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The Most Valuable Searchers Click On Both Paid And Natural Listings
Search marketers often try to profile consumers who click on paid ads against those who prefer natural search results. But the reality is there is little discernable difference between paid and...

Better Trust Will Improve Ad Response
Consumers don't love advertising, but they do admit it helps increase product awareness, drive purchase activity, and change brand attitudes. To get more consumers to respond to advertising, we...
Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers
In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...

Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook
Start Piloting Now To Be Prepared To Benefit From Growing Consumer Use
The 2D bar code is a promising mobile marketing tactic: It provides marketers a quick way to bridge the offline-online gap and enhance consumer engagement with their target audience anytime, anywhere...
The European Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2011, surveyed 22,501 respondents in the eight markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2010 of 1,042 Hispanic US individuals ages 13 to 17. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,042), there is 95%...
Build Trust And Advocacy With Targeted Content And Engagement Strategies
It was easy to grow a brand's social media marketing program over the past few years; a flood of new consumers entering social networks and other social venues provided a burgeoning audience. But as...
Forrester Research conducted an online survey in May 2012 of 7,047 consumers ages 18 and older in South Korea, Australia, Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou,...
Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded in May and June 2010 of 10,116 US households and individuals ages 18 and older. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 10,116),...
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...
The Russian Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2011, surveyed 3,105 respondents in urban Russia. This survey is based on adults ages 16 and older. Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) weighted the data by...
An overview of the types of advertisments that Latin Americans trust and how these differ for Brazilian and Mexican consumers.
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...
Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, September 2012
In the age of the always addressable customer, where hyperconnected consumers are increasingly savvy and demanding of the brands with which they interact, marketers must become more audience-centric...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2010 of 4,681 young US individuals ages 12 to 17. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,681), there is 95%...
Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook
You already know your audience uses social media; one minute they're planning vacations on Twitter and the next they're toppling governments with the help of Facebook. And because your customers use...

Move From On/Off Compliance Approaches To Custom Privacy Management
Governments are placing pressure on interactive marketers, in most cases by mandating clear rules around how customer data is obtained, used, and stored for marketing. While interactive marketers...
Forrester conducted a face-to-face survey fielded in July and August 2011 of 6,032 individuals ages 16 to 75 in the top urban cities in Mexico (including Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla,...