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Optimize your partner ecosystem with our proven framework. Here's how to enhance partner performance, improve incentives, and drive strategic growth.

Client Story

How are you using video production and marketing to drive success? Here's how we used content to shed light on an innovative global technology service.

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Guide

RevOps is quickly becoming a must-have for modern companies. Find out how to maximize revenue and transform the customer experience with our latest guide.

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Co-Selling: Why Experts Agree the Joint Sales Motion is a Game-Changer

Discover why co-selling is a sales game-changer with insights from industry experts on co-sell ...

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How to Gain Executive Buy-In for Your RevOps Strategy

RevOps cannot be successful without support from your organization. Discover how to secure ...

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Worksheet: Building a Revenue-Centric Co-Sell Strategy

Is your co-sell experience optimized to its full potential? Build and improve your co-sell strategy ...

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Unlocking the Untapped Potential of Cloud Marketplaces

Shifting buyer preferences are growing the untapped potential of cloud marketplaces. Check out our ...

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OKRs: Why Measuring What Matters, Matters Even More

As a leader, how do you ensure your organization meets its goals? Measuring what matters is ...

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How RevOps Can Break Down Silos and Transform the Customer Experience

RevOps breaks down silos and transforms the customer experience. Here's how we use our framework to ...

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Recapping 'Multiply: ImpartnerCon 2024'

Learn key insights from ImpartnerCon 2024 with Raegan Wilson. She breaks down partner experience ...

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The Best Ways to Use Video for Business Marketing

Powerful content is key to reaching your audience. Check out the ways you can use video for ...

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AI For Creativity

Generative AI is revolutionizing the lives of creative professionals. Learn the opportunities and ...

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How AI is Disrupting Software Development

Discover the five ways AI will disrupt software development and how the technology will transform ...

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The Impact of AI Tools in the Software Development Industry

The impact of AI tools is revolutionizing software development. Here are six kinds of tools that ...

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Generative AI: Driving Growth in the Rapidly Evolving AI Market

Discover the transformative power of generative AI. Uncover research on how the AI market is ...

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Relationship Selling: A Guide to Accelerating The Co-Sell Motion

Accelerate your ecosystem's growth with relationship selling. Learn key strategies, insights, and ...

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Client Story

Staff Augmentation Model Boosts Financial Company’s Productivity

Companies are taking a new approach to talent management and flexible working. Here's how a staff ...

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The ABCs of RevOps: Our Four-Step Framework to Help You Grow Revenue

Want to learn how to help your organization adopt and embrace RevOps? Check out our four-step ...

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How to Grow Revenue and Enhance Customer Experience with RevOps

Want to learn how to grow revenue and enhance customer experience? Discover four tips on getting ...

Client Story

Agile Campaign Approach Helps Tech Leader Resonate with New Audience

We worked with a tech leader to reach a new audience. Here's how our client built awareness and ...

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Emergency Management: Where Consulting and Public Safety Intersect

How do emergency management and consulting intersect? Discover the valuable lessons we learned from ...

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Five Tips for Leveling Up Your Partner Value Proposition Messaging

Want to level up your partner value proposition messaging? Here's how to effectively communicate ...

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Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Staff Augmentation

Is staff augmentation right for your team? Here's how it can enhance team capabilities, increase ...

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Four Steps to Optimize Your Customer Journey with RevOps

RevOps plays a critical role in customer journey optimization. Learn a proven methodology from our ...

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How to Accelerate Transformation When Your Change Efforts Are Stalled

What do you do when your change efforts are stalled? Learn how to accelerate transformation when ...

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How to Measure the Quality of Your Partner Ecosystem

Optimize your partner ecosystem with our proven framework. Here's how to enhance partner ...

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How Automation Can Help You Reduce Manual Work

Introducing "Ro," our customizable automation tool that can help you do more with less. It lets you ...

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Channel Programs: To Tier or Not to Tier and Why?

Kate Caday, Client Delivery Director at The Spur Group, joins a panel discussion hosted by Baptie & ...

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What Traditional Definitions of RevOps Miss

What do traditional definitions of RevOps miss? Check out the first blog in a four-part series on ...

Client Story

Video Production and Marketing Grow Awareness for Global Initiative

How are you using video production and marketing to drive success? Here's how we used content to ...

