Forrester

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Deliver Transparent Returns On Your Marketing Dollar

Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:CMOs Must Lead The Brand Experience

Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Build Your Army Of Brand Advocates From Across The Enterprise

Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketers'...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Customer Intelligence Needs A New Breed Of Marketing Scientist

Organization: The Customer Analytics Playbook

A mature customer intelligence (CI) function needs optimized data processes, cutting-edge technologies, and the right analytics talent. Analysts add value to CI with their data-mining and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Digital Media Buying Maturity Framework

Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Making Sense Of A Fractured Consumer Data Ecosystem

Landscape: The Personal Identity Management Playbook

Although widespread adoption of personal identity management (PIDM) remains a few years away, the ecosystem of data lockers and authorization managers is already rapidly evolving. Firms ranging from...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Measurement Is A Digital Media Buyer's Best Friend

Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Coordinate Your Social Marketing Stakeholders And Resources

Stakeholder Map: The Social Marketing Playbook

Most large companies are now working on coordinating their social applications. At this stage, sharing the right resources is the biggest challenge. Interactive marketers must play the role of...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Consumers Demand More From 21st Century Brands

Landscape: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Empowered consumers threaten the traditional building blocks of brand equity, as they have greater influence than ever over brand preference, recommendation, and pricing power. In February 2012,...

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For CMO Professionals

Playbook:The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

The Post-Digital Rules Of Brand Building

In the 21st century, empowered consumers have steered brand marketing into foreign terrain — they have taken the driver's seat and told brands where, when, and how they want to be interacted...

For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Build Your Brand With Branded Content

Traditional marketing vehicles are becoming less effective in capturing and engaging the attention of today's perpetually connected consumers. Chief marketing officers (CMOs) must adapt their...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:2013 B2B CMO Imperatives

Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing

Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Building A Better Digital Media Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Moving to greater digital media buying maturity requires a plan that improves your practice across all four foundational pillars of maturity over the long term: organization, planning and execution,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Make The Switch To The Customer Life Cycle

Strategic Plan: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The customer life cycle provides a better explanation of modern marketing than does the traditional marketing funnel, but most marketers have not yet moved their organizations to the customer life...

• Downloads: 985

For CMO Professionals

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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For CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:The Customer Life-Cycle Maturity Assessment

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Take Forrester's Digital Media Buying Maturity Self-Assessment

For CMO Professionals

Report:Culture Is Key To Marketing Innovation Velocity

How B2C Marketers Inspire Cultural Change

Marketing innovation is hard and getting harder. Traditional marketing tools, channels, strategies, and tactics are becoming less effective in the age we live in now — that of the perpetually...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Take Forrester's Digital Media Buying Maturity Self-Assessment

For CMO Professionals

Report:Evaluate The Completeness Of Your Marketing Effort

Assessment: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The world your customers live in is complex — a maze of media, devices, conversations, and interactions — and to make a connection between them and your brand means finding new ways to...

• Downloads: 170

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Train Your Team For Social Marketing Success

Continuous Improvement: The Social Marketing Playbook

Interactive marketers' success in social media has attracted other departments' attention. But well-meaning nonmarketers sometimes commit risky blunders as they join the fray. To ensure that social...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The New Search Marketing Review

Introducing Forrester's Search Marketing Review Methodology 2.0

Paid search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are still mainstays in the interactive marketer's toolkit. And many legacy best practices still apply to paid search and SEO. However,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Score Your Mobile Marketing Maturity

Assessment: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your mobile marketing capabilities. We find that although mobile budgets are beginning to increase, the majority of interactive marketers...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

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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For Sales Enablement Professionals

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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