How Paymerang Supports Partners

In today’s fast-paced environment, businesses are continually striving to stay ahead of the curve and deliver innovative products and solutions. It is imperative for these organizations to look for new opportunities to drive collaborative innovation that delivers on what their clients need today—and in the future.

Partnerships between businesses can harness the strengths and capabilities of each team and allow for both parties to continually improve, strategically scale innovation, solve complex business problems, and better serve clients. Strategic partnerships and collaboration are essential to improving business outcomes. By identifying the gap in client’s business processes, you can identify opportunities for strategic partnerships.

Connecting with strategic partners to achieve a common goal benefits everyone: businesses, team members, and clients. Businesses can broaden their relevance to better serve their target market; team members can increase their development opportunities by addressing new business problems; clients benefit from strengthened offerings. In addition, building relationships and cultivating partnerships fosters an environment of collaboration and longevity—the partners are in it together and seek to better serve their broader market.

Listening to clients and understanding their pain points creates opportunities for partnerships to call on their unique capabilities to offer real-time solutions. Working towards a common goal not only strengthens the partnership, but more importantly it allows businesses to better serve their clients.

Strategic partnerships allow both parties to play into their strengths and learn from each other, but for any partnership to succeed, communication is key. Paymerang understood this pivotal piece and developed our full-time Marketing Partnership Coordinator role. Since having a dedicated resource to facilitate external partnerships we’ve seen: an increase in partnership engagement, new business opportunities, and increased innovation.

Collaboration and communication are key to breakthroughs and progress. We understand that no two businesses are the same and all clients are unique, so we’ve developed a multi-level approach for our partnerships. We take time to understand our partners strengths and their clients’ challenges. This allows our team to collaborate with partners to solve the business challenges clients experience—while benefiting both parties. Working collaboratively with partners generates energy that fuels growth, innovation and creativity.

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Colleen Crist

Colleen Crist

Colleen leads our national portfolio of channel partners and owns new business development and channel strategies. She is focusing on accelerating partner growth and expanding our footprint nationwide by developing new partnership initiatives. Her strategy and execution expertise spans all aspects of business development, product development, launch, marketing, sales and partner development. She leads our partnership team that drives end-to-end execution of corporate partner programs and is responsible for identifying, forging, scaling and sustaining our partnership strategy. Colleen is currently earning her Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business.