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Online consumers' preferences for online customer service channels are evolving. More online consumers have adopted online self-service in the past two years; it has also disappointed more consumers....

Spanish banks have been at the forefront of banking innovation in Europe, yet customer behavior in Spain has been slow to change. Spanish customers are more likely than customers almost anywhere in...
In Germany, as many consumers now bank online as in the branch. Younger, better-educated customers with higher incomes are migrating to the Internet and the mobile channel. While the Web is becoming...

Canadians still use the phone as their primary channel for insurance. In fact, the phone was the only channel used by a majority of online Canadian insurance customers in the past year, while fewer...
Maximizing Sales And Service Requires Ongoing Refinement
Many online consumers want help from a live person while they are shopping online; in fact, 44% of online consumers say that having questions answered by a live person while in the middle of an...
Online Commerce Will Remain Resilient During The Coming Quarters
While the major markets in Western Europe are still emerging from the impact of the financial crisis, the Internet channel continues to gain awareness and traction among consumers. Retail eBusiness...
Developing cohesive online customer service has never been more important. Expanding the role of online customer service can achieve multiple objectives including lifting brand favorability,...
This highlight deck summarizes the key findings from Forrester’s North American Technographics® Investments And Insurance Online Survey, Q3 2009 (US).This deck covers channel preferences for...
Customers Do Little More Than View And Pay Their Bills Online
There are more than 175 million credit card owners in the US, 85% of whom go online at least monthly. Overall, 73% of cardholders have used at least one feature on their provider's Web site in the...
Forrester recently released a report showing the results of a survey of more than 4,500 US consumers and their level of satisfaction with Web, phone, and in-person interactions across 12 different...
Account And Portfolio Data Remain Most Important
Mass-affluent investors represent one-third of all US households and control about the same proportion of retail investment assets. Four in five online mass-affluent investors have visited their...

Account Data Is Most Important, With Vanguard Rated Highest For Quality
More than three-quarters of all US online affluent investors use their investment firms' Web sites, up from two-thirds in 2005. What site features do they value most? Balances and holdings are by far...
How Consumers Research, Buy, And Get Service
Our research still shows that despite the adoption of online transactions, consumers prefer in-store experiences over the Web when it comes to researching, buying, and getting customer service. This...
Forrester has been tracking account-based alerts for three years now. While usage has increased, just 24% of online consumers receive any type of alert from their financial provider. What is holding...
This highlight deck reviews the key findings from the Q2 2007 Retail & Customer Service Online Survey. This survey covered questions given to US adults around their experience with purchasing...
Consumer Interest In Email And SMS Alerts Continues To Outstrip Supply
Europe's frequent Net users are interested in a wide range of financial alerts, from large payment warnings to insurance renewal reminders. Most of these Net users would like to receive alerts by...