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VNCpba · VNC Partner Business Accelerator · vnclagoon.com
Follow the Red Thread
A comic-style intro & user guide for new VNClagoon partners. Meet Alex, an MSP owner, and Red — your guided path from signed partnership to your first won deal. 24 panels, zero welcome-PDFs.
Scroll — the thread draws itself as you go
Signed. Now what?
Alex
Signed the VNClagoon partnership. So... when does the partner magic start?
Three weeks later: silence.
Alex
Hello? Anyone?
Red
Hi Alex! I'm Red — the red thread. Your guided path from signature to your first won deal.
Alex
Great. I'm being onboarded by yarn.
Red
Three steps in: register in the VNClagoon partner portal, run your Fast-Lane profiling, the VNC board approves and unlocks your PBA workspace.
The Fast-Lane
Red
Fast-Lane profiling: I read your company website and compute your archetype and qualification score.
Alex
An AI is going to rate me? Hard pass.
Red
No black box — I show your weakest criteria and cite the evidence for every point. See?
Alex
You... show your homework. Okay, that's new.
Red
Your archetype: MSP/hoster — own datacenter, white-label wholesale economics. Fits you like a glove.
Red
Everything runs on VNC's sovereign, EU-hosted, confidential infrastructure. I'm disclosed under EU AI Act Art. 50.
Red
And every plan I draft is reviewed by VNC partner management. Humans check my homework too.
Alex
A robot grades me, a human double-checks. Fair.
A Real Plan, Not a Welcome PDF
Red
Station two: your BDM plan — which markets, your entry motion, the revenue split. Settled together.
Alex
DACH first. I know exactly where my customers are.
Red
Positioning: the 'Sovereign Exit' play — the sovereign alternative for 200+ customers trapped in M365 price hikes and CSP margin cuts.
Red
Key message, personas, differentiators — I draft them from VNC's own material, you edit.
Alex
That's... literally my customer base.
Red
Your 90-day campaign: pick 3 customers with Q4 renewals, run a Sovereign Workplace Assessment — TCO proof in two weeks.
Alex
...migrate the first lighthouse to Sovereign Core, then publish the win. Got it.
Red
Arguments and collateral come with your support package. Campaign plan covers marketing, PR and social.
Alex
And I can edit all of it?
Red
I draft, you decide. It's your plan.
Funnel Math You Can't Argue With
Red
Set an honest closing quote. Industry maximum is about 15%.
Alex
Fifteen? My old vendor decks promised forty.
Red
Which is why this funnel works: deals needed, opportunities required, the gap, weekly activity per source — all computed.
Alex
Who owns the lead?
Red
You do. Deal registration: conflict-checked, protected, 48-hour SLA.
Red
It adds +5 margin points — and a +10 rebate on your first deal if you close inside 120 days.
Red
The VNC Lead Pool: pre-qualified leads from VNClagoon's own pipeline, intent-matched to your profile and geography.
Alex
VNC hands me its own leads?
Red
First touch wins, 180-day protection. Gold and Platinum get it automatically.
Red
Market Radar scans every night: threat and opportunity signals matched to vendors in your accounts.
Red
Morning delivery: scored, ready-to-send action plays. 'Call this account today — here's why.'
Alex
Coffee, radar, calls. I can do that.
Competence Earns Margin
Red
Enablement: tracks A1 and B1 are self-serve quizzes. Pass both and you clear the enable gate.
Alex
Certification... during lunch break?
Red
A2 and B2 are human-reviewed. Each level raises your authority — authority gates margin and OEM rights.
Red
Certified partners get to run sovereignty audits — our highest-intent conversion play.
Red
They convert at about 40%.
Alex
Forty percent? Teach me. Now.
Alex
Alright, Red — what does this cost me?
Red
Published, no hidden tiers: Registered is free, 10% margin. Silver CHF 1'999/yr, 15%.
Red
Gold CHF 9'999/yr, 25% — Lead Pool included. Platinum CHF 25'000/yr, 35% plus OEM rights, white-label, source access, locked 3 years.
One Number, One Thread
Alex
One score? Why should I trust one number?
Red
Your Partner Health Score, out of 100: engagement, pipeline, hygiene, enablement. Every point traceable.
Red
Banded healthy, watch, at-risk. No mystery — same rules for everyone.
Red
Station eight: the quarterly review — health, forecast, and the plan for next quarter.
Alex
So the thread doesn't end at deal one.
Alex
We won. First lighthouse migrated, assessment played, case study published.
Red
Register. Run your Fast-Lane. Walk your red thread.
Alex
See you on the path.
Your turn
Walk your own red thread
Three steps in — then eight stations, one thread, and a plan you actually own.
1
Register
Sign up in the VNClagoon partner portal — business model, territory, tier.
2
Run your Fast-Lane
AI profiling reads your website and computes your archetype + qualification score.
3
Board unlocks your workspace
The VNC board approves — and your PBA workspace opens with all 8 stations.
Turn signed partners into selling partners.