PartnerHacker Daily #170: Help Partners Win
My Aha moment with partner enablement
If you’re like me, you might think, “If we can just teach the enablement recipe step by step, the partners will be cooking in no time.”
My "aha" moment in partnerships arrived when I realized that the biggest mistake I was making was presenting information rather than speaking the same language as the partner.
The information was being taught, but it was not speaking to the core spark, the core need, present in the partner.
Many partnership professionals make this same mistake, misinterpreting enablement for teaching, but it is much more nuanced than that. If there is one thing I wish I had known about enablement and engagement, it is that enablement is more like sales than teaching.
If you want to drive partner engagement, you've got to master this.
#PartnershipsPointers
Brianna Chapman shares partnership tips and tricks in her 2 minutes videos on LinkedIn. Last week, she shared the importance of tweaking your communications strategy with sales heading into the busiest time of the year.
Happenings in the partnerships world
- Now - Oct 12 - Shave ten years off of your partnerships learning curve by enrolling in Firneo's 8-week partnerships professionals course. Applications are due by October 12 for the upcoming cohort (which starts October 16th).
- October 19 - 21, 2022 - ImpartnerCON - Our CEO Jared Fuller will be speaking.
- November 3, 2022 - Crossbeam Connector Summit
- November 7 -11, 2022 - PL[X] Summit, the world’s largest B2B SaaS partnerships event ever!
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