52 Ways to Engage Your channel

Even without huge budgets
or hours of extra time, there
are simple things
you can do to
stay top-of-mind.
If you aren’t
connecting
with your
channel sales
reps on a
weekly basis,
you’re likely
not a priority
for them. 52
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ENGAGEyour
CHANNEL

Get attention,
show
appreciation
or reward
results using
these
52 ways to
engage your
channel.
Best
Practices
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
key info
Hello
Joe!

Send a “thank you”
for a great year.
52
WAYS

Give them weekly tips
to help sell
your
products.
52
WAYS

Hold a recognition
event at their location
to celebrate top
performers.
52
WAYS

Invite them to dinner
to thank them
and share your
future plans.
52
WAYS

Reward them with
funny money and
hold an auction for
small and
large prizes.
52
WAYS

Ask for their opinion
on how to improve
your products.
52
WAYS

Invite your best
partners to run
through a warehouse
filled with rewards.
52
WAYS

Summarize key
information into a
pocket guide or
laminated card.
52
WAYS
key info

Write a news story
about their awesome
performance and
post it to your
dealer
communications
portal.
52
WAYS

Don’t have a dealer
communications portal?
Better make one!
52
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Dealer
communications portal

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more ways of
engaging your
channel
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Have a cup of
coffee with them and
ask for their ideas.
16
Send
them a swag bag
filled with stuff they
can use - or wear -
that has your logo on it.
44
Share everyday
tips and tricks that
could improve their process.
51
hashtag
about #mycompany.
14
Put together
an innovation
challenge and then
award them for the
best ideas.
20
Invite your top partners to ameeting of the minds in a resort location.
15
Determine the
leading indicators of
top performance and then rewardfor demonstrating those behaviors
that lead to top-line results.
21 Help them
recognize
and reward others
who contribute to
their success.
22 Reward
them with a team
lunch to celebrate
“Most Improved”
performance.
24
Have them
compete
head-to-head with
other sales reps to sell your
most profitable product.
17 Help them
become
better leaders
by sharing
industry insights and
your company’s vision.
18
Develop engaging
and informative
content that
helps them
connect with
customers.
30
Create a
game that
helps them learn.
19
31Teach them
how big data
can help them
grow their
business. (And when you
do, can you explain it to
the rest of us too?)
Help them
find new, high-value
customers
through analysis.
28Find ways
to give
them
more family time.
25 Have the president of your
company visit
their location.
26
Take them on
the trip of a
lifetime.
23
Throw their names
in a (virtual or literal)
hat and give away
incredible prizes
to the winners.
32
Make it easy
for them to hold a
customer appreciation
event at their location.
29
Call them
by name
when you see them.
34 Hello
Joe!
Create a virtual
wall of fame and
share it with everyone.
36 Teach them using
small, bite-sized
learning snacks
rather than overly
long and boring
training events.
37
Offer the
chance
to win a trip to
your headquarters.
38
Ask for
nominations and name
a Rookie of the Year.
33
Reward
your best
partners with
an experience
they will never forget.
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41
Pick up
the phone
and call them to
check in.
42
Compare
yourself to your
competition and
show them where
you stand out.
40
Publish a
leaderboard
of top sales
reps and
share where
they stand
in relation
to top and
average
sales performance.
35
1.
2.
3.
LeaderBoard
Reward them
for sending in awesome
photos of your
product
being
displayed.
45Get involved in their
community or with a
cause they appreciate.
43
Buy them a beer.
52
Create a
Guinness Book of World Records
event that they can be a part of.
49
Let them set their
own goals, publicize their
progress toward that goal
and watch them outperofrm
your highest expectations.
48Sponsor a
TED-style
talk for your business partners.
47
Hire mystery-
shoppers to
go to their location and
see what a customer
experiences. Share the results and
talk about what they’re doing well
and what they could improve.
46
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Host an event to allow
them to experience your
product as a customer would,
then ask for feedback.
39
Customer Experience Day
Help them
accomplish
something
on their
bucket list.
50
Work with them to identify
who their best customers are,then help them go after those customers.
27
If you aren’t connecting with your channel sales reps on a weeklybasis, you’re likely not a priority for them. Even without a hugebudget or hours of extra time, there are simple things you cando to stay top-of-mind. Choose to do something from this list oncea week to get attention, show appreciation or reward results.
10Put together a list of
best practices and share a
few each week.
Best
Practices
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
1Send
a “thank
you” for
a great year.
Invite them to dinner
to thank them and
share your future plans.
4
7Invite your best partners to run
through a warehouse packed
with merchandise rewards.
Write a news story
about their awesome
performance and post it to your dealercommunications portal.
8
52
WAYSto
ENGAGEyour
CHANNEL
Hold a
recognition
event at their location
to celebrate top
performers.
3
Hold a
competition
to see who
demonstrates your
product the best.
11
Have a cup of
coffee with them and
ask for their ideas.
16
Reward them with funny money
and hold an auction for
small and large prizes.
5
Find out what
the word on the street
is and share it with everyone.
13Summarize key
information into a pocket
guide or laminated card.
12 key info
Start a Twitter
hashtag
about #mycompany.
14
Put together
an innovation
challenge and then
award them for the
best ideas.
20
Invite your top partners to ameeting of the minds in a resort location.
15
Determine the
leading indicators of
top performance and then rewardfor demonstrating those behaviors
that lead to top-line results.
21
9 Don’t have
a dealer
communications
portal? Better make one!
Help them
recognize
and reward others
who contribute to
their success.
22 Reward
them with a team
lunch to celebrate
“Most Improved”
performance.
24
Have them
compete
head-to-head with
other sales reps to sell your
most profitable product.
17 Help them
become
better leaders
by sharing
industry insights and
your company’s vision.
18
Develop engaging
and informative
content that
helps them
connect with
customers.
30
Create a
game that
helps them learn.
19
31Teach them
how big data
can help them
grow their
business. (And when you
do, can you explain it to
the rest of us too?)
Help them
find new, high-value
customers
through analysis.
28
Give them weekly
tips to help
sell your products.
2
Find ways
to give
them
more family time.
25 Have the president of your
company visit
their location.
26
Take them on
the trip of a
lifetime.
23
Throw their names
in a (virtual or literal)
hat and give away
incredible prizes
to the winners.
32
Make it easy
for them to hold a
customer appreciation
event at their location.
29
34 Hello
Joe
Create a virtual
wall of fame and
36 Teach them using
small, bite-sized
learning snacks
rather than overly
37
Ask for
nominations and name
a Rookie of the Year.
33 Publish a
leaderboard
of top sales
reps and
share where
they stand
in relation
to top and
35
1.
2.
3.
LeaderBoard
Ask for their
opinion on how to
improve your products.
6
Work with them to identify
who their best customers are,then help them go after those customers.
27

BI WORLDWIDE uses the principles of behavioral economics
to produce measurable results for our clients by driving and
sustaining engagement with their employees,
channel partners and customers.
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