The fastest way to kill a partner relationship?
Let your sales team compete with them.
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Too many vendors roll out a partner strategy without aligning it to their internal sales process - and the cracks show quickly. Deal ownership becomes contested. Compensation plans create conflict. Direct reps start viewing partners as threats, not allies.
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And once a seller takes a deal that a partner sourced?
That partner is gone, and the trust is hard to win back.
It’s not personal. It’s structural.
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When sales teams aren’t incentivised to collaborate, or when the rules of engagement are unclear, they default to protecting their own pipeline. The result is channel chaos: frustrated partners, disconnected sellers, and leadership stuck trying to referee.
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Merivio solves this from the inside out.
We design channel-aligned sales processes with clear ownership, shared incentives, and built-in transparency, so everyone wins together, and partners stay engaged long after the first deal.