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Why The Most Solid Thing In Your Product Strategy Is Virtual
All consumer product strategists should sit up and take notice: There's a critical lesson to learn from the most recent changes in the media industry. While most in the business have obsessed over...

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...
Brand Engagement The Consumer Way
The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...

Landscape: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
An Empowered Report: Spread Social Media Responsibilities Across The Organization To Empower Employees And Strengthen The Brand
As a global technology leader focused on delivering forward-looking technology and solutions, IBM is no stranger to taking a unique approach in order to generate a stronger end result. To encourage...
CMOs Must Experience Social Networking To Lead The Brand Experience
CMOs indicate that, in the age of the customer, collaboration and influence through social networking will have the biggest impact on their organizations in the next three to five years. However,...
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...
Customer Advocacy 2011: How Customers Rate US Banks, Investment Firms, And Insurers
Marketing leaders at top-ranked financial services firms have found the secret to loyal customers. Forrester calls it customer advocacy: customers' perception that a firm does what's best for them,...
How B2B Marketers Need To Recast Their Approach
Business-to-business (B2B) marketers must face a new reality: Empowered customers are educating themselves through professional and peer-created content that is available online. Many claim to...

JetBlue Airways has had trend-defying growth — at 10 years old, it is now a $4 billion company — in an environment where consumers are flying less, costs continue to increase, and the...
What Is The Right Customer Experience Strategy?
Marketers bear the responsibility to guide the brand experience. A large part of that experience is driven by advertising and promotion, but that only covers a small slice of the overall interaction...
How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending
Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...
Identifying Organizational Priorities For Creating New Digital Media Experiences
The media meltdown continues its slow burn across the media industries. Yet, enlivened by new devices like the iPad and audience enthusiasm for the content that new technologies have generated, many...
Leverage Professional Crowdsourcing Networks To Create New Video Content
The demand for video advertising and content — whether for television, online, or cinema — is outpacing the rate at which marketers can supply it. Specialized crowdsourcing networks are...
Vision: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
Today's empowered customer has the world at her fingertips — literally — through the multiple keyboards and connections to opinions all throughout her day. The challenge for today's...
Only Customer-Obsessed Companies Can Survive Disruption
Empowered customers are disrupting every industry; competitive barriers like manufacturing strength, distribution power, and information mastery can't save you. In this age of the customer, the only...
Consumers have higher expectations of 21st century brands, requiring marketers to rethink how they navigate the brand, from reestablishing the brand's North Star to creating a consistent set of brand...
Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing
Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

The Social Technographics® Of Business Buyers Reveals Purchasing Influencers
Does the hype that surrounds social media's impact on how consumers buy translate to business environments? Forrester's North American And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey, Q1...
How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes important content for CMOs and marketing leaders looking to improve discovery of their products and services. The discover...

Start Small And Engage The Enterprise To Overcome A Regulated Environment
The Cleveland Clinic was not the first healthcare firm to experiment in social media, but it achieved success where others failed. A pragmatic assessment of the barriers it faced in developing social...
Caterpillar has encountered a dramatic shift in the buying process as its customers move to digital channels to learn about and support construction equipment. While reinforcing its traditional...
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...

Embrace Digital Innovation To Deliver Compelling Brand Experiences
2013 will be a unique year for CMOs of consumer-focused companies. They will have to drive their brands to deliver cohesive brand experiences that use digital to augment and extend their engagement...
