SEM for Subscription-based Businesses

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 | February 6, 2023

Companies are in need of the best possible and most efficient use of the various online distribution channels, in order to exceed the competitors in the continuous struggle to gain more customers. As a result, multi-channel publishing has become more and more critical. You need to distribute your content and products through many different channels and across many platforms in order to maximize sales and to extend your customer reach. It can be complex and demanding process without the proper platform, but the benefits will definitely be worth the effort.

whitePaper | August 15, 2020

In the past, marketers have used marketing automation to streamline lead generation and manage their funnel. However, as consumer behaviors have changed, so have their expectations. Marketing success now hinges on going beyond the lead to grow your business through great automated experiences that improve engagement across each stage of the buyer journey. From initial awareness to generating demand to in-product messaging, brand advocacy, and beyond, growth marketing is the future of business success!

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 | June 21, 2022

As organizations in many industries struggle to overcome competitive and cost pressures, they are increasingly using high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive greater innovation and productivity and deliver higher quality products and services faster at lower costs and risks. The use of HPC in business entities, Enterprise HPC, is growing, is becoming mission critical, and has the potential to deliver a high return on investment (ROI).

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

This paper is the second in a series devoted to a single topic that is not often covered in most renewal discussions: how to engage the channel for successful SaaS renewals 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