Peter Bray and Ayaan Mohamud - Partnership Strategy - The hidden path to revenue growth many ignore - S2 Ep3
Everyone thinks the easiest way to grow a company is advertising or marketing campaigns. But, forging partnerships and creating distribution networks can be an exponentially more powerful revenue-driver. Why pay to temporarily leverage another entity's audience when you can do it permanently and share both the risk and the upside? Partnerships are the less-talked-about growth driver that every business, small and large can do better. Find out why companies like Nike, Canva, Disney, Pizza Hut, Booktopia and more...use partnership technology stacks to create a customer acquisition machine that provides win-win outcomes for everyone involved. At it’s core - business is about the exchange of value between parties - It’s about the movement of money from one entity to another in return for perceptions of goods and services. But, in the modern era of shiny digital toys, obsessions with content and posting on social media, this fundamental growth driver can easily be overlooked. Running partnership programs used to be a messy, complex process. Not anymore. Today, we’re talking to Peter Bray and Ayaan Mohumad from unicorn tech company, Impact. They specialize in scalable partnership technology. Their stories about how Canva, Nike, Disney and other major brands have been using their tech strategically as a marketing channel are fascinating. How do you go about forging these relationships effectively? How do you sell the business case of partnerships up the chain? How can you turn a bad partnership program into a growth machines? All of these questions and more answered in this episode.