Forrester

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Unified Customer Experience Imperative

Delivering Experience Excellence Across A Fractured Network Of Digital Touchpoints

Today's digital landscape is distributed across an array of touchpoints and devices. With customers able to interact through multiple channels at any given moment, firms need to ensure that they...

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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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers

Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Social Relationship Platforms, Q2 2013

The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 49-criteria evaluation of social relationship platform (SRP) vendors, we identified the eight most significant vendors — Adobe, Hearsay Social, salesforce.com's Buddy Media,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:How To Exploit The Database Of Affinity

And Why Google, Not Facebook, Will Dominate Affinity Marketing

Every day, huge numbers of people tell us what they like by voting for things, talking about things, reviewing things, and engaging in other online social interactions. All these behaviors add up to...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Extend Your Marketing Into Games

See Through The Myths, And Tap Games As A Medium For Marketing

Are you looking to deliver interactive, integrated marketing messages and advertising to reach an attractive, broad base of users in a medium where emotional response is predictable and guaranteed?...

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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 CMO Professionals

Report:How To Build Your Brand With Generation Z

Generation Z, the generation born after the Millennials, are true digital natives who have grown up in the age of technology. The only world they know is a digital one — where they can connect...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Navigate The Future Of CRM In 2013

Vision: The CRM Playbook

The only source of competitive advantage is the one that can survive technology-fueled disruption: an obsession with understanding, connecting with, serving, and delighting customers. But as...

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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: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:How To Engage Your Omnichannel Consumer

Brand Engagement The Consumer Way

The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Spotlight On Award-Winning Communities

Processes: The B2B Online Community Playbook

This report showcases the exemplary community processes into practice by Forrester's 2011 Groundswell Award winners and finalists. These community leaders did not achieve success by luck, rather they...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Four Steps To Build Your Brand Experience

Road Map: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Once the brand has its strategic bearings laid out — the North Star, the experience map, and its brand compass — it's time to cast off and start thinking about how to plan for the brand...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Always Addressable Customer

Vision: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report introduces Forrester's vision of mobile marketing for interactive marketing professionals: Discover the new ultra-connected customer, for whom mobile is the key touchpoint. In 2010, we...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Exploring The Social Technographics® Ladder: Creators

North American Consumer Technographics®

Creators sit at the top of Forrester's Social Technographics ladder®: They are a group of highly active online consumers who write blogs and articles, upload self-created video and music, post...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Brands Must Adapt To Customers' Higher Standards

Vision: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

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 are losing influence...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Deliver A New Brand Experience

Processes: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Many companies are well on their way to delivering a top-notch brand experience for their demanding customers. CMO and marketing leadership professionals can learn from the experiences and processes...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The New Interactive Agency Landscape

Agencies Reinvented As Mediators Will Win While The Rest Wither

The agency model is crumbling under the weight of continual innovation in digital channels, the changing media behaviors of the always-addressable customer, and marketers' frustration with a siloed...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Power Your Brand Ecosystem With Social Media

Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook

You already know your audience uses social media; one minute they're planning vacations on Twitter and the next they're toppling governments with the help of Facebook. And because your customers use...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "How To Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on July 13, 2011. Companies need a digital customer experience strategy to ensure that they...

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