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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Interactive Marketing's Isolation Must End

Landscape: The Interactive Marketing Agency And Organization Playbook

This report of the interactive marketing agency and organization playbook examines the landscape of organizational structures and agency relationships. Three common organizational models have...

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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 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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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 2), Q3 2012 (US, Canada)

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...

For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Build Your Brand With Branded Content

Traditional marketing vehicles are becoming less effective in capturing and engaging the attention of today's perpetually connected consumers. Chief marketing officers (CMOs) must adapt their...

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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...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Nurture Thought Leadership To Nurture Your Brand

Make Thought Leadership The Tip Of The Content Marketing Spear

Great marketing content fuels the demand generation engine, boosts brand visibility, and attracts buyers interested in the problems your company can solve. But when marketers publish promotional...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Why The EU ePrivacy Law Will Not Kill eCommerce

Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers

In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...

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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...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The State Of Social Intelligence, 2012

Benchmarks: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Forrester recently polled 108 listening platform customers to learn about the evolution in companies' social intelligence practices. We reviewed their vendor partnerships, the ways they use listening...

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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 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:Marketers Need To Acquire Adaptive Skill Sets

Organization: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Most marketers have earned their stripes through corporate work experience and business-school training that takes a top-down linear approach to marketing planning and optimization. Today, the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:A Measurement Maturity Framework For Interactive Marketers

Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Take This Diagnostic To Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity

For CMO Professionals

Report:The Digitization Of All Agencies

Marketers And Agencies Must Adapt To Manage Marketing Complexity

All agencies are digitizing their core capabilities regardless of medium or service. This will create new complexity for marketers. But marketers still use yesterday's model for agency management,...

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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 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,...

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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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIO: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services

CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

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For CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:The Customer Life-Cycle Maturity Assessment

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Organize For Social Intelligence

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...

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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...

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