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How do I become a Salesforce partner?
Registration costs $6000 (yes, thousand) and you only get 2 attempts to pass
- Administrator – there are 2 exams, Administrator and Advanced Administrator. …
- Implementation Experts – there are 2 exams, Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, and both are highly coveted among the SI Partners and within the Salesforce.com Partner channel though, among the …
- Developers – there are 2 exams, Developer and Advanced Developer. …
How to become a Salesforce partner?
PMC Includes:
- Marketing How-to’s: Best practices to plan and execute a variety of marketing campaigns and events
- Ready-made email campaigns: Generate new leads with emails and matching landing pages.
- Industry & product content: Incorporate into your existing marketing and go-to-market activities
How to find a Salesforce partner?
- To open new markets for them – ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! …
- To run joint marketing programs – this is different than marketing to their customer base; this is co-marketing to potential prospects for both of you. …
- To resell or OEM their product – unless the company has a reseller program, it is going to be difficult to make this happen. …
How to choose right Salesforce partner?
Why choose Avenga as a Salesforce consulting partner
- Avenga is a Salesforce consultancy, development and integration company focused on the complex customization of Salesforce products according to your objectives.
- Avenga ranked #1 Salesforce Consulting Company in the Leaders Matrix on Clutch.
- Avenga experience with Salesforce spans 9 years working with the latest Salesforce technologies.
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System Integrators (SIs)
System Integrators, or commonly also known as Consulting Partners, are the types of partners who do consultative work to help you build, configure, or optimize your Salesforce environment. Typical projects SI partners might help you with include data migration, building customizations, or helping develop a technology strategy for your organization.
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
ISVs is term in the Salesforce ecosystem that refers to a partner who’s built a product on the Salesforce platform. You may also hear the acronym OEM, which stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer used to describe product partners. Both are correct, both are types of product partners.
Why a Partner Program?
This is probably not the first time you hear of creating a partner program. You’ve been in business for some time now, and you probably have a solid product that generates a successful customer experience. Some people might even recommend you create a partner program for partners.
Are You Ready for a Partner Program?
A key milestone for any fledgling company is strategizing and proving the go-to-market model for their products and services. One of the many decisions in the GTM is what is the route to market?
The Only Partner-Ready Checklist You Need
Norma Watenpaugh is an established leader in collaborative business relationships and partner ecosystems. She not only co-wrote this very article with me, but we’ve also developed a Partner-ready checklist to help evaluate a company’s readiness to partner.
Top 3 Questions to Ask
Now that we’ve established the prerequisites to considering a partner program, to get you started these are the 3 main questions you should be asking yourself.
Final Thoughts
It might take a lot of effort and resources on your part to establish a partner program, but once you get a jump start on it, the benefits of it will propel your business forward.
