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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Benchmark Your Interactive Marketing Maturity

Five Key Metrics For Tracking Progress

Are your interactive marketing efforts keeping pace with the marketplace? In this report for interactive marketers, Forrester identifies the five key benchmarks that help you gauge how well you are...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Assessing Your Content Management Processes And Organization

B2B marketers across all industries are investing more into creating digital content to generate new business opportunities, nurture existing sales or marketing leads, and to encourage deeper...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Why The EU ePrivacy Law Will Not Kill eCommerce

Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers

In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Drive Marketing Innovation

Innovation Must Be Deliberate, Distributed, And Demonstrable

Marketing innovation is a business priority. But not all marketing leaders are meeting the challenge despite executive interest. CMOs who are better at driving their organizations are doing so by...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Work With Marketing Pros To Prevent Breaches

How To Protect Your Email Data

In facing security woes such as the Epsilon breach, email marketing professionals have received a wake-up call: Security failures can cost a lot — not just a lot of money but also goodwill with...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Display Media Preferences Change

For CMO Professionals

Tool:Forrester's Marketing Automation Maturity Model

For CMO Professionals

Tool:Test Your Orchestration Maturity

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Take A Startup Approach To Develop Customer Relationships

Organization: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

Customers, empowered by always connected digital devices, can engage with brands at any time, from any place, and at any point within the customer life cycle. To respond with relevance in real time,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:CMOs Must Merge Marketing With IT To Win In The Digital Decade

Assessing Your Marketing-IT Partnership Readiness To Develop A Custom Action Plan

In the future, only companies that understand and anticipate their customers' needs and can consistently deliver unique, tailored customer experiences will be able to attract and retain loyal...

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For CMO Professionals

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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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Build An Empowered Media Buying Team

Organization: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Long-term, digital media buying success requires a commitment to the right partnerships, staffing, and organizational structure. The organization report in the digital media buying playbook will help...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Investing In Tech Marketing, 2011

Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations

The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Investing In Marketing's Technology Future

How CI Can Use Technology To Drive Competitive Advantage

Marketers require ever more technology to capture, integrate, analyze, and apply customer data to marketing programs. Forrester recommends that marketers establish an enterprisewide marketing...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Publishers Confront Dramatic Shifts To Their Monetization Models

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Organize For Social Intelligence

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Manage The Digitization Of Agency Services

Performance Management: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

To effectively manage agency partners, marketers must reorient themselves to the shifting terrain of the agency landscape. All agencies are digitizing their core capabilities to help clients engage...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Trends For The CMO To Watch In 2011

Brands Need To Prepare Now For The Next Digital Decade

2011 promises to be a year of uncertainty for chief marketing officers (CMOs) and marketing leaders, as consumer confidence remains uncertain and media consumption continues to splinter. But that...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:A Measurement Maturity Framework For Interactive Marketers

Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2011 Interactive Marketing Predictions

Reorganize To Tear Down Channel Ghettos And Focus On The Customer

Flush with cash, interactive marketers will experiment aggressively in 2011, using the careful planning and execution learned in the recent downturn to increase the success rate of innovations. Look...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Use Interactive Marketing Dashboards To Improve Decision-Making

How To Plan, Build, And Optimize Your Dashboards

Deluged with data, interactive marketers wrestle with summarizing and communicating information. Essential life jackets in this raging sea: well-crafted dashboards. They help interactive marketers...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Bad Habits Keep Marketers From Adapting

Benchmarking The Adaptive Marketing Organization

The results of Forrester's August 2011 North American Adaptive Marketer Benchmarking Online Survey reveal that the vast majority of marketers are not practicing the habits of Adaptive Marketing. The...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:CMO: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

Mobile Transforms How Companies Interact With Customers

Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Interactive Brand Ecosystem

Put Interactive Marketing At The Heart Of Your Branding Campaigns

Your customers have entered an era of interactivity; it's time for your branding campaigns to catch up. Rather than continue to develop your brand in 30-second snippets and hope you can build a...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Take This Diagnostic To Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity