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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Assessing Technology Readiness

For CIO Professionals

Tool:A Sample Readiness Assessment

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

Tools And Technology: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...

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

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Financial Services Lead Interactive Marketing Spending

US financial services interactive marketing spend will more than double by 2016 but won't grow its investments in every channel at the same pace. This brief report breaks down the increase by channel...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Optimize Your Mobile Banking Strategy

Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:B2B Financial Services Marketers Should Focus Investments On Target Audiences, Goals

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 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 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...

• Downloads: 583

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Best Practices In Multichannel Financial Services Sales

Take An Agile Approach To Support Customers Across Multiple Touchpoints

The rapid development of customer touchpoints, increasing customer expectations, and the pressure for success in the competitive market forces eBusiness and channel strategy executives at financial...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

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

For CMO Professionals

Report:Bigger B2B Marketing Budgets Come With Great Expectations

Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation

After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Tool:The Life Events That Have An Impact On Financial Services Purchases

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Next-Generation Digital Financial Services

Make It Simple, Ubiquitous, Personal, Empowering, And Reassuring

Rising customer expectations and an increasingly dynamic retail financial services market are making many financial firms' websites seem increasingly outdated. While most eBusiness executives want to...

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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

Tool:Internet Banks' Customers Are By Far The Strongest Adopters Of Social Media

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

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

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Building Successful B2B Financial Services Social Marketing Programs

Faced with fragmented customer bases and unclear regulatory requirements, business-to-business (B2B) financial services marketers have traditionally shied away from launching social marketing...

• Downloads: 1163

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Financial Services Firms Rarely Use Social Media To Promote Their Products

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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:B2B Financial Services Marketers Face Limited Budgets In 2010