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Report:B2B Tech Marketers Are The Key To Competitive Success In Customer-Centric European Markets

B2B Social Technographics® Data For Q1 2011 Confirms That Social Media Usage In Europe Continues At A High Level

Forrester has completed its Q1 2011 US And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers, which marks the third year we've conducted this survey As in the US,...

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Report:Tech Distribution Changes In A Cloudy Industry

Channel Marketers That Understand The Changes Will Develop Best Practices

Our recent channel survey included 19 firms that indicated their "primary function" was technology distribution. Like other channel partners, distributors are realizing that their business models...

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Tool:European And North American Tech Marketers Agree On Strengths But Not Weaknesses

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Report:Differentiate With The Five C's Of Community Marketing

Outcome-Oriented Marketing Means A Move Away From The Four P's

Technology marketers must change their product-focused marketing habits if they want to win in the business technology marketplace. Product-based differentiation has lost competitive potency because...

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Report:Empowered Users Will Change How Business Software Is Served

An Empowered Report: Lessons For Tech Marketers From The IT Management Software Market

The face of business software applications is changing dramatically as new-generation users drive for a Web 2.0 intuitive user interface. User expectations with respect to service will also be...

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Report:Automating Your End-To-End Process

Tools And Technology: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

The lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) process calibrates marketing and sales activities around a common success factor — revenue. An optimized process yields bigger pipelines, shorter sales...

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Report:The Case For B2B Customer Experience Programs Is Revenue Generation And Renewal

But Marketing Cannot Take On This Issue Alone

Research conducted over the past years indicates that B2B customers perceive their experiences to be worse than those delivered by bottom-of-the-barrel consumer industries such as TV service...

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Report:Mobile Is A Mainstream Content Source For Tech Buyers

Deliver What They Want Where They Want It

Mobile is becoming the new face of engagement. By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion business application buyers and/or users. Mobile is not simply another...

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Report:Use Field Marketing To Align Marketing Content With International Customer Needs

Tech Vendors That Sell Globally Tend To Market And Localize Centrally

Tech marketing executives are struggling to strike a balance between the control they need to communicate a consistent brand promise and deliver a consistent brand experience while also being...

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Tool:Components Of The B2B Social Technographics Ladder

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Report:BT Social Technographics® 2011: Age Matters

Social Media Preferences Vary Significantly Among Age Groups

Forrester has analyzed data from the Q1 2011 US And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers by age group to examine a common assumption: Most of the...

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Report:European Tech Marketing Is Different: Here's How

Forrester's Marketing Flywheel Shows Other Priorities For European Marketers

Tech marketers are modifying their vision of the role of marketing in their companies: from a provider of prospect names and product messages to a strategic resource that, like a flywheel, fuels and...

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Report:Segment Social Media Behaviors To Improve Tech Vendor Marketing Plans

Forrester's Social Technographics® survey, now in its second year, depicts the social media behaviors of more than 1,000 tech buyers from around the world. Tech marketers can use this data to...

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Report:The Skills And Structures For L2R Success

Organization: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

B2B marketers are adopting the lead-to-revenue (L2R) concept to ensure that revenue goals are met on time by optimizing the balance among lead value, velocity, and volumes, as well as ensuring that...

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Report:European Tech Buyers Continue To Consume Digital Content Socially

The 2012 B2B Social Technographics® Of European Buyers

Technology buying is a highly considered, collaborative process, and one ideally suited for social interactions. To see how emerging digital media affects the process, Forrester surveys technology...

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Tool:The Social Technographics® Of BT Buyers Over The Past Three Years

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Tool:IT And Non-IT Decision-Makers Tick Differently

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Report:Tech Vendors Need To Make Their Marketing Outsourcing Strategic

Digital Marketing Requires Longer Term Relationships

The Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey shows that tech vendors outsource much of their marketing work to external service providers, much more than in other industry sectors....

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Report:Assessing Your Content Management Processes And Organization

B2B marketers across all industries are investing more into creating digital content to generate new business opportunities, nurture existing sales or marketing leads, and to encourage deeper...

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Report:Adapt Your Messaging And Campaigns For A Changing Workforce

Information Workers Are A New Buying Center For Enterprise Technology

Forrester proposed changing the term IT to BT several years ago to reflect the fact that information technology was now so pervasive to businesses that decision-making around the necessary...

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Report:Tech Marketers Are Missing The Social Mark For Senior Decision-Makers

Senior Decision-Makers Are Heavy Users Of Social Media

B2B marketers like yourself must target their marketing strategies — including their approach to social — to their target audiences. When you target senior decision-makers with titles...

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Report:The Emergence Of The Digital Marketing Service Provider

Tech Marketers Have A New Buyer And Channel To Consider

Businesses engaged in digital marketing will seek a new generation of service provider — one that combines technology competence with marketing strategy and digital creativity. These providers...

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Report:Organizing For Community Success

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...

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Tool:The Customer Life Cycle And The Five C's Of Community Marketing

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Report:Business Technology Buyers' Social Media Behaviors Are Evolving

B2B Tech Marketers Must Understand The Details If They Want To Be Engaged

As IT decision-makers become more experienced in their use of social media for work purposes and the underlying technologies begin to mature, usage patterns have shifted. IT decision-makers are no...

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