Teaser website growing
at a viral rate, revealing key Channel alliances
ChannelEyes today announced new Industry Trending data from its early access
website. Earlier this month, ChannelEyes
announced that it is creating the first free and secure social network to
aggregate Channel Program information, transforming communication between
suppliers and Channel Partners.
Since that time,
thousands of social media savvy people have signed up providing key industry
trends and insight. “It was interesting
to see the sharp demand from the vendor side” said Bob Godgart, Founder of
ChannelEyes, as 35% of initial signups come from the supplier community.
Proving how broad
the supplier community is, a significant number of sign-ups have come from manufacturers,
distributors, associations, consultants, franchises and master MSPs:
“The response to
our early access website has surpassed expectations” said Godgart. “It has truly gone viral in only a few weeks.” With such a large sample size of Channel
Partners, almost three quarters of which are Owner/CEO level, it was
interesting to see the different vertical and technology specialties
represented. In addition to traditional
IT vendors, a strong showing of Managed Service Providers, ISVs, Telco,
Vertical Systems, Print and Audio/Video professionals are also looking for
better collaboration with their suppliers as well as a simplified way to follow
Channel Programs.
The response has also been strong
globally, with over 30 countries represented in the first few weeks. Beyond North America, a significant amount of
signups came from the United Kingdom, Australia, and Western Europe.
The Channel Partners
selected their key suppliers they wanted to follow on the early access website. The average partner indicated they work
closely with 7 suppliers.
The average mix
included:
- 2 major hardware/software vendors
- 1-2 major distributors
- 1-2 associations, peer groups or coaches
- 2-3 cloud tools
- 50% of Channel Partners wanted to follow a PSA
- The top 3 most requested: Microsoft, HP and Ingram
With a universe
of over 3,000 suppliers, around 600 were consistently chosen. In fact, 54 were selected more than 10% of
the time. Of these top 54 suppliers,
over 90% have reached out to ChannelEyes for early access – including all of
the top 10.
“Today, program
information is sent to Channel Partners by email, newsletters, webinars,
telesales, social media tools and usually stored in web portals” Godgart said. “Tremendous amounts of time and energy go
into creating these materials but they receive little traffic.”
ChannelEyes.com
will be the single place for Channel Partners to get a snapshot of new program
highlights every day on a Social Wall.
They will follow feeds from suppliers, control the programs they need to
follow, filter the information they want to share and easily build social
conversations around it.
Channel Partners and
suppliers can still sign up for early access today at http://www.channeleyes.com
About ChannelEyes
ChannelEyes LLC is creating the first free and secure social network to
aggregate Channel Program information, transforming communication between
suppliers and Channel Partners, integrators, dealers and agents.
For more information, follow us on:
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