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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Don't Confuse Tablet And Mobile Marketing

Contextual Marketing Demands A Unique Approach To Tablets

Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used within...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: North American Insurance eBusiness And Channel Strategy

Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas

There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How US Consumers Shop On Mobile Devices

Consumers Use Mobile Phones Primarily For In-Store Product Research

Sales remain small on mobile devices, and online retailers are taking a cautious approach to investment in mobile services — for now. In this report, we discuss the size of the US mobile retail...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Benchmarking Mobile Engagement: Consumers And Employees Outpace CIOs' Readiness

Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, China

Asia Pacific Consumer Technographics®

This report provides an overview of metropolitan Chinese online consumers' behaviors and technology attitudes. In general, metropolitan Chinese consumers are enthusiastic mobile owners and social...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: Five Trends Shaping The Next Generation Of North American Digital Banking

In this report we explore five trends that will affect the next generation of digital banking. Rising digital customer expectations, advances in technology, and continued digital disruption threats...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Global Mobile Behaviors, 2012

Global Consumer Technographics®

In 2012, the majority of consumers in the US, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America owned a mobile phone. However, the ways in which global consumers use their phone varies across countries....

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Mobile Mind Shift Index

Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations

Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Customer Experience In The Post-PC Era

The rapid consumer adoption of mobile devices, new interfaces, and the changing behaviors they encourage have fundamentally changed how customers engage with companies. Gone are the days when...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:eBusiness Teams' Two Paths To Cross-Channel Measurement Success

In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now

eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Assess The Impact Of Touchpoints Along The Consumer Path-To-Purchase

How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending

Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, Europe

European Consumer Technographics®

This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012. It provides an overview of European consumers' Internet and consumer technology behaviors....

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Fragmented Path-To-Purchase Demands Everywhere Marketing

Landscape: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The traditional marketing funnel has been done in by consumer behaviors that are anything but linear. Instead, in each phase of Forrester's customer life cycle — discover, explore, buy, and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of Online Consumers In Asia Pacific, 2012

Asia Pacific Technographics®

For the past seven years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. As in recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Online Hispanics: A Demographic Overview

North American Technographics®

This demographic overview highlights the unique behaviors and attitudes that characterize US online Hispanics compared with their non-Hispanic peers. US online Hispanics lead the way in mobile device...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:European Online Retail: Five Trends To Watch In 2013

European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality

European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The European Tablet Landscape

A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

2012 was undoubtedly a pivotal year for tablets. With double-digit growth in tablet uptake across Western Europe, about one in seven online Europeans now owns a tablet. And with further double-digit...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Community Speaks: A Look Into Consumers' 2012 Holiday Season Shopping Habits

A Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report

In recent years, we have seen a continued increase in online shopping around the holidays. Forrester's US Online Holiday Retail Forecast, 2012 again showed an increase in consumer spending; online...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:The Marketing Case For A Branded Sales Channel

Marketers Must Look Beyond Incremental Sales And Margins To Assess The Full Impact Of A Direct Sales Channel

Every product category has a set of competitors that have a branded route to the customer — such as The Body Shop in cosmetics, Gap in apparel, and Apple in consumer electronics — while...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Fitness Wearables — Many Products, Few Customers

Product Strategists Must Broaden Wearables' Appeal Beyond Fitness

Wearable devices are part of the next wave of growth and innovation in personal computing, a phenomenon we call "smart body, smart world." Wearables could target any use case, from gaming to...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The State Of Mobile Insurance In 2013

Landscape: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook

Insurance companies are rolling out a widening range of mobile insurance functionality for both consumers and agents. While there's substantial consumer interest in mobile insurance, actual use is...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Understand Immediacy, Simplicity, And Context

Processes: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report highlights the key principles of mobile experience that interactive marketers must weave into the process of crafting mobile marketing strategies. More people own smartphones than ever...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Marketers Need To Put Money Where A Consumer's Mouth Is

How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services

This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes important content for CMOs and marketing leaders looking to improve discovery of their products and services. The discover...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services

A Technographics® Data Essentials Report

Discovery is the first phase of the customer life cycle — it's the crucial time when consumers first find out about new brands, products, and services. If the "Discover" phase is successful,...

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