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Channel
a method of selling and distributing products to customers, directly or through intermediaries. Channels include direct sales, retail outlets, the Internet, and wholesalers.
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Developing a Channel Strategy
What's the best way to sell into a new market or improve performance in existing markets? You can build your own sales force to sell directly to customers or use an indirect channel partner to reach customers. You can also use other channels such as the Internet. The decision is...
Tags: Marketing, Partnership, Product, Customer, Outlet, Service, Decision, Channel Partner, Distributor Sales Force, Sales Strategy, Business Structures, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales Force, Branding, Marketing Information, Strategy, Channel, Sales, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-16
Active Power Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of [Dilpit Warrior] – Unidentified Company. [Dilpit Warrior] – Unidentified Company [audio break] better than 2009. I was wondering where you see this growth coming from? Are you going to see it in the...
Tags: Channel, Business, Earnings, Call Transcript, Active Power Inc., Sales Strategy, Branding, Business Structures, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2010-02-09
Tech Roundup: Google Jet Fighter, Vista Lags Office, Vendor Channel Stuffing, More
Google top brass get fighter jet; Office sales growth leaves Vista in the dust; get ready for vendors to stuff inventory into their distribution channels; and Yang knows that he's right for Yahoo. by Erik Sherman
Tags: Google Inc., Channel, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Erik Sherman, Yahoo! Inc., Sales Strategy, Retail, Sales
Blog posts 2008-10-25
Setanta on-demand launches on Virgin Media
Setanta will provide Virgin Media’s 3.5m TV subscribers with a range of on-demand sports channels under a newly established deal. The Setanta Replay service offers major sporting fixtures, including games from the Barclays Premier League, FA Cup and England’s World Cup qualifiers. The channels will be free for Virgin...
Tags: Channel, Media, On-demand, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Virgin Group, Setanta, George Mitton, Virgin Media Inc.
Articles 2009-01-21
Lionsgate invests USD8.6m in joint TV venture
Movie production studio Lionsgate says it has so far invested USD8.6m in the new video-on-demand VoD channel it is launching next year with Viacom's Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM. Lionsgate's investment represents 28.57% of the venture, known as Studio 3...
Tags: Channel, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, VoD, Viacom Inc., Lionsgate, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Charlotte Eyre, Comcast, HBO, Lions Gate Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, Viacom
Articles 2008-11-12
Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness
The economic downturn is forcing businesses to tighten their belts and look for more efficient channels. Using the Internet as a business channel, and sometimes even the only channel, is becoming more prevalent. However, there are significant challenges to being successful at e-commerce. The user experience associated with web applications...
Tags: Channel, Oracle Corp., Web Application, Management, Cloud Computing, Internet
White papers 2009-04-01
Maximizing Channel Performance
The days when selling through third-party channels were simple are long gone. As more and more providers come to realize the many advantages of selling through these channels, the landscape of channel partner selling has become dramatically more complex. To get the most out of this market, suppliers need to...
Tags: Channel, Performance, Miller Heiman, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
White papers 2007-11-01
China's Affiliate Marketing Woes
The affiliate channel might just be the way to cut through Western-Asian cultural barriers in online marketing, especially in China. A major disconnect that exists in many of the Asian markets is that, while there is huge potential for the affiliate channel in Asia, there is a dearth of big...
Tags: China, Channel, iMedia Communications, Marketing Research, Free Trade, Marketing, Finance
White papers 2007-11-06
Developing Positive Interactions Through Real-Time Decisioning
The traditional role of direct marketing was to push messages onto consumers, but digital has torn this obsolete script up forever. The explosion in internet usage and the continued proliferation of digital channels like email and Short Message Service SMS were heralded as a godsend for marketers. Faced with growing...
