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A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
With 96% of European online adults using the Internet at least weekly and 99% of European online households having one or more computers (PC, laptop, netbook, iPad, or tablet) at home, the European...
Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions
Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

Recently, Forrester released a report entitled “What Drives Retention and Sales In US Banking?” that tackles this question from the consumer point of view. Using regression analysis, we...

Global Technographics® Overview: Mobile
How Market Insights Professionals Can Overcome Biases In Consumer Research
The field of behavioral economics is gaining increased attention in the marketing world. Unlike standard economic theory, which assumes that consumers are informed and make rational decisions to...

I am delighted to announce that our annual report on The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, US is now available. This report is a graphical analysis of a range of topics about...
I just returned from the IIR Market Research Technology Event (TMRTE). These were three action-packed days of industry leaders delivering great insights on what’s important for the market...
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...
Insights And Lessons Learned From Forrester's Social Media Behavioral Tracking Study
When it comes to gaining quantitative consumer intelligence, market insights professionals can use a wide array of methodologies — including behavioral. Many market insights professionals...

European Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012. It provides an overview of European consumers' Internet and consumer technology behaviors....
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
With the majority of US adults banking online and more than one-fifth accessing their financial accounts on their mobile phones, the landscape for B2C financial services has become increasingly...
North American Consumer Technographics®
Seniors ages 65 and older have spent much of their lives without the technology that younger generations have grown up with. Devices like PCs, high-definition TVs (HDTVs), digital cameras, and many...
Using Regression Modeling To Better Understand The Drivers Of Acquisition, Retention, And Cross-Selling In Banking
In 2012, the age of the customer is in full swing. Gone are the days when companies could simply offer their services and customers could choose to take them or leave them — today, companies...
North American Consumer Technographics®
US consumers today are exposed to more kinds of connected devices than ever before. Consumers associate the terms "going online" or "using the Internet" with devices like laptops and desktops. Social...
North American Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...
With mobile usage becoming increasingly widespread and companies testing the water with mobile strategies, market insights professionals need to uncover consumers’ mobile behavior today and...
Last week, I ran into an infographic on Ad Age about The People of Walmart. It compares the demographics of Walmart, Kmart, Kohl’s, and Target shoppers: for example, age, sex, income,...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Report
For US consumers, the shopping experience has moved beyond the in-store experience and involves multiple other channels. Online shopping now accounts for a significant part of consumers' wallet share...
A Technographics® Global Overview Report
The Internet plays an important role in consumers' retail habits across the world. Our 2011 data shows that the majority of global online consumers already shop online — and this isn't limited...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Report
Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they engage, discover, explore, and buy using a variety of channels. Companies today understand that engagement and positive...
Recently, I attended the MSI Workshop on behavioral economics at the Harvard Innovation Lab. The presenters included an innovative crew: a number of academics from Harvard Business School and...
Global Consumer Technographics®
There are significant differences in the way that people access and manage their finances globally. Online banking is common among online consumers in the US, Europe, and metropolitan areas in Asia...
For consumers today, online and mobile channels have become an integral part of the shopping experience — for both researching and purchasing products and services. In their transition to agile...
Last month George Colony, CEO of Forrester, talked about a “Social Thunderstorm” at the LeWeb conference in Paris. He argued that social is running out of hours and running out of people....
Does your brand include Seniors (those ages 65+) in its digital marketing strategy? It should. Here’s why. Forrester recently published a demographic overview of Digital Seniors, and the...
A Review Of Forrester's Social Technographics® Data From Around The World
Social media has gone global: The majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metropolitan Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. But usage patterns vary widely by country and...
