreach through contract close.
We teach you to develop and deliver:
Product, program, and solution one-pagers — concise, benefit-led summaries that give sellers and partners a credible leave-behind for every conversation
Product and solution briefs (two-pagers) — deeper capability and proof point documentation for technical evaluators and economic buyers
Interactive sales playbooks — discovery frameworks, seller scripts, deal progression guides, and "how to sell with and through partners" documentation
Seller outreach emails — prospecting sequences, follow-up cadences, partner-led outreach templates, and re-engagement emails written for field sellers to use directly in co-sell and partner-sourced pipeline motions
Competitive battlecards — win/loss framing, objection handling, and competitive positioning guides that prepare sellers for the conversations that determine outcomes
Messaging and positioning quick reference cards (QRC) — persona-specific conversation guides sellers can use in the field without pulling up a 40-page playbook
Demo and first call decks — structured presentations that move buyers from curiosity to commitment
Technical second call decks — deeper solution capability, proof point documentation, and technical validation materials for evaluators and solution architects;
includes Proof of Concept (POC) readiness frameworks that help sellers structure, pitch, and set expectations for a POC engagement before the technical conversation begins
Co-sell and partner enablement decks — joint presentations that tell the "better together" story in a way that holds up in front of two organizations and their shared buyers
Onboarding playbooks — structured guides that set expectations and accelerate time-to-productivity for new sellers and partners
Rep enablement sessions — live or recorded training content that equips field sellers on joint value propositions, partner program mechanics, and co-sell motions
Objection handling guides — written responses to the most common sales objections organized by persona, deal stage, and competitive scenario
We also teach you how to build "how to sell" guides within these assets as applicable tailored to different seller profiles — from field AEs to partner sellers to SDR outreach — so the right person has the right tool at the right moment in the buying cycle.
Deliverable: Sales enablement framework + asset production templates
Service 22: Case Studies & Customer Success Stories
Turn client results with their customers into pipeline and revenue driving assets that support every stage of the sales and marketing motion. A well-built case study tells a success story, and it answers the specific questions a buyer asks as they are exploring their needs and solutions and services that parallel those.
We teach you to develop case studies that do that work:
Customer interview and extraction methodology — how to ask the questions that surface the real story, not just the approved talking points
Metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) documentation — quantifying impact in the language buyers and leadership use to justify decisions
Multi-format versions — long-form narratives, one-slider formats, solution brief formats, and executive summary versions for different audiences and moments
Usage rights and approval processes — navigating customer sign-off without losing the detail that makes the story compelling
Funnel-stage positioning strategy:
Early-stage proof — content that builds credibility with buyers who are still learning about the problem and aren't yet evaluating solutions. A case study at this stage says "this problem is real, others have faced it, and it was solved."
Mid-stage evidence — content that validates your client's approach when buyers are actively comparing options. A case study at this stage says "here's how we solve it, here's what makes our approach different, and here's proof it works."
Late-stage ROI documentation — content that gives the economic buyer — the person who signs the contract — the numbers they need to justify the investment internally. A case study at this stage says "here's exactly what changed, here's what it was worth, and here's why this was the right decision."
We also teach you how to build an anonymous use case library when client confidentiality is required, so you always have proof ready regardless of what you can name publicly.
Deliverable: Case study development framework + multi-format templates
Service 23: Customer Success & Expansion Content
The content that protects and grows revenue after the deal closes is the most directly tied to net revenue retention. We teach you to build the content infrastructure that keeps customers engaged, expanding, and advocating.
We teach you to develop and deliver:
Customer onboarding playbooks — structured guides that set clear expectations, accelerate time-to-value, and reduce early churn risk from day one
Customer enablement decks — training and education materials that help customers get the most out of the solution and the partnership
Quarterly Business Review (QBR) templates and presentations — business review frameworks that demonstrate value, surface expansion opportunities, and strengthen the customer relationship at every review cycle
Renewal and expansion campaign content — targeted communications and assets designed to retain customers and grow revenue within existing accounts
Upsell and cross-sell strategies and playbooks — identifying expansion opportunities and equipping teams with the messaging and tools to pursue them systematically
Customer advocacy assets — testimonial frameworks, reference story development, and customer-facing materials that turn satisfied customers into active advocates
Video story scripts — scripted frameworks for customer-facing video content that documents transformation and builds social proof
Customer podcast features — positioning customers as voices of authority in their market while simultaneously building awareness and credibility for your client's solution among new prospects
Deliverable: Customer success content framework and strategies + expansion campaign templates
Service 24: Email Marketing Content & Campaign Development
Email is one of the highest-ROI channels in B2B marketing. We teach you to build and deliver email marketing programs that operate as a systematic, performance-tracked channel with their own strategy, segmentation, and infrastructure.
