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A Joint Holiday Shopping Study With GSI Commerce Of 15 Retail Websites
Successfully reaching online shoppers during the critical holiday season is crucial to the Q4 success of eCommerce businesses. Forrester collaborated with the eCommerce service provider GSI Commerce...

The European Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2011, surveyed 22,501 respondents in the eight markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is...
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...

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...
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...
The Russian Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2011, surveyed 3,105 respondents in urban Russia. This survey is based on adults ages 16 and older. Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) weighted the data by...
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...
Product Strategists Must Build Total Product Experiences To Combat Consumers' Declining Brand Loyalty
Brand loyalty has long been a critical pillar of product strategy, but its power is in relative decline. Technology and a recessionary economy have threatened the value of brand loyalty, especially...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2011 of 3,850 US online users ages 18 to 88 as a subsegment of the North American Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011 (US,...
The hope of greater margins and more control may drive a consumer goods company to embrace direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. But while those are sound reasons to sell directly, they sell the value of...
US Consumers Have Little Clue About Their Phone's Software
In the white-hot US smartphone market, the once-invisible underlying software platforms have become one of the fiercest areas of competition. RIM and Apple lead this market, while platforms from...