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For CMO Professionals

Report:It's Time To Put Shoppers Back Into Shopper Marketing

Shopper Marketing Needs Close Ties To Brand Marketing To Attract Empowered Consumers

CMOs have given renewed attention to shopper marketing efforts lately, as these marketers sit closest to the consumer while she is in buying mode. However, shopper marketing teams are more typically...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Powering The Agile Store

Bringing The Best Of Digital Into The Physical Environment To Empower Customers And Associates Alike

Digital technology is poised to transform the retail experience. As many retailers struggle to maintain costly store estates, eBusiness executives have an opportunity to play a leading role in...

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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 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:The State Of Canadian Online Retail — 2013

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,...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Global eCommerce Opportunity

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Making Informed Mobile Payment Investments In China

The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...

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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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Understanding The Dynamics Of China's eCommerce Market

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: US Retail eBusiness

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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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Developing An Agile Business

Executive Overview: The Agile Commerce Playbook

Consumer behavior is changing. Customers are becoming increasingly connected and adopting growing numbers of touchpoints as they discover, explore, buy, and engage with brands and products. And...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:US Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:European Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017

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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:How Extended Packaging Will Redefine Relationships Among Brands, Retailers, And Customers

A European Perspective On Mobile Bar Codes

You've seen them everywhere: in the corners of print ads, across billboards, on buses, or in pieces of direct mail — those small blocks of even smaller squares. Marketers are increasingly using...

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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 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 CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Engagement Demands Process Transformation

Processes: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

To take advantage of an app in an employee's or customer's pocket, you have to help them accomplish a task quickly and easily whenever they want to and wherever they are. That means CIOs and business...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Luxury Retailer's Guide To Agile Commerce

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...

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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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Must-Have eCommerce Features

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2011: Merchandising, Headcount, And Global Strategies

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Five Key Success Factors Of Every eBusiness

Strategic Plan: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

One of the questions that organizations launching an eCommerce operation commonly ask is, "Are there common elements behind success?" With a decade of retail eCommerce behind us, we can see that...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics And Initiatives

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...

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