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The 6 Essential Elements of a Channel Playbook

Don't invest in channel resources and then fail to implement them correctly. With a go-to-market ...

Guide

The Comprehensive Guide to Leading Change Management

To successfully lead transformation, you need the right change management approach. Build your ...

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Driving Revenue Growth: Why RevOps is a Must-Have for Modern Companies

RevOps is the key to driving revenue growth. Here's why you need RevOps and why you should ...

Guide

The Complete Guide: How to Maximize Revenue with RevOps

RevOps is quickly becoming a must-have for modern companies. Find out how to maximize revenue and ...

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Whitepaper

Why Your Go-to-Market Strategy Matters

The Spur Group's Why Your Go-to-Market Strategy Matters whitepaper to assist in maintaining a ...

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Why You Need A People-Centric Approach To Change Management

Your approach to change management should focus on many different areas of your organization. Find ...

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How to Choose the Right Channel Incentive Management Tool for You

Discover how to choose the ideal channel incentive management tool to drive partner performance, ...

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Transforming Partner Behavior: Results-Driven Channel Incentive Design

Drive lasting business impact with a results-driven channel incentive program focused on ...

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RevOps: A Game-Changer for Senior Sales and Marketing Leaders

Explore RevOps for sales, marketing, and operations leaders—learn to implement it for revenue ...

Client Story

New Planning Process Enhances Product Group’s Go-To-Market Approach

We helped our client streamline its rhythm of business and go-to-market approach, and increased ...

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What To Do if Your Business Transformation is Stuck in Neutral

Are you currently preparing your business for a transformation? Here's how to ready your ...

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Marketing and Partner Expertise Drives Product Launch in New Vertical

We helped a client facilitate a product launch in a new vertical. With these steps, we established ...

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Client Story

Google Improves Channel Partner Onboarding And Accelerates Revenue

Learn how The Spur Group helped Google develop a new channel partner onboarding process using ...

Client Story

Updated Joint Selling Strategy Increases Revenue

We used a joint selling strategy to help our client unify processes supported by centralized ...

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Why Channel Leaders Need To Think Like Top Sales Leaders

If you’re concerned about your organization’s channel sales, consider these tips from top sales ...

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5 Simple Ways to Boost Channel Partner Engagement and Experience

How can you keep your partner program competitive without incremental investments? Here are 5 ...

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Unlocking the Power of Channel Capacity Planning for Revenue Growth

Discover how channel capacity planning drives predictable revenue growth, aligns partner teams, and ...

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Can you improve total sales without increasing OPEX?

Learn how to increase sales numbers while being strategic about sales operating expenses (OPEX), in ...

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Expand Your Ecosystem: 7 Advantages of Partner Relationship Management

Learn about the advantages of partner relationship management platforms and why having one in your ...

Client Story

How Microsoft Launched The First Ever AI Business School

Using project management and AI strategy development, here’s how The Spur Group's expertise helped ...

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Does your sales enablement content need a refresh?

With limited and time resources, how you can be efficient when creating and updating sales ...

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The 5Cs: How to Drive Impact with Channel Capacity Planning

Download whitepaper on Channel Capacity Planning to learn how to manage customer wins, channel ...

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Unlocking the Power of Partner Experience in the Modern Business Landscape

Discover the power of partner experience (PX) in driving business growth. Learn the importance of ...

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How an AI Discovery Tool Reduces Document Search and Analysis

Gather better business intelligence using The Spur Group's AI based discovery tool.

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“I couldn’t have asked for a better business partner and appreciate the strength and expertise they provided us at Microsoft. We had a very successful outcome in large part to The Spur Group’s support and services.”

Jaime Perena

Director, Microsoft AI

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The 5 Biggest Challenges in Tech Sales and How to Fix Them

We've seen five common challenges within sales organizations at technology companies. Learn what ...

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8 Partnership Tips from a Channel Leader

Channels provide incredible value, but it's often hard to articulate without a plan. Check out ...

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How To Implement Change Management That Prioritizes Your People

When you implement change management, you need to prioritize your organization's people. Learn how ...

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6 Must Do's When Launching a Product Through the Channel

The Spur Group's Allison Strother defines the 6 things every product manager should do when they're ...

