Solutions for Sports Organisations

FT Strategies helps sports organisations build new and better relationships with
fans by enabling their unique content to shine in a crowded and competitive space

How we can help

We power customer growth through creative and dynamic digital transformation strategies from conception to execution.

Staffed by the experts who successfully transformed the FT’s business model in the face of disruption, FT Strategies can help you to exceed your ambitions by delivering a sustainable growth strategy that will improve your customer engagement, retention, revenue and profit.

  • For governing bodies this means engaging and monetising existing and new fans through diversified revenue streams
  • We support leagues and teams in optimising content to maintain a consistent dialogue with fans
  • For other content publishers and broadcasters, we focus on building loyal fanbases and combatting seasonality effects

Acquire new customers

We use data and metrics to build a picture of who your prospects are so you can identify, understand, attract and engage the right people and the right time. Our expert consultants will guide you through:

  • Customer segmentation and persona development
  • Content discovery and distribution strategies
  • Lead generation and lead nurturing
  • Audience engagement and diversification
  • Editorial innovation and content strategy

Monetise Assets

Pricing can be a thorny topic. Charge too high and you won’t retain your customers. Charge too low and you’ll miss out on opportunities for growing your recurring revenue. How can you gauge your customers’ willingness to pay, increase ARPU through optimised pricing, and avoid cannibalisation? Our monetisation experts will help you understand:

  • Price sensitivity and optimum price points
  • Engagement-based and dynamic pricing
  • Cross-selling and upselling existing customers
  • Lifetime value modelling

Drive Engagement

FT Strategies help financial organisations create a base of highly engaged customers, reduce churn, increase LTV and ARPU by defining exactly what engagement means to you, and building an analytical foundation to influence your customer’s engagement patterns. We specifically focus on:

  • Defining your North Star metric
  • Customer segmentation and personalisation strategies
  • Creating a customer engagement programme
  • Next best action modelling
  • Measuring value using data and analytics

Boost Retention & Lifetime Value

Customers become loyal when they’re highly engaged and connected to your brand, mission and values. That’s why it’s crucial to understand where they are in the decision-making process, so you can predict triggers for churn and create a strong safety net at each step of the customer lifecycle. Our retentions solutions focus on:

  • CRM and customer engagement strategies
  • Loyalty and winback strategies
  • Involuntary churn and payment optimisation
  • Churn prediction and Lifetime value modelling
  • Dynamic pricing and rightsizing

Digital Transformation

Wherever you are on your digital transformation journey, we can help you create a clear roadmap with key metrics to measure success along the way. Our digital transformation solutions include:

  • An organisational diagnostic and cultural assessment
  • A clear roadmap to accelerate transformation across your organisation
  • Implementing a North Star methodology
  • A capabilities assessment, so you know where to prioritise your resources for maximum results
  • A strategy to build a recurring revenue model

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On-demand webinar: Demystifying First Party Data

Do you understand first party data and why it is crucial for commercial success? First party data underpins the critical growth engines within media businesses (whether that is news publishing, video on demand, or broadcasting).

In this on-demand webinar, FT Strategies Subscription Strategy Lead, George Montagu not only covers the essentials of first party data, but also guides you in the steps you can take to develop your first party data for commercial success and factor it into your strategy. It includes an interactive Workshop that the FT Strategies team typically run with clients.

Watch the preview, or access the full video via the button below.

Meet our consulting team for Sports

The FT Strategies consulting team work hand-in-hand with the subject matter experts who delivered the Financial Times digital transformation. This model means we don’t stop at building the strategy. Our network of practitioners, from editorial to data, bring first hand experience of putting strategy to practice, driving tangible business results.

Jon Slade
Chief Commercial Officer
Aled John
Interim Managing Director
George Adelman
Principal
Daisy Donald
Principal and Head of Americas
Tony Leung
Commercial Lead
Tim Part
Senior Manager
Aliya Itzkowitz
Manager
Gareth Welsh
Manager

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