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Emerging Trends In B2B Social Marketing For 2013
Our data shows that social channels are key to the decision processes of your business-to-business (B2B) customers and prospects, so to avoid falling behind or missing emerging trends, you should...
Over the past year, marketers have made the shift from learning about the meaning of gamification to incorporating it into their strategies. But so far, the results have been mixed, as the...
Processes: The Digital Money Management Playbook
The critical question for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals who have launched, or are about to launch, digital money management is how to drive customer adoption and use. To help,...
Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve...
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Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display, search, and social. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size as well as mobile video...
Growth Slows But Remains Strong Despite Legislative Uncertainty
Social media marketing spending in the European Union (EU) will rise over the next five years, boosted by increasing numbers of addressable devices; consumers' willingness to use them; continued...
Learn From The Winners About Best Practices To Emulate
Outstanding business-to-business (B2B) community and social marketers took a variety of approaches to community marketing in Forrester's 2012 B2B Groundswell Awards, and each of them has demonstrated...
How, Why, And When Your Buyers Tap Into Communities
Communities provide the interactions and content that buyers seek when they want to discover, explore, and engage with a brand. But business-to-business (B2B) marketers often hesitate to interact...
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...

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...
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...
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,...
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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Online and offline advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by pricing scheme, media format, and share of spending through ad networks. Includes historical data going back...
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Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Includes social spending directed...
Seven Best Practices For Successfully Using A Market Research Online Community For Behavioral Tracking
Several market research online community (MROC) providers and client-side researchers are pushing the envelope with their communities and panels, using them as a platform for testing emerging...
China Dominates A Rapidly Growing Yet Cautious Market
By 2017, marketers advertising with online display and search media in India, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and China will grow their investments at a 23% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to...
Identify The Right Social Platform To Reach Your Audience And Achieve Your Objectives
Most marketers realize the importance of going social to reach hypersocial Chinese consumers — but China's highly fragmented social media landscape makes it challenging to select the right...
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Online advertising spend for the Asia Pacific countries of China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. Includes online display advertising and search marketing spending by country. Includes data...
Performance Management: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
The evolution from channel-specific to cross-channel campaigns affords firms the opportunity to improve relevance and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. The processes of measuring and...

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?...

Assign An Owner To Digital Strategy, Governance, And Execution
To survive the destructive forces of digital disruption, firms must use eBusiness and interactive marketing capabilities to become customer obsessed. Yet most current digital organizations are too...

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions requires the right combination of a clear objective, business planning, technology, and, most importantly, people to do the...
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Online social media users, user penetration, and social media advertising spending for 17 Western European countries. Includes historical data back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.
Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook
Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they're increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology...