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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...
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...
Forrester has partnered with Canada Post and Shop.ca to evaluate the changing trends in online retail in Canada. On paper, the Canadian online retail market has been going through a renaissance,...
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...
Landscape: The eCommerce Globalization Playbook
Gone are the days when most brands offered just one or two international sites: Today, a global eCommerce footprint is the end goal. To reach that goal, companies are taking a strategic look at the...

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...
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...
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....
China is set to be the world's largest eCommerce market by 2015. Growth in this market shows no signs of slowing down, but many of the forces driving sales differ from other eCommerce markets. This...
As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

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Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total retail sales. Also includes online buyers, online...
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...
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...
Economic Instability Across Europe Will Do Little To Slow Retail eCommerce Growth
By 2017, Europeans will spend more than €191 billion online on retail products, and online retail growth will continue to outpace offline growth. As wallet share gradually shifts toward the...
US Online Retail Will Reach $262 Billion In 2013
Online retail in the US continues to grow at a rapid rate, outpacing sales growth at traditional stores and stealing market share from them. We predict that online retail in 2013 will reach $262...
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...
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...
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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Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, consumer electronics, and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such as online buyers, average spending per...
A new breed of luxury goods online shopper has arrived that is young, tech-savvy, Internet-aware, mobile-enabled, and embracing tablets fast. This new breed of global consumer is keen to find fresh...
Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

Benchmarks: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
This is the second of two reports that detail the findings from "The State Of Retailing Online, 2011," a Shop.org research survey conducted by Forrester Research. Specific topics covered in this...

eCommerce continues to grow at a rapid pace; on average, the retailers surveyed for Forrester and Shop.org's annual The State of Retailing Online study experienced 28% growth in sales in 2012 over...

The rapid growth and ubiquity of smartphones naturally means that a significant portion of Internet activity, including shopping, will migrate to this mobile device. While mobile browsing on retail...

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...
