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Magento Solution Partner Program The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Aron Stanić, Inchoo
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About me
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• 6 yrs leading sales processes at Inchoo
• in close touch with clients and Magento
• MCSS
• #RealMagento enthusiast
About me
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Solution Partner ≠
Reseller PartnerMagento today
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Magento is a great eCommerce platform.
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26% of the eCommerce market share in the Alexa Top 1 Million.
Hivemind’s April 2015 Report
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240.000+ customers
200+ solution partners 5.000+ certified experts (dev+business)
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What makes all this possible?
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Community of amazing individuals and companies.
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Solution Partner ≠
Reseller PartnerWhat’s next?
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Code gets a huge revamp ✓ Connect does too ✓
What’s new with Magento 2?
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Something’s missing, though…
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Solution Partner ≠
Reseller Partner
Magento Solution Partner Program
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The Good
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Partner Portal with everything it holds
Visibility towards merchants
Opportunity to be involved with larger leads directly with Magento
Extra revenue from commissions
The Good
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The Bad
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Solution Partner ≠ Reseller Partner
Enabling revenue, not being acknowledged (license renewals for long-term clients)
The Bad
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The Ugly
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Partners are incentivized to “hit and run” rather than build with quality and establish lasting relationships.
No formal recognition for saving customers (cleaning someone else’s mess).
The Ugly
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The popular vote
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3-question survey with fellow partners.
Not a representative sample.
But indicative results.
Survey for MM15PL
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average grade: 3.25
(on a scale 1- 5, with 5 being the best)
time as partner: all 3+ years
Survey results
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“We'd like less emphasis to be placed on number of new licenses sold and more emphasis to be placed on quality implementations and keeping existing Magento merchants happy.”
Survey comments
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“The revenue goals approach should be reworked, especially for the countries where eCommerce market is not comparable to largest ones, like USA or Germany.”
Survey comments
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“More focus on parter technology skills and quality.”
“I feel the current way is too commercial. We should have more technical cooperation, knowledge exchange.”
Survey comments
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“Efforts spent keeping EE clients renewing their licenses should also be recognized.”
“Magento merchants renewing their licenses does not seem to count, even when a Partner fights very hard to save the renewal.”
Survey comments
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How to improve the Solution Partner Program?
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• Rework revenue goals, attribution and commission model – different goals for different territories – recognize client/merchant lasting relationships – renewals should also count
• Make a distinction between a Solution and a Reseller Partner
Suggestions
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• Recognize and acknowledge win-backs – when partners take over messy projects
• Prioritize quality - all the time! – higher caps for number of certified developers for partners – introduce MCSS as a must-have certification – code reviews by ECG
Suggestions
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Why?
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So let’s create an environment where everyone wins.
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Magento Partners
Merchants
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“There is no problem that community cannot solve.”
- Ben Marks
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Questions?