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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Determine The CORE Directive Most Critical For You

For CMO Professionals

Report:Breaking Down The Financial Barriers To Marketing Innovation

CMOs continue to fall short in marketing innovation. Most marketers experiment instead, putting the lion's share of their investment into testing one P of the marketing mix: promotion. While new...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:B2B Sales And Marketing Alignment Starts With The Customer

Use The Customer Buying Cycle To Align The Go-To-Market Strategy

Despite the best intentions, the conventional thinking of marketing and sales leaders around how to align these two teams is flawed, as it addresses the symptoms rather than the cause of the chasm....

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Keep Up With Advertiser Targeting Demands

Publishers Must Expand Ad Products To Address Advertiser DMP Adoption

Advertisers are adopting data management platforms (DMPs) and planning for more sophisticated audience targeting tactics, including the use of first-party advertiser data. These tactics will put...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Cross-Channel Attribution Blueprint

A Readiness Framework For Successful Implementation

Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals are increasingly tasked with assessing marketing effectiveness across all channels within the organization. But without access to next-generation attribution...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Manage The Digitization Of Agency Services

Performance Management: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

To effectively manage agency partners, marketers must reorient themselves to the shifting terrain of the agency landscape. All agencies are digitizing their core capabilities to help clients engage...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Tool:Tailor Dashboard Information To Different Roles

For CMO Professionals

Report:Marketers Miss A Big Opportunity With Marketing Mix Modeling

Senior marketing leaders are missing a key opportunity by underinvesting in marketing mix modeling. Those who have adopted marketing mix modeling find that it works. They are able to proactively...

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For CMO Professionals

Client Inquiry:Thought Leadership Infrastructure And Development

How do B2B companies, especially services companies, structure thought leadership development and dissemination? What infrastructure and governance are they putting in place (i.e., center of...

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Mobile Location Becomes Invisible

No Longer A Service, Location Will Be Embedded In Mobile Products

eBay's recent acquisition of Where and Groupon's acquisition of Whrrl show how two Internet pure players looking to develop mobile transactions plan to integrate new location-based features into...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

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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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:How CI Professionals Can Assess Their Firms' Intelligent Enterprise Progress

Forrester's research shows that firms that seek to place the customer at the core of their operations closely align their market insights and Customer Intelligence functions under a strategic leader....

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For CMO Professionals

Report:CMOs Must Lead The Customer-Obsessed Revolution

Guiding The Journey To Competitive Advantage In The Age Of The Customer

Companies are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world where empowered consumers, commoditized products, and intense...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Organizing For Site Optimization

Incorporating testing into marketing and customer experience management programs is crucial because consumer behaviors change continually and vary by a multitude of dimensions that are nearly...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Understanding The Marketing Technology Buying Process

Forrester recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence professionals to understand their marketing technology priorities, plans, and budgets. Marketers own technology decisions and consider cost and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Online Advertising Data Compliance Matters

Implement Self-Regulation For Behavioral Targeting To Protect Your Brand

An industrywide effort is underway to implement self-regulation of targeted display ads to ease consumer and governmental privacy concerns. Clear compliance requirements have been outlined by the...

• Downloads: 364

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:It's Time To Bury The Marketing Funnel

An Empowered Report: Marketers Must Embrace The Customer Life Cycle

More than a century after its first use, marketing leaders still turn to the "marketing funnel" to describe three key aspects of their work: consumer psychology, marketing mix measurement, and the...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Brand Building In The 21st Century

The Quest For Market Share And Mindshare In An Age Of Higher Standards

Like the ruins of Rome, the traditional pillars of brand equity are cracking under the weight of the higher standards of the 21st century consumer. Marketers are disoriented in this world where they...

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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 CMO Professionals

Report:Why Marketers Must Integrate TV And Video Strategies

In addition to the variety of media options that the digital age has brought forth, TV is the next medium to get a digital makeover. New access points to the living-room screen and the invasion of...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2011: Now Social Media Marketing Gets Tough

Saturation, Stagnation, And Privacy Concerns Challenge Social Media Marketers

Social media marketing was never easy, and it will get no easier in 2011. Consumers' increasing concerns over noise and privacy will decrease the relatively open access marketers have enjoyed in...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Apply Identity And Access Management Techniques To Consumer Data

Personal Identity Management

Customer intelligence (CI) professionals face increasing pressure to give consumers greater control over the data that organizations collect about them. Forrester has published a report predicting...

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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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Report:Interactive Marketing Channels To Watch In 2010

Display media, email, and search are still the most well-adopted interactive tactics. But this year's interactive marketing channel adoption study finds interactive marketers more willing than last...

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