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Why SaaS vendors must shift from transactions to embedded partnerships

Martech

In this new environment, long-term success for SaaS vendors depends not just on product quality, but on how deeply their platforms are embedded into clients’ daily operations and strategic goals. This shift — from license delivery to operational integration — marks a fundamental evolution in how SaaS companies must think, sell and support.

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The $4.5B Board Meeting: Inside Snowflake’s AI Transformation and the CEO Who Bets His Company on Their Platform

SaaStr

ARR data cloud leader is adapting to AI disruption, the evolution of technical sales, and what it really takes to build strategic partnerships that scale. The days of relationship-only selling are over in AI-adjacent markets. In the age of AI, traditional relationship-based selling isn’t enough.

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The New Sales Channel

Partners in Excellence

We put in place programs to attract channel partners (or if we are a channel, to attract the companies developing the products/solutions) getting them to sell our products. The dominant model has been a “sell through model.” Sometimes we have challenges in managing these relationships. A new type of channel partner.

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Partnering And Selling

Partners in Excellence

I cringe every time I get an email or social media invitation, “Dave, we’d like to partner with you… ” It’s always code for, “I want to sell you something!” Partnering, true partnering, is critical to success in buying/selling. Strategic partnerships have existed in various forms for decades.

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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

Sales Manager. Social Centered Selling. Vice President of Sales & Strategic Partnerships. Business Development Manager. Territory Account Manager. VP Sales and Account Management. Account Executive. Strategic Partnerships (APAC). Account Executive.

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A Step-by-Step Strategic Account Plan Template for Shared-Value

Hubspot

Are you a B2B account manager or sales executive who is serious about account-based sales or account-based marketing (ABM)? To win new business and grow key accounts, account managers and sales executives must become thoroughly invested in their customer’s challenges, goals, and competitive landscape.

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Transformation Secrets of a Online Marketing Agency #MTW

Hubspot

At that time, he was the owner and founder, head of business development, designer, developer, and account manager for all projects. With his attention being pulled in so many different directions, finding time to think strategically about how he could grow the business was hard to do, but needed.