The Future of Sales and Marketing

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.

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

The financial services industry is quickly evolving, driven by changing consumer behaviour, major leaps in technology, and heated competition from new fintech players. To adapt, many FIs are embracing digital change with the goal of modernizing business operations. As digitization progresses, both its tools and the customers who use them are changing. FIs stand at a crossroads and are faced with deciding their willingness to take the customer experience seriously and how their outreach will reflect this new world.

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Welcome to the 2022 State of Marketing to Engineers Report. This marks the fifth consecutive year GlobalSpec and TREW Marketing have partnered to better understand how engineers and technical buyers find the information they need to make critical work-related decisions. Each year, we’ve empathized with the industrial marketer’s need to justify their marketing spend. They’ve long needed to make informed decisions on resources – including people, time, and budget – to deliver maximum ROI. This year, our survey contains a mix of popular topics asked consistently to monitor trends, along with fresh questions that take a deeper dive into particular channels and buying behaviors. This year’s research examines valued sales behavior, LinkedIn interaction, and a few new webinar and podcast questions.

whitePaper | December 14, 2019

The “wealth effect” the idea that consumer and business spending goes up with increases in stock prices, could taper with a downturn in the stock market. With the upcoming political year, it is highly likely that investors will cash out of some of their returns in early 2020, which could result in slower consumer and business spending in the early part of the year. Both B2B and B2C buyers might focus on “must haves” and delay the purchase of “nice to haves” until mid-year.

whitePaper | November 19, 2022

On the day, we asked the audience to participate in our webinar polls to understand what is truly happening with partner performance dashboards. By polling the audience from 90+ vendor companies in 22 countries, we gained some valuable insights into “What’s Happening with Partner Performance Dashboards in 2022”. We are happy to share these valuable finding with you in this eBook.

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.