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For CMO Professionals

Report:Culture Is Key To Marketing Innovation Velocity

How B2C Marketers Inspire Cultural Change

Marketing innovation is hard and getting harder. Traditional marketing tools, channels, strategies, and tactics are becoming less effective in the age we live in now — that of the perpetually...

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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 CMO Professionals

Report:Align Your Global Marketing Organization To Deliver On 21st Century Brand Building

Consumers have higher expectations of 21st century brands, requiring marketers to rethink how they navigate the brand, from reestablishing the brand's North Star to creating a consistent set of brand...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Evaluate The Completeness Of Your Marketing Effort

Assessment: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

The world your customers live in is complex — a maze of media, devices, conversations, and interactions — and to make a connection between them and your brand means finding new ways to...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Nurture Thought Leadership To Nurture Your Brand

Make Thought Leadership The Tip Of The Content Marketing Spear

Great marketing content fuels the demand generation engine, boosts brand visibility, and attracts buyers interested in the problems your company can solve. But when marketers publish promotional...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Navigating The Future Of Customer Intelligence

Customer intelligence is in the throes of significant change brought about by two primary drivers: 1) the disruption caused by the massive shifts in consumer behavior, and 2) organizations' growing...

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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 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 Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Take A Startup Approach To Develop Customer Relationships

Organization: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

Customers, empowered by always connected digital devices, can engage with brands at any time, from any place, and at any point within the customer life cycle. To respond with relevance in real time,...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Organize For The Digital Future

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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Interactive Marketing's Isolation Must End

Landscape: The Interactive Marketing Agency And Organization Playbook

This report of the interactive marketing agency and organization playbook examines the landscape of organizational structures and agency relationships. Three common organizational models have...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:2013 B2B CMO Imperatives

Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing

Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Mix Art And Science For Marketing Success

Vision: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Marketers have access to more marketing channels than ever before — but most of them are struggling to cope with this increasing complexity. For CMOs and senior marketers, all of these new...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Trends For The B2C CMO To Watch In 2013

Embrace Digital Innovation To Deliver Compelling Brand Experiences

2013 will be a unique year for CMOs of consumer-focused companies. They will have to drive their brands to deliver cohesive brand experiences that use digital to augment and extend their engagement...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Deliver Transparent Returns On Your Marketing Dollar

Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Marketers Need To Acquire Adaptive Skill Sets

Organization: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

Most marketers have earned their stripes through corporate work experience and business-school training that takes a top-down linear approach to marketing planning and optimization. Today, the...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Benchmark Your Brand Building Capabilities

Benchmarks: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In 2012, Forrester surveyed marketing leaders to get a pulse on their progress toward successfully building 21st century brands. The results show that marketers are in the early stages of 21st...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Measurement Is A Digital Media Buyer's Best Friend

Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Customer Intelligence Needs A New Breed Of Marketing Scientist

Organization: The Customer Analytics Playbook

A mature customer intelligence (CI) function needs optimized data processes, cutting-edge technologies, and the right analytics talent. Analysts add value to CI with their data-mining and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Organize For The Always Addressable Customer

Vision: The Interactive Marketing Agency And Organization Playbook

This report in the interactive marketing agency and organization playbook lays out Forrester's vision for how you should organize internally and in relation to your agency partners: Move from a...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Organizing For Community Success

Organization: The B2B Online Community Playbook

For B2B marketers, when it comes to planning, designing, and implementing a successful online community, the rubber meets the road at organizational effectiveness. In order to sustain a healthy...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Score Your Mobile Marketing Maturity

Assessment: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your mobile marketing capabilities. We find that although mobile budgets are beginning to increase, the majority of interactive marketers...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Assessing Your Content Management Processes And Organization

B2B marketers across all industries are investing more into creating digital content to generate new business opportunities, nurture existing sales or marketing leads, and to encourage deeper...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Best Practices For Display Marketing

Processes: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

As more and more interactive marketers buy digital media programmatically, the technologies and processes they use are rapidly maturing. Whether you're a digital media buying skeptic working to build...

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Report:Build An Empowered Media Buying Team

Organization: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

Long-term, digital media buying success requires a commitment to the right partnerships, staffing, and organizational structure. The organization report in the digital media buying playbook will help...

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