Building Agency MRR With Retainers & Partnerships

The team and I have poured weeks into this 13-part course collaborating with 8 of the most successful implementation partners / software resellers to guarantee you are hearing an assortment of strategy and tactics straight from the source.

Here are some of the assets you receive:

1. [Checklist] Define your agency retainer offering.
2. [PDF Guide] Define your agency positioning.
3. [PDF Guide] Managing Client Expectations.
4. [Checklist] Selling Time vs Selling Value.
5. [Checklist] How to pitch retainers.
6. [PDF Guide} Scaling your retainers.
7. [PDF] Retainer proposals.
8. [XLS] Price comparison sheet.

Here is a preview of what this course covers:

Amanda Nielsen's How to Choose a Software Partner

This class hosted by Amanda Nielsen, a demand generation marketer and former Partner Marketing Strategist at one of the top agency resellers in New York.

In this class Amanda focuses on one of the age-old partnership questions: How to choose a software partner, including:

• Five types of partnerships and the unique benefits each will bring to your MRR strategy
• How to measure your success, from tracking software, referral codes and goal setting
• Which KPI's you should be recording, such as leads generated, pipeline influenced, and backlink metrics
• How and when to attribute and compensate partners

Scott Gellatly - Transition to License Selling

Scott Gellatly has spent the last five years helping SME’s systemize their sales for more conversions and increased scalability through his tech platform Scale My Empire. In this course on creating a recurring revenue model for your agency with software, Scott will be giving his insight on the different types of partner tier models, optimizing your retainer models, and nurturing the relationships you build with software providers through those models. Scott is a master at communicating the “why” of recurring license revenue and how it will help your agency and will help you fully understand topics like:

• Which partner model is right for your agency and choosing between co-selling, reselling, and referral/affiliate models
• Optimizing your retainer models with the right software
• How to upsell software by using products that integrate directyl with your hook software
• Nurturing and maintaining the relationship with the software partner depending on which partner model you choose

Rachel Jacobs's - Creating & Selling Retainers

Rachel Jacobs has provided here expertise on setting up and selling retainers. As an expert in the field of partnerships, Rachel will help you with laying the foundations you need for setting up a successful retainer program. Throughout her lessons you will learn the essentials on

1. Positioning your agency as trusted advisor that can help clients achieve their goals
2. The sales process for selling retainers, including qualification, proposals, and follow-ups
3. How to boost leads for your eCommerce agency by leveraging your network, creating a referral program, and building strategic partnerships
4. What to include in your agency retainer and ways you can bring value to your clients
5. Ways to price your retainer, such as hourly, project-based, time-based, and value-based
6. Using case studies to set yourself apart from other agencies and showase your skills

Jessica Minasian - Selling Time to Selling Value

Jessica Minasian is the Chief Automation Architect at Magnetic Hype, an automation consulting agency, and an expert on selling retainers.

In this course Jessica provides a 14 day play-by-play for getting better retainers and moving from selling your time to selling your value! Get strategy tips on:

• Initial Meetings
• Buzzwords/Phrases
• Follow-Ups
• Conversation Milestones
• 4 Ways to Wow at the End

Mark Colgan - Software Presentations for Agnostics Referral Partners


Mark Colgan joins us for this class to share his experience scaling MRR through proper Software Presentations as an Agnostic Referral Partners. Before assuming his current position as Chief Revenue Officer at TaskDrive, Mark ran highly-profitable agency where he partnered with SaaS companies like Pipedrive and Drift to achieve a respectable 5-digit MRR.

In this class Mark will go through all the elements you need to build an effective software presentation for agnostic referral partners, including:

• How to showcase software you’re agnostic to so your client trusts you and makes a decision based on your research
• Link
• What change management is and how it can prolong or prevent implementation
• How to go about implementation depending on the skill set within the agency
• Using the “before-after-bridge” to present your recommendations and solutions
• Explaining pricing and showing price comparisons

Alex Bass - Maintaining Multi-Tiered Agency Retainers


Alex Bass joins us for a lesson on tying tech partnerships into a retainer model and maintaining multi-tiered agency retainers.

His insight comes from 10 years of running CyberBytes, a Copper CRM consulting partner. Through the years he implemented software systems to streamline internal business processes, saving the company tens of thousands of dollars per year in saved productivity. CyberBytes Inc. is now one of the preferred integration consulting partners for Copper CRM.

In this course we discuss:

• How to analyze your current reseller partnership/affiliate relationships
• Determining the percentage of ARR resulting from your partnerships
• How typical referrals work for CyberBytes
• Communicating your tiered packages and the service offerings at each tier
• Maintaining value between growth and flat months
• Adding integration help and support into your retainer
• Building a relationship with people at the software provider
• Selling on a management and/or build package/retainer
• Helpful backend tools for billing and sending proposals

Nicolas Scalice - Onboarding & Nurturing Software Referrals

Getting a partner in board is one thing, but nurturing them is another. Nicholas Scalice has vast experience reselling software like Zapier, ActiveCampaign, and Pipedrive, which he uses at his company Earnworthy to help brands convert website visitors into leads and customers.

He’s here to give examples on how to nurture partners to ensure low attrition and build more value in the SaaS you’re reselling.

• The lead process and how to work with a client who is already using SaaS like Unbounce
• Managing an account when the client purchases the software and makes you an admin
• Selling retainers and providing clients with referral links
• Nurturing clients through reporting, calls, emails, and meetings

Gabriel - Creating Sticky Retainers Using Your Software Partnerships

Gabriel is a co-marketing genius. He has done more with his software partnerships than anyone I have ever known. You may have seen his Wistia Soapbox promotions or his "Coffee Talks" videos. In any case, he and his team have optimized his stack to the hilt.

In Gabriel's course, you will learn:

1. Why partner with SaaS
2. Nextiny's stack
3. How to create a "Sticky" partner stack
4. How to develop the ideal partnership

If you have any further questions before enrolling, reach out to me directly: [email protected]

Best,

Alex
Founder of PartnerPrograms.io