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Partner Performance: The success of local partner marketing

Daniela Geppert

Marketing Managerin

The success of local partner marketing

In companies with a distinctive sales or sales partner network or decentralized marketing structures, successful cooperation with local partners is the key to success. The local partners not only lead to better brand recognition, but also ensure the required turnover and the sale of their own products and services. It is therefore particularly important to work together with your own partners and to work against common goals. No matter how good the company headquarters's marketing plans and strategies are, without the involvement of partners, the project will fail. In order to make cooperation with your own partners as effective as possible and to achieve good partner performance, it is important to know the partners' activities, evaluate them and use them as an indicator for improvements so that the partners can be constantly motivated to market.

Analyze partners' activities

The first step towards better partner performance is to keep track of the partners' marketing activities. Through regular performance checks, you can analyze your partners' marketing activities and tasks. In the next step, these marketing indicators can be compared with the sales achieved by the individual partners. This gives you a clear idea of the effectiveness of partner marketing. In addition, these key figures can be used to decide which partners receive advertising subsidies and who needs additional support. In addition, in addition to individual partners, the performance of individual campaigns can also be analyzed and used as a basis for future planning.

Improve collaboration with partners

In addition to planning future marketing measures, partner marketing analysis can also be used to identify problems at an early stage. In decentralized marketing, you work together with your partners towards an overarching marketing goal. In such cooperation, it is important to regularly check whether the goals are understandable and feasible for all partners. In addition, the marketing world is constantly changing due to new media and ever-increasing digitalization. In this development, you must also ensure that your partners are aware of new trends and have the necessary knowledge to implement new forms of advertising. Through regular exchanges and joint marketing planning, you can pick up local partners and fundamentally improve cooperation.

Partner motivation and ideal collaboration

This means that you can plan your local marketing significantly better and thus achieve more effective marketing implementation together with your partners. Through regular exchanges, you can also inform your partners about new focal areas and marketing channels and obtain suggestions and experience from local locations. You can also motivate your partners through advertising subsidies and targeted training and contribute to even more effective partner performance.

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