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This week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, talk more about the top pillar affecting partner experience, as surveyed in our 2017 State of Partnering study. People. How are the People elements ranked? What song comes to mind for Charlene? Hear how this information can educate vendors on what they need to work on and where they should invest with their channel partners. We'll be talking, blogging and writing all about partner experience and want to hear what you think. Leave a comment below. 

This week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, have a brief chat about more data from our 2017 State of Partnering study. How do partners scrutinize their vendors? How many primary and secondary lines do they carry? And how do partners weight the six pillars that make up their experience with a vendor? Charlene and Diane review the high-level results.

This week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, discuss more data from our 2017 State of Partnering report: how do partners define themselves by partner type?

This week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, discuss one of the interesting data points from our 2017 State of Partnering report: how are partner sales changing?

This week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, discuss three (or is it five?) major channel data points from our 2017 State of Partnering report. Where is channel growth headed?

This week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, discuss more open-ended responses from our 2017 State of Partnering report. One of the questions we ask partners every year is: "Why have you regretted joining a vendor's partner program?" Unfortunately, many of the results are the same year to year.

Happy New Year! This week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, discuss some of the open-ended responses from our 2017 State of Partnering study on the top channel mistakes. What are some partner complaints about vendor channel programs and why are they so similar year to year?

Thank you for joining us over the past year! We've had 50 of these video chats this year, and this week hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, take a quick look back at some of the top channel news coming out of the channel in 2016.

This week, hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, have end-of-year crunch time on their minds. Why do we (vendors, partners, customers) all push ourselves to get so much done in the final weeks of the year? At a time when we have family and holidays and 'regular' work to do, we've trained customers to not buy until the last minute. Is it possible to change these habits? Take a listen then share your thoughts.