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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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Report:Automating Your End-To-End Process

Tools And Technology: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

The lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) process calibrates marketing and sales activities around a common success factor — revenue. An optimized process yields bigger pipelines, shorter sales...

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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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Report:Event Marketing Giveaways That Work

Evaluating What Makes Effective Swag

New social and digital marketing tactics receive attention from B2B marketers seeking the "next big thing," and virtual events continue to gain popularity, but traditional events remain very...

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Client Inquiry:What Percentage Of Revenues Will Be Spent For Marketing In B2B?

According to Forrester's March 22, 2011, "Bigger B2B Marketing Budgets Come With Great Expectations" report, what percentage of revenues will be spent for marketing, or what is the ratio of marketing...

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Report:Earning Channel Loyalty In A Hypercompetitive Market

Relationship Incentives Count As Much As Sales Incentives

The number of tech vendors looking to develop channel partner relationships or to increase their partner wallet share is on the rise. Yet the growth in the number of channel companies is just not...

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Tool:Managed File Transfer Leads The List Of Planned Improvements

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Report:Role Profile: B2B Online Community Manager

This report is designed to give B2B marketing professionals an introduction to the online community manager role as well as an overview of the general challenges facing an individual in this...

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Report:The Emergence Of The Digital Marketing Service Provider

Tech Marketers Have A New Buyer And Channel To Consider

Businesses engaged in digital marketing will seek a new generation of service provider — one that combines technology competence with marketing strategy and digital creativity. These providers...

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Report:Tech Marketers Are Poised To Ramp Channel Investment

Channel Enablement Is A Top Priority For 2011

2011 will be a bellwether year for tech vendors. Tech investment by customers and marketing investment by tech vendors are rising ahead of the economic recovery into 2011. Most tech marketers see...

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Tool:Channel Partners' Plans For Managed Services And Application Hosting Are High

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Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2012 To 2017 (US)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...

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Tool:Forrester's Marketing Automation Maturity Scorecard

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Report:2012 Tech Marketing Planning Guidance

With Proliferating Tactics And Constrained Budgets, Targeting And Focus Are A Mandate

Tech marketers typically use last year's plan as a starting point for next year's marketing planning process, making changes to accommodate new goals and current-year budget realities. As a result,...

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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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Tool:The Social Technographics® Of BT Buyers Over The Past Three Years

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Report:Transform Marketing With A Revenue-Relevant Customer Engagement Strategy

Executive Overview: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

In 2010, Forrester introduced the term "lead-to-revenue management" (L2RM) to categorize a set of integrated processes, goals, and metrics that frame marketing practices from lead generation to sales...

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Tool:Enhanced Compliance And Risk Management Are Key Business Drivers

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Report:2011 Demand Management Budget Trends

Spending Optimism Must Be Balanced With Performance Improvement

Tech marketers continue to place demand management as their primary objective with lead origination high on their spending plans for 2011. Yet they face a perfect storm as recessionary business...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:How US Marketers Use Email

Landscape: The Email Marketing Playbook

Forrester periodically surveys marketers to get a pulse on how they employ the most veteran of tools in their interactive toolkits — email. We've found that more business-to-consumer (B2C) than...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Coming Upheaval In Tech Services

Four Economic And Technology Factors Will Combine To Recast The Business

The tech services market is about to undergo a massive transformation that will call traditional provider business models into question. Four factors will combine to dramatically change the dynamics,...

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Report:Make Business And Customer Intelligence Sales-Ready Using Forrester's Framework

Engineering Valuable Content For Sales Enablement Success

Today, business and customer intelligence (BCI) leaders and teams at tech vendors gather information about target companies and key decision-makers, and their deliverables consist of data —...

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Report:B2B Groundswell Awards For Communities

Learn From The Winners About Best Practices To Emulate

Outstanding business-to-business (B2B) community and social marketers took a variety of approaches to community marketing in Forrester's 2012 B2B Groundswell Awards, and each of them has demonstrated...

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Report:Marketing Tactics Of Top Tech Performers

An Artful Mix Of Old And New Yields Revenue Impact For Marketing Leaders

Tech marketers at top-performing tech companies demonstrate similar go-to-market strategies that set them apart from their peers at companies with average performance. The strategic mix leverages...

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Client Inquiry:How Can Marketing Best Enable Sales And Develop Leads In A Complex B2B Environment?

How can marketing best support sales with marketing tactics that work best in a complex business-to-business (B2B) sales environment to drive leads, develop relationships with centers of influence...