XVantage
Marketing 101
Easter
Podio
Acronyms
100

This rotating widget on XVantage shares its name with a carnival ride.

What is a carousel?

100

This team interfaces with vendors, does discovery calls and executes on contracts. 

What is the AM / CS team?
100

This popular 'marshmallow' treat doubles as a name for the sound a baby chick might make. 

What are Peeps?

100

This is where you can schedule a BU Training. 

What is the Sales Engagement Calendar?
100

This acronym is used to denote an entry for promo items. 

What is RFQ?

200

These types of ads on BU and Community pages drive partners back to either vendor pages or vendor products. 

What are Spotlight Ads?

200

This campaign runs for 8 weeks and promotes a vendors products or services that line up well against a resellers already purchased items on previous orders. 

What is BI Attach Campaign?

200

This Catholic tradition is the 40 day period before Easter. 

What is Lent?

200

This is the team you'll tag when you enter a CRA or General Ticket. 

Who is Podio Help Desk?

200

This acronym helps kick-start an event and assign a planner to a discovery call. 

What is a CERF?

300

This shortened name is the Xvantage version for associates. 

What is X4A?

300

This Ingram Micro office houses our core BCS sales group. 

What is the Scottsdale campus / office?

300

This body part most popular for being eaten first off of a chocolate bunny by a majority of Americans.

What are the ears?

300

This colorful tracker houses all of the budget goals and pipeline for the marketing programs. 

What is the Rainbow Tracker? 

300

When initiating a project this form is required to be completed. 

What is a PIF?

400

XVantage is geared at moving Ingram Micro to a truly _____ based company 

What is 'platform'?

400

This team works alongside the BUs to ensure an Ingram Led, Vendor Fed message. 

What is the Brand Marketing team?

400

Aside from the popular Easter Bunny, this animal is known to be another Easter time animal. 

What is a lamb?

400

This is where you can enter a Kudos for co-workers! 

What is the Intranet workspace?

400

Strictly speaking these dollars should ONLY be used for Marketing activities. 

What are MDF?

500

Platinum vendors on annual programs may have one or two of these built for them through their XVantage inclusion. 

What are pillar content pieces?

500

These types of marketing activities don't have a Program Manager assigned to them. 

What are Non-Program Managed skus (NPM)?

500

This flowers is considered the traditional "Easter Flower". 

What is the Lily?

500

These 'attach' to a product line in podio and drive jobs on contract job dashboards. 

What are BOM Elements?

500

All programs have these assigned to them in order to help align budget expenses and profits. NOTE: You can assign it sub level(s) if needed. 

What is a WBS?