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Report:The Mobile Mind Shift Index

Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations

Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Skills And Structures For L2R Success

Organization: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

B2B marketers are adopting the lead-to-revenue (L2R) concept to ensure that revenue goals are met on time by optimizing the balance among lead value, velocity, and volumes, as well as ensuring that...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Base Your Plan For Intelligent Loyalty On Maturity

Strategic Plan: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Loyalty programs that attempt to implement a cookie-cutter strategy and ignore customer insights typically struggle and usually lack meaningful results. Organizations seeking to build a program that...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Lead-Nurturing Payoff For The Tech Industry

Engage With Early-Stage Buyers, Drive Pipeline And Revenue Performance

Today's empowered technology buyers are two-thirds of the way through their buying process before they engage with tech vendors' sales teams. Forrester believes that a robust lead-nurturing program...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Are You Ready For Cross-Channel Attribution?

Assessment: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

Cross-channel attribution is a complex, advanced measurement approach, allowing marketers to uncover the true impact of their marketing campaigns across channels. To get it right, organizations must...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:European B2B Marketers Will Invest In Automation In 2013

Local Vendors Continue To Innovate

Wake up, marketing automation vendors: The European market is getting hot! Forrester's Q4 2012 US And Europe B2B Marketing Tactics And Benchmarks Online Survey shows us that the rate of investment is...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Puts The Science In Marketing Measurement

Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The State Of Lead-To-Revenue Management

Landscape: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

In order to establish the current state of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) practices among tech marketers, we recently analyzed 80 client inquiries on the topic that tech marketing professionals...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Should You Engage In A Customer Intelligence Safe Haven?

Why Marketers Must Create Partnerships To Succeed In The Future

The notion of a "safe haven" in customer intelligence (CI) isn't new; for years, direct marketers and catalogers have relied on cooperatives for their customer acquisition needs. But in the digital...

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Report:Trends 2011: Customer Relationship Management

Twelve Trends Drive Planning For Customer-Centric Process Transformation

The fundamental business needs that drive the requirement for effective and efficient customer management practices remain unchanged for 2011: acquiring new customers; building tighter bonds of...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The New Physics Of Lead-To-Revenue Management

Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Case Study: Mint.com Grows Its Business Using Game Mechanics

Mint.com wanted to increase traffic from new and returning users to its site as well as deepen engagement and exposure to monetized elements. By employing a suite of game mechanics — including...

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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 Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Two Approaches For Socializing Your Loyalty Program

Direct Integration With Social Channels Creates The Richest Engagement And Data Opportunities

Across the globe, more and more consumers are interacting socially than ever before. When it comes to loyalty, social channels provide an opportunity for brands to engage with members beyond the...

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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:It's Time To Integrate Facebook Into Your Marketing Site

Using Facebook Login To Your Advantage

This report, originally written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, contains important insight and recommendations for interactive marketing professionals as well. Since the...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: EFM Satisfaction And Loyalty Solutions, Q3 2011

Medallia And MarketTools Lead With Strong Performers Close Behind

In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of enterprise feedback management (EFM) satisfaction and loyalty solutions, we found that Medallia and MarketTools led the pack with comprehensive software...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Scientific Method Comes To Marketing

Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Topic Overview: Mobile Strategy Starter Kit

Mobile will be the most important digital channel for the foreseeable future. Mobile devices have the potential to eclipse fixed devices attached to the Internet in the foreseeable future. They are...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Partner Up For Influencer Marketing

Work With Key Collaborators To Identify And Engage Influencers

Interactive marketers are often responsible for influencer marketing programs, particularly within business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations. But identifying and engaging influencers is both complex...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Bigger B2B Marketing Budgets Come With Great Expectations

Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation

After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Advance Through The Stages Of Mobile Maturity

Road Map: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report provides a road map for interactive marketers who are responsible for mobile marketing. As consumer mobile adoption balloons and as hardware, software, and interfaces evolve, interactive...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIO: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services

CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Building A Pervasive Corporate Mobile Competency

Organization: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

Mobile strategy has evolved since 2010. Then, a mobile strategy equated to a mobile services road map and technology platform choices. An individual or small team could both create a strategy and...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Examining The Member Interactions Of Five Major Loyalty Programs

Programs Fall Short Across All Evaluation Criteria

Forrester applied its new Customer Loyalty Program Review methodology to five popular loyalty programs from the retail, travel, and financial services industries. The results of the evaluation...

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