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Using The Online Video Product Scorecard To Identify Best Practice
An Empowered Report: A Social Co-Creation Case Study
Earlier this year, Ford launched a social co-creation site called "Your Ideas," which is an offshoot of its "The Ford Story" site designed to engage Ford enthusiasts. At Your Ideas, customers are...
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Interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's IM spending is further broken into the various components of IM: display, paid search, SEO, email, and mobile advertising.

How B2B Interactive Marketers Can Drive Engagement, Not Just Leads
B2B interactive marketers today are tasked with more than just building lead pipelines — they must also work alongside sales teams to build deeper customer relationships. Increasingly, B2B...

Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations
The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...
Why Open Innovation Is A Natural Fit For CPG Product Strategists
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are facing a daunting challenge: finding ways to differentiate their products among a sea of competing offerings. Incremental changes will not suffice; nor...
Retailers Can Act As Consumer Product Strategists, Too
Most retailers sell other companies' goods; on occasion, they will sell products developed by others but branded as their own. Best Buy does both of those things, but the company has also done...

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...
In May 2009, Forrester predicted that, while a growing number of consumers would embrace navigation solutions, the phone would be the most widely used tool for navigation by 2013. Our most recent...
An Empowered Report: A Social Co-Creation Case Study
Starbucks has placed a strong emphasis on its social co-creation strategy. Product strategists at the world's largest chain of coffee houses have a well-established and active online community from...
Promote, Find, And Attract The Mass Influencers Who Matter
Fans and followers are helpful for brands, but the people who bring the greatest value in social media are not just fans but advocates — people who can and will support, engage, and share...
Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...
Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

Technology Marketers Must Prepare For The Coming Storm
Data from Forrester's Q1 2011 US and European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers indicates that both social media habits and the role social media is playing...
Why Price Needs To Become More Than Just A Number For Product Strategists
Price can no longer be just a number for product strategists. Pricing now needs to become a strategic competency that affects every aspect of product strategy, from the business model to the nature...
Apply The CURA Framework To Build A Winning Customized Product Strategy
Mass customization has long been the next big thing in product strategy. After a variety of false starts, its time has finally come. Changes in customer-facing technology are opening up new...
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Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...