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Report:Consumer Attitudes Toward Loyalty Programs Deteriorate

Landscape: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes toward...

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Report:The Evolution Of The Customer Engagement Agency

As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...

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Report:Enable Loyalty Program Success With Sound Processes

Processes: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Loyalty programs promise to increase retention and satisfaction, but they often fall short of delivering results because they lack an innovative strategy to set them apart from the competition. This...

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Report:Case Study: SCENE Uses Customer Insights To Deliver Value To Loyalty Customers

This report provides a case study supporting Forrester's best practices for customer intelligence professionals working to drive customer loyalty. Forrester identifies four crucial best practices for...

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Report:How Health Insurance Companies Can Leverage CI To Adapt Amid Policy Reform

US health insurance companies are in the midst of a systemwide transition to meet the requirements of congressionally mandated healthcare reform awaiting them in 2014. While insurers have made great...

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Report:Personal Identity Management Success Starts With Customer Understanding

With the increase in high-profile data breaches and the recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlements that hold Facebook, Google, and Twitter accountable to strict privacy audit guidelines,...

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Report:Move Beyond Campaigns To Tap Hidden Customer Potential

Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve...

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Report:Building A World-Class Loyalty Program

Continuous Improvement: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Successful loyalty programs offer a boost to customer retention, customer satisfaction, and the bottom line. But today, many programs fail to reach success because they haven't mastered even basic...

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Report:How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management

Vision: The Customer Analytics Playbook

With the growing importance of customer intelligence (CI) in organizations, the role of analytics to extract insight and embed it back into organizational processes is at the forefront of business...

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Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Presents A Clear Path To Marketing ROI

Vision: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

Today's customers interact with brands via a wide variety of touchpoints and at different stages of the brand life cycle. But companies measure campaign success using last-touch methods that fail to...

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Report:CI Professionals: Plan For The Future Of Cross-Channel Marketing

The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

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Report:The Keys To A Social Intelligence Command Center

Continuous Improvement: The Social Intelligence Playbook

If you represent a large consumer brand, consider a social intelligence command center — a dedicated resource for listening to the groundswell. A command center like this can improve your...

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Report:Use Customer Analytics To Get Personal

Analytically Driven Personalization Increases Retention And Return

Companies personalize products, offers, content, and communications for a variety of reasons — to treat customers uniquely, to make them feel special, and to encourage them to spend more. Firms...

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Report:Tackle Behavioral Targeting To Modernize Customer Interactions

Benchmarks: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the...

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Report:The Road Map To Integrated Social Intelligence

Road Map: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Too many companies remain trapped by merely monitoring or passively collecting social media. Few actually reach social intelligence: driving their marketing and business strategy using the data that...

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Report:TechRadar™ For Customer Intelligence Professionals: Customer Loyalty Programs, Q1 2013

Business Case: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Loyalty technologies play a central role in the execution and differentiation of customer loyalty programs and, more specifically, in driving consumer participation in a program across channels...

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Report:Customer Intelligence Needs A New Breed Of Marketing Scientist

Organization: The Customer Analytics Playbook

A mature customer intelligence (CI) function needs optimized data processes, cutting-edge technologies, and the right analytics talent. Analysts add value to CI with their data-mining and...

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Report:Making Sense Of A Fractured Consumer Data Ecosystem

Landscape: The Personal Identity Management Playbook

Although widespread adoption of personal identity management (PIDM) remains a few years away, the ecosystem of data lockers and authorization managers is already rapidly evolving. Firms ranging from...

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Report:Where To Get Help With Web Analytics

Customer Intelligence Professionals Don't Have To Go It Alone

Mastering web analytics is an ongoing challenge as customer intelligence (CI) professionals contend with a fluid and complex environment exacerbated by severe resource constraints. But the demand for...

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Report:Enable Customer Obsession With Cross-Channel Campaign Management

Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

Once relegated to the province of direct mail teams and analysts, customer data and marketing technology are now essential to every marketing function, from strategy to creative development to...

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Report:Five Ways That Personal Identity Management Changes Customer Analytics

In the future, consumers will manage their data through a concept that Forrester calls personal identity management (PIDM). Customers' control over their data affects the analytics performed on that...

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Report:It's Time To Bridge The Audience Data Management Divide

How Customer Intelligence Can Unify Audience Intelligence Across Channels To Enable Advanced Advertising

Marketers constantly seek ways to design addressable marketing programs that reduce media waste and create targeting efficiencies: Direct marketers turn to marketing databases to inform audience...

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Report:Digital Intelligence Transforms Analytics Into Action

Executive Overview: The Digital Intelligence Playbook

The volume and complexity of digital interactions with customers cause analytics challenges for marketers. The conventional web analytics approach cannot keep up with the explosion of channels,...

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Report:Five Ways To Mobilize Your Loyalty Program In 2013

Mobile Channels Offer Rich Opportunities For Rewards And Engagement

Mobile continues to grow in importance for reaching and engaging empowered consumers and loyalty program members. From a data perspective, it opens up new streams of information that provide better...

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Report:Understanding The Anatomy Of A Loyalty Technology Platform

Technology plays an integral role in managing and executing a loyalty program. But buyers face an array of technology solutions that support their loyalty needs in different ways. This report is...

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