“My experience with Spur has been outstanding. Easily one of the very best vendor experiences I’ve had in my 10 years at Microsoft… it has been a pleasure working with all of them.”

Peter Cooper

Director of Product Marketing, Internet of Things, Microsoft

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What is a Good Go-To-Market Strategy?

What is a good go-to-market strategy? It's not always easy to pick one out of the noise. The ...

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How Do You Create and Support a Program to Drive Consumption?

Richard Flynn, Co-Founder and CMO at The Spur Group, is a panelist for a webinar hosted by Baptie & ...

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Client Story

New Partner Incentive Program Drives Channel Performance

Learn how we used a three-part approach to build a partner incentive program for a large technology ...

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Checklist: How to Effectively Implement Your PRM Platform

There are 10 steps to take to successfully roll out your PRM platform. Discover our implementation ...

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How to Use Partner Scoring to Increase Channel ROI

Download our partner scoring & performance management whitepaper. Learn how to increase your return ...

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Building an Effective Messaging Framework

The Spur Group shares a step-by-step guide to building a high quality messaging framework to better ...

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Client Story

NetApp Uses Scoring Model to Strengthen Partner Performance and Value

We helped a client streamline partner management while growing the overall partner revenues through ...

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How To Implement Revenue Operations To Grow Revenue & Customer Success

Revamp your tech firm's growth strategy with Revenue Operations. Learn to tackle challenges, boost ...

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3 Superpowers of Effective Leaders

The Spur Group talks about the 3 leadership styles of executives and how to use them to your ...

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Creating a ‘To Partner’ and ‘Through Partner’ Marketing Program

Dan Overgaag, Managing Director at The Spur Group, is a panelist on a webinar from Baptie & Company ...

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How Our Client Is Re-Imagining The In-Store Retail Experience

The Spur Group helped Sunrise Technology LLC develop a GTM strategy and collateral for the ...

Client Story

Synthetic Data Improves Microsoft’s Next-Gen Conversational AI Engine

Learn how we helped Microsoft achieve better modeling through synthetic data production resulting ...

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All Things AI Episode 2: The Role of AI and Data in Modern Baseball

"How do you take very complex statistical concepts and distill it down into a way that's not ...

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Guide

The Essential Guide to Partner Planning

Partner planning is a critical part of your go-to-market strategy. In this article, we explore what ...

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3 Rules To Avoid The 80/20 Trap In Partner Performance

These three proven methods can improve partner performance beyond the 80/20 ratio, boosting returns ...

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How to Design a Dashboard That’s Useful and Actionable

Before you design a dashboard for your business, allocate time for pre-planning. Find out the ...

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A Comprehensive Guide to Channel Partner Programs and Best Practices

Discover the essentials of channel partner programs, key elements for success, and best practices ...

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The Channel Partner Journey Checklist

There are six keys to building an effective partner journey. Discover how to support each of them ...

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Client Story

Go-To-Market Messaging Transforms Sales Approach for Education Sector

Our experts helped a technology company launch a sales campaign in the higher education sector. ...

Client Story

Sales Enablement Boosts Revenue And Strengthens Customer Relationships

We developed a sales enablement strategy for a real estate information technology company. These ...

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3 Fundamentals Of Effective Strategic Initiatives

The 3 steps to successful initiative execution are discipline, transparency, and efficiency. We ...

Client Story

Channel Sales Enablement Strategy Accelerates Revenue

We created a new set of partner readiness materials for our client's channel sales enablement ...

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Synthetic Data: The Disruptive Force Behind Machine Learning

Learn about synthetic data, why it's important, how companies are using synthetic data drive value, ...

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Why Channel Leaders Should Invest In Partner Experience Technology

Explore why channel leaders should invest in PXM technology for enhanced channel automation and ...

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Client Story

Tech Giant Increases Market Share Via Go-To-Market Strategy

Here's how we turned around a product team's go-to-market strategy. Our teams helped our client ...

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A Guide to the Modern Deal Registration Program

In our guide to the modern deal registration program, we highlight the 10 key questions to ask ...

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How To Use Partner Enablement to Fuel A Successful Channel

Partner enablement is a critical step for channel success. Find out how to best motivate your ...

