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Attribution, enablement, and co-selling.

When growth depends on partners, the partner operation has to be as deliberate as direct sales. We build the rules, the record, and the enablement that make partners productive.

Sketch: two handshake-shaped puzzle pieces with an attribution tag hanging between them.

Common constraints

Three things we usually find.

Patterns we see, not a claim that every company in a category has the same stack.

  1. 01

    Recruitment is easy, activation is not

    The directory grows. The number of partners who register a deal, implement, or support the product does not.

  2. 02

    Attribution nobody accepts

    Partner-sourced versus partner-influenced is argued deal by deal because the record system was never set up to hold it.

  3. 03

    Channel conflict with no rules

    Direct and indirect teams land on the same accounts. Without rules of engagement, trust erodes on both sides.

ScenarioComposite, not a client
Two hands passing a single customer record card across a dotted boundary line

A customer record both teams trust

Situation
A B2B team keeps opportunities in the CRM and renewals in a spreadsheet because the two systems do not share a customer.
First move
Define the customer record, design the sales-to-success handoff on paper, and only then configure the integration.
What changes
Success starts work from the same record sales closed on. The renewal date lives in a system, not a tab.
Revenue Operations Enablement

Next step

Tell us how a partner deal gets credited today.