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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Twitter: The Public Forum For Your Brand

How Interactive Marketers Should Tap Twitter For Real Business Results

With Twitter's usage numbers ballooning and its recent announcement of brand pages, interactive marketers are paying attention. Recognizing its potential across the marketing mix, many have already...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:How To Create An Effective Brand Presence On Facebook

Forrester Research Online Facebook WebTrack

Marketers are flocking to Facebook — but creating a compelling Facebook brand presence requires forethought and commitment. The best Facebook marketers maximize their pages' exposure, post...

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For CMO Professionals

Tool:The Four P's Are Unequally Represented In Most Marketers' Innovation Portfolio

For CMO Professionals

Report:Define Your Marketing Innovation Strategy

Many marketing leaders take advantage of new opportunities as they present themselves, organically building change into their approach and organization. But innovation in marketing should be much...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Community Management Checklist

A Four-Phase Approach To Preparing To Engage With Your Customers

Many marketers are launching communities to engage their customers in an authentic dialogue around their companies, brands, and products. However, once they've launched, brands often find that they...

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For CMO Professionals

Tool:Test Your Orchestration Maturity

For CMO Professionals

Report:Chart A New Course For Your Brand

Strategic Plan: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In order to build and preserve brand equity in the face of higher consumer expectations and support 21st century brand marketing, CMO and marketing leadership professionals must develop a strategic...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:The Corporate CMO's Renewed Strength

Large consumer-facing companies often have some mix of multiple layers of marketing: corporate, divisional, brand, regional, country . . . These layers are configured in different ways in different...

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Tool:Take Stock With The Innovation Evaluation Card

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Untangling The Attribution Web

Using Cross-Channel Attribution To Understand Marketing Effectiveness

In an environment where media fragmentation is the status quo, traditional one-to-one, last-touch methods of allocating demand to marketing efforts are outdated and lead to a suboptimal marketing...

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Report:Assess Your Co-Creation Readiness

Assessment: The Open Innovation Playbook

Product strategy professionals increasingly recognize the value of social co-creation engagements to involve the customer directly in the product development process and how this fits into the...

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Tool:Most Marketers Invest Conservatively In Experimentation And Testing

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Portals And Quality Content Sites Still Dominate

For Customer Experience Professionals

Tool:Results Of Brand Action Reviews Across 14 Sites In Three Industries

For CMO Professionals

Report:Invest In The Brand Building Experience

Business Case: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In the age of the customer, brand building is more important than ever to differentiate offerings and create long-term customer value. However, marketing leaders still need to convince their C-suite...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Facebook Factor

Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions

Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

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For CMO Professionals

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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Report:A New Approach To Brand Loyalty

Loyalty Marketing Must Take The Brand Beyond Points And Programs

Most chief marketing officers (CMOs) have a tactical view of loyalty marketing. They tell us that their approach, while necessary, has unclear objectives and focuses too much on short-term financial...

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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 Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Implement Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy

Road Map: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "How To Build An Implementation Road Map For Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on August 11, 2011. In a world of proliferating digital...

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For CMO Professionals

Tool:The Four P's Are Unequally Represented In Most Marketers' Innovation Portfolio

For Customer Experience Professionals

Tool:Firms Want To Differentiate Based On Experience

For CMO Professionals

Report:Evaluate Your Brand Building Capabilities

Assessment: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Today's digitally empowered consumers have more opportunities than ever to voice their wants, needs, and expectations, forcing marketers to rethink the way they build successful brands. This report...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "How To Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on July 13, 2011. Companies need a digital customer experience strategy to ensure that they...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Community Benchmarking Metrics

What To Expect For The Health Of Your Community

Interactive marketers in charge of branded communities need to be able to benchmark goals and set expectations for the success of their programs. However, the benchmarks being observed are typically...

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