CRM

Churn and Retention from the Portland Trailblazers

We thought we’d share one of our favourite case studies from the second edition of our book, Winning with Data. It’s a great read, courtesy of the NBA’s 1977 Championship-winning team, and particularly looks at their approach to churn analysis and customer retention. We hope you enjoy it, and if

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CRM

Performance Marketing In The World Of Sports

Our resident Performance Marketing Specialist, Jamie Dorsman, shares his thoughts on the opportunities that can come from well thought out strategies delivered across Performance Marketing channels. In the ever-evolving sports industry a digital revolution is underway, and performance marketing has emerged as a vital catalyst for success. At Winners, we

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Data driven marketing

Changes In Customer Behaviour

Have you ever been in a conversation, right in the middle of a sentence, when the person you’re talking to looks at their phone, scrolling to see their latest notifications and messages? And what about those smartwatch users who think they’re being discreet, just looking at the time, but their lingering glance lets you know they’re reading an email.

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CRM

YES you can use an opt-out instead of an opt-in!

Those of you who know me, will also know that I’ve been on a bit of a crusade to dispel the many GDPR myths that are out there (you should email your database to ask them to opt-in, you have to ask for a third party opt-in to send your

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CRM

Football League Audiences Down – Step Forward CRM

Deloitte recently published their inimitable Annual Review of Football Finance, yet again providing us with mountains of content to read, re-read, debate, discuss and analyse. Deloitte are masters – not only of producing a high quality publication that perfectly demonstrates the quality and range of their services in this sector

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CRM

WE DON’T NEED HiPPOS – WE HAVE DATA, WE HAVE FACT

Most  sports organisations are still trying to understand how they can use CRM within their sales-focussed environments – clubs, NGBs, and events are used to thinking “sell, sell, sell” and customer service (or in this case, fan engagement) has taken a backseat for the longest time.  But things are changing

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CRM

The Sports Industry: Top of the Email Marketing League?

The sports industry really leads the way when it comes to some of our off-the-field activities:  we’ve been supporting our communities for years (before CSR ever became a watchword), 70% of all sponsorship budgets are spent on sport, and regardless of which member of the Royal family gets married, it’s

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Sponsorship

SPONSORS – SWEAT YOUR ASSETS NOT YOUR BUDGETS

There are more companies in this world who are not sponsoring sport than are sponsoring it.  That’s a fact.  But as an industry, we want to two things – 1) more companies sponsoring sport, and 2) those companies that are sponsoring, spending more on it.  Well, actually we want three

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CRM

THE SINGLE CUSTOMER VIEW – IT’S NOT THAT COMPLICATED

“Experts” have a habit of making things sound more complicated than they are – this allows their expertise to appear even more valuable than it actually is.  So let me dispel a myth that seems to be perpetuated by the CRM industry – achieving the holy grail of data driven

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Sports Business

ARSENAL THE REAL WINNERS IN DELOITTE FOOTBALL MONEY LEAGUE

Deloitte recently released the 16th edition of their Football Money League, a summary of the 20 highest earning clubs in the world (see the infographic here).  Their League is published eight months after the end of the previous season and is widely considered “the most contemporary and reliable analysis of clubs’

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