In this ever-evolving business landscape, manufacturers are continuously seeking innovative ways to enhance market penetration and boost sales. One such approach that has proven to be quite effective is "rebates marketing". But what exactly is this, and how can manufacturers leverage it? Let's dive
Enhancing Your Strategy with Channel Partner Marketing
Channel partner marketing is a powerful tool in the arsenal of manufacturers wanting to expand their reach and increase sales. By leveraging the networks and resources of channel partners, manufacturers can significantly boost their market presence. However, to make the most out of it, you need an
What is MDF in Marketing? A Detailed Look into Market Development Funds
Marketing plays a critical role in the success of any business. Among several marketing strategies, one that stands out is the use of Market Development Funds (MDF). But what is MDF in marketing? Let's dive deep into this topic, unraveling its significance, how it relates to partner MDF and what MDF
Harnessing the Power of Co-op Marketing Funds: A Game Changer for Manufacturers
In today's competitive marketplace, manufacturers need every advantage they can get. One often overlooked resource is co-op marketing funds. These shared costs between manufacturers and retailers can boost your brand's visibility and drive sales. Yet, many manufacturers fail to tap into their full
Boosting Your Business with Innovative Marketing Development Fund Ideas
In the ever-evolving world of business, manufacturers are constantly on the lookout for strategies to gain a competitive edge. One such strategy that has proven to be highly effective is the implementation of Marketing Development Funds (MDF). But what are MDF funds? And how can you optimize their
Leverage MDF Claims Channel Partners for Exponential Growth
In today's competitive business landscape, manufacturers constantly seek innovative ways to increase their market share. One such powerful strategy is leveraging MDF claims channel partners. This method, when combined with trade promotion manager tools, can significantly amplify your reach and boost
Boosting Growth with Channel Incentive
In the ever-evolving landscape of manufacturing, businesses are constantly seeking ways to gain a competitive edge. One such strategy that has proven effective is the implementation of a channel incentive program. Additionally, channel incentives are behavioral modification tools that influence
Channel Co-op MDF Programs Can Boost Businesses
As a manufacturer, you're constantly looking for ways to increase your brand visibility and drive sales. One proven method to achieve this is by leveraging Co-op MDF Programs. These programs offer an excellent opportunity to tap into the power of joint marketing efforts, allowing you to maximize
Understanding the Power of MDF Programs
What Are MDF Programs? MDF programs are an integral part of a comprehensive channel marketing strategy. They provide financial resources from manufacturers or vendors to their channel partners - including resellers, distributors, and affiliates - to support specific marketing activities. These
How to Use Market Development Funds: A Comprehensive Guide
In today's competitive business landscape, manufacturers need every advantage they can get to stay ahead of the competition. One powerful tool that many businesses may not be aware of is market development funds (MDF). In this blog post, we'll explore what market development funds are, and how you
How Does Cooperative Advertising Work?
Cooperative advertising, or Co-op advertising, is a marketing strategy that allows manufacturers and their channel partners to pool their resources and share the cost of promotional campaigns. This approach benefits both parties by maximizing their advertising reach while minimizing expenses. In
How MDF Management Software Can Revolutionize Your Business
Market development funds (MDF) are funds allocated to manufacturers by their channel partners to support market growth initiatives. As a result, the MDF programs also called the MDF partner program, have become an essential part of building a channel that resonates with the vendor's intended
Managing Your Co op Advertising: What You Need to Know
Co op Advertising is a popular way for businesses to save on their marketing costs. Additionally, Co-op advertising involves a manufacturer or distributor partnering with a retailer, and sharing advertising costs. This approach can boost exposure, brand recognition, and sales for both
Trade Promotion Marketing: Tools for Success
Ad budgets can be really tight for a small business. Trying to reach a large audience with no money for marketing can be one of the most challenging tasks your business will face. Likewise, competing against companies with massive ad budgets can make it virtually impossible to get your products in
Best Practices For Managing Successful MDF Programs
Market Development Funds (or MDFs) are funds provided to channel partners designed to use for sales and marketing programs. When the goal is to sell more products, introduce new ones, or increase local awareness, MDF programs encourage partners to do just that. In this post, we share the
