Raleigh, NC – March 17, 2009 – Budgets are down and stress is up. You need marketing techniques to help you survive and thrive in today's economy. Now's the time to focus on your sales channel relationships – helping your channel partners and your inside sales team become better marketers of your products.

Here are top tips from the Internet marketing experts at SharedVue to help you do that.

1. Consider cloud marketing.

Cloud marketing is the best marketing solution for the current economy. It combines traditional marketing with software as a service (SAAS). By placing all of your marketing assets (product info, training, whitepapers, promotion info) online – in "the cloud" – you make them available to an unlimited number of your partners, all at one low cost.

This means your channel partners and your sales team all have instant access to your most current marketing content and ensures that you have message consistency across all your sales channels.

Cloud marketing minimizes the cost to help every partner become a better marketer of your products. Plus, companies who help their entire channel network become better marketers will be in position to take market share from short sighted vendors who react to reduced budgets by focusing on just their top selling partners.

2. Empower your sales channel.

Whether you use channel partners or an inside sales team, now is the time to make sure they have the tools they need to succeed. Use your partners' Web sites or create individual micro-sites for each member of your sales team. These sites are a cost-effective alternative to buying banner ads to promote your sales campaigns and promotions. It's like having customized, dynamic billboards that you can change at will and at no extra cost.

"You can use cloud marketing to empower...