Recent articles
Here’s your weekly dose of practical marketing insights specifically written for ISVs, channel partners and pretty much anyone in software marketing.
Recent articles
Here’s your weekly dose of practical marketing insights specifically written for ISVs, channel partners and pretty much anyone in software marketing.
A lot of our customers are curious about increasing their B2B email outreach cadence but are afraid of bombarding their prospects and turning into spammers. The fear is that their prospects will unsubscribe if they are emailed too much. While this can be a risk, (and can happen if your messaging is too salesy), as long as you continue to provide the most amount of value to your prospective clients and the purpose of your email cadence is to give, the likelihood of them unsubscribing is low.
Many people believe that telemarketing and cold calling are tactics of days past, but the more I think about it, the more I believe that that’s just a nice excuse to hide behind because let’s face it- calling makes people uncomfortable.
When you think about what a software company is, your first thought may turn to a few pale individuals in a dark room lit up by nothing other than their computer screens typing away tirelessly and generating hundreds of lines of code per hour.
While the term OEM (original equipment manufacturer) was coined decades ago to explain software integration onto hardware, OEM today means many things to many people. It continues to be used to explain embarked software onto “equipment” (whether that be a smart phone, a refrigerator, a car, a printer, or anything else you can think of); it is also a term that is used to describe ISV-to-ISV partnerships to embed one piece of software into another.
It sounds like a given that alignment between sales and marketing would be automatic, but nothing could be further from the truth for many software vendors. Marketing often works in a silo to generate leads that are then passed on to sales for follow-up; however, without the buy-in of your sales team from the start, those leads are often left to collect dust and end up going cold.