Search Marketing in 2014 & Beyond: Why it Matters and Where it’s Going

whitePaper | July 27, 2020

Trust for traditional marketing channels is lower than ever. But that doesn’t mean businesses should give up their marketing efforts entirely. It just means they need to be smart about using channels that work better. There’s one channel that works like no other: customer referral marketing. Customer referral marketing leverages a simple insight: While customers might not trust your marketing team, they do trust the recommendations of their friends and family members. So let’s talk about how you can get started with referral marketing.

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 | July 27, 2020

As governments gradually remove pandemic induced restrictions and businesses begin to reopen, there’s a sense that we might be on the verge of returning to “normal.” That is unlikely. During the months of lockdown and self-isolation, we have been, in fact, writing a new future.

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 8, 2022

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whitePaper | November 25, 2019

In this Whitepaper from Zenrach "Adapting digital marketing for real-world results", they explain how to use the in-store data you’re already collecting to digital marketing’s playbook for ecommerce is established and effective. However, online advertising isn’t as effective for brick-and-mortar businesses. Understanding customer behavior is the key difference.