Ignite Brand Growth with Culture-First Strategies

Culture isn’t a side conversation — it’s your next competitive edge.
At Santiago Solutions Group (SSG), we help brands turn cultural insight into inclusive growth. As a boutique consultancy with 20+ years of experience, we partner with B2C brand in the Fortune 1,000s to unlock new market share through smart, data-backed strategies. Whether you’re scaling up or stuck in neutral, we give you the tools to grow where others stall out.

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WHY CULTURE-FIRST MARKETING MATTERS

Culture is the Growth Engine

In today’s marketplace, culture drives value. Period.
Culturally relevant marketing explains up to 67% of campaigns sales success. Brands that lead with authentic cultural insights win loyalty, grow faster, and future-proof their strategy. Brands that don’t? Risk irrelevance.

“Inclusive marketing is a requisite for growth. To build a brand that truly resonates, you have to be relevant to every consumer segment—if you’re not speaking to all consumers, you’re not fully in the game.”

Marc Pritchard,
CBO at P&G
Cannes Lions International Festival, June 2024

At SSG, we don’t just believe in culture-first. We operationalize it.

OUR APPROACH: END-TO-END SOLUTIONS FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH

We combine deep cultural knowledge with sharp strategic thinking to solve your thorniest marketing challenges – and unlock new revenue streams in the process.

Market Opportunity & Strategy

We identify high-growth consumer segments regardless of race, color, generation, or identities. Providing “equal access” to growth through value segmentation and the lens of each and all cultures, we land at your optimal brand’s opportunity size. From here, we build custom go-to-market strategies that align your product, messaging, and experience with the consumers driving growth.

Insight Development & Testing

You can’t fake cultural resonance. We engage real consumers as the foundation to uncover what truly matters – from motivators to tone and language. Using our proprietary analytical growth metrics, CIIM™ testing, qualitative insight development, and AI applications, we validate concepts and creative to de-risk polarization while maximizing our investment and ROI.

Execution Support & Optimization

We don’t stop at strategy. We train your teams, advise your agencies, and help align your touchpoints across retail, digital, and experiential. Post-launch, we monitor performance and refine execution in real time. Think of us as your growth strategy partner – from kickoff to rollout to next-gen optimization.

Our proven frameworks ensure your investments keep paying off, year after year.

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Why SSG

Industry Leaders

We don’t follow trends – we set them. SSG co-founded AIMM (Alliance for Inclusive & Multicultural Marketing) and co-developed CIIM™, the first ROI-based metric for cultural resonance. If it’s best practice today, we probably helped build it.

Boutique Attention, Big-Firm Rigor

Every client gets senior-level expertise and personalized attention. With 500+ projects under our belt, we bring serious consulting muscle without the layers and lag time.

Obsessed with Results

Everything we do ties back to growth – more revenue, greater brand trust, and higher ROI. We build KPI dashboards, measure what matters, and refine relentlessly until your needle moves.

Deep Cultural Inclusion Expertise

Our diverse team brings lived experience and market expertise across race, ethnicity, color, generation, identities, and more. We translate cultural nuance into action – not just awareness – so your brand connects in ways that feel real, not performative.

READY TO GROW?

You’ve tried generic campaigns. Now it’s time for a culture-first approach that actually delivers.
Let’s partner to turn authentic cultural insights into business results you can brag about.

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SSG in Numbers

Our journey, together with our clients, says it all. We love what we do!

Projects Delivered

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Years of Experience

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Working with best in-class brands for 20+ years