FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 5 MA-Everything-Channel
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Everything Channel
(formerly CMP Channel), the global leader in technology sales, today announced
that it has been named one of the '10 Great Media Web Sites' in the Portal
category by BtoB Magazine's Media Business, produced by Crain Communications,
Inc., for the second consecutive year. ChannelWeb is the largest channel
portal for Solution Providers.
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ChannelWeb offers the most comprehensive Channel content in one place by
bringing together the news, product reviews and technical primers from CRN
with the strategic research and in-depth features from VARBusiness and
GovernmentVAR. ChannelWeb.com's enhanced community-centric platform enables
users to communicate with each other, provides new tools, video, services,
NetSeminars, education and training, software and research. ChannelWeb helps
the sellers of technology accelerate sales and grow their businesses and will
be better able to respond to the varying needs of the Channel marketplace. The
site generates 2 million page impressions per month.
The websites were judged according to the following standard requirements:
Appearance; Organization; Navigation; Search functionality; Video and other
multimedia content; and Community/social media features.
"We are extremely honored with Media Business' recognition of ChannelWeb
as of the most powerful websites in the B2B industry," said Chris Sullivan,
Vice President, Managing Director, Everything Channel. "ChannelWeb has enabled
us to build a sturdy platform for our community of Solution Providers. We
continue to experiment with new tools and have plans to expand our community
platform -- all of which help our users do their jobs more efficiently.
ChannelWeb continues to lead the way for the VAR community."
This is the fourth award Everything Channel has won this year. Last month,
CRN was named one of the most powerful business-to-business advertising venues
by BtoB magazine. In April, min's presented Everything Channel with two Best
of the Web awards -- one for the marketing campaign behind the launch of
ChannelWeb.com and the second for its first virtual trade show.
Everything Channel continues to strengthen its portfolio with new
marketing solutions and business tools to help the technology Channel
accelerate sales and grow their businesses. New solutions include analytics,
sales management programs and marketing services that drive incremental
revenue (Next Level); domestic and international face-to-face IT events
(Vision Events(R)); a workflow tool that helps create efficiencies in Request
for Proposals (RFPs) and proposal building through configuration technology
solutions (eXalt's multi-vendor workflow tool); a promotions tool to manage
incentives (MTC Performance's spiff solutions); a business growth and
management tool (M&A Forum); and a service that provides real-time product
catalog, availability and pricing on demand (VARStreet).
Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel, formerly CMP Channel, is the global leader in
technology sales and serves as the one stop shop for the sales channel that
drives 75 percent of technology sales throughout the world. IT suppliers and
Solution Providers turn to Everything Channel to manage and accelerate their
business. Everything Channel provides the answer to strategy and branding,
online marketing, research/market intelligence, lead generation, branded and
custom events, education and workflow tools targeted to those who buy and sell
through the Channel. Everything Channel is a subsidiary of United Business
Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news
distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization
of more than $2.5 billion.
Contact
Kate Spellman
Everything Channel
516 562 7383
kspellman@everythingchannel.com
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