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Nourish Your Professional Event With Snackable Content

When planning your next event, let go of the “longer is better” model and try snackable content ...

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Diagnose Your Channel Efforts

The Spur Group examines the 5 troubles that limit your effective channel management. Learn how to ...

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“Spur’s surge support model gives us the flexibility to focus on business strategy instead of constantly worrying about the day to day execution. It gives our team peace of mind and allows us to see the big picture.”

Ian Brackenbury

Senior Business Program Manager, Microsoft

Client Story

Sales Go-To-Market Strategy Unifies Teams And Grows Pipeline

We created a program for Microsoft that strengthened its sales go-to-market strategy. Here's how it ...

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Channel Chats Episode 4: Channel Technology and the Partner Experience

The Spur Group's CMO, Richard Flynn speaks with managing director Raegan Wilson about channel ...

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3 common reasons your business is stuck in neutral

Sales transformation expert Steve White identifies the root problems with flat revenue growth in ...

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Make Your Event Memorable

The Spur Group's CEO Randy Karr shares his secret to using emotions in presentations and events to ...

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5 Keys To Robust Data Analysis

Data analysis can be intimidating. Performing these five actions will make your data easier to ...

Client Story

Compensation Model Aligns Channel And Sales Teams

We helped a client streamline the way it leverages its partners. Here's how we built a partner ...

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All Things AI Episode 1: How AI can change business for the better

Introducing our series All about AI, where we interview business leaders on topics around ...

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Client Story

Partner Program Optimization Builds Competitive Advantage

Find out how we collaborated with a technology company to optimize its partner program and build a ...

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Top 5 Pillars To Pulling Off A Successful Event

There are many ways an event can not live up to expectations. Find out the five key pillars to ...

Spur helped us gain programmatic insight into our partner ecosystem, so we know where and how to invest for the most impact. If you are looking to address a channel challenge, I highly recommend Spur.

Colleen Kapase

VP Partner GTM, Incentives & Programs, VMware

Client Story

Product Transition Plan Minimizes Disruption and Increases Adoption

We helped a client adapt its marketing approach for a product transition plan. Learn how we aligned ...

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How to Drive Impact with Channel Capacity Planning

Channel management is guiding customer wins, channel sales, and market coverage. We've distilled ...

Client Story

Communications Strategy Framework Showcases Product Portfolio Valuemarket

Here's how we helped a client develop a communications strategy framework, break through siloed ...

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Creating Indispensable Partner Relationships in a Time of Uncertainty

Dan Overgaag, Managing Director at The Spur Group, presents on the balance of human and digital ...

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Data Automation Transforms Reporting and Sharpens Decision Making

Through data automation, we helped our client optimize data management. Here's how we freed up ...

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It’s Time To Make Progress

A statement from The Spur Group's CEO Randy Karr on why he supports the Black Lives Matter movement ...

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Understanding Project Management As A Service

Learn how project management as a service can benefit your business from business expert Chris ...

Client Story

Streamlined Project Management Drives Operational Efficiency

We helped increase transparency into a software company's budget accuracy. Learn how strengthened ...

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How a Channel Partner Recruitment Strategy Closes the Deal

Why having an effective channel partner recruitment strategy will help you tailor your message and ...

“The team was able to provide significant time savings for myself as well as other stakeholders and the process and systems they helped to establish are now being expanded to help capture evidence across multiple teams within Microsoft. “

Heather Doran

Senior Sales Strategy Lead, Inside Sales, Microsoft

Client Story

Emerging Metrics Help Top Cloud Provider’s Teams Increase Sales

Using your data the right way can make all the difference. Learn how we helped a top cloud provider ...

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5 Ways to Effectively Manage Your Channel Team

Do you have a knowledge gap on your channel team? Check out the 5 stages of execution excellence ...

Client Story

Automated Bot Improves Performance, Cost, and Employee Wellness

Learn about how we created a customizable automated bot to reduce budget, optimize performance, ...

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Growing A Cloud Partner Ecosystem

The Spur Group shares advice on how to discover what it takes to attract and support partners as ...

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5 Key Benefits Business Intelligence Provides Your Organization

Incorporating Business Intelligence allows you to collect and transform data into insightful, ...

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How Great Channel Leaders Unlock Powerful Revenue Acceleration

How channel leaders can drive channel revenue acceleration with five important steps related to ...

