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Tool:Assessing Process Readiness

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Tool:Assessing Technology Readiness

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Report:3D TV Fails To Inspire Consumers In 2010

Most People Are Happy To Wait To Upgrade To 3D TV

At the opening of 2010, the world's largest TV manufacturers came to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) full of heady promises about the future of 3D TV. Despite the success of 3D films at the box...

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Tool:A Sample Readiness Assessment

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Report:Build A Digital Relationship With Your Customer

Why The Most Solid Thing In Your Product Strategy Is Virtual

All consumer product strategists should sit up and take notice: There's a critical lesson to learn from the most recent changes in the media industry. While most in the business have obsessed over...

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Report:Which Device Offers The Best Music Experience?

From set-top boxes to cell phones, device makers are falling over themselves to offer music functionality. Digital music services have also evolved to "anytime, anywhere" access with rich discovery...

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Report:Portable Media Players Must Evolve With Cloud Or Become Extinct

Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition

Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How eBusiness Can Court Multichannel Catalog And TV Shoppers

Retailers want to engage multichannel shoppers — that much they know. But who these shoppers are and how retailers go about courting them are entirely different stories. Below is a profile of...

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Report:Reinvigorating Traditional Radio

What Radio Strategists Can Do Right Now To Regain Momentum

Despite challenging times, traditional radio has a lot of unique strengths that it can leverage to survive and thrive in the current media climate. While it's a formidable competitor to traditional...

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Tool:Mass Influencers Have More Trust in Company And Brand Communications

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Report:Online Video Best Practice

Benchmarking Web Sites Using Forrester's Online Video Product Scorecard

Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for adding video to your Web site. In this report, we demonstrate how our online video product...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To The Future Of Online Customer Experience

The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...

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Report:Call Center Experiences Leave Consumers On Hold For Something Better

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Call Center Agent Interactions Across 13 Industries

Consumers report low satisfaction for conversations with call center agents. PC manufacturers, TV service providers, and Internet service providers receive the brunt of their ire. The good news? The...

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Report:Marketing Leaders' Approach To Content Creation For Brands

Four Examples Show How To Experiment In Branded Content Development

Marketers have long relied on advertising and their agencies to help tell the story of their brands. As consumers become immune to traditional advertising and ad clutter and fragmentation limits ad...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Why The EU ePrivacy Law Will Not Kill eCommerce

Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers

In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...

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Report:Welcome To The Empowered Era

An Empowered Report: Reinvent Yourself To Serve Empowered Customers And Employees

Your customers and your employees have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources. To succeed in an era...

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Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of US Online Consumers, 2012

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...

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Report:Put Video At The Heart Of Your Content Strategy

An Empowered Report: Content Is A Product, Too

Disruptive consumer behavior is profoundly affecting your ability to engage consumers through traditional media and marketing channels. Empowered product strategists within your organization must be...

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Report:Why Care About Combination Clickers

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Why Tablet Commerce May Soon Trump Mobile Commerce

Ownership of tablet devices is poised for rapid growth with tablet users in the US estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 51% from 2010 to 2015. Already a significant percent of...

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Report:Gamification: "Level Up" Your Strategic Approach

Over the past year, marketers have made the shift from learning about the meaning of gamification to incorporating it into their strategies. But so far, the results have been mixed, as the...

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Report:Can't Pay, Won't Pay: Why Paid Digital Content Isn't Working

Use SPARC To Create Digital Content Experiences That Users Will Pay For

Sales of paid digital content have stalled, although consumer demand for many services is still growing. Despite a clear and profound shift in the way we access and consume media content, traditional...

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Tool:TechRadar™: Creation Phase Technologies

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Survey:North American Technographics® Telecom And Devices Online Survey, Q3 2010 (Canada)

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August 2010 of 5,608 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N=5,608), there is 95% confidence...

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Report:Want Loyalty? Improve Your Call Center Customer Experience

Call Center Satisfaction Ties To Loyalty Across 11 Industries

Call center satisfaction correlates with three loyalty metrics: consumers' willingness to repurchase, reluctance to switch, and likelihood to recommend. Call satisfaction also correlates highly with...

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