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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

These resellers, in turn, employ literally millions of sellers, each effectively operating as an outsourced sales team for the cloud companies they service. Four years ago Microsoft launched Office 365, a subscription-based delivery model for their flagship product Office, and turned to partners in the channel to scale worldwide.

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How to Build Your Own SaaS Partner Program (with Landing Pages)

Unbounce

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. This generates recurring revenue. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. In the end, we found a fit with PartnerStack , which meets our needs and understands the subscription-based business model.