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Here’s a guide to unveiling the power of nearbound influence.

 

In this blog we’ll discuss: 

 

  • Key nearbound metrics for Partnerships, Sales, and Marketing teams 
  • How to track nearbound metrics on Reveal 
  • nearbound’s impact
  • How nearbound creates trust and relationships at the core of the buying process

 

new partnership with enthusiasm and high hopes. You set your mutual goals, mapped accounts, and shortlisted some lucrative co-selling opportunities.

 

But when asked by leadership, “How is nearbound impacting our business?”, you can’t confidently answer.

 

Here are the facts: nearbound is the future of driving revenue and customer satisfaction. And just like with every major shift in business, old-school conventions will need to be changed and challenged. This includes how we track and showcase the key performance metrics to gain buy-in.‍

 

 

The current landscape of partnership metrics and attribution

Every Go-To-Market (GTM) team wants to source revenue, and they have their very own way to achieve this goal. 

 

nearbound to drive partner-sourced revenue. 

 

The problem is that those metrics and channels aren’t correctly aligned. 

 

So, if those channels and initiatives aren’t aligned, the answer to, “How do you attribute the effort?” right now is: you don’t. All attribution systems are broken, because, at the end of the day, GTM teams are not aligned on the right metrics. 

 

Every team is trying to achieve 100% of their KPIs by doing siloed activities. Everybody is stepping on each other’s toes because there’s no strategic connector between these activities. 

 

There’s a simpler way to align all GTM motions by equipping partnership, sales, and marketing channels with Nearbound intel.  

 

The silver lining 

The Nearbound Methodology is a revolutionary approach. It focuses on the power of partner ecosystems to boost B2B GTM strategies. This helps to accelerate the sales cycle and increase customer retention. By leveraging the trust built between customers and their service providers, organizations are able to close larger deals more quickly. 

 

 

“We must acknowledge the shift from the ‘how’ economy to the ‘who’ economy. Buyers are asking who can solve our problem? This puts trust and relationships at the core of the buying process.” —Jared Fuller, Chief Ecosystem Officer at Reveal. 

 

Here’s how to measure nearbound impact.

 

Key nearbound metrics

Measuring nearbound is not about reinventing the wheel, it’s sending more power to it!

 

 

 

To do this in your KPIs, you need to dethrone partner-sourced revenue as the end-all-be-all KPI for partnership efforts. It had a great reign, but every king must pass the crown eventually.

 

trusted partner. By doing so, it focuses efforts, increases deal size, decreases time to close, and increases the Lifetime Value of the customer. 

 

THAT’S the power of nearbound. 

 

partner-sourced as the main KPI to track the success of Nearbound activities, establish KPIs that help you think bigger and align with your organization’s goals. 

 

Key metrics may include:

 

  1. Partner-attached rate/ Partner-influenced revenue  
  2. Partner-sourced revenue 
  3. Retention rates
  4. Upsell opportunities influenced by partners
  5. Integration activation and product usage growth with partner involvement
  6. Partner Revenue (the revenue made for partners; this kind of exchange is what makes partner relationships successful)

 

 

 

Nearbound metrics for Partnerships teams 

Partnership KPIs are different from the sales teams’ metrics and can vary depending on the type of partner. But most of the time, it’s all about partner-influenced and partner-sourced revenue.

 

You can measure and ensure partner-influence by tracking:

 

  • The number of opportunities where the partner was involved
  • deal wins secured through that partner’s involvement
  • The partner’s engagement level 

 

For example, you’re finding it hard to get traction in an account where you’ve had some positive conversations in the past. If a partner helps you gain introductions to key people within the account to move the needle, their involvement should be attributed to helping to close the deal.

 

You can measure and ensure partner-sourced revenue by tracking:

 

  • The number of new leads passed over from that partner
  • The number of opportunities that moved to the pipeline from those leads
  • The number of deal wins that were converted from those opportunities

 

For example, your partner spoke with their customers about your products at their recent event and arranged some follow-up calls with you and these customers. Off the back of these calls, you generated some new opportunities for your Sales teams.

 

You can also focus on measuring these KPIs: 

 

  • Joint customer success: The common base of customers between your company and your partner that are using your joint product or solution.
  • Product engagement: The measure of how users interact with your solution, and the degree to which your partner is invested in your product (if your partner has developed an integration with your product).
  • Partner satisfaction: Nearbound will only work if partners are receiving as much as they are giving. To ensure long-term, profitable relationships, partners’ happiness needs to stay on your radar.  

 

Nearbound metrics for Sales teams 

Nearbound sales is what AEs and PSMs do to source pipelines. The key is building trust, influence, and value with the buyer by leveraging a network of influential individuals, including partners, analysts, and experts who have achieved similar goals to the buyer.

