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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:European Online Retail: Five Trends To Watch In 2013

European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality

European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The State Of Mobile Insurance In 2013

Landscape: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook

Insurance companies are rolling out a widening range of mobile insurance functionality for both consumers and agents. While there's substantial consumer interest in mobile insurance, actual use is...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Navigate The Future Of Customer Service

Vision: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

As organizations strive to succeed in the age of the customer, business and IT professionals responsible for customer service struggle to understand changing customer behavior, re-engineer end-to-end...

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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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, US

North American Consumer Technographics®

This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 1), Q2 2012 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, Europe

European Consumer Technographics®

This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012. It provides an overview of European consumers' Internet and consumer technology behaviors....

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Brand Compass Survey, Q1 2013

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,575 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,575), there is 95% confidence...

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Winning Social Media Marketing In China

Identify The Right Social Platform To Reach Your Audience And Achieve Your Objectives

Most marketers realize the importance of going social to reach hypersocial Chinese consumers — but China's highly fragmented social media landscape makes it challenging to select the right...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Empowered Customers Force CIOs To Focus On Innovation

Vision: The Innovation Playbook

Now is a critical time for CIOs to focus on innovation. The pace of change is too fast, the opportunities too great, and the risks too dire to relegate it to the annual funding process. Digitally...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Customer Experience In The Post-PC Era

The rapid consumer adoption of mobile devices, new interfaces, and the changing behaviors they encourage have fundamentally changed how customers engage with companies. Gone are the days when...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services

A Technographics® Data Essentials Report

Discovery is the first phase of the customer life cycle — it's the crucial time when consumers first find out about new brands, products, and services. If the "Discover" phase is successful,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, China

Asia Pacific Consumer Technographics®

This report provides an overview of metropolitan Chinese online consumers' behaviors and technology attitudes. In general, metropolitan Chinese consumers are enthusiastic mobile owners and social...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Engage Your Omnichannel Consumer

Brand Engagement The Consumer Way

The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:eBusiness Teams' Two Paths To Cross-Channel Measurement Success

In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now

eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Financial Services Affluent Survey 2013

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in January 2013 of 1,051 affluent US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,051), there is 95%...

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Online Hispanics: A Demographic Overview

North American Technographics®

This demographic overview highlights the unique behaviors and attitudes that characterize US online Hispanics compared with their non-Hispanic peers. US online Hispanics lead the way in mobile device...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Marketers Need To Put Money Where A Consumer's Mouth Is

How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services

This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes important content for CMOs and marketing leaders looking to improve discovery of their products and services. The discover...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Assess The Impact Of Touchpoints Along The Consumer Path-To-Purchase

How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending

Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Why Customer Experience, Why Now?

Business Case: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

This report is an update to "Why Customer Experience? Why Now?" originally published on October 4, 2011. We've entered the age of the customer — an era where a focus on customers matters more...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Understand Communication Channel Needs To Craft Your Customer Service Strategy

Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Banks And Retailers: You Cannot Price Your Way Out Of Bad Customer Experiences

Why Customer Experience Matters More To Loyalty Than Price

Have you ever wondered whether it makes more sense to invest in customer experience or in dropping your prices to improve customer loyalty? We tested the relationship between customers' perceptions...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Winning The Customer Experience Game

Best Practices For CIOs

Customer experience (CX) is too often thought of in terms of the IT help desk. But CIOs and their IT teams are increasingly being challenged with improving the customer experience for the...

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