Socialize the Enterprise

After a year of experimentation in social media, the CMO of a global Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) company realized that, once again, his team’s latest effort was not working. He was frustrated. This time, he thought, they had cracked it. From the outset, the team looked to existing agency partners and new social media gurus to help them tack the social media programs to their product campaigns. The media companies offered paid placements in social networks. The advertising creatives designed a clever Facebook application, and the public relations team suggested reaching out to some bloggers to spread word of mouth. The brand team felt they had the tactics to transform their traditional marketing.

Spotlight

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners is one of the largest independent agencies on the West Coast. It’s known for providing highly creative, fully accountable marketing solutions to a broad array of partners including MINI Cooper, Blue Shield, Nature Made, Greyhound, Draft Kings, and El Pollo Loco. The agency was named Small Agency of the Decade in 2010, one of the best places to work by AdAge in 2012, and was recognized by Outside magazine in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 as one of the Best Places to Work in America.

OTHER WHITEPAPERS
news image

Search engine optimization with Magnolia CMS

whitePaper | August 16, 2020

This Tech Brief shows how to apply search engine optimization (SEO) to enterprise websites by employing best practices together with the built-in tools in Magnolia CMS. We take the key SEO factors identified by the Moz.org consulting group, and pair them with various Magnolia features. Our intended audience is online marketers, people employing web communications, and anyone interested in increasing their site rank.

Read More
news image

Proven Strategies for Generating Leads

whitePaper | November 6, 2019

The eBook covers a few topics to give you a better idea of how each aspect of your online presence plays an important role in bringing in new leads—from SEO and PR to online marketplaces. It can be hard to know where to find new clients. Better yet, where to find long-lasting clients that pay well.

Read More
news image

How Brands Can Thrive in 2022: Predictions for Digital First Marketers

whitePaper | January 13, 2022

In the wake of a historic 2020, 2021 signaled that transformation will not be limited to a single year. The 2020’s will be a transformative decade. 2021 itself was a year of stark contrasts. It began with a wave of optimism and ended with a wave of omicron -- extending the pandemic period and expanding our knowledge of the Greek alphabet.

Read More
news image

What’s Happening with Partner Incentives in 2022

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

Partner incentives form a central pillar in all good channel programs. For example in today’s channel, they serve a dual benefit. That of rewarding partners based on performance and increasing partner loyalty and satisfaction. As modern partner ecosystems continuously evolve in both complexity and scale, it is critical that vendors offer incentive programs that are meaningful to the different types of partners they work with. However, not all incentive programs in 2022 are successful when it comes to attracting, motivating and retaining partners.

Read More
news image

Why Your Go-To-Market Strategy Matters

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.

Read More
news image

The New Event Marketing Opportunity

whitePaper | December 2, 2021

Where does day-dreaming about what’s possible end and actionable strategy begin? It starts by thinking bigger than just planning events one at a time, independent from the organization’s overall marketing strategy. The future of event marketing is a multi-layered, programmatic approach. We call it: The New Event Marketing Opportunity.

Read More

Spotlight

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners is one of the largest independent agencies on the West Coast. It’s known for providing highly creative, fully accountable marketing solutions to a broad array of partners including MINI Cooper, Blue Shield, Nature Made, Greyhound, Draft Kings, and El Pollo Loco. The agency was named Small Agency of the Decade in 2010, one of the best places to work by AdAge in 2012, and was recognized by Outside magazine in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 as one of the Best Places to Work in America.

Events