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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 Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Listening Platforms, Q2 2012

How Nine Vendors Stack Up In A Constantly Changing Market

In Forrester's 64-criteria evaluation of enterprise listening platforms vendors, we found that Radian6 and Visible Technologies lead the pack because of their variably functional dashboards and...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:CMOs Must Lead The Brand Experience

Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...

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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 Insights Professionals

Report:Defining Social Intelligence

Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Spotlight On Award-Winning Communities

Processes: The B2B Online Community Playbook

This report showcases the exemplary community processes into practice by Forrester's 2011 Groundswell Award winners and finalists. These community leaders did not achieve success by luck, rather they...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Four Steps To Build Your Brand Experience

Road Map: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Once the brand has its strategic bearings laid out — the North Star, the experience map, and its brand compass — it's time to cast off and start thinking about how to plan for the brand...

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Report:2013 Planning Brief: Listen To Customers, Engage With Influencers

How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative

As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Deliver A New Brand Experience

Processes: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Many companies are well on their way to delivering a top-notch brand experience for their demanding customers. CMO and marketing leadership professionals can learn from the experiences and processes...

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Report:The B2B Interactive Brand Ecosystem

Align Your Interactive Brand Ecosystem To The Customer Life Cycle

B2B interactive marketers' isolated experiments in emerging channels like social media and mobile marketing are often disconnected from bread-and-butter sales support and lead generation efforts. But...

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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

Playbook:The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

The Post-Digital Rules Of Brand Building

In the 21st century, empowered consumers have steered brand marketing into foreign terrain — they have taken the driver's seat and told brands where, when, and how they want to be interacted...

For CMO Professionals

Report:The Evolved CMO In 2012

CMOs Must Take A More Active Role In Business And Technology Strategy

Forrester Research and Heidrick & Struggles recently conducted a global survey of nearly 200 chief marketing officers (CMOs). In this report, you will find out how these CMOs view their relationship...

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Report:Build Your Army Of Brand Advocates From Across The Enterprise

Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketers'...

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Report:It's Decision Time For gTLDs

Factor The Real Risks And Opportunities Into Your Own Domain Strategy

The application window for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is upon us. Some organizations think that this is the greatest opportunity ever to take control of their online identity, while others...

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Report:Drive Higher Brand Engagement On Mobile Devices

Mobile Marketing Needs To Be A Value Exchange Between Brand And Consumer

Consumers' use of mobile is nearly ubiquitous in North America, but mobile marketing is still in its early years. Interactive marketers must take advantage of the opportunity to capture consumers'...

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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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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 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 CIO Professionals

Report:The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

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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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Report:The Marketing Case For A Branded Sales Channel

Marketers Must Look Beyond Incremental Sales And Margins To Assess The Full Impact Of A Direct Sales Channel

Every product category has a set of competitors that have a branded route to the customer — such as The Body Shop in cosmetics, Gap in apparel, and Apple in consumer electronics — while...

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Report:Case Study: Oreck Improves Media Spend ROI By Taking A Unified View Of The Customer

Oreck decided it was time to get smart about impression delivery across multiple channels. Working with partner Knotice, Oreck created a unified view of the customer to effectively target and deliver...

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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 Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Total Cost Of Listening

Business Case: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Listening platforms are hot and marketers are keen to use consumer conversations to inform marketing and business strategy. But as more businesses adopt listening platforms, the question that comes...

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