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11. Cloud Resale Economics Example
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Deal Size
Traditional On-Premise Application Cloud Application
$100,000
Partner
Revenue
Partner
Gross Profit
Note – This is a fictitious example
and does not represent IDC
research data
35% Margin
or $35,000
$100,000
$40,000
Year One
$40,000
Year Two
(Possible)
$40,000
Year 3
(Possible)
35% Referral Fee or
$14,000
Possible Year Two Fee, and
on…
35% Referral Fee or
$14,000
With a referral fee, revenue
and gross profit are the same.
12. Cloud Resale Economics Example
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Deal Size
Traditional On-Premise Application Cloud Application
$100,000
Partner
Revenue
Partner
Gross Profit
Note – This is a fictitious example
and does not represent IDC
research data
35% Margin
or $35,000
$100,000
35% Referral Fee or
$14,000
Possible Year Two Fee
35% Referral Fee or
$14,000
With a referral fee, revenue
and gross profit are the same.
How about if the invoice is paid
on a monthly basis?
What does month one look like?
$3,333
Month One
16. Why Go to the Cloud
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Growth
Profitability
Company Valuation
Future Viability
17. Why Go to the Cloud
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Growth
Profitability
Company Valuation
Future Viability
18. Reality
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“We would probably make more
money if we could keep
everybody on on-premise.
But that's not going to happen.”
19. Reality
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“I think that if we don't partner
with [our vendor] and do this,
then somebody else is going
to take our customers.”
20. Reality
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For us to compete in two years,
if we don’t have a few
references and a few case
studies and a few like, ‘yeah,
we’ve done it and here are the
scars,’ we’re going to lose
those deals.”
22. Cloud Services Momentum
Public cloud services sales will near $70B in 2015
• 5X the growth rate of the IT industry overall
The “greater cloud market” – including public,
private clouds, and enabling IT and services –
will hit $118B
Public cloud services sales will be $127B in 2018
• $200B “greater cloud market”
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23. Cloud Services Momentum
Data center growth will accelerate toward Service
Providers
• By 2016, over 50% of compute, 70% of storage
capacity will be installed in hyperscale data centers
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24. Cloud Services Momentum
70% of CIOs will embrace a “cloud first”
strategy in 2016
Over 90% of net new commercial apps will be
developed specifically for cloud in 2015
By 2018, it is predicted that nearly 27% of all
software revenue will be subscription based.
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25. Why Go to the Cloud
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Growth
Profitability
Company Valuation
Future Viability
36. Company Valuations are Higher for
Recurring Revenue
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Potential
Valuation
Traditional
Revenue
Business
Recurring
Revenue
Business
Revenue Multiple 0.2 to 1.5 times 2 to 6 times
EBITDA Multiple 2 to 2.5 times 5 to 14 times
Source: IDC Partner Valuation Study 2014
“For the average sub $5 million a year VAR, it’s tough to get past
three times EBITDA“ - Brent Twist, Encore Business Solutions
37. Why Go to the Cloud
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Growth
Profitability
Company Valuation
Future Viability
39. Collecting Successful Cloud
Partner Practices
2013 and 2014 studies with Microsoft
Survey and Interviews
Trying to understand the best practices
of Successful Cloud Partners
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42. Planning for Your Cloud Business
Endure Short Term Pain For Long Term Gain
• Revenue and cashflow trough
• What will my business be like in 3 or 5 years?
Don’t Wait To Adopt Cloud
• You’re probably not behind… yet.
• But you are losing deals to
Born in the Cloud and other partners
Is it time for a management
offsite?
• Key decisions must come from the top
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43. Your Cloud Business Strategy
Use Cloud Internally And Share Your Own Best
Practices
• Gain powerful credibility with customers by using the
products you are selling
You Only Have To Stay One Step Ahead
• Cloud technology is evolving rapidly
• Successful partners stay one or two steps ahead of the
customer and competitors to be a leader
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44. Your Cloud Business Strategy
Differentiate With Domain Expertise To Increase Profit
• Cloud can commoditize; You must differentiate
• By business process (e.g. accounting) or by industry vertical (e.g.
retail).
