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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,...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Includes total number of online users and active email users segmented by age group, as well as mobile email users. Forecasts total email volume and marketing email volume by retention email,...
In 2011, Forrester partnered with GSI Commerce and its digital agency True Action to evaluate how shoppers touched various marketing touchpoints, such as paid search and email, prior to completing a...

Assessment: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your email marketing capabilities as well as the quality of the user experience for recipients of your marketing emails. Like Forrester's...
Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...
Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

Processes: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report highlights key processes that constitute best practices for interactive marketers whose responsibilities include email marketing. In an FAQ format, we address long-standing issues such as...
Strategic Plan: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report articulates a strategic plan for how interactive marketers can improve their email programs today and create humanized, integrated messages in the future. We recommend marketers build...
In 2011, marketer-collected data — specifically email addresses — became the target of highly sophisticated hacking scams launched against businesses and email marketing service...
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...
Executive Overview: The Email Marketing Playbook
The rules for how to best message your users are changing. Now your customers check their email, text messages, and social media posts in parallel. Even trickier: People tap their inboxes from...

Tools And Technology: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report helps interactive marketers select tools and technologies for email marketing. Most email marketers outsource the delivery of their email marketing programs because it unburdens internal...

Continuous Improvement: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers is part of Forrester's email marketing playbook and provides our current recommendations for how to continuously improve your email marketing programs. By...
Performance Management: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report, part of the email marketing playbook, provides interactive marketers with advice on email marketing performance management, with a focus specifically on list maintenance. We've outlined...
Vision: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report lays out Forrester's vision of email marketing for interactive marketers: Integrate email into a multichannel conversation that includes a number of non-email communication vehicles. Why?...
Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey retailers on their attitudes toward and investments in the online retail channel. This year the research specifically probes mobile and tablet...

A New Way For Emailers To Defend Themselves Against Email Fraud
Hundreds of brands are hijacked by phishing scams every month, costing companies and ultimately their end customers billions. And existing methods to fight phishing like email authentication...
Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...
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...

Which Digital Shopper Marketing Tools To Invest In And Why
Forrester's TechRadar methodology provides a framework to aid decision-makers in prioritizing investments and tools related to their discipline — in this case, shopper marketing. Consumers are...

This is a deep-dive data update to last year's report, "European Tech Marketing Is Different: Here's How," based on Forrester's Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey. Most of the...
Even the best email marketing service providers with the broadest relevance can't suit every possible marketer situation. This report: 1) identifies when you should consider other vendor options in...
Responsys, ExactTarget, And Experian CheetahMail Lead The Market
In Forrester's 37-criteria evaluation of email marketing vendors, we identified the six significant providers in this category — Epsilon, ExactTarget, Experian CheetahMail, Responsys,...

How Interactive Marketers Must Make Digital Messaging More Engaging
As a marketer you want to be timely and relevant when you send a message and basic triggered messaging has addressed one side of this equation — timeliness — for many marketers. But when...
And Why Multitouchpoint Campaigns Will Drive Value, Not Just Traffic
As in years past, natural search results, links, and personal emails are the most cited resources for finding websites. But take note: Social media — in particular social networks —...