Channel Management Strengthens Partner Loyalty

Our channel software as a service solution gives your valued partners access to the award-winning usability and trust of Salesforce CRM. These partners can safely register deals, request marketing funds with ease, and instantly gain access to the information they need to help promote their own channel sales.

By using the salesforce.com online channel management solution, you can create a Partner Portal, customised to your particular needs. This is an exclusive capability that traditional models of channel management software simply cannot deliver. The portal removes unnecessary channel management complications, giving partners the freedom to promptly find everything they need to feature your solutions and multiply your channel sales.

Our channel software as a service application has been developed and built on the Force.com platform, and features secure data-sharing connections. It is easy to adapt salesforce.com channel management software as a service, and add extra functionality and customisation from the Force.com AppExchange; it's is the business software equivalent of iTunes.

Channel Sales Basics: Partner Recruitment and Forward Planning

Making sure the right channel partners are on board and ensuring they are knowledgeable about your products and services is a vital element in effective channel management. Salesforce.com channel management software as a service is exceptional at helping you to develop close, loyal relationships from the first contact.

On-premise channel management software cannot even begin to compete with Salesforce.com channel management software in terms of automating channel partner recruiting, training, and process planning. The simplicity of web-based channel management software as a service allows you to concentrate on that which is most important - boosting channel sales through the building of more productive relationships with your business partners.

• More Effective Recruitment with Channel Management Software as a Service. Successful partner recruitment is one of the most significant components in channel management, guaranteeing solid market penetration, a healthy pipeline, and leading to more vigorous channel sales. Salesforce.com's channel management software as a service offers ways to streamline channel management with uncomplicated partner checking and qualification, on-boarding, education, and a quick certification processes.
• Enhanced Channel Management. Being able to create and control a comprehensive picture of your partner information and performance is critical to business success. Salesforce.com's channel management software as a service provides you with a powerful tool to boost the performance of channel sales - across all types of distribution.
• Better Partner Training. Training is an outstanding method for improving partner loyalty, whilst also maximising channel sales and revenue. Our channel management software as a service gives you the capability to speedily devise and manage training programs, to publish your training plans to channel partners, and to monitor the process of certification.
• End-to-End Channel Management Planning. High-value partner relationships are propelled by goal alignment on the basis of predetermined standards with agreed measurements and rewards. Salesforce.com channel management software as a service breathes new life into your channel management lifecycle by giving you the tools for forward planning, objective setting, and monitoring of your global channel sales strategy.

Partner Portal: Exclusively with Our Channel Management Software as a Service

In recent years, the simplicity and power of Web 2.0 has become a vital tool in successful channel management strategies. It is precisely these characteristics of Web 2.0 that salesforce.com's channel management software as a service capitalises on, via the partner portal solution, developed to drive higher channel sales and further enhance partner loyalty.

Salesforce CRM Partner Portal is a channel management tool that is truly unique, with whole- scale customisation options. This on-demand location offers in-depth functionality, yet is as easy to use as any familiar consumer website. You will not find a more ideal channel management solution: partners enjoy a fluid and simple Web 2.0 experience, which combines rich content with the award-winning ease-of use-that is a trademark aspect of Salesforce applications. As a crucial component of our channel management software as a service solution, the portal offers business partners a devoted one-stop channel management tool. Portal partners can manage their leads and sales opportunities, process deal registrations, locate and rate content, share ideas with you and other partners, run reports, make requests for marketing funds, and manage their own users effectively.

Salesforce.com's online channel management application features a user-friendly style editor to easily change the design and functionality of your Partner Portal. Moreover, there are numerous other advanced modification and expansion features. These include mash-ups, custom Apex code, and much more on offer to help you convert your Partner Portal into an exclusive self-service customer destination, matching your needs and propelling channel sales to new heights.

• Channel Sales: Improving Partner Selling. Channel management software as a service from Salesforce includes the equipment that partners need to generate success across all areas of business development, from lead generation and opportunity management, through to deal registering. In a few quick steps, partners are able to handle their customer accounts and supply updates concerning opportunities with little effort. At the same time as business partners are making the most of the portal, your channel management is improved, as you gain full visibility into the total opportunity life cycle.
• Fuel Partner Marketing to Enhance Channel Management. Amongst the many advantages of the Partner Portal in our channel management software as a service is that it will boost your online visibility. Customise your Partner Portal to match your brand colour-scheme and style, as a way to keep partners up-to-date with your aims, ethics, initiatives and brand promise. Your company logo, key products, and communications can be embedded into the main design and appear prominently on the portal's home page. To increase channel sales, make the most of MDF and Co-op programs by allowing partners to request and be granted their marketing funds, directly through the portal.
• Partners Ideas Forum to Improve Channel Sales. It is easy to nurture a two-way conversation with your business partners by using salesforce.com channel management software as a service. Salesforce CRM Ideas, a central component of this solution, can be activated via your partner portal, to act as a round-the-clock, real time virtual partner advisory service where partners can share insights and suggestions with each other - as well as with you. By using our channel management software as a service, you will at last have real, valuable knowledge of what your partners are thinking about. This is an incredibly effective way to help you pursue the most effective business partnerships, improve loyalty in general, and to expand your channel sales.