Each New Year we all sit around making resolutions and goals, only to forget all about them come February. Am I right? Well this year, how can you stick to your objectives to make them a reality? Here are 5 tips to help kick-start your marketing efforts and sustain them so that 2024 is a success.
Listen to this episode where Liz Lemarchand, MediaDev’s COO talks with Dan Outcalt, an OEM sales expert, about why it’s critical to have a big OEM sales funnel, perhaps even more so when selling to end-user customers, and how to build. Tune in!
It’s amazing to me how many people who work in the software industry are completely unaware about what OEM means. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not judging anyone here. I am merely pointing out that OEM is ignored more often than not. Which if you do understand the benefits of having an ISV-OEM strategy, clearly means that most software companies are missing out on a very profitable source of revenue.
ISV – OEM marketing is a beast. One of the things that most people don’t realize about OEM sales to ISVs is how critical timing is, which means it is super important to have a giant sales funnel. OEM sales cycles are usually long—in some cases taking upwards of 18 months to complete from start to finish. And of course, in the end, not everyone is going to opt for your offer, which means the more ISV leads you have, the better. What’s funny is that many OEM program holders don’t see it that way. They think that it’s
Have you ever tried calling a decision-maker only to get blocked by a Gatekeeper? Well, you are not alone. Many people who try B2B cold calling get stuck because they don’t know how to get past Gatekeepers, the first people who pick up the phone and whose job it is to filter important calls from the unimportant ones. There is a plethora of reasons why callers get stuck at this stage including:
