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Report:2013 Planning Brief: Listen To Customers, Engage With Influencers

How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative

As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...

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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: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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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Implement Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy

Road Map: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "How To Build An Implementation Road Map For Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on August 11, 2011. In a world of proliferating digital...

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Report:Driving B2B Demand With Social Media

B2B Marketers Must Focus On The Social Rather Than The Media

When it comes to using social media to attract customers, business-to-business (B2B) marketers have focused more on the media than the social aspect. Today, B2B marketers use social media as another...

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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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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Listening Platforms, Q2 2012

How Nine Vendors Stack Up In A Constantly Changing Market

In Forrester's 64-criteria evaluation of enterprise listening platforms vendors, we found that Radian6 and Visible Technologies lead the pack because of their variably functional dashboards and...

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Report:Four Steps To Tackle The Shift To The Customer Life Cycle

Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

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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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Report:The Always Addressable Customer

Vision: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report introduces Forrester's vision of mobile marketing for interactive marketing professionals: Discover the new ultra-connected customer, for whom mobile is the key touchpoint. In 2010, we...

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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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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...

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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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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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Report:Brand Building In The 21st Century

The Quest For Market Share And Mindshare In An Age Of Higher Standards

Like the ruins of Rome, 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...

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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:Co-Creation In 2012

How Vendors Will Drive Co-Creation Uptake By Product Strategists

Co-creation will become a pillar of product innovation by 2015. Although the market remains relatively immature, we have witnessed growing awareness of co-creation from our clients across a wide...

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Report:The B2B Interactive Brand Ecosystem

Align Your Interactive Brand Ecosystem To The Customer Life Cycle

B2B interactive marketers' isolated experiments in emerging channels like social media and mobile marketing are often disconnected from bread-and-butter sales support and lead generation efforts. But...

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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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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...

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Report:The Social Intelligence Market Is Immature

Landscape: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Over the years, we've evaluated the tools that marketers use to monitor, measure, and learn from online conversations. These listening platforms capture social media to help users analyze data and...

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Report:It's Decision Time For gTLDs

Factor The Real Risks And Opportunities Into Your Own Domain Strategy

The application window for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is upon us. Some organizations think that this is the greatest opportunity ever to take control of their online identity, while others...

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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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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:Three-Dimensional Brand Health: A Data Mashup

Harnessing Digital Data To Monitor The Brand's Past, Present, And Future Health

Big data holds big promise for marketers who want to understand and manage their brand's health with greater precision. But challenges abound. While the technology is available to process new sources...

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