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Joint Go-To-Market. The Repeatable Sales Motion of the Ecosystem.

Joint Go-To-Market

The Repeatable Sales Motion of the Ecosystem

Definition

Joint Go-To-Market is the coordinated sales and marketing motion executed by a platform and its partners against a shared customer opportunity. Anchored in Chapter 6 of War of the Ecosystems. Without joint go-to-market motion, partners are channels. With joint go-to-market motion, partners are an ecosystem.

The five motion components

1. Joint marketing. Co-branded campaigns that signal the partnership to the market and generate qualified pipeline.

2. Joint solutions. Pre-integrated platform plus partner offering with documented architecture and reference customers.

3. Joint selling. Platform sellers and partner sellers in the same room, sharing pipeline, splitting attribution, and accountable to the same forecast.

4. Joint delivery. Implementation, change management, and operations under a single project plan with named accountabilities.

5. Joint expansion. Cross-sell and upsell motions that compound after initial customer success. The land-and-expand discipline applied jointly.

The verdict

If the platform sales team and the partner sales team are not in the same room on the same Tuesday morning, the ecosystem does not exist. There is only a press release.

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