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Today, consumers in Europe pay less attention to promotional emails, delete emails without reading them, find emails less relevant, and wonder how marketers got their email data. Smart marketers...
Privacy And Security Concerns Must Be Satisfied To Tap Emerging Demand
More than 250 financial institutions from 40 different countries have joined Facebook, looking for friends and future customers while testing the social networking waters. While many of these banks...

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...

Forrester updated its Email Marketing Review (EMR) methodology to reflect interactive media changes that affect email marketing efficiency and relevance. As with our past email review methodologies,...
Measurement And Staffing Challenges Keep Social From Taking Off
As more European consumers use social media, more European interactive marketers are adopting the channel as well. But there are still key challenges to overcome. First, marketers fail to measure the...
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...
In our February 2011 Global Marketing Leadership Survey, Forrester surveyed 68 marketing leaders about their company's approach to marketing innovation. Then we used these scores to filter their...
Strategic Plan: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
The customer life cycle provides a better explanation of modern marketing than does the traditional marketing funnel, but most marketers have not yet moved their organizations to the customer life...
How Embracing CORE Directives Will Help You Foster Adaptability
Interactivity is changing life as we know it, a scope too big for most firms' siloed, understaffed interactive marketing organizations. The solution? To customize, optimize, respond, and empower...
Organization: The B2B Online Community Playbook
For B2B marketers, when it comes to planning, designing, and implementing a successful online community, the rubber meets the road at organizational effectiveness. In order to sustain a healthy...
Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation
After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...
B2B email marketing programs still trail B2C programs in terms of their customer centricity, in part because of the complexity of business products, the poor alignment of marketing and sales, and...
Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services
CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

How Interactive Marketers Should Regularly Evaluate Their Agencies
Interactive marketers rely on their agencies for a variety of crucial services yet often fail to evaluate their agency performance after the contract has been signed. By not formally evaluating their...
Why You Should Make Multichannel Measurement A Priority
Marketers measure digital channels in isolation from one another. However, consumers don't act within channels; they act across channels. Cross-channel measurement, a nice-to-have for most marketers...
Many marketing leaders take advantage of new opportunities as they present themselves, organically building change into their approach and organization. But innovation in marketing should be much...
One of our most frequent client inquiries relates to the best way to organize Customer Intelligence (CI). Our research shows that no single "best" way exists. Firms organize differently — often...
The Post-Digital Rules Of Brand Building
In the 21st century, empowered consumers have steered brand marketing into foreign terrain — they have taken the driver's seat and told brands where, when, and how they want to be interacted...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...
Forrester recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence professionals to understand their marketing technology priorities, plans, and budgets. Marketers own technology decisions and consider cost and...
