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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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Report:Consumer "Ad-itudes" Stay Strong

Better Trust Will Improve Ad Response

Consumers don't love advertising, but they do admit it helps increase product awareness, drive purchase activity, and change brand attitudes. To get more consumers to respond to advertising, we...

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Blog:Best Buy CTO Shares How Marketing And IT Should Collaborate

I’m co-presenting next week at Forrester’s first-ever CIO/CMO Forum with my colleague Craig Symons, a VP and Principal Analyst from Forrester’s IT client group.  We’re...

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Blog:Epsilon's Data Breach Raises Awareness Of Cyber Crime

By now, you've all heard about Epsilon's April 1 data breach — an unauthorized party accessed a subset of Epsilon's email clients' data. My colleague Dave...

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Report:How B2B Firms Can Improve Their Email Marketing

B2B email marketing programs still trail B2C programs in terms of their customer centricity, in part because of the complexity of business products, the poor alignment of marketing and sales, and...

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Blog:CMO Best Practices For Hiring And Retaining Digital Talent

I’m currently working on a report around how to hire and retain good digital talent. So the CMO panel featuring Brian Lauber of OneAmerica, Jared Blank of Tommy Hilfiger, and Chris Krohn...

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Tool:Mobile Internet And Apps Are Two Possible Search Interfaces

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Tool:Attributes To Consider When Compiling Your ESP RFP

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Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2011 To 2016

Spend Will Near $77 Billion As Interactive Gains Legitimacy In The Mix

By 2016, advertisers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing — as much as they do on television today. Search marketing, display advertising, mobile marketing, email marketing, and...

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Blog:The Future Of Search Marketing

We published today The Future of Search Marketing; thank you to the many marketers and agencies who contributed to the research.  There are a number of evolutions happening to search marketing...

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Client Inquiry:Team And Organizational Structures

We would like to discuss team/organizational structures from an interactive marketing perspective.

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Blog:Direct Marketers Share Smart Online Lessons

My colleague Sarah Takvorian attended the New England Direct Marketing Association’s (NEDMA) spring Marketing Technology Summit in Boston. Here are the lessons learned in Sarah’s...

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Blog:Benchmark Your Interactive Marketing Maturity

  Live today is Forrester’s new free benchmarking tool that can help you compare your company’s interactive marketing budget and organization against your peers’. Simply answer...

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Blog:What Email Marketers Can Do To Protect Themselves From Email Fraud

Epsilon's Symposium addressed email fraud head on, since its data breach accessed email data. Quinn Jalli, Epsilon's VP of Deliverability and ISP Relations, recommends that managing...

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Blog:Actual Interactive Marketer Predictions For 2011

A few weeks ago, I had lunch in Chicago with several members of Forrester's Interactive Marketing Council.  Chris Gorz, Hospira Steve Furman, Discover Financial Services David Blanchard,...

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Report:The New Interactive Marketing Maturity Model

How CORE Can Help Improve Your Interactive Sophistication

Interactive marketer maturity today looks strikingly like it did when we introduced our original interactive marketing maturity model in 2008. This is likely due to increased market complexity and...

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Client Inquiry:Google SEO

What are all of the known elements that go into Google's results ranking beyond the basic keyword-embedding and purchasing a spot at the top of the results list? The root of this question comes from...

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Tool:Display Media Preferences Change

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Blog:SalesForce/ExactTarget Deal Means More Complexity For Marketers

This morning, salesforce.com announced plans to acquire marketing technology ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, a 53% premium over ExactTarget's (ET) closing price on Monday, June 3, 2016....

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Report:Making The Most Of Mobile Search Marketing

How To Decrease Waste And Improve Results From Mobile Search

Search marketers are eager to launch mobile campaigns. But just plunking your online search strategies down in mobile won't address mobile users' needs or take advantage of mobile-specific...

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Report:How Consumers Find Websites In 2011

And Why Multitouchpoint Campaigns Will Drive Value, Not Just Traffic

As in years past, natural search results, links, and personal emails are the most cited resources for finding websites. But take note: Social media — in particular social networks —...

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Report:Improve With Simple Innovations

Continuous Improvement: The Email Marketing Playbook

This report for interactive marketers is part of Forrester's email marketing playbook and provides our current recommendations for how to continuously improve your email marketing programs. By...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: US Search Marketing Agencies, Q1 2011

iCrossing Takes Top Honors, With 360i And Impaqt Close Behind

Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of search marketing vendors scores iCrossing the best because of its forecast-based approach to campaign planning, qualitative and quantitative research skills,...

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Report:Case Study: Avis Uses Personas To Drive SEO

We spoke with John Peebles, vice president of online marketing at Avis Budget Group, about a site redesign project he and his team undertook to improve the search engine optimization (SEO) results...

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Blog:CORE Lessons From Best Buy, ING And IBM

Last week I joined Matt Smith, VP of Marketing Services from Best Buy, Kim Verhaaf, director of Customer Intelligence at ING, and Matt Preschern, VP of Demand Programs for IBM, for a...