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Don’t Sell a Brand, Sell a Promise

The difference between features and benefits is crucial in successful marketing. Expert Randy Karr ...

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Our 5-Step Solution for Your Partner Recruitment Woes

The right approach to partner recruitment can make the difference between success and failure. Our ...

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2 Words To Remove From Your Business Vocabulary: Part 1

The Spur Group outlines why you need to remove the words 'busy' and 'can't' from your business ...

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5 Reasons Why PERC Partner Scoring Gives You an Advantage

Find out how PERC partner scoring gives you five advantages that will improve your channel ...

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3 Ways to Deliver Real Dashboard Insights to Your Boss

An insight is an interpretation of data using business knowledge to make an observation. Find out ...

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How to build winning channel partner recruitment content

We break down the audience, order of approach, analogous content, and message positioning needed to ...

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3 Commonly Overlooked Dashboard Questions

If done right, data dashboards are transformative. Find out how to evaluate the effectiveness of ...

“Over the course of a difficult project, I have enjoyed their candor, humor and collaboration. For me it has been a great and very successful experience.”

Maarten van Velsen

Director, Go To Market Strategy, Global Channels, NetApp

Client Story

Tech Leader Grows Client Base With Information Sharing and AI

We built an information-sharing process for a tech company. Find out how we used AI to streamline ...

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Using Language To Drive Clarity In Thought in Communication

In this blog, The Spur Group discusses the importance of an aligned taxonomy within your business ...

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3 Steps to Recruiting Partners With Data Analysis

A data-driven channel partner profile makes your recruiting partners easier and more effective. ...

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3 Elements That Can Help or Hinder Your Revenue Growth

A deal with a smaller company can be more beneficial than the same enterprise amount. Learn how to ...

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How Your Partner Business Proposition Gives You An Advantage

Manage your partner business proposition to gain a market advantage. You can strengthen ...

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5 Success Factors in Change Management Efforts

While they may seem like basics, your change management efforts can fail if they lack one or more ...

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5 Common Marketing Content Development Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

Learn how to avoid 5 common pitfalls of content development with connected communications expert ...

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Spur After Hours: Work Hard, Play Hard

How we created Spur After Hours, a team dedicated to planning events that encourages our employees ...

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4 Steps Channel Chiefs Need To Hit Revenue Targets

Discover the 4 steps channel chiefs need to take in order to hit revenue targets.

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Boost Your Content By Involving 4 Key Stakeholders

Drive better content creation by involving the right stakeholders. Find out the four key ...

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7 Ways to have a Customer-Focused Sales Team During a Crisis

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The COVID-19 Revolution

The Spur Group's Jim Bernado reflects on the impact of COVID-19 on sales, business, and our overall ...

“The Spur Group did a great job managing different stakeholder teams and delivered a strong set of materials that will accelerate our momentum within target industries.”

Rowena Branch

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, Dynamics 365, Microsoft

Client Story

Interactive Walkthrough Increases Sales Opportunities and Reduces Costs

Learn how we helped a client showcase products through interactive walkthroughs, resulting in ...

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How to Achieve Sustainable Growth With a Partner Journey Map

Leveraging your partner journey map is essential to your success. Learn the journey's five phases, ...

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10 Powerful Leadership Lessons Learned From Coaching Kids

Sports and business have much in common. Check out the 10 leadership lessons our CFO, Chris McCall, ...

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5 Steps to a Killer Messaging Framework That Will Save You

A great messaging framework is essential to having connected communications. The Spur Group ...

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3 Steps To Better Operations Design

Effective business operations design eliminates blockers, saves time and money, and increases ...

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Cheat Sheet for Successful Business Operations

A cheat sheet for optimizing your business operations. Make sure your daily tasks and biggest ...

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All Things AI Episode 7: How AI Can Improve Efficiency

In this episode of All Things AI, Clay interviews Michael to discuss how machine learning and AI ...

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How to Combat the 3 Biggest Content Development Challenges in Tech

We've worked on hundreds of marketing and communications projects and often see these 3 content ...

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How To Better Prepare For The Real Channel Revolution

If you aren't using detailed partner data to drive your channel management strategy, you are ...

