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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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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: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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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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Report:The Future Of Search Marketing

And What You Should Do About It

Search marketing faces a number of changes that will force interactive marketers to think more like business planners than like channel managers. While we expect the future of search to extend...

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Report:Interactive Marketing Priorities For SMBs

Small and medium-size business (SMB) marketers, much like their enterprise counterparts, find that challenges — like limited budgets, resources, and customer insight — interfere with...

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Tool:Communities Dominate Marketers' Emerging Media Plans

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Report:Case Study: Blue Shield Of California Drives Leads With Mobile Search

Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) trialed mobile search marketing after noticing an increase in quote requests from mobile visitors. What can you learn from its early initiative in this space?...

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Report:Inspiring Interactive Innovation

How To Convince Your Firm To Trial New Interactive Marketing Programs

Organizations are naturally resistant to change, particularly ones that require adopting experimental interactive technologies. But interactive marketers can help their organizations adopt...

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Tool:New Customer Sales Tops SMBs' Business Priorities

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Tool:Respondents Represent A Range Of Company Types

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Client Inquiry:Search Optimization

I am interested in search optimization, specifically long-tail search (finding the data that supports a term that is under-optimized but has a big impact, not a ton of traffic on a few sites)....

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Report:US Financial Services Lead Interactive Marketing Spending

US financial services interactive marketing spend will more than double by 2016 but won't grow its investments in every channel at the same pace. This brief report breaks down the increase by channel...

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Tool:Users Rely On Different Tools To Find Search Engines Today

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Report:The New Messaging Mandate

Vision: The Email Marketing Playbook

This report lays out Forrester's vision of email marketing for interactive marketers: Integrate email into a multichannel conversation that includes a number of non-email communication vehicles. Why?...

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Report:How To Integrate Email And Mobile Marketing

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...

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Report:The Future Of Interactive Marketing

How Embracing CORE Directives Will Help You Foster Adaptability

Interactivity is changing life as we know it, a scope too big for most firms' siloed, understaffed interactive marketing organizations. The solution? To customize, optimize, respond, and empower...

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Report:Compare Your Campaigns To 70 Others

Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook

This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

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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: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:The Forrester Wave™: Search Marketing Agencies, Q4 2012

360i, iCrossing, And Performics Lead The Way Toward Discovery Marketing

In Forrester's 25-criteria evaluation of search marketing agencies, we researched, analyzed, and compared seven agencies that have search marketing services at their cores. This report details our...

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Report:Balance User Needs With Business Goals

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...

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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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Report:How To Organize For The Digital Future

Assign An Owner To Digital Strategy, Governance, And Execution

To survive the destructive forces of digital disruption, firms must use eBusiness and interactive marketing capabilities to become customer obsessed. Yet most current digital organizations are too...

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Blog:With Or Without Bartz, Yahoo! Lacks Vision

Carol Bartz was fired by phone from her post as CEO of Yahoo! in what must have been a Trump-worthy conversation with Roy Boystock, Yahoo!'s Chairman of the Board. Tim Morse, Yahoo!'s...