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For CMO Professionals

Report:Chart A New Course For Your Brand

Strategic Plan: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In order to build and preserve brand equity in the face of higher consumer expectations and support 21st century brand marketing, CMO and marketing leadership professionals must develop a strategic...

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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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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:Consumers Demand More From 21st Century Brands

Landscape: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Empowered consumers threaten the traditional building blocks of brand equity, as they have greater influence than ever over brand preference, recommendation, and pricing power. In February 2012,...

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Report:Measure And Manage Brand Health

Continuous Improvement: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Managing brand health has become more complicated as the expansion of marketing, sales, and service channels creates a vast array of consumer data that can be used for analysis in the 21st century....

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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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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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Report:Marketers Need To Acquire Adaptive Skill Sets

Organization: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Most marketers have earned their stripes through corporate work experience and business-school training that takes a top-down linear approach to marketing planning and optimization. Today, the...

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Report:Invest In The Brand Building Experience

Business Case: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In the age of the customer, brand building is more important than ever to differentiate offerings and create long-term customer value. However, marketing leaders still need to convince their C-suite...

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Tool:The 21st Century Brand Building Self-Assessment

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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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Report:CMOs Must Lead The Brand Experience

Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...

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Report:2013 B2B CMO Imperatives

Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing

Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

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Report:How To Build Your Brand With Branded Content

Traditional marketing vehicles are becoming less effective in capturing and engaging the attention of today's perpetually connected consumers. Chief marketing officers (CMOs) must adapt their...

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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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Report:Brands Must Adapt To Customers' Higher Standards

Vision: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

The traditional pillars of brand equity are cracking under the weight of the higher standards of the 21st century consumer. Marketers are disoriented in this world where they are losing influence...

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Report:Build Your Army Of Brand Advocates From Across The Enterprise

Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketers'...

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Report:Four Steps To Build Your Brand Experience

Road Map: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Once the brand has its strategic bearings laid out — the North Star, the experience map, and its brand compass — it's time to cast off and start thinking about how to plan for the brand...

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Report:Evaluate Your Brand Building Capabilities

Assessment: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Today's digitally empowered consumers have more opportunities than ever to voice their wants, needs, and expectations, forcing marketers to rethink the way they build successful brands. This report...

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Report:How To Deliver A New Brand Experience

Processes: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Many companies are well on their way to delivering a top-notch brand experience for their demanding customers. CMO and marketing leadership professionals can learn from the experiences and processes...

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Report:The Post-Digital Rules Of Brand Building

Executive Overview: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

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:Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Demands New Metrics

Performance Management: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

To get the best returns from the adoption of a customer-centric approach to marketing, Forrester believes that marketers must make the shift from the traditional marketing funnel to the customer life...

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Report:Align Your Global Marketing Organization To Deliver On 21st Century Brand Building

Consumers have higher expectations of 21st century brands, requiring marketers to rethink how they navigate the brand, from reestablishing the brand's North Star to creating a consistent set of brand...

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Report:Trends For The B2C CMO To Watch In 2013

Embrace Digital Innovation To Deliver Compelling Brand Experiences

2013 will be a unique year for CMOs of consumer-focused companies. They will have to drive their brands to deliver cohesive brand experiences that use digital to augment and extend their engagement...

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