Tags: Channel, Direct Marketing, iMedia Communications, Sales Channel, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing
White papers 2007-10-23
The Relative Price And Relative Productivity Channels For Aggregate Fluctuations
This paper demonstrates that sectoral heterogeneity itself - without any additional bells or whistles - has first-order implications for the transmission of aggregate shocks to aggregate variables in an otherwise standard DSGE Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model. The effects of sectoral heterogeneity on this transmission are decomposed into two channels:...
Tags: Channel, Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco, Productivity Channel, Investment, Finance
White papers 2006-06-01
Channel Optimization: Are You Giving The Channel Too Much?
Given the squeeze-play on the end-users prices, increased channel competition, and investor demands for steady - if not increasing - earnings, it is hard to believe that many companies have an untapped source of additional profits on current business. In a worldwide channel economics study, Rubicon analyzed industry giants like...
Tags: Channel, Optimization, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2005-10-10
Coordinating Traditional And Internet Supply Chains
The Internet has created a new way for companies and customers to interact. Manufacturers who had previously been one or more links in the supply chain away from the end users of their products can now reach their customers directly. Retailers who faced a significant investment to increase their market...
Tags: Channel, University Of North Carolina, Internet
White papers 2004-08-13
Future-Proof Warehouse Management
Retailers' supply chains are becoming more complex. As retailers deliver services across an increasing number of channels to maximize revenue potential, customers in each of those channels are becoming more demanding. Additionally, the supply pipeline in each of those channels is becoming more global, as international sourcing seeks to exploit...
Tags: Channel, Retail Company, Retail, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
White papers
The Opportunity for e-Philanthropy in Hospital Development
Used strategically as part of a broader fundraising and marketing plan, the Internet can be a vital communications channel through which hospitals and their associated foundations can cultivate relationships with current and prospective donors. Over time, some portion of new donors acquired through the online channel will become major and...
Tags: Channel, Hospital, Convio, Internet, Healthcare, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2006-04-01
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from Jeff Hopson – Stifel Nicolaus. Jeffrey Hopson – Stifel Nicolaus Hello, good morning, a couple of questions here. Can you give us any sense on how some of the expense reduction efforts will effect the expense base going...
Tags: Channel, Call Transcript, Earnings, Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., Mutual Funds, Sales Strategy, Retirement Plans, Investment, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Benefits, Sales, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-01-27
Kraft Foods Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Terry Bivens – JP Morgan Terry Bivens – JP Morgan Just to look a little bit at the alternate channel business specifically I’m interested in Wal-Mart, I know you can’t talk about it per se but it seems like through...
Tags: Channel, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Kraft Foods Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Branding, Finance, Marketing, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-02-04
Mediacom Communications Corp., Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Instructions. Our first question will come from the line of Michael Pace - J.P. Morgan. Michael Pace - J.P. Morgan I guess, these are mostly for John; John, I apologize; it was tough keeping up with you there and writing everything down. As far as...
Tags: Channel, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Call Transcript, DOCSIS, Earnings, Mediacom Communications Corp., Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-11-06
WebMD HLTH Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Mark Mahaney with Citigroup. Mark Mahaney – Citigroup On the materiality on both the UK launch and the pets vertical, the pets offering, anyway to help us think about how big that can be, what kind of margin...
Tags: Channel, Pharmaceutical Company, Call Transcript, WebMD, Earnings, Marketing Research, Marketing, Seeking Alpha, HLTH Corp.
Earnings calls 2009-11-03
Web.com, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from David Hilal – FBR Capital Markets & Co. David Hilal – FBR Capital Markets & Co. David, you spoke about some of the new partnerships that are gaining traction, I know also you have the direct channel,...
Tags: Revenue, Channel, Brand, Call Transcript, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Branding, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-11-03
First American Corp. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. Operator Instructions One moment please, for the first question. Jason Deleeuw, you may ask your question. Jason Deleeuw - Piper Jaffray Thanks and good morning everyone. Parker Kennedy Good morning. Jason Deleeuw - Piper Jaffray The...
Tags: Channel, Agency, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Call Transcript, Quarter, Earnings, First American Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Real Estate, Marketing, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-10-29
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