• 80% of IT investments will involve LoB by 2016
Build Your Recurring Revenue – The New Killer Metric
• Offers predictability, cash flow, and positive impact on company
valuation
• Top RR: 1.5X Gross Profit and 1.8X Revenue Growth
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47. Your Cloud Sales Strategy
Understand Why Cloud Sales Are Fundamentally Different
• Past: Get to the sale
• Now: The sale is the beginning
Open Doors With Cloud, Then Up-sell
• Get in the door with Cloud
• Upsell over the long term relationship
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49. Your Cloud Sales Strategy
Carefully Architect Your Sales Compensation
• Problem: How to motivate salespeople who were used to selling up
front license + services deals?
• If affordable, pay up front
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50. Your Cloud Sales Strategy
Consider Hiring Outside The Box
• Hire Young
• Hire Congruent
• Hire for Value
• Cloud partners have more staff in sales
and marketing vs. other partners
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51. Your Cloud Sales Strategy
Create A Lean, Mean Operating Model For Volume
• For a volume play, impetus must be on efficiency
• Lowering cost of making the sale
Consider Telesales To Increase Your Reach
• Telesales can be a cost effective strategy,
• Different skill
• Metrics driven
Consider Selling 1:Many
• Take customers through non-competitive steps together
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“The top sales people, like
Charlie, are making 50 to
100 calls per day. The sales
cycle is a few days and
implementation is a matter
of weeks. The focus is on
high-volume.”
Ben Gower, Managing
Director, Perspicuity
52. Your Cloud Sales Strategy
Take Customers To The Cloud In Steps
• Many customers are still not ready to fully dive in
• Certain products are good for the first sale, some better to upsell
Speed Up the Sales Cycle by Sidelining Cloud
Objections
• Arm your telesales team with resources to take FUD questions
off-line
• One-page FAQs, videos, web sites, etc.
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54. Your Cloud Marketing Strategy
Shift Your Marketing To Digital
• Successful cloud partners are investing in digital marketing
• SEO, pay-per-click, banners, videos, webinars, blogs, social media, iterative web
pages and landing pages, etc.
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Establish Your Brand With Thought
Leadership
• Get known as a thought leader
• Some partners provide incentives for staff to
publish
56. Your Cloud Managed Services Strategy
Increase Gross Margin Through Managed Services
• Partners with higher cloud / recurring revenue earn higher gross margin
• Become more efficient at delivering at a fixed monthly price
Create Efficiencies In Your Managed Services
• Remote delivery
• Spread highest paid technical staff across
more clients
• Automation, Methodology
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57. Your Cloud Managed Services Strategy
Be Your Customers’ CIO or IT Department
• Some partners play the CIO or IT department role
Add Ongoing Retainer Hours To Your Projects
• Successful cloud partners are turning more offerings into
recurring revenue contracts
• Pre-purchase of monthly discounted hours
• Support, monitoring, but also ad hoc professional
services, custom development, etc.
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“There’s a bucket of hours
bought on a retainer, or use it
or lose it basis, at a
discounted rate. They can use
it for whatever they require as
the need arises.”
Greg Schlather,
General Manager,
Cloud & Managed Services,
Catapult Systems
59. Your Cloud Intellectual Property Strategy
Leverage Cloud To Create Your Own IP
• Cloud services are more stable
• Development effort is easier today
• Distribution of apps is easier today
Manage Using New Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs)
• Different KPIs:
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
Recurring Revenue %
Churn %
Lifetime Customer Value
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62. Distributor Core Functions – Traditional
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Integration / Configuration
Training and Enablement
Partner Management
Marketing Sales
Tech Support
Logistics
Credit and Financing
63. Distributor Core Functions – Cloud
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Integration / Configuration
Training and Enablement
Partner Management
Marketing Sales
Tech Support
Credit and Financing
Logistics 2.0?
Aggregation
Order Management / Billing
65. Essential Guidance
There are many paths to Cloud success. Common elements of
success include:
Recurring revenue models are slowly but surely replacing traditional project and
transactional based models.
Most partners will have to endure some short term pain in order to achieve long
term success, which could include higher margins and a higher company valuation.
Those who master a specific vertical or horizontal domain will be able to speak
the language of the new power broker in the enterprise, the Line of Business
executive.
The time to act is now. There is a land grab going on for cloud customers and
there’s not much time left before you find yourself in the bottom half of cloud
partners.
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