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Report:Drive Smarter Customer Loyalty With Customer Intelligence

Executive Overview: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Customer loyalty is a hot topic. Companies look to loyalty programs to enhance customer knowledge and drive customer retention, revenue, and engagement. But, while they see the potential of loyalty...

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Report:The Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

Tools And Technology: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...

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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: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:Evolve Your Approach To Acquisition And Retention

Processes: The Customer Analytics Playbook

Marketers continue to emphasize acquisition and are willing to take the risk of acquiring customers with low long-term profitability. While retention efforts typically enjoy the spotlight in an...

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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: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:Model The ROI Of Cross-Channel Campaign Management

Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

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Report:Organizing For Intelligent Loyalty

Organization: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

This report outlines the organization process of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence executives working on driving customer loyalty. It is designed to help firms use stakeholder mapping to...

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Report:Building Data Stewardship Is A New Customer Intelligence Imperative

Organization: The Personal Identity Management Playbook

In anticipation of the increasing adoption of personal identity management (PIDM) tools and services, customer intelligence (CI) leaders will be held increasingly accountable for their organizations'...

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Report:Evaluate And Evolve Social Intelligence

Assessment: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Over the past four years, Forrester has outlined why firms must monitor social media. But although most companies understand the importance of tracking conversations happening online, few actually...

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Report:Examining The Member Interactions Of Five Major Loyalty Programs

Programs Fall Short Across All Evaluation Criteria

Forrester applied its new Customer Loyalty Program Review methodology to five popular loyalty programs from the retail, travel, and financial services industries. The results of the evaluation...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Listening Platforms, Q2 '12

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Report:Listening Metrics That Matter

As social media becomes more prevalent, the data it creates becomes a critical research and insight-generation activity. Businesses turn to listening platforms to harvest the rich trove of consumer...

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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: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:Ten Steps To Successful Social Intelligence Measurement

Performance Management: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Social media — with its seemingly nebulous returns, such as "engagement" and "advocacy" — often baffles customer intelligence (CI) professionals trying to measure and optimize their...

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Report:Determine The Best Attribution Provider Based On Long-Term Measurement Needs

Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

Customer intelligence (CI) professionals increasingly look to attribution experts for guidance and tools to help calculate true channel and customer purchase path. While there is a broad array of...

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Report:Deciphering A Fragmented Customer Analytics Ecosystem

Tools And Technology: The Customer Analytics Playbook

With the increased focus on data-driven marketing, few firms have the budgets, technology capabilities, or analytical skills to advance their analytics agendas internally, and they frequently turn to...

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Report:Should Your Firm Work With A Customer Engagement Agency?

How To Decide Whether And When To Hire A CEA

Customer intelligence (CI) professionals play an important role in a firm's evolution in the age of the customer — with many gaining C-suite visibility and achieving more-strategic positioning...

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Report:The State Of Customer Analytics 2012

Benchmarks: The Customer Analytics Playbook

The customer data explosion shows no signs of abating. Companies need strong customer analytics capabilities to get a handle on customer data and make meaningful decisions based on analytical...

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Report:Intelligence-Powered CRM

Enhance Existing CRM Initiatives With Customer Intelligence

As organizations become increasingly customer-centric, planning and implementing intelligent customer relationship management (CRM) is at the top of the Customer Intelligence (CI) professional's...

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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:Base Your Plan For Intelligent Loyalty On Maturity

Strategic Plan: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Loyalty programs that attempt to implement a cookie-cutter strategy and ignore customer insights typically struggle and usually lack meaningful results. Organizations seeking to build a program that...

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Report:The Enterprise Listening Platform Landscape

Tools And Technology: The Social Intelligence Playbook

With the incessant growth of social networks, more and more businesses turn to listening platforms — technology and services vendors that help companies manage, learn from, and measure social...

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