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9 Content Offers That Help You Close The Deal

Potential customers all need distinct information. Find out which content offers will help you ...

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What Movies Can Teach You About Channel Partner Incentives

Discover what poor channel partner incentives have in common with failed movies and television ...

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When Your Sales Lead Pipeline Is Full – Keep Filling It

Sales expert Steve White shares his strategy of continuing to reach out to new leads, even when ...

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How to Use Channel Incentives to Accelerate Revenue

Find out how to develop channel incentives to motivate behavior that wouldn’t otherwise happen. The ...

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Prioritizing Care for the Whole Person in the Workplace

The Spur Group talks about why employee well-being matters and several easy practices that ...

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5 Easy Ways to Charm the Audience at Your Next Presentation

Using our experience with giving presentations, The Spur Group has developed 5 tips for connecting ...

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Is Your Channel Incentive Program A Money Pit?

For many vendors, channel incentives are perhaps the single largest cost line item. Find out how to ...

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Artifacts of Control Within A Sales Organization

The Spur Group helps you identify the way to set up a game within a sales organization and use the ...

“The team was able to provide significant time savings for myself as well as other stakeholders and the process and systems they helped to establish are now being expanded to help capture evidence across multiple teams within Microsoft. “

Heather Doran

Senior Sales Strategy Lead, Inside Sales, Microsoft

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How to Keep Remote Employees Healthy and Engaged

How The Spur Group keeps employees healthy and engaged during the COVID-19 crisis, with tips from ...

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Common Weaknesses in a Sales Channel Strategy

Learn how to accurately forecast your channel ecosystem, using momentum, relationships, and ...

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A Step-by-Step Approach to Breaking Through Writer's Block

These three steps for breaking through writer’s block will work for any writing project you might ...

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5 Guerilla Project Management Techniques

Five guerilla project management techniques exist for those who realize you can’t do it all. ...

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Channel Chats Episode 3: How Cloud is Changing Partner Relationships

The Spur Group's CMO, Richard Flynn speaks with Ross Brown, VP, Cloud GTM at Oracle about trends in ...

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How to Boost Performance With Balanced Scorecards

Balanced scorecards can help you measure and drive performance by helping you establish goals and ...

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How to Incorporate Content into Your Channel Planning Process

We share The Spur Group's 3-step guide to creating content within the channel planning process, ...

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A Signal Among Noise: a Data Scientist's Early Thoughts About COVID-19

One of The Spur Group's data scientists has some early thoughts on how to read and understand ...

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Establish Your Executives As Thought Leaders

Successfully speaking at an event depends on thoughtful content with plenty of industry insight, ...

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Enabling Debates for Effective Decision-Making

Find out how to organize a structed debate with leadership to make effective business decision, ...

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All Things AI Episode 3: Using AI in Healthcare Across the World

We interview founder and CEO of Origo Software Isaac Inkumsah about the role of artificial ...

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All Things AI Episode 4: Business Intelligence and Data Visualization

In episode 4 of the All Things AI web series, we interview experienced data analyst Andre ...

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All Things AI Episode 5: Using AI for Weapons Detection

In episode 5 of All Things AI, we interview AI expert and former Navy SEAL about how he started a ...

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“My experience with Spur has been outstanding. Easily one of the very best vendor experiences I’ve had in my 10 years at Microsoft… it has been a pleasure working with all of them.”

Peter Cooper

Director of Product Marketing, Internet of Things, Microsoft

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All Things AI Episode 6: How to Build a Data Science Team

In episode 6 of All Things AI, we interview Demitri Plessas, a mathematics professor turned data ...

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Channel Chats Ep 1: The Building Blocks of a Channel Strategy

The Spur Group's CMO, Richard Flynn, sat down with the CEO of Baptie, Rod Baptie, discuss the ...

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Channel Chats Ep 2: Partner Insights From a Cloud Leader

The Spur Group's CMO, Richard Flynn, sat down with Snowflake VP Colleen Kapase to discuss how cloud ...

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Reflections From Our CEO, Randy Karr

The Spur Group's CEO, Randy Karr shares why we are one of the best places to work and what makes ...

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What Pro-Bono Consulting Can Teach You About Service

The Spur Group aims to make an impact in our community. Take a look at our first pro bono project ...

