Today I would like to make you aware of our Q1 Deal Reg competition – the McAfee Stack Challenge, an online Tetris-style game that gives you the opportunity to win a share of $25,000 this quarter. For every approved SMB, enterprise, and commercial deal submitted via deal registration, our Partners will now not only maximize Read more…
Tags: Channel Partners, McAfee Channel, McAfee Rewards, SMB, Stack Challenge, Tetris
Last week I tweeted we had a record Q4 in deal registration bookings. Let me also confirm Q4 was a record quarter for deal registration payout to you, our channel partners. Let’s continue this momentum in 2013. To help jump start this effort, we’re launching the McAfee Stack Challenge—an online Tetris-style game that leverages building Read more…
Tags: Channel Partners, Channel Program, McAfee Channel, mcafee channel chief, McAfee Channel Partner, McAfee Rewards, McAfee Stack Challenge
As the year reaches its end, a reminder that McAfee closes the quarter early, hence we urge you and your teams to get all orders to McAfee Distributors early to enable them to submit prior to the published cutoff times. Orders should reach McAfee no later than December 21, 2012 to be assured of processing, Read more…
Tags: Channel Partners, McAfee Rewards
It has been two weeks since the 2012 McAfee SecurityAlliance Partner Summit ended, which means many of you that attended are starting to forget what you heard and learned at this year’s event. So before many of you, at least those readers from US, enter into your turkey-induced comma and forget the Partner Summit forever, Read more…
Tags: Accredited Channel Engineer, Deal Registration, Global SecurityAlliance Partner Summit, IPS, McAfee Partner Summit, McAfee Profitability Stack, McAfee Rewards, Partner Connected, Security Connected, SIEM, The Profitability Stack, The Stack
This week during our special Q3 Promotion Webcast (on-demand replay), we unveiled one of the most impactful promotions in my 10+ year career here at McAfee. The promotion is called Total Access for Business and it focuses on accelerating the adoption of our Security Connected architecture in the mid-market with our partners and for our Read more…
Tags: Incumbency Advantage Program, McAfee Channel Partner, McAfee Rebates, McAfee Rewards, McAfee Total Access for Endpoint, McAfee Total Access for Servers, Security Connected, Security Connected Reference Architecture, Total Access for Business
As discussed on our Q3 Global Channels Town Hall,(on-demand replay) we witnessed many great accomplishments in Q2, not least of which was celebrating our 25th anniversary as a company. Our relentless search for SAFE has been 25 enthralling years of keeping our partners, customers and families safe – something that I’m very proud of having Read more…
Tags: Accredited Channel Engineer, channel partner, Channel Partners, Channel Program, Gavin Struthers, global threat intelligence, GTI, McAfee Channel, McAfee managed Service Provider Program, McAfee Rewards, Profitability Stack, Security Connected, SIEM
With half the year still ahead of us I am convinced now more than ever that we are poised for accelerated growth in our joint business and especially in the Commercial (Mid-Market) and SMB markets. In order to accelerate growth, we know we must drive mutual profitability. Yesterday we made a huge leap forward, setting Read more…
Tags: Enhanced Deal Registration, Gavin Struthers, Incumbency Advantage Program, McAfee Rebates, McAfee Rewards, Profitability Stack, SMB Deal Registration, Teaming Plan, The Stack, Tiered Pricing
Together, with you, our channel partners, we see tremendous growth in the Commercial market, which is why we are making a significant investment in this market to close out Q2, which ends on June 27. Effective June 1, 2012, we more than doubled the number of products eligible for our $1 per node McAfee Rewards Read more…
Tags: Commercial/SMB, McAfee Rewards, SMB, SMB Extravaganza, TSA, TSB and STP
With approximately 50 million new small to medium businesses starting globally each year—which is more than 125,000 per day—is it any wonder why the SMB market continues to be the fastest growing market in the IT industry? According to a recent SMB study, global IT spending by SMBs was up 15% year-over-year in Q1 2012. Combine this Read more…
Tags: McAfee Channel, McAfee Rewards, Partner Acceleration Resource Center, SMB, SMB Specialization
On Jan. 26, I hosted my first Global Channel Partner Quarterly Town Hall Meeting. For those that joined thank you and please don’t hesitate to let me know how we could improve these sessions by providing a comment to this blog. If you didn’t have the opportunity to join the call, an on-demand recording can Read more…
Tags: Accredited Channel Engineer, ACE, Channel Partner Town Hall, Commercial and Enterprise Deal Registration, Enhanced Deal Registration, McAfee Rewards, PARC, Partner Acceleration Resource Center, SMB Extravaganza, SMB Specialization, Virtual Sales Kickoff 2012
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