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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...


Promote, Find, And Attract The Mass Influencers Who Matter
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 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...

An overview of media consumption in Asia Pacific, including the relationship between age and media consumption, as well as trust in ads in traditional versus online media.
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...
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...
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...
Build Your Brand With A Product Experience Platform
As the effectiveness of traditional communications vehicles continues to decline, marketers must think differently about brand building. Forrester has identified that consumers are tuning out...

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...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
This Data Essentials report highlights the extent to which young Hispanic consumers are outpacing non-Hispanics in their use of mobile phones. Forrester's North American Technographics® Youth...
Behavioral Marketers Should Prepare To Self-Regulate Data Practices
Concern over consumer privacy has marketers, associations, government officials, and even technology vendors hustling to find ways to manage online data so that it is comfortable to consumers and...
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...
An Empowered Report: How To Reach Young Consumers
Young consumers are now connected to media almost at all times — which would rationally lead you to think that the more places they are connected, the more ways there are (and the easier it is)...
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...