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Nearbound Daily #023: Don't swim against the current

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Partner marketing often fails

Not because your campaign wasn’t good...

 

But because you swam against the partner marketing stream.

 

Imagine the buyer’s journey as a river:

  • Customer first buys their CRM.
  • Then, their webinar platform generates leads.
  • Finally, a tool to launch post-event feedback surveys.

 

If you are a webinar platform, your survey integration partners won’t send you any new customers.

 

Why?

 

Because by the time a customer floats down into their inbox, they already have a CRM and Webinar platform!

 

Upstream partners talk to your ideal customers before the current pushes them past you.

 

Cast your co-marketing net in the right place. 🎣

 

Shout out to Ben Wright for the river metaphor! 🌊

 

Thanks for contributing to this section of the PhD Franz-Josef Schrepf.

 

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Happenings

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  • InFUUSE – The Future of Business: Unleashing the Ecosystem Blueprint to Redefine Growth – Thursday, March 30th, 5 PM EST – Join Jared Fuller and an incredible panel of futurists, disruptors, innovators, and dreamers for an electrifying virtual round table to discuss the future of business. Learn why Nearbound is the GTM blueprint. Register here.

 

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