269 – Stop Guessing, Start Winning: How to Master Microsoft Co-Sell with the FAME Framework

with Leigh Ann Campbell, Ultimate Partner Community Member

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In this insightful episode of The Ultimate Partner, host Vince Menzione welcomes Leigh Ann Campbell, CEO of Rev Alliances and a seasoned expert in building successful Microsoft partnerships. Leigh Ann shares her remarkable journey, including her pivotal role in transforming Quest into Microsoft’s number one co-sell partner worldwide. They delve into the critical elements of effective partnering, introducing Leigh Ann’s powerful “FAME” framework: Focus, Audience, Message, and Execution (now “E-squared” with Enablement).

The conversation uncovers practical strategies for navigating the complexities of the Microsoft ecosystem, emphasizing the importance of sales enablement for your own team, understanding Microsoft’s internal scorecards, and aligning partnership goals with your CRO’s revenue objectives. Leigh Ann provides valuable advice on focusing your approach, crafting the right message for the right Microsoft audience, and executing with precision. She also shares her vision for the future of Rev Alliances, including the exciting integration of AI to scale her proven methodologies and help even more partners achieve their greatest results.

Key Takeaways:

• Sales enablement for your own sales team is crucial for scaling your Microsoft partnership beyond the alliance team.
• Understanding the tectonic shifts in customer buying behavior is essential for rethinking partnership models.
• Data quality and a shared purpose between your company and Microsoft are fundamental for a strong partnership.
• Leigh Ann Campbell’s FAME framework (Focus, Audience, Message, Execution/Enablement) provides a practical roadmap for partnership success.
• It’s vital to understand Microsoft sellers’ scorecards and how they are measured to align your efforts.
• Engaging your CRO and aligning partnership KPIs with sales goals is critical for company-wide buy-in and success.
• Focusing your efforts on a specific area of success within Microsoft and then expanding is more effective than trying to do everything at once.
• Building trust and making it easy to work with your company are key to successful engagement with Microsoft sellers.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insider knowledge from industry leaders shaping tomorrow’s digital world. Tune in now for an inspiring conversation that could redefine your business strategy!

Keywords:

Microsoft partnership, co-sell, sales enablement, partner program, ISV, SI, Rev Alliances, Leigh Ann Campbell, Vince Menzione, Ultimate Partner, FAME framework, focus, audience, message, execution, enablement, Microsoft sellers, channel partners, partner strategy, alliance management, tech partnerships, B2B partnerships, software partnerships, cloud partnerships, Azure, Microsoft Marketplace, partner center, co-selling with Microsoft, achieving partner success, partner growth, revenue generation, pipeline development, Microsoft ecosystem, navigating Microsoft, partner of the year, product integration, AI in partnerships

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Leigh Ann Campbell Audio Episode

[00:00:00] Leigh Ann Campbell: Sales enablement, uh, not of Microsoft Sellers. This is your sellers. Ah, because it doesn’t, it doesn’t do you any good if the only group within your company who understands Microsoft are the, is the alliance team, right? Because that doesn’t scale. You need your sales people out there doing co-sell with their peers at Microsoft.

[00:00:23] Vince Menzione: We believe this time is like no other. We believe we refer to these as the tectonic shifts,

[00:00:28] Intro: all the hyperscalers in the world, if you add them all together, managed services will be one and a half times larger

[00:00:34] Vince Menzione: because it is the customer buying behavior that has created the need for all of us to rethink our models

[00:00:41] Intro:</st