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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Engage Your Omnichannel Consumer

Brand Engagement The Consumer Way

The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers

Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Extend Your Marketing Into Games

See Through The Myths, And Tap Games As A Medium For Marketing

Are you looking to deliver interactive, integrated marketing messages and advertising to reach an attractive, broad base of users in a medium where emotional response is predictable and guaranteed?...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Make The Switch To The Customer Life Cycle

Strategic Plan: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The customer life cycle provides a better explanation of modern marketing than does the traditional marketing funnel, but most marketers have not yet moved their organizations to the customer life...

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For CMO Professionals

Playbook:The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

The Post-Digital Rules Of Brand Building

In the 21st century, empowered consumers have steered brand marketing into foreign terrain — they have taken the driver's seat and told brands where, when, and how they want to be interacted...

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Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Select The Right Interactive Agency In China

Vet Interactive Agencies Against Four Key Criteria To Effectively Drive Your Marketing In China

The opportunity for interactive marketing professionals to reach and win Chinese consumers via digital channels is enormous. But the threat of failure looms just as large for brands with a shallow...

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Report:Benchmark Your Brand Building Capabilities

Benchmarks: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In 2012, Forrester surveyed marketing leaders to get a pulse on their progress toward successfully building 21st century brands. The results show that marketers are in the early stages of 21st...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: Contact Center Solutions For Customer Service, Q2 2013

Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:How Extended Packaging Will Redefine Relationships Among Brands, Retailers, And Customers

A European Perspective On Mobile Bar Codes

You've seen them everywhere: in the corners of print ads, across billboards, on buses, or in pieces of direct mail — those small blocks of even smaller squares. Marketers are increasingly using...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Four Social Marketing Tools You Need

Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook

Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they're increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Marketers Need To Put Money Where A Consumer's Mouth Is

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...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:The Marketing Case For A Branded Sales Channel

Marketers Must Look Beyond Incremental Sales And Margins To Assess The Full Impact Of A Direct Sales Channel

Every product category has a set of competitors that have a branded route to the customer — such as The Body Shop in cosmetics, Gap in apparel, and Apple in consumer electronics — while...

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Survey:North American Technographics® Brand Compass Survey, Q1 2013

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,575 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,575), there is 95% confidence...

For Customer Insights Professionals

Playbook:The Social Intelligence Playbook

Leverage Social Data To Elevate Customer Intelligence

Social media's prevalence across the Web gives consumers and brands a new way to connect online. But while most businesses know the importance of social media, most are missing opportunities by not...

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Social Relationship Platforms, Q2 2013

The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 49-criteria evaluation of social relationship platform (SRP) vendors, we identified the eight most significant vendors — Adobe, Hearsay Social, salesforce.com's Buddy Media,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Understand Immediacy, Simplicity, And Context

Processes: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report highlights the key principles of mobile experience that interactive marketers must weave into the process of crafting mobile marketing strategies. More people own smartphones than ever...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Build Your Brand With Generation Z

Generation Z, the generation born after the Millennials, are true digital natives who have grown up in the age of technology. The only world they know is a digital one — where they can connect...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Online Hispanics: A Demographic Overview

North American Technographics®

This demographic overview highlights the unique behaviors and attitudes that characterize US online Hispanics compared with their non-Hispanic peers. US online Hispanics lead the way in mobile device...

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Report:How To Exploit The Database Of Affinity

And Why Google, Not Facebook, Will Dominate Affinity Marketing

Every day, huge numbers of people tell us what they like by voting for things, talking about things, reviewing things, and engaging in other online social interactions. All these behaviors add up to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

Landscape: The CRM Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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For Interactive Marketing Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Social Relationship Platforms, Q2 '13

For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Unified Customer Experience Imperative

Delivering Experience Excellence Across A Fractured Network Of Digital Touchpoints

Today's digital landscape is distributed across an array of touchpoints and devices. With customers able to interact through multiple channels at any given moment, firms need to ensure that they...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Design A Social Intelligence Function

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...

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