3 WAYS TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE OMNI-CHANNEL MARKETING STRATEGY

whitePaper | October 28, 2021

Today’s executives want to know the true impact of marketing spend, which means marketers must become adept at ascertaining how their campaigns drive tangible outcomes (sales lift, revenue lift, profit lift, etc.). In other words, marketers need to learn to “speak CFO.”

whitePaper | January 12, 2022

This whitepaper is the third in a series devoted to the topic: “How to Engage the Channel for Successful SaaS Renewal Sales”. In our first paper, Sales Renewals: A Primer, we introduced the importance of both change and risk management when it comes to renewals. In addition, we identified proven management tactics to address the inherent challenges to the renewals business. Above all, our intent being to help companies ensure they have the right partners for the right offers. In the second paper, Best Practices for Leveraging the Channel, we dug deeper inside the vendor organization to examine best practices for engaging and enabling partners, in order to minimize preventable churn and eliminate “organizational dissonance”.

whitePaper | November 15, 2022

The economy today is more mobile, virtual, global, and digital than ever before. It’s also moving faster and with a new purpose and intensity not seen since the end of World War II. For small and emerging businesses, this is a remarkable time of opportunity. There’s been a significant shift in how we do business. Customer needs, preferences, and expectations have changed radically. And with this shift, new challenges arise, particularly the “last-mile” hurdle of reaching – and engaging – new and existing customers.

whitePaper | September 21, 2022

Influencer marketing as part of the advertising industry has grown significantly in recent years, becoming one of the most popular and effective forms of online advertising. The fastgrowing market of influencers comes with potential risks for consumers and creates several challenges for regulators. T

whitePaper | August 3, 2020

Defining and managing a strong go-to-market strategy is critical for your business. Unfortunately, too many companies fail to focus on their go-to-market strategy as a competitive advantage. After helping hundreds of companies accelerate their revenues, The Spur Group can definitively state this can be a costly mistake. Most companies get born through product innovation. They are founded on an idea—a new way of doing something. But as a market matures, it is harder to sustain innovation.

whitePaper | February 15, 2020

Respondents spent 47% of their influencer budget on micro-influencers (compared to just 23% for celebrity influencers). One of the problems the influencer marketing industry has had has been convincing people that celebrity does not equate with influence. The reality is that people trust micro-influencers far more than they do stars, and are far more likely to take notice of a micro-influencer's recommendation than one made by a celebrity. Therefore it should come as no surprise that brands are moving their influencer marketing towards micro-influencers as education about the industry improves.