We teach you and/or support you with:
Email marketing strategy — channel role definition, audience segmentation, cadence planning, and integration with campaign and partner program architecture so email works as part of a system, not a standalone blast
Seller outreach email sequences — prospecting, follow-up, partner-led outreach, re-engagement, and co-sell activation emails written to move deals through the pipeline
Partner outreach and recruitment emails — program invitation sequences, onboarding cadences, engagement re-activation, and partner communication frameworks that set clear expectations from the start
Subscriber and nurture email programs — newsletter strategy and production, drip campaigns, lead nurture sequences, and content-driven email series that compound audience engagement over time
Event-driven email programs — pre-event registration, reminder, post-event follow-up, and content delivery sequences that turn event attendance into measurable pipeline
Executive and C-suite email communications — board-ready, high-stakes outreach built for senior buyer engagement where every word carries weight
Co-branded partner email campaigns — joint email programs aligned to partner program standards, co-branding requirements, and shared audience targeting
Email performance strategy — deliverability best practices, list segmentation, personalization, A/B testing guidance, and performance benchmarking so you can tell clients what's working and why
Deliverable: Email marketing strategy framework + campaign templates and production guides
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Leading fortune 100 and global 100 partner ecosystems including AWS, Microsoft, Splunk, Cisco, Carahsoft, AspenTech and many more.
From cloud partners, and ISVs, to MSPs and SIs, we've worked with channel partners across over 12 industries including industrial manufacturing, SLED, IoT, non-profits, cybersecurity, healthcare, and data analytical verticals and many more. Through this experience, we've gained a wealth of expertise working with over 100 technology companies that scall startups to large enterprises.
INDUSTRIES & SEGMENTS WE SERVICE
Cloud Infrastructure & ISV Ecosystems | Cybersecurity (including endpoint, network, web and email, data, vulnerability & security analytics, and identity access management (IAM) | Healthcare & Life Sciences | Manufacturing & Industrial / IIoT | Public Sector (Government, Education, Nonprofit) | FinTech, Financial Services (Banking, Payments, Capital Markets, Insurance) | Energy / Utilities / Oil & Gas | Data, Analytics & AI | Telecommunications | Media & Entertainment | Retail & eCommerce | SaaS / DevOps / Observability | Gaming
AWS had partner companies across their ecosystem who had signed agreements but weren't producing. Most were unmanaged — venture-backed, growth-stage companies with no dedicated partner marketing support from AWS, no activation plan, and no clear path to turning the partnership into revenue. I collaborated with AWS and The Channel Company (TCC) to build the system that changed that — starting with a pilot of 31 partners and scaling to 55+:
Figured out which partners were actually ready
Created a simple, yet intricate scoring system (like a credit score for partnerships)
Told Amazon who to invest in vs. who needed more work first
Stopped them from wasting money on partners who weren't ready
Helped partners use their marketing money
Most partners use less than 50% of what Amazon gives them
We helped get that up to 92%
Showed them exactly what to spend it on to get customers
Helped them secure revenue faster
Average time to get a partnership launched in market: 18-24 months
With our support: 6 months
That's 3X faster
Made their partnerships more profitable
Partners I worked with made 13X to 99X returns on their marketing spend
One security company invested $121K total — $50K of their own funds plus AWS program funding — and generated $4.6M in new business.
Another company invested $280K, made $8.5 million in new deals
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"I had the privilege of working with Shaun at The Channel Company, during which we were both Senior Consultants. Throughout my career, I’ve had the pleasure of working with numerous professionals, but Shaun stands out as one of the most collaborative and effective colleagues I’ve encountered. Shaun’s exceptional abilities in key areas such as go-to-market (GTM) strategy, program management, client relationships, and business development exceeded the expected competencies of her role.
Her relentless pursuit of excellence and her ability to inspire and lead made her an indispensable asset to our team. Shaun’s proactive approach to resolving uncertainties in her work is a testament to her bias towards action, making her an indispensable asset. Her reliability, meticulous attention to detail, adaptability, and outstanding communication skills make her not only a valuable team member but also a delightful colleague to work with.
Shaun, the sky is truly the limit for you. I am confident that Shaun will bring the same level of professionalism and skill to any endeavor she undertakes, and I wholeheartedly recommend her without reservation."
Colleen Burin - Senior Consultant & Program Manager | Process Optimization | Content Strategy at The Channel Company (TCC)
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Access to Go-to-Market solutions across our 360 Align, 360 Activate, and 360 Growth packages
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What's included - Baseline
Ongoing management consulting service delivery that consists of content management, project management, campaign management, budget management, and/or program management
Communications plan - includes Ad-hoc instant response messaging and email access across platform of your choice. Includes 2-4 hour or 24-hour response times
Access to Go-to-Market solutions across our 360 Align, 360 Activate, and 360 Growth packages
Best for: Founders, IT Managed Services Providers, and Technology Startups
Investment: Contact Us for Pricing
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