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In her role as an analyst, Roxana focuses on technology's impact on the market research industry. She tracks emerging and innovative research methodologies, such as social market research, mobile research, neuroscience, and prediction markets, and helps clients understand how to incorporate them into their research mix and combine them with traditional research methods. In addition, she leads all the data innovation efforts at Forrester, where she tests and seeks to understand which data sources, research methodologies, and frameworks are appropriate to help clients gain an intricate, 360-degree view of the consumer.
She is also an expert on Latin American consumer behavior and technology adoption and is responsible for managing Forrester's Latin American Technographics® research. She frequently advises clients on entering the Latin American market, understanding Latin American consumer segments, and increasing their visibility in this fast-changing region.
Roxana has spoken at numerous Forrester events and market-research-focused conferences, such as the Insights Innovation Exchange, Future of Consumer Intelligence, Market Research in a Mobile World and The Market Research Event. In addition, she has spoken at several conferences specializing in understanding the Latin American market, including ESOMAR's Latin American conference, Portada's Pan-Regional Advertising and Media Summit, and Ciab FEBRABAN. Her research has been cited in AdAge, the UK's Research, and was also highlighted in the book Latino Link: Building Brands Online with Hispanic Communities and Content.
Since she started at Forrester in 2006, Roxana has specialized in advising research and clients on sound survey design and data collection methodologies and on using advanced analytic tools on our Consumer Technographics data as well as on custom research surveys. Prior to her current role, Roxana was a senior survey manager and previously a data advisor with Consumer Technographics. In both roles, she used her expertise to deliver value to clients of all industries, from consumer electronics to advertising and media companies, through customized analysis and application of Consumer Technographics data.
Roxana received her B.S. in psychology from The Florida State University and an M.A. in psychology from The College of William and Mary.
Engage With Early-Stage Buyers, Drive Pipeline And Revenue Performance
Today's empowered technology buyers are two-thirds of the way through their buying process before they engage with tech vendors' sales teams. Forrester believes that a robust lead-nurturing program...
Processes: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
Lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) is all about optimizing processes and practices to ensure that every scintilla of potential revenue is realized from your marketing investment. A well-designed and...

Oracle announced today that it will acquire Eloqua, a SaaS marketing automation provider. Oracle’s stated motives address, head-on, the zeitgeist facing the 21st century marketer. ...

With Proliferating Tactics And Constrained Budgets, Targeting And Focus Are A Mandate
Tools And Technology: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
The lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) process calibrates marketing and sales activities around a common success factor — revenue. An optimized process yields bigger pipelines, shorter sales...

This provisional lead-to-revenue process catalog is a companion tool for the processes module of Forrester's lead-to-revenue playbook. Designed to jump-start your own process documentation, it...

B2B marketing leaders are striving to position their companies as “thought leaders.” And why not? If you do not have a truly disruptive technology, product, service or idea (in...
Demonstrating the revenue return on marketing investment is the No. 1 issue for B2B marketing executives. In Forrester’s Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey, when we...
Landscape: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
In order to establish the current state of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) practices among tech marketers, we recently analyzed 80 client inquiries on the topic that tech marketing professionals...

An Artful Mix Of Old And New Yields Revenue Impact For Marketing Leaders
Tech marketers at top-performing tech companies demonstrate similar go-to-market strategies that set them apart from their peers at companies with average performance. The strategic mix leverages...

The University of Massachusetts released its annual survey of social media usage at Fortune 500 companies. The report revealed that in the past year, these business giants have increased...
The goal of lead-to-revenue (L2R) process management is not to move hundreds or thousands of "leads" through a process of sequential attrition until tens or hundreds of deals emerge. The goal of the...

I (Lori Wizdo) am on a plane, flying to San Francisco, to participate in Forrester’s Technology Sales Enablement Forum. As I was prepping for my (limited) role in the event, I had a flashback...
This results chain toolkit is a companion tool for the processes module of Forrester's lead-to-revenue playbook. Forrester recommends that B2B marketing leaders use a results chain model to frame and...

Today’s buyers control their journey through the buying cycle much more than today’s vendors control the selling cycle. Although it varies greatly with product complexity and market...
Performance Management: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
The seminal idea behind lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) was the need to calibrate marketing's activities (and budget) to the result of revenue generation. But effective performance management of...

With Proliferating Tactics And Constrained Budgets, Targeting And Focus Are A Mandate
Tech marketers typically use last year's plan as a starting point for next year's marketing planning process, making changes to accommodate new goals and current-year budget realities. As a result,...

I’ve seen too many lead-to-revenue initiatives underperform because insufficient attention was devoted to process. And, I’ve seen an equal number stall because the attempt to...
The challenge of accelerating revenue in the face of rapidly changing buying behaviors and an exploding number of marketing vehicles is driving technology product and service companies to refine (and...

A long time ago, a savvy marketing consultant told me, “The role of the sales person is to teach the customer how to buy”. That is still true, but the wisdom has morphed a bit with...
I (Lori Wizdo) have just put the finishing touches on the content for tomorrow's (Wednesday, March 28 at 10am PT/1pm ET) interactive webinar, Socialize Your Lead To Revenue...
I recently stumbled upon a very old quote from Peter Drucker, which completely nonplussed this lifetime marketer. Mr. Drucker observed (in his 1973 book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practice)...
Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

I’ve been having a lot of conversations, recently, about sales and marketing alignment. (Well, honestly, who working in B2B marketing hasn’t?) In Forrester’s most recent...