Ingram Micro Cloud Introduces Go-To-Market Automation to Help Partners Reduce Acquisition Costs and Increase Revenue
The industry-first Go-to-Market Hub and Go-to-Market Builder solutions aim to solve one of the biggest challenges for partners and vendors alike—sales, marketing and beyond
Ingram Micro Cloud announced the global availability of the Go-to-Market Hub for partners and the Go-to-Builder for vendors to ignite and accelerate their cloud businesses. With the Go-to-Market Hub, partners get a single destination for through-channel marketing automation, with sales enablement content and tools across the Ingram Micro Cloud portfolio of cloud products. Additionally, vendors can now use Go-to-Market Builder, a new tool to maintain and publish sell-through and sell-to sales enablement and marketing content for partners.
“We are already seeing positive results after adopting the Go-to-Market Hub”
In today’s cluttered digital media landscape, many VARs and MSPs are struggling to reach their target customers to generate and convert opportunities. Research shows most partners don’t have the time or resources to devote to vital tasks like lead generation, product research and sales training. Similarly, vendors struggle with costs and resources associated with managing marketing and enablement programs for partners.
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According to Forrester analyst Jay McBain, “We are entering the third stage of sales and marketing. With 75% of the world’s trade flowing indirectly, there is going to be an influx in investment and attention on indirect sales across industries.”
The concept of “Go-To-Market Automation,” – the fusion of sales automation and through-channel marketing automation – is designed to meet this third stage of sales and marketing head on. It will help partners automate their go-to-market activities with over 120 products and services from the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, enabling vendors to programmatically create and update go-to-market content for channel partners.
“By understanding both the opportunities and challenges inherent in the cloud-connected economy, Ingram Micro Cloud is shortening the digital transformation curve for partners and vendors,” said Locke Truong, head of global product marketing at Ingram Micro Cloud. “Go-To-Market Automation is designed to enrich through-channel marketing automation with pre-built campaigns, sales enablement, product guides, training materials and portfolio decisioning tools across hundreds of products and services. Our goal is simple: Help our partners and vendors sell more cloud products.”
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Ingram Micro Cloud delivers Go-To-Market Automation through the Go-to-Market Hub and Go-to-Market Builder. Go-to-Market Hub, which is accessible from the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, gives the company’s massive network of over 200,000 partners, more than 55,000 of which are already actively selling cloud solutions, access to prebuilt, customizable sales and marketing campaign resources for hundreds of vendor products. It also provides go-to-market capabilities to automate, execute and optimize tactics, including sales enablement and through-channel marketing automation, lead management, alerts and notifications, and more.
“We are already seeing positive results after adopting the Go-to-Market Hub,” said Don Nokes, President, NetCenergy. “It has helped us discover new products and markets faster than ever before. We have increased the number of opportunities and products in our portfolio, allowing us to focus on delivering a better experience for our customers.”
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With Go-to-Market Builder, part of Ingram Micro Cloud Connect, vendors can easily create and maintain extensive sales and marketing campaign content for partners to access in the Go-to-Market Hub by simplifying channel distribution and accelerating time to market. It also provides promotional opportunities like banners and blogs to increase visibility with channel partners as well as full-funnel analytics to measure awareness, interest and conversion.
Early response to go-to-market automation has been enthusiastic and positive from both partners and vendors. For Go-to-Market Hub, which launched in the US market in April 2019, adoption has been extremely strong—with more than 20% of active partners signing up. In addition, adopters are outperforming non-adopters in terms of the number of products being sold, as well as net new customers being converted.
