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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Use Social Intelligence To Improve Email Marketing Success

Although social media gives interactive marketers the opportunity to gather more data than ever about customers, few marketers use this data to improve the performance of their email marketing...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Evolution Of The Customer Engagement Agency

As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Four Steps To Tackle The Shift To The Customer Life Cycle

Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

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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

Report:Campaign Verification Pulls Back The Curtain On Display

Many online marketers are paralyzed by the murky unknown of the online display market. In a