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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Make The Switch To The Customer Life Cycle

Strategic Plan: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The customer life cycle provides a better explanation of modern marketing than does the traditional marketing funnel, but most marketers have not yet moved their organizations to the customer life...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Organizing For Community Success

Organization: The B2B Online Community Playbook

For B2B marketers, when it comes to planning, designing, and implementing a successful online community, the rubber meets the road at organizational effectiveness. In order to sustain a healthy...

• Downloads: 158

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Coordinate Your Social Marketing Stakeholders And Resources

Stakeholder Map: The Social Marketing Playbook

Most large companies are now working on coordinating their social applications. At this stage, sharing the right resources is the biggest challenge. Interactive marketers must play the role of...

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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,...

• Downloads: 451

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Organize For The Always Addressable Customer

Vision: The Interactive Marketing Agency And Organization Playbook

This report in the interactive marketing agency and organization playbook lays out Forrester's vision for how you should organize internally and in relation to your agency partners: Move from a...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Benchmark Your Brand Building Capabilities

Benchmarks: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In 2012, Forrester surveyed marketing leaders to get a pulse on their progress toward successfully building 21st century brands. The results show that marketers are in the early stages of 21st...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The New Search Marketing Review

Introducing Forrester's Search Marketing Review Methodology 2.0

Paid search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are still mainstays in the interactive marketer's toolkit. And many legacy best practices still apply to paid search and SEO. However,...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Evaluate The Completeness Of Your Marketing Effort

Assessment: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The world your customers live in is complex — a maze of media, devices, conversations, and interactions — and to make a connection between them and your brand means finding new ways to...

• Downloads: 165

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Social Marketing Spending In 2011

Benchmarks: The Social Marketing Playbook

Despite the tremendous hype and even some pockets of success, our most recent social media benchmarking survey shows that social marketing is still at an early stage. In fact, most interactive...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Measurement Is A Digital Media Buyer's Best Friend

Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...

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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...

• Downloads: 283

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Building A Better Digital Media Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Moving to greater digital media buying maturity requires a plan that improves your practice across all four foundational pillars of maturity over the long term: organization, planning and execution,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Accelerate Your Social Maturity

Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook

Customers and employees are becoming increasingly empowered by social technologies, dramatically changing the way they communicate and collaborate. To succeed in this new world, companies must make...

• Downloads: 1907

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...

• Downloads: 218

For CMO Professionals

Report:Culture Is Key To Marketing Innovation Velocity

How B2C Marketers Inspire Cultural Change

Marketing innovation is hard and getting harder. Traditional marketing tools, channels, strategies, and tactics are becoming less effective in the age we live in now — that of the perpetually...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:How To Make Social Media Data Actionable

Processes: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Social media provides customer intelligence (CI) professionals with a wealth of customer data. But every piece of valuable insight is surrounded by noise. Cutting through that noise and getting to...

• Downloads: 2054

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Navigating The Future Of Customer Intelligence

Customer intelligence is in the throes of significant change brought about by two primary drivers: 1) the disruption caused by the massive shifts in consumer behavior, and 2) organizations' growing...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Fragmented Path-To-Purchase Demands Everywhere Marketing

Landscape: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The traditional marketing funnel has been done in by consumer behaviors that are anything but linear. Instead, in each phase of Forrester's customer life cycle — discover, explore, buy, and...

• Downloads: 337

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Just Add Collaboration: All Functions Required For Successful Implementation

Organization: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

This report, part of the cross-channel attribution playbook, is designed to help firms plan and coordinate activities across roles and functions and to clarify task responsibilities in successfully...

• Downloads: 156

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Mix Art And Science For Marketing Success

Vision: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Marketers have access to more marketing channels than ever before — but most of them are struggling to cope with this increasing complexity. For CMOs and senior marketers, all of these new...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Consumers Demand More From 21st Century Brands

Landscape: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Empowered consumers threaten the traditional building blocks of brand equity, as they have greater influence than ever over brand preference, recommendation, and pricing power. In February 2012,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Key To Interactive Marketing In China

Overcome Your Digital Challenges By Finding, Training, And Keeping Talented Staff

China's 1.4 billion residents have more disposable income than they used to, and digital channels offer undoubtedly the best way to reach affluent Chinese consumers. But interactive marketing in...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Organize For The Digital Future

Assign An Owner To Digital Strategy, Governance, And Execution

To survive the destructive forces of digital disruption, firms must use eBusiness and interactive marketing capabilities to become customer obsessed. Yet most current digital organizations are too...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Train Your Team For Social Marketing Success

Continuous Improvement: The Social Marketing Playbook

Interactive marketers' success in social media has attracted other departments' attention. But well-meaning nonmarketers sometimes commit risky blunders as they join the fray. To ensure that social...

• Downloads: 843

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Score Your Mobile Marketing Maturity

Assessment: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your mobile marketing capabilities. We find that although mobile budgets are beginning to increase, the majority of interactive marketers...

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