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Tracy Stokes is a principal analyst serving CMOs. She is an expert on building brands through deep consumer understanding. Her research focuses on how to build your brand in a post-digital age.
Tracy has more than 15 years of global consumer marketing experience in the CPG and retail/fashion industries. Prior to Forrester, Tracy led global brand marketing at Timberland, employing a customer-focused approach to rejuvenate the outdoor brand. As a brand marketer at Johnson & Johnson's Neutrogena, she built facial care categories in North America and led strategic brand development in Asia, including launching Neutrogena in China. Tracy began her career as an account manager for a boutique advertising agency in London.
Tracy earned an M.B.A., with a concentration in marketing, from The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. She also holds an M.A. in American studies from Purdue University and a B.A. in American studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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 ma...

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Marketing mix optimization (MMO) has become an indispensable discipline for marketing leaders because it helps in effectively allocating marketing budgets across an increasingly fragmented media...
Marketing mix modeling is no longer just a tool for consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers to measure the effect of traditional marketing on overall sales. Today, marketing mix modeling can hel...

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 c...
Social media has fundamentally changed how consumers interact with each other and with brands. As a result, marketers tell us that they now consider this new channel to be a critical component o...

CMOs of business-to-consumer (B2C) companies have lately called on shopper marketers to address the growing complexity of the impact of digital on in-store purchasing. Forrester recently conduct...

Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...
In 2012, CMOs will need to embrace technology to help them handle big issues like: 1) addressing the maturation of social media from cool tool to critical connector with customers; 2) determinin...

As the economic recession lingers on, marketers remain cautious. Forecasts show that budgets are on the rise, but marketers are reluctant to commit. A more pragmatic marketer is emerging who wan...
Forrester’s research shows that consumers demand more from brands in the 21st Century. Marketers now have a steeper hill to climb to earn consumers’ brand preference, referral ...