Channel Marketing
Top of Funnel Campaign
Building awareness and capturing early-stage demand
Partner ToFu Campaigns:
Sherpa's Top of Funnel Campaigns builds sustainable awareness and demand generation through strategic, multi-channel execution. Using the Momentum framework, we identify your ideal buyer personas, craft compelling value propositions, and orchestrate coordinated campaigns across email, content syndication, and digital advertising. Our approach focuses on quality over quantity, attractingprospects who match your ideal customer profile and showing genuine research intent.
Smarter Partner ToFu Marketing Campaigns
What's included:
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Target audience definition and ideal customer profile development
The process of identifying exactly who the campaign should reach, defining the firmographic, behavioural, and persona characteristics that make a prospect the right fit for the partner's solution.
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Multi-Channel Campaign Strategy and Creative Asset Development
Building the campaign approach and creative assets needed to reach target buyers consistently across channels, ensuring message, format, and timing are aligned to the campaign objective.
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LinkedIn Advertising, Email Nurture Sequences, and Content Syndication
The core activation channels for top of funnel partner campaigns, combining paid social reach, direct email engagement, and content distribution to build awareness and capture early-stage demand.
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Campaign Performance Tracking and Weekly Optimisation
Ongoing monitoring of campaign performance against key metrics, with weekly review and adjustment to improve results and ensure spend is focused on what's working.
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Sales enablement
The tools and frameworks that equip both vendor and partner sales teams to carry the joint value proposition consistently into buyer conversations, from first contact through to close
What's included?
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JVP Workshop + Messaging Development
The process of aligning vendor and partner teams on a single, differentiated story, defining the specific value only achievable through the partnership and building the messaging framework both sides use to tell it. -
Co-branded content creation
Content developed jointly for vendor and partner that reflects the shared value proposition, designed to resonate with a specific buyer, vertical, or region rather than adapting generic vendor assets.
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Joint webinar program
An event format that brings the joint value proposition to life in front of target buyers, combining vendor credibility and partner relationships.
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Partner co-marketing campaigns
Coordinated marketing activity run by vendor and partner together, using shared messaging and assets to reach target buyers through the right channels at the right time.
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Sales Enablement
The tools and frameworks that equip both vendor and partner sales teams to carry the joint value proposition consistently into buyer conversations, from first contact through to close
Real experts, real outcomes
60-100
leads per partner depending on market size
3-5%
landing page conversion rates on gated content
40-60%
reduction in cost per lead versus prior campaigns
13 weeks
timeline minimum
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Solutions for Smarter Partnerships
Select an option below:
- Partner Concierge
- Channel Marketing
- Partner Intelligence
- Partner Recruitment
Partner Concierge
Your Partners are in the program, but are they in the game? Partner Concierge helps you deliver more outcomes.
Channel Marketing
Our suite of marketing activation programs are designed to deliver more from your ecosystem. Targeted, scalable, structured.
Partner Recruitment
Full-service recruitment, long-term revenue driving partnerships all start with the right data to recruit the right partners.
Program Build & Infrastructure
Program set-up
Ideal Partner Profile Creation
Campaign Creation
EdisonAI Lead Delivery Set Up
EdisonAI Reporting Set-up
Program Management
Quarterly Strategic Reviews
Program Add-ons:
New Partner Marketing Accelerator
Nurture done for you
Content Localization
Partner Intelligence
Knowledge is power. Smarter Partnership strategies, powered by our class-leading AI platform. Deeper visibility, unparalleled insights, future focussed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is top of funnel marketing in partner programmes?
Top of funnel marketing in partner programmes focuses on building awareness and capturing early-stage demand from buyers who don't yet know the vendor or partner solution. Sherpa's Top of Funnel Campaign identifies the right buyer personas and orchestrates multi-channel activity to generate consistent lead flow through the partner channel.
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How do you generate leads through a partner channel?
Generating leads through a partner channel requires a coordinated campaign across the right demand channels; combining paid social, email, and content syndication to reach target buyers at scale. Sherpa builds and runs these campaigns on behalf of partners, ensuring activity is focused on prospects that match the ideal customer profile.
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How do you build brand awareness in a channel marketing programme?
Building brand awareness in channel marketing requires consistent, multi-channel activity that reaches the right buyer personas before they're actively in market. Sherpa's Top of Funnel Campaigns combine partner and vendor positioning into a single coordinated campaign that builds recognition and captures early-stage demand.
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What channels work best for top of funnel partner marketing?
The most effective top of funnel channels in partner marketing combine paid social reach, email nurture, and content syndication, each playing a different role in building awareness and driving early engagement. Sherpa selects and activates the right channel mix based on the target audience and partner market.
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When should a partner invest in a top of funnel campaign?
A partner should invest in a top of funnel campaign when pipeline is inconsistent, when entering a new market or launching a new solution, or when sales teams need a more reliable flow of early-stage opportunities. Sherpa's Top of Funnel Campaign is designed to build that foundation quickly and consistently.
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