You wouldn’t fly a plane blindfolded because you can’t see where you’re going – whether it’s looking out the window or at the instrument panel. The same holds true for effectively managing your trade spending. If you don’t have both a TPM solution and syndicated consumer data you are really flying blind. Yet, amazingly, many – with some estimates as high as 40% – small CPG companies do not spend the now relatively small amount of dollars on securing solutions to see where 10-30%+ of their topline revenue is going. Continue reading