Improve B2B Channel Marketing Programs During COVID-19
Everyone can agree that the pandemic has changed our way of life. Millions are still sheltering in place and businesses have had to quickly adapt to the new normal. COVID-19 has impacted B2B channel marketing programs and channel activities in a big way, and businesses must continue to evolve if
How to Develop a Successful Channel Marketing Strategy
Channel marketing is a means to distribute a product on the market through a variety of different platforms and mediums. A Synchronized Channel Marketing strategy has proven to be an extremely important tool for vendors and channel partners alike: while the former will be able to maximize their
How to Optimize your Channel Rebate and SPIF Programs
Best Practices for Creating and Implementing Rebate and SPIF Programs. Rebate and SPIF programs are powerful incentive tools best used to boost your partners’ sales efforts. Such sales incentive programs are designed to ultimately increase product revenue by the number of units sold. However,
Co-op MDF Programs: Dealing with Unused Marketing Funds
Channel Partner Co-op MDF Programs and the Unused Channel Marketing Funds Dilemma. Every year, a report comes out estimating the amount of unused channel marketing funds. The number typically fluctuates in the billions. Billions. This means that vendors are allocating hundreds to thousands of
Managing Co-op Funds – 5 Easy Co-op Management Strategies
Automated Co-op Marketing Programs Deliver True Results When it Comes to Managing Co-op Funds. We’ve conducted a small-scale study on vendor’s process of managing Co-op funds and came to a conclusion: Co-op marketing programs are no walk in the park. As with any marketer’s dilemma, the struggle is
Successful Channel Partner Sales and Marketing Programs
Discover the most Important Pieces to Creating a Profitable Channel Sales and Marketing Programs. Utilizing channel partnerships effectively depends on the proper execution of a variety of components. The most important component is your channel partner sales and marketing programs. But, arguably
How to Grow your Business with Synchronized Channel Marketing
Find out How Synchronized Channel Marketing Can Help You Reach More People. There is a fundamental problem with how vendors and their channel partners market their products. Vendors, who have the resources to create marketing content, are having trouble reaching their end customers. Channel
How to Make Online Digital Co-op Advertising Programs Work
Digital Co-op Advertising - Revolutionize your Co-op Program. Year-after-year the use of digital advertising and the revenue generated from utilizing this form of advertising continue to grow. Many national brands have recognized the value of digital marketing by investing in digital for national
Digital Co-op Advertising Funds for Local Channel Partners
Digital Co-op Advertising Funds May Seem Uneconomical for a Vendor, but the Results Tell another Story. Small businesses have always thrived on the patronage of their local customers. As a member of a community, small business owners see their community more than a canvas for cultivating a
4 Obstacles and Solutions Facing Co-op Marketing Funds
Making Co-op Marketing Funds a Source of Revenue for Both Manufacturers and their Channel Partners In a study conducted by Borrell Associates, it was revealed that an estimated $70 billion was allocated to Co-op advertising programs in 2017 alone. Surprisingly, nearly half of these Co-op marketing
Top Fifteen Co-Op Management Platform Checklist
Best-of-Breed Capabilities to Consider when Evaluating a Co-Op Management Platform. Nearly all vendors have Co-op marketing programs in place yet, more than half of them aren’t satisfied with the Co-op management platform they use. The basic reason for vendors' disapproval is reported to be the ""
Important Coop Marketing Program Deadlines for Channel Partners
Five Important Coop Marketing Program Deadlines that Reseller, Distributor, or Retailer Need to Be Aware of in Order to Prevent Funds from Expiring. In 2017, a study by Borrell Associates revealed that an estimated $70 billion cooperative advertising money (Co-op) was made available by vendors to
How to Create a Successful Performance-Based MDF Program
A performance-based MDF program is the backbone of a stable and healthy distribution sales channel. Performance-based MDF Programs provide your company with the flexibility and workforce to reach end-customers in geographical locations and market segments that your cannot reach while validating
Digital Market Development Funds Structured for Digital Marketing
Vendors argue programs which feature MDF are in a world of flux, and partners--with limited digital marketing experience--struggle to execute these incentives. The trickle effect of market development funds is affecting all parties. Vendors must recognize their value to partners not only as a
Market Development Funds Program Set Up Guide
