Forrester

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Investing In Marketing's Technology Future

How CI Can Use Technology To Drive Competitive Advantage

Marketers require ever more technology to capture, integrate, analyze, and apply customer data to marketing programs. Forrester recommends that marketers establish an enterprisewide marketing...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Shopper Marketing Breaks Out Of The Store

Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions

Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Orchestrate Direct-To-Consumer Sales As Part Of Your Brand Experience

The hope of greater margins and more control may drive a consumer goods company to embrace direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. But while those are sound reasons to sell directly, they sell the value of...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Organizing For Interactive Marketing

You Should Prepare For A Distributed Organizational Model — Here's How

The question of how marketers should staff and structure their internal interactive organizations is growing more common as the interactive marketing function takes a more central role in overall...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Three Ways To Find, Create, And Energize Advocates

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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016

Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Case Study: Co-Creation Provides A Twist To Unilever's Axe Product Strategy

An Empowered Report

Axe, a Unilever brand of deodorants, body sprays, and shower gels, began using in-person face-to-face co-creation engagements in 2007 with a limited-edition European offering. Based on that...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:The Pop-Up Brand Experience

How To Transform Product Transactions Into Brand Moments

Innovative marketers are reinventing how consumers engage with their products by transforming yesterday's transactional vending machines into today's powerful brand experience machines. Some...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Bigger B2B Marketing Budgets Come With Great Expectations

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...

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