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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Most Financial Firms Allow User Posts On Their Facebook Pages, But Few Respond

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:B2B Financial Services Marketers Are Slow To Embrace Emerging IM Tactics

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Assessing Process Readiness

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Tool:Customers Choose Financial Firms For Many Reasons Other Than The Best Price

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:B2B Financial Services Marketers Favor Traditional Publishers

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Putting The Best Sales Arguments On Financial Services Websites

eBusiness Executives Should Advertise Benefits Other Than Price

eBusiness teams at financial services firms too readily use price to promote products on their websites. In fact, few customers choose a company for the best price, and promoting other values...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:PNC Bank Customers Are The Most Engaged With Several Key Social Behaviors

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Injecting Next-Generation Thinking Into Your Financial Services Acquisition Website

Technology Is Just Part Of The Answer To Building A Next-Generation Sales Site

The next generation of online financial services sales needs more of a change in thinking and approach than a change in technology. Forrester believes the next generation of online sales in financial...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Social Media Marketing For Financial Services

How To Navigate The Regulatory Minefield And Build Effective Social Media Programs

Financial services firms are beginning to adopt social technologies: In fact, we found that 79% of companies in the industry have some social media presence. But, held back by regulatory concerns and...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Case Study: Insurance Gets Progressive With Loyalty

Dissatisfied with its customer retention rates and satisfaction scores, and looking to set itself apart in the highly competitive insurance industry, Progressive Casualty Insurance launched its...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Organizing For eBusiness — A Financial Services Perspective

The Dual Nature Of eBusiness Requires A Multidimensional Organizational Structure

Creating the optimal eBusiness organizational structure is one of the biggest challenges confronting eBusiness executives at financial services firms today. As both a channel and an enterprise...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs Must Merge IT With Marketing To Win In The Digital Decade

Assessing Your Marketing-IT Partnership Readiness To Develop A Custom Action Plan

In the future, only companies that understand and anticipate their customers' needs and can consistently deliver unique, tailored customer experiences will be able to attract and retain loyal...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Financial Services B2B Interactive Marketing Trends

Caution continues to dominate business-to-business (B2B) financial services interactive marketing strategies as budget squeezes, regulatory concerns, and a lack of digital experience impede...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Power Of Predictions

Case Studies In CRM Next Best Action

Many business process pros have implemented next-best-action technologies to improve customer retention, boost upsell and cross-sell, and enhance customer experiences. Best practices for customer...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Welcome To The Era Of Agile Commerce

eBusiness Execs Must Evolve Channel Strategies To Embrace Market Changes

Multichannel commerce is being reborn. Traditional ways of describing multichannel commerce no longer work because customers don't interact with companies from a "channel" perspective. Customers now...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:eBusiness Professionals In Financial Services: Social Media Is About More Than Just Marketing

eBusiness Has A Key Role In The Understanding And Usage Of Social Media

Forrester recently published an analysis of the social habits of financial service customers along with a scan of current regulations and existing social marketing efforts. Overall, social media...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Investing In Tech Marketing, 2011

Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations

The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:The Age Skew Of Financial Products Shows In Their Consumers' Adoption Of Social Media

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Life Events Drive Financial Product Purchases

Product Strategists Must Understand The Impact Of Life Changes On The Metrics, Marketing, And Channel Strategy Of Their Products

Understanding how life events relate to the purchase of financial products has long been top of mind for product strategy professionals. By surveying more than 26,000 US online adults, Forrester has...

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For CMO Professionals

Tool:Pharma And Services Firms Spend More On Technology For Community Marketing

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Examining The Member Interactions Of Five Major Loyalty Programs

Programs Fall Short Across All Evaluation Criteria

Forrester applied its new Customer Loyalty Program Review methodology to five popular loyalty programs from the retail, travel, and financial services industries. The results of the evaluation...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:A Sample Readiness Assessment

For CIO Professionals

Tool:Assessing People Readiness

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Five Easy Improvements For B2B Financial Services Interactive Marketers

Tackle The Low-Hanging Fruit To Maximize 2012 Budgets

Business-to-business (B2B) financial services interactive marketers will likely feel the squeeze in 2012 as they look to deliver improved performance with limited budget growth. While this economic...

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