How to Optimize your Market Development Funds Program Performance. Today we are going to jump into the systematic instructions as to what a comprehensive Channel Market Development Funds Program template should look like. Partners will be able to use your Market Development Funds program guide not
Market Development Funds Best Practices that Increase ROI
Market Development Funds Best Practices that Demonstrate your Interest in the Success of Channel Partners. One of the Market Development Funds Best Practices that is easily overlooked is the vendor’s interest in the success of its partner. Dale Carnegies famously coined, “You can make more
Best Co-op and MDF Strategies for Manufacturers
Co-Op and MDF Strategies for Eradicating the Obscurity of Indirect Marketing-ROI. has never been under such scrutiny as it is today. Channel executives demand the expense of channel marketing investments and activity to be well justified. Without tangible data that clearly defines the
Co-op MDF Strategies for a Better Partner Engagement
4 Co-op MDF Strategies for Achieving Partner Engagement and Developing an Ongoing Relationships. There are plenty of reasons why billions of market development dollars go unused each year. From cumbersome reimbursement processes to more attractive incentives offered by other vendors, from
How to Maximize on CO-OP MDF Opportunities
Are your Channel Partners Opting-Out of Co-op MDF Opportunities? Each year, manufacturers spend billions of dollars into creating Co-op MDF opportunities for channel partners. Disturbingly, however, nearly half of incentive fund opportunities go unused. That is a significant amount of
3 Channel Marketing Plans for Improving Channel Partner Success
Breathe New Light into your Channel Sales and Channel Marketing Strategies with Partners. If you sell through multiple channels, when it comes down to channel marketing plans communication can get easily tangled. It’s likely your partner network is comprised of multiple solution providers. Each
7 Components of a Successful Channel Marketing Program
7 Steps that Bring Clarity to Channel Marketing Programs. Why do partners continue to opt-out of channel marketing programs? This question has haunted vendors for generations; it simply doesn’t make sense why channel partners continue to ignore extremely , especially when the incentive is easily
Inbound Channel Marketing: Help Channel Partners Make Money
Channel Marketing Enablement Strategy: Content in the Portal
Top Reasons Why Manufacturers Fail to Deploy Adequate Content for Partner Enablement. Empowering a channel partner to be motivated, knowledgeable, and productive doesn’t happen overnight. It certainly doesn’t happen without a clear and concise, meticulously outlined channel marketing enablement
How to Improve Channel Partners Deal Conversion
How to Help Channel Partners Convert an Opportunity into a Deal! Vendors all face a similar conundrum when utilizing the channel—and that is—how to help channel partners conversion of opportunities into deals? If you’re thinking to yourself “Well, yeah, that’s kind of the whole point of channel
Channel Partner Marketing Tools: Now is the Time to Start a Blog
Special Method in Channel Partner Marketing. Manufacturers are constantly in search of the best practices and most practical channel partner marketing tools. When you think of how a channel partnership was made successful, what comes to mind? The manufacturer provided prompt and complete
Get Your Co-op Marketing Incentive Program Out of the Mud
4 Co-op Marketing Incentive Program Mistakes Even the Best Manufacturers Make. By providing a Co-op marketing incentive program that enhances profitability, training, and support, you are able to help generate new opportunities for business growth. Ever hear that old saying “You can’t have your
4 Steps to Molding an Efficient and Effective Co-op MDF Program
Channel partner dynamics are more volatile than ever. More and more manufacturers are focusing on efforts to increase their channel partners' uptake. There is an imperative need for manufacturers to their partners with a simple yet effective Co-op MDF program that is configured to accommodate the
Using Deal Registration In Your Channel Marketing Strategy
Deal Registrations can Provide you the Insight you Need for Creating a Solid Channel Marketing Strategy. The two seem to be very separate entities with completely different goals. Channel marketing teams want to focus on sell-through while deal registrations are primarily used for sell-in. So how
MDF Program Strategy with Channel Expert Patricia Rush
MDF Program Strategy has always been an integral part of many channel programs. For our first Channel Expert Q&A blog post, we reached out to Patricia Rush, Channel Consultant and President of RushToChannel. The focus of the interview was MDF program strategy. For the past 30 years, Rush has
Multi-Vendor Marketing Funds Management – What Is It?
Access More Funds, Spend More Funds, Strengthen your Multi-Vendor Co-op MDF Marketing Funds Management. The majority of channel partners have large networks of vendors, most of which offer Co-op dollars or Market Development Funds (MDF). However, having access to multi-vendor marketing funds makes