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Continuous Improvement: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers is part of Forrester's email marketing playbook and provides our current recommendations for how to continuously improve your email marketing programs. By...
How Advertising Campaigns And Social Marketing Influence Each Other
While it's very helpful to categorize the different online media touchpoints into groups such as earned, owned, and paid media, it's important to recognize that all of these touchpoints influence...
Good Practices When Migrating To An SaaS-Delivered ITSM Solution
How do you successfully move IT service management (ITSM) tool enablement from an on-premises model to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model? A North American brand communications agency found itself...

Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...
Consumers delete fewer email messages, integrate email promotions with personal emails, and forward promotional emails more today than in past years. But email marketers shouldn't be too smug about...
Strategic Plan: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report articulates a strategic plan for how interactive marketers can improve their email programs today and create humanized, integrated messages in the future. We recommend marketers build...
Vision: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report lays out Forrester's vision of email marketing for interactive marketers: Integrate email into a multichannel conversation that includes a number of non-email communication vehicles. Why?...
Executive Overview: The Email Marketing Playbook
The rules for how to best message your users are changing. Now your customers check their email, text messages, and social media posts in parallel. Even trickier: People tap their inboxes from...

Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions
Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...
Stay Ahead Of Privacy Legislation By Creating A Value-For-Data Exchange
Recent advances in audience targeting point to a digital marketing future that leverages consumer data to create personalized messaging and drive higher conversions. However, this potential is...
What is Forrester's take on how healthcare companies have responded to the rise of social media? How will healthcare companies gain traction in the social media space? What are good and the bad...
Analyst relations (AR) people are fretting about the opportunities and threats posed by social media, their worries fed by uncertainty about which aspects of social media will be important and how....

Information Workers Are A New Buying Center For Enterprise Technology
Forrester proposed changing the term IT to BT several years ago to reflect the fact that information technology was now so pervasive to businesses that decision-making around the necessary...
How Interactive Marketers Can Apply PR Best Practices To Succeed With Empowered Customers
Interactive marketers excel in paid and owned media but are often in uncharted waters when tasked with earning media through relationships with advocates and detractors. Thus, PR professionals are...

What works in digital marketing to drive online and in-store traffic for a consumer electronics retailer during the holiday period (October thru December); with a specific focus on Black Friday and...
How Interactive Marketers Must Make Digital Messaging More Engaging
As a marketer you want to be timely and relevant when you send a message and basic triggered messaging has addressed one side of this equation — timeliness — for many marketers. But when...
How Social Intelligence Bridges The Gap Between Diverse Disciplines
Customer Intelligence and public relations aren't obvious bedfellows. The two teams sit on opposite sides of the marketing and strategy organization but share similar goals and will now share a...

What are some great examples of automated, highly personalized, multichannel communications programs? My company has a few programs in pilot mode, but it seems that this concept of highly automated,...
Responsys, ExactTarget, And Experian CheetahMail Lead The Market
In Forrester's 37-criteria evaluation of email marketing vendors, we identified the six significant providers in this category — Epsilon, ExactTarget, Experian CheetahMail, Responsys,...

Performance Management: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report, part of the email marketing playbook, provides interactive marketers with advice on email marketing performance management, with a focus specifically on list maintenance. We've outlined...
Vision: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
Today's empowered customer has the world at her fingertips — literally — through the multiple keyboards and connections to opinions all throughout her day. The challenge for today's...
Marketers should format emails for convenient mobile access. Do this by following Forrester's principles of convenience — create mobile emails that are immediate, simple, and contextually...
We are a messaging vendor and are thinking about different ways to price our platform/services. What is Forrester's take on a plan?
How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes important content for CMOs and marketing leaders looking to improve discovery of their products and services. The discover...

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions requires the right combination of a clear objective, business planning, technology, and, most importantly, people to do the...