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ELG Insider Newsletters

October 14, 2024

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ELG Insider #661: Step aside, spreadsheets

Andrea Vallejo

Be the liaison

A successful ELG strategy hinges on strong internal alignment.

PartnerOps is the glue that brings SalesOps, Product, Legal, Marketing, and other teams together.

By creating shared processes and transparent communication, PartnerOps ensures that partnerships aren’t just an add-on — they become a seamless part of your company’s revenue engine.

As Latané Conant, CRO at 6sense, wisely states, "It’s not about the size of your Partner team. It’s about the infrastructure. PartnerOps isn’t an extra — it drives the process."

SHARE YOUR INSIGHTS

The Future of Revenue survey

As a GTM leader, your experience and insights are crucial to understanding the direction of revenue strategies in our industry.

We’ve partnered with Pavilion to survey GTM leaders, and we’d love it if you could take 7 minutes to share your thoughts.

It’s completely anonymous, and you’ll get early access to the report before its official release this fall.

Take the survey here.

TACTICS

Things to know to setup your
PartnerOps cadence

You have an OKR (maybe more than one) to achieve, it’s the beginning of your quarter, you know you got this — because you know your ELG motion is going to drive revenue.

But how are you going to track your progress? Are you good at building dashboards and reports?

If your answers to the previous questions were either no, or IDK, Aaron Howerton, COO at Partner Foundations and Founder of PartnerOps Partner, has the answer to your prayers: PartnerOps.

PartnerOps will help you empower your partner team and finally prove the value of your Ecosystem-Led Growth (ELG) strategy.

Here are Aaron Howerton’s four steps to set up your PartnerOps cadence:

Step #1: Identify key internal stakeholders

Build strong relationships across your company, particularly with SalesOps, Product, Legal, Finance, Customer Success, and Marketing teams.

Understand who the main stakeholders are and establish ongoing communication. PartnerOps is the bridge between the partnerships team and the rest of the organization.

Step #2: Optimize partner processes — don’t become the bottleneck

Regularly meet with other teams to gather their expectations and discuss how partners can contribute.

Enable your team on both existing and new processes, while adapting workflows to include partnership needs.

Streamline processes by moving away from manual tasks (e.g., spreadsheets) and ensuring metrics are aligned with company KPIs.

Step #3: Showcase data once relationships and processes are established

Before presenting dashboards or data, build internal trust and optimize the foundational processes.

Collect metrics that demonstrate partner program impact, such as partner-sourced revenue, time to revenue, and partner retention.

Step #4: Establish a recurring cadence of communication

Schedule regular meetings with stakeholders to align on progress, share updates, and ensure everyone is on the same page.

Maintain and nurture these relationships to make adjustments and integrate partnership insights seamlessly into existing company processes.

Read our article on ELG Insider to learn about the role of PartnerOps, the metrics you need to focus on, and the tech stack you need to get started.

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