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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity

For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:B2B Marketers Prefer To Create Their Own Content Mostly For Lead Nurturing

Effective content marketing is now critical to B2B marketers' success because useful content accelerates potential buyers along their journey. That usefulness is predicated on the content being...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Align Your B2B Community Marketing With Your Customers' Life Cycle

How, Why, And When Your Buyers Tap Into Communities

Communities provide the interactions and content that buyers seek when they want to discover, explore, and engage with a brand. But business-to-business (B2B) marketers often hesitate to interact...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Playbook:The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Create An Audience-Obsessed Digital Media Buying Practice

Digital media buying is undergoing seismic change. Where there were once legions of junior staff managing relationship-based buys, there are now sophisticated real-time technologies. Participants...

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Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Agency fees spending is broken out by...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Best Practices In Digital Money Management

Processes: The Digital Money Management Playbook

The critical question for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals who have launched, or are about to launch, digital money management is how to drive customer adoption and use. To help,...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:B2B Groundswell Awards For Communities

Learn From The Winners About Best Practices To Emulate

Outstanding business-to-business (B2B) community and social marketers took a variety of approaches to community marketing in Forrester's 2012 B2B Groundswell Awards, and each of them has demonstrated...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:How B2B Marketers Use Social Now

Emerging Trends In B2B Social Marketing For 2013

Our data shows that social channels are key to the decision processes of your business-to-business (B2B) customers and prospects, so to avoid falling behind or missing emerging trends, you should...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Organize For The Digital Future

Assign An Owner To Digital Strategy, Governance, And Execution

To survive the destructive forces of digital disruption, firms must use eBusiness and interactive marketing capabilities to become customer obsessed. Yet most current digital organizations are too...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Understand Immediacy, Simplicity, And Context

Processes: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report highlights the key principles of mobile experience that interactive marketers must weave into the process of crafting mobile marketing strategies. More people own smartphones than ever...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

Landscape: The CRM Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (US)

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Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Includes social spending directed...

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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:Scale Success with Programmatic Multichannel Media Buying

Continuous Improvement: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

This report of the digital media buying playbook will guide marketers to think beyond the possibilities of programmatic media management in display; take them down the path to embracing programmatic...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Gamification: "Level Up" Your Strategic Approach

Over the past year, marketers have made the shift from learning about the meaning of gamification to incorporating it into their strategies. But so far, the results have been mixed, as the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 Canadian Bank Secure Website Rankings

Firms Continue To Enhance Core Functionality But Lack New Digital Banking Features

This report details how the secure websites of the six largest retail banks in Canada stack up against each other across six categories and 66 individual criteria measuring the banks' online...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Asia Pacific Online Advertising Forecast, 2012 To 2017

China Dominates A Rapidly Growing Yet Cautious Market

By 2017, marketers advertising with online display and search media in India, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and China will grow their investments at a 23% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Playbook:The Social Marketing Playbook

Master The Next Wave Of Social

For the interactive marketer, social is both a huge opportunity and daunting challenge. You know you can reach your customers on social channels, but the environment is foreign— it's highly...

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Don't Confuse Tablet And Mobile Marketing

Contextual Marketing Demands A Unique Approach To Tablets

Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used within...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

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Online social media users, user penetration, and social media advertising spending for 17 Western European countries. Includes historical data back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Social Relationship Platforms, Q2 2013

The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 49-criteria evaluation of social relationship platform (SRP) vendors, we identified the eight most significant vendors — Adobe, Hearsay Social, salesforce.com's Buddy Media,...

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