 

With Nearbound, besides measuring onboardings and meetings booked/held, there should be some sales activities in your CRM that are tracked that tie the partner play. Here’s where we highlight partner-influence, for example: 

 

  • Number of pipeline activities that involved partner influence
  • Average deal size (with and without partner involvement) 
  • Average close rate (with and without partner involvement)

 

strategy to engage partners and their customers in the sales processes.

 

  1. Intel: Identify strategic partnerships through the right people, at the right time. 
  2. Intro: Determine a joint value proposition and run it with your partners. 
  3. Influence: Surround your buyers with people and brands they trust. 

 

These 3 I’s are key plays that will help you move a deal forward or to open a pipeline. Utilize partner insights to gain valuable information, facilitate introductions, and influence customer decisions based on trust.

 

Nearbound metrics for Marketing teams 

Nearbound marketing is the integration of partner intel into your GTM motion. This helps to leverage existing connections to get the right message to the right people at the right time. Nearbound helps marketing teams build stronger partner relationships, understand their target audience better, and create more effective campaigns for better outcomes. 

 

The KPIs that the marketing team tracks depend on the campaign they launch, but some examples include: 

 

  • Conversion rates
  • Engagement
  • Traffic
  • Cost per lead
  • Goal completion

 

co-marketing initiatives (partner influence/attach activities) like: 

 

  • A Nearbound ABM strategy 
  • Co-writing a blog with a partner to boost traffic to your website 
  • Co-hosting a virtual event with a partner to generate Nearbound Qualified Leads
  • Sponsoring an event to create brand awareness

 

Here’s another pro tip for your next marketing campaign: 

 

pro and power plan. 

 

Reveal’s 360° Goals feature

 

Nearbound attribution in the new world

Partner attribution plays a significant role in the revenue mix, comprising outbound, inbound, and Nearbound initiatives. While the GTM teams may be unaware, it is worth noting that the sales and marketing teams, perhaps unconsciously, drive a substantial portion of leads through Nearbound-related activities (a.k.a. partnerships).  

 

However, the process of attributing credit to partners is often poorly defined. To rectify this, it is crucial to delve into how GTM teams contribute to these efforts. 

 

partner attach (partner influence) as the North Star metric and achieve a partner attachment rate of 25% of the company’s Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), it becomes essential to ensure equivalent levels of contribution across all GTM teams.

 

Only by establishing a balanced distribution of inputs throughout the organization can the desired 25% partner attachment rate be effectively realized.

 

Nearbound attribution for Partnership teams

links to your CRM and can be helpful for staying on top of key partnership metrics. Reveal enables you to track all your partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities so you’re the first to know when your partnerships made an impact.

 

Partner Scorecard template to proactively track the progress over time of your KPIs against specified goals and targets.

 

Partner attribution report in Salesforce based on Reveal data.

 

Partner scorecards enable Partnership Managers to have a standardized framework to structure their performance conversations with partners, to help them understand how they are tracking against expectations, and to compare their relative performance with similar partners.

 

Without this type of measurement framework, you could fall into the trap of either:

  • Just focusing on partner activities and dismissing their impact on sales performance, or
  • Just looking at the sales figures and dismissing other valuable aspects of the partnership
  •  

Nearbound attribution for Sales teams

Collaborate function of Reveal. 

 

Reveal’s Collaborate feature

 

Contractbook: 

 

Reveal, it is going to allow you to create a deal, opportunity or activity record, which means that you are able to create a field that allows you to include partners in that performance.”  

 

This will allow you to confidently say: “X partner was sourced/influenced in this deal.” 

 

How to tag in Reveal

 

here.

 

Nearbound attribution for Marketing teams

target accounts based on partner overlap and customer statuses. 

 

New Prospects” feature to export all the new prospects from your partner. 

 

Reveal’s New Prospect’s view in 1:1 account mapping

 

offline account mapping. You can add accounts to your Reveal Pipeline from an Offline Account Mapping, or assign an ’Offline partner’ to an account in your Reveal Pipeline.

 

co-hosting a webinar (from the attendees’ list), even if your partner hasn’t joined Reveal.

Offline account mapping —a way to measure success after an event.

 

time decay or linear attribution model). 

 

A special note to revenue leaders

Leaders: It’s time to ditch your old-world metrics if you really want to see an increase in revenue. 

 

The first step is to create goals within your GTM organization that are partner-specific, as well as ensure that those activities are mandated and logged in the daily life of your teams. Don’t hold back impact by tripping up on attribution models. Instead, focus on creating a unified Nearbound strategy.  

 

ecosystem.

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