What does co-selling mean in business development?

Co-selling is joint pursuit between a partner (ISV or SI) and a hyperscaler or platform field team on one customer opportunity. Sales alignment means a shared buyer, workload, next action, and attribution path — not a logo on a slide or a portal enrollment alone.

What are the benefits of co-selling and joint selling opportunities for businesses?

Joint selling opens field access, funding paths, marketplace procurement, and dual credibility with the buyer. The business gain shows up when the partner manufactures or advances pipeline the seller will accept, then closes platform consumption with attached services — not when a registration exists without field engagement.

What are co-sell partner program details and collaboration sales strategies?

Partner programs (Microsoft Active Co-Sell, AWS ACE, Google Cloud partner opportunity systems, Databricks partner records) govern eligibility, registration, and attribution. Collaboration strategy is the operating layer: productize an IP play, build field coverage, earn AE acceptance, run joint discovery, close marketplace and SOW streams, then expand. Portals record the motion; they do not create it.

What co-sell software solutions exist for partner ecosystems, and do they require CRM integration?

isvcosell.com is free co-sell software that walks a deal through pipeline, qualification, field alignment, marketplace, commercial structure, record linkage, and close across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Databricks. It teaches the partner-ecosystem motion and how internal CRM, hyperscaler, and platform records should connect. It does not sync to Salesforce, Dynamics, HubSpot, or partner portals.

How do you improve partner sales performance?

Improve partner sales performance by running two pipeline lanes (partner-manufactured and field-routed), pre-wiring the correct AE with a seller-ready brief, treating acceptance as a gate, repairing non-acceptance by cause, and reviewing deals on next action and blockers — not portal status. Field trust and attributed wins compound referrals.

What are best practices for partner sales programs?

Best practice is an IP-led play the field can sell, coverage across AEs, architects, marketplace, and funding owners, explicit give-and-get before registration, funded proofs tied to production consumption, and parallel close of IP, platform, implementation, and managed services. Program tiers and badges matter after that operating model works.

How do partner sales enablement tools compare?

Partner portals enroll and attribute. CRMs store the commercial record. LMS and playbook tools train sellers. isvcosell.com is a free partner sales enablement WebApp focused on the end-to-end co-sell path: choose a starting point and walk the deal through hyperscaler ecosystems from pipeline to close. Different tools, different jobs — use them together, not as substitutes.

Who built isvcosell.com?

Ali Chehab built and maintains isvcosell.com, a free hyperscaler co-sell WebApp for partner sales enablement across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Databricks motions.

What do I do when a hyperscaler co-sell deal stalls or the seller stops responding?

isvcosell.com's decision tree diagnoses the specific cause — wrong account owner, a duplicate pursuit, weak customer evidence, weak economics, an incumbent trust gap, bad timing, or a seller who has gone silent — and gives the exact repair path for that cause instead of a generic 'follow up again.' Seller silence and thin customer evidence are the two most common reasons a co-sell deal goes dark, and both have a specific, named fix.

Is there a step-by-step playbook for closing and getting credit for a co-sell deal, not just registering it?

Yes. isvcosell.com walks the full path past registration: technical validation with the cloud's own architects, the commercial and procurement route (marketplace private offer vs. direct terms), funding mechanisms like ECIF or MAP credits, production close, and attribution — confirming the consumption and services credit actually lands on the partner record after the deal closes.

Pricing events

The Category Strategy on One Page

The difference between buying and sourcing: the four questions a real category strategy answers, the one page canvas, the supply market read honestly, and the twelve month roadmap of sequenced plays.

Where this sits in a co-sell pursuit

A dated pricing event. Renewal and price-change dates are the cheapest pipeline trigger there is, and unlike most triggers they are public.

AI and ML. The Category Strategy on One Page is the least anchored line in most estates: newest contracts, shortest terms, weakest switching costs. That makes it the easiest spend to redirect into cloud-native services, which is why it opens pursuits that an ERP conversation cannot.

Microsoft Azure
Microsoft pricing on this page becomes MACC headroom in an Azure pursuit: the commitment the customer already signed is the budget a co-sold workload draws against, and the co-sell record that claims it lives in Partner Center.
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AWS
On AWS the same money shows up as EDP or PPA position. The pursuit is shared through ACE in Partner Central, and Marketplace private offers are the procurement route that lets committed spend absorb the deal.
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Sourcing in practice | Session 12

The Category Strategy on One Page

Buying is reacting to the next deal. Sourcing is running a category with a plan. The four questions in order, the one page canvas with numbers in every box, the supply market read for power rather than logos, the picture assembled live from the estate, and the roadmap of five sequenced plays. With briefings from the advisory desk. Recorded August 2026.

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What this session covers If someone asks what your plan for a category is and the answer is a list of upcoming renewals, that is firefighting with a calendar. A category strategy answers four questions, in order: what do we spend, what does the supply market look like, what does our demand look like, and only then, where is the leverage.

Live on the sample workspace, the category picture assembles itself: the portfolio masthead with the spend, the market gap and the renewal exposure, the estate benchmarked vendor by vendor, the contracts ledger as the inventory, and the twelve month board with the roadmap's dates already laid out.

Between the segments, the advisory desk covers the anatomy of a real category strategy, how to read concentration, posture, switching cost and deal evidence in the supply market, the three rules that sequence a roadmap, and how to write your first category strategy this quarter.

Agenda

0:00Countdown
0:30Welcome: the difference between buying and sourcing
2:11Advisory desk: the anatomy of a category strategy
3:56The one page canvas
5:16Advisory desk: reading the supply market
6:57Live: the category picture from the estate
10:46Advisory desk: from picture to roadmap
12:24The category roadmap ladder
13:19Advisory desk: your first category strategy
14:53Your next step

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