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Client Inquiry:What Were The Selection Criteria For Inclusion In Forrester's Marketing Mix Modeling Wave?

What were the selection criteria for inclusion in Forrester's September 21, 2011, "The Forrester Wave: Marketing Mix Modeling, Q3 2011" report.

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Deliver Transparent Returns On Your Marketing Dollar

Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...

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Blog:Please Take Our Survey On Loyalty Marketing

Loyalty currently is at the top of my research agenda. Why? I think that marketing organizations have been approaching loyalty with uneven success by adopting established approaches mainly based on...

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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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Report:Manage Your Marketing Mix Modeling Vendors

Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...

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Report:Boost Marketing Returns With Model-Driven Insights

Tools And Technology: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Marketing mix modeling is undergoing a transformation as marketers increasingly demand that vendors provide solutions that can be updated frequently, easily aggregate data streams, provide...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Marketers Need To Embrace The Customer Experience Ecosystem

While marketers spend most of their efforts and resources on top-of-mind channels like the Web or TV, two-thirds of consumers report lackluster interactions with brands, leading to low levels of...

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Blog:How To Make The Most Of Your Investments Across The Marketing Mix

Over the past few years, the rise of the always addressable customer combined with a challenging economic environment and stagnant markets has created a perfect storm — challenging...

For CMO Professionals

Report:Forrester's IT And Marketing Partnership Readiness Model For CMOs

This model allows you to assess your IT/marketing partnership readiness along the three critical dimensions of people, process, and technology. Use this model to identify strengths and weaknesses of...

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Report:Marketing Mix Modeling Landscape Overview

The fragmented media landscape makes accurate attribution of successful marketing efforts increasingly difficult. As a result, marketing leaders are under greater pressure than ever to bring...

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Blog:On Boutiques.com And Why Brands Need A Content Syndication Strategy

Last week, The New York Times broke the news that Google is launching a new eCommerce platform targeting fashion brands: Boutiques.com: http://nyti.ms/9DlCu. (Disclaimer: I worked for four...

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Report:The Scientific Method Comes To Marketing

Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

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Report:Adapting To Media Fragmentation In Europe

The Impact Of Media Fragmentation Patterns On Communication Strategy

Consumers across Europe are embracing new media platforms that change the way they consume content. This year's European Technographics® data shows a continuous growth in the amount of time...

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Report:Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Demands New Metrics

Success Will Depend On Measuring The Handoff Between Phases

To get the best returns from the adoption of a customer-centric approach to marketing, Forrester believes that marketers must make the shift from the traditional marketing funnel to the customer life...

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Report:Marketers Miss A Big Opportunity With Marketing Mix Modeling

Senior marketing leaders are missing a key opportunity by underinvesting in marketing mix modeling. Those who have adopted marketing mix modeling find that it works. They are able to proactively...

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Blog:Time For Marketers To Move To Adaptive Planning?

Marketing planning has changed little in the past century. It's essentially a linear process built on the development of rigid 12-month plans built around brand and channel metrics. This approach...

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Blog:What Is A Boomerang?

  No, I’m not Australian . . . at Forrester, "boomerangs" are analysts that, after leaving the research team for a stint in the "real world,"  have decided to re-join. Clients and...

For CMO Professionals

Report:Measuring The Impact Of Branded Content

Read this report if you want to understand how to measure the effectiveness of a branded content strategy along the stages of the customer life cycle. This report will help you define the most...

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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 CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs Must Merge IT With Marketing To Win In The Digital Decade

Assessing Your Marketing-IT Partnership Readiness To Develop A Custom Action Plan

In the future, only companies that understand and anticipate their customers' needs and can consistently deliver unique, tailored customer experiences will be able to attract and retain loyal...

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Report:CMO Imperatives For 2012

Use Technology To Move From Experimentation To Driving Results

In 2012, CMOs will need to embrace technology to help them handle big issues like: 1) addressing the maturation of social media from cool tool to critical connector with customers; 2) determining how...

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Report:Align Marketing Goals With Business Objectives

Strategic Plan: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Marketing mix optimization — the practice of using data-driven insights to strategically allocate and optimize marketing budgets across channels — is a powerful tool to help marketers...

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Report:Case Study: Two Approaches To Align Marketing With IT

The rapid adoption of new digital technologies by consumers is pushing marketing and IT closer together. Two companies that Forrester spoke with took very different approaches to the challenge of how...

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Report:CMOs Must Merge Marketing With IT To Win In The Digital Decade

Assessing Your Marketing-IT Partnership Readiness To Develop A Custom Action Plan

In the future, only companies that understand and anticipate their customers' needs and can consistently deliver unique, tailored customer experiences will be able to attract and retain loyal...

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Blog:Highlights From My Latest Report On Loyalty Marketing

We have just published my new report on loyalty marketing: "A New Approach To Brand Loyalty." From the interviews with more than 50 marketing leaders, we have learned that more than 40% of chief...