In today’s world, people expect to have data, information and tools at their fingertips. If you’re in the manufacturing or automotive industry, your channel partners (a.k.a. dealers or distributors) are no different. They want immediate access to data, such as leads, conversions and KPIs. They want to be able to find blog posts, product information […]
Posts Tagged ‘partner communities’
Exploring the New Partner Central Template
Last year, Salesforce announced the release of Lightning Partner Community, allowing businesses to use Lightning to quickly deploy a rich and powerful community for their partner ecosystem. I couldn’t agree more with Kara’s blog on 5 reasons you’ll love Lightning Partner Communities given the success we’ve had and feedback on deploying Lightning Partner Communities for our […]
Improve Your Partner Community: Applying Feedback
In yesterday’s blog post, we discussed gathering feedback from your partners in order to improve your partner community user experience. Now, in light of Salesforce announcing a preview of the new Partner Central Community in the Summer ’17 release, let’s dive into the data and come up with some solutions on how to address common pain points. […]
Improve Your Partner Community: Gathering Feedback
So you want to improve your partner community. You worked hard on it and had high hopes that it would be the sparkle in your partners’ eyes, but it fell flat. Maybe the content isn’t what your partners are looking for (maybe they can’t even find it!), or maybe piecemeal, band-aid-like updates have taken a […]
New Guide: Channeling the Power of Partners with Salesforce
Next year is shaping up to be a disruptive year in the partner program world as the impact of digital transformation runs deep within the walls of the sales organization. To thrive in a competitive channel partner landscape in 2016, we firmly believe organizations are being forced to think about and do three fundamental things: adopt a digital-first mindset to rethink the partner […]
How Zero Motorcycles Boosted Sales with Salesforce Community Cloud
Mark Polly, director of Perficient’s Portals & Social Business Practice, recently wrote a blog post focusing on how a company created successful partner communities using Salesforce’s Community Cloud. Zero Motorcycles needed a way to consolidate multiple partner-facing systems into a simplified user interface, track sales and monitor participation programs and automate workflows. As we’ve seen […]