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Being Business Forward Prepared Us For this Pandemic

The Spur Group's CEO Randy Karr outlines some of the operating principles that have allowed us to ...

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Business in the 2020s: How Humanistic Capitalism Will Change the World

The Spur Group's CEO Randy Karr outlines three key focus areas that will guide how businesses ...

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Taking Advantage Of The New Go-to-Market Sales Strategy

Having a superior product isn't enough to keep a market advantage. Find out how a go-to-market ...

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Next Time You Look to Hire a Consultant, Try a Different Approach

With talent, we value substance more than status. Some of our best hires came from unlikely places. ...

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Five Reasons Working at The Spur Group Can Lead to a Promising Career

To be a successful business, you need a dedicated team committed to your company and your ...

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Why Community Service and Giving Are a Core Part of The Spur Group

The Spur Group is constantly driven to make a positive impact by helping others. Here are the three ...

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How To Get Great Revenue Acceleration In Today's Tech Climate

Maintaining a market advantage is tough. Richard Flynn explains why it's increasingly difficult to ...

“Over the course of a difficult project, I have enjoyed their candor, humor and collaboration. For me it has been a great and very successful experience.”

Maarten van Velsen

Director, Go To Market Strategy, Global Channels, NetApp

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The Complete Guide to Successful Business Operations

Business operations often means juggling competing priorities with limited resources. We share how ...

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The Go-To-Market Checklist

Your go-to-market strategy helps define your sustainable competitive advantage. Start planning with ...

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Spark Tank: Make Your Ideas a Reality

The Spur Group leader Leland Matthaeus gives a glimpse into an innovative idea for employee ...

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Why Your Go-To-Market Strategy Matters

Your go-to-market strategy defines your sustainable competitive advantage. Learn which five ...

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Digital Asset Tracker Unifies Azure Marketing Portfolio

Azure IoT wanted us to help organize a large number of marketing assets. Find out how we created a ...

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Key Decision: Investments in Channel Management Tools and Models

Channel management is about economics and requires an investment model for success. Learn how to ...

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Channel Planning Is More Than Just A Good Algorithm

Senior Principal at The Spur Group Richard Flynn explains how to improve your channel planning with ...

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Make an Impact: Know Your Channel Partner Health Index

Ensure your channel efforts are paying off by following our 18-point model for reviewing, analyzing ...

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Effective Sales Playbook Strengthens Cohesity's Partner Relationships

We helped Cohesity build a repeatable sales playbook. Learn how we strengthened our client's ...

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The Future of Remote Working: 5 Tips for Navigating Hybrid Work

Consultant Anna Vilhauer shares her experience launching a new product for Microsoft during the ...

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The 18-Point Checklist for Assessing Your Channel Health

Every channel leader, from seasoned experts to newbies, should conduct regular channel health ...

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How to Get Started on Adding Cloud to Your Revenue Mix

Create opportunities by evolving cloud service offerings. The Spur Group can advance your market ...

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How to Lead Your Partners Into a Cloud Transition

The Spur Group's Richard Flynn gives three tips for how to lead the way with your partners as they ...

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Use Data To Define Your Channel Partner Management Strategy

The Spur Group channel expert Richard Flynn outlines how you can use data-driven insights to define ...

“The Spur Group did a great job managing different stakeholder teams and delivered a strong set of materials that will accelerate our momentum within target industries.”

Rowena Branch

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, Dynamics 365, Microsoft

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The Big Reveal: The Power of a Personal Story

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Sales Effectiveness: Your Customers Have Changed, Now It’s Your Turn

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Keep In Mind These 8 Tips When Shifting From Live to Hybrid Events

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7 Examples of Partner Incentives With a Proven Positive ROI

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6 Disciplines of Successful Channel Management

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The Ultimate Guide to Successful Business Operations

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How to Choose the Right Project Management Method

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The Spur Group Announces It Joins the Reply Network of Companies

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9 Steps to Create a Data-Driven Culture

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The Six Traits That Make an Effective Chief Channel Officer

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4 Communications Techniques for Effective Conversations

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Why We Hire for Potential Over Pedigree

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Why Partner Scoring Is Essential for Performance Management

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RevOps: A Game-Changer for Senior Sales and Marketing Leaders

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