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Strategic Plan: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report articulates a strategic plan for how interactive marketers can improve their email programs today and create humanized, integrated messages in the future. We recommend marketers build...
How Interactive Marketers Can Apply PR Best Practices To Succeed With Empowered Customers
Interactive marketers excel in paid and owned media but are often in uncharted waters when tasked with earning media through relationships with advocates and detractors. Thus, PR professionals are...

Vision: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
Today's empowered customer has the world at her fingertips — literally — through the multiple keyboards and connections to opinions all throughout her day. The challenge for today's...
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...
We are a messaging vendor and are thinking about different ways to price our platform/services. What is Forrester's take on a plan?
Oreck decided it was time to get smart about impression delivery across multiple channels. Working with partner Knotice, Oreck created a unified view of the customer to effectively target and deliver...

Marketers should format emails for convenient mobile access. Do this by following Forrester's principles of convenience — create mobile emails that are immediate, simple, and contextually...
Analyst relations (AR) people are fretting about the opportunities and threats posed by social media, their worries fed by uncertainty about which aspects of social media will be important and how....

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...
What are some great examples of automated, highly personalized, multichannel communications programs? My company has a few programs in pilot mode, but it seems that this concept of highly automated,...
Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...
How Interactive Marketers Must Make Digital Messaging More Engaging
As a marketer you want to be timely and relevant when you send a message and basic triggered messaging has addressed one side of this equation — timeliness — for many marketers. But when...
What is Forrester's take on how healthcare companies have responded to the rise of social media? How will healthcare companies gain traction in the social media space? What are good and the bad...
Consumers delete fewer email messages, integrate email promotions with personal emails, and forward promotional emails more today than in past years. But email marketers shouldn't be too smug about...
Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions requires the right combination of a clear objective, business planning, technology, and, most importantly, people to do the...
What works in digital marketing to drive online and in-store traffic for a consumer electronics retailer during the holiday period (October thru December); with a specific focus on Black Friday and...
Stay Ahead Of Privacy Legislation By Creating A Value-For-Data Exchange
Recent advances in audience targeting point to a digital marketing future that leverages consumer data to create personalized messaging and drive higher conversions. However, this potential is...
Our client is set to approve a direct marketing program that is testing a multiple contact approach against a single contact approach. What we would like are any industry benchmarks or examples that...
Executive Overview: The Email Marketing Playbook
The rules for how to best message your users are changing. Now your customers check their email, text messages, and social media posts in parallel. Even trickier: People tap their inboxes from...

Offline And Online Paid Media Placements Will Drive Earned Media Success
Earned media is exploding. Born from traditional public relations (PR), its rapid adoption by marketers is being driven by new opportunities to drive word of mouth through social media. But earned...

Four Ways To Strategically Add Value To Multichannel Marketing
Marketers continue to treat digital channels as an afterthought of their integrated campaigns, instead of as strategic assets. But it's time for marketers to rethink their approach to multichannel...
How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes important content for CMOs and marketing leaders looking to improve discovery of their products and services. The discover...

How Social Intelligence Bridges The Gap Between Diverse Disciplines
Customer Intelligence and public relations aren't obvious bedfellows. The two teams sit on opposite sides of the marketing and strategy organization but share similar goals and will now share a...

Performance Management: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report, part of the email marketing playbook, provides interactive marketers with advice on email marketing performance management, with a focus specifically on list maintenance. We've outlined...
How Advertising Campaigns And Social Marketing Influence Each Other
While it's very helpful to categorize the different online media touchpoints into groups such as earned, owned, and paid media, it's important to recognize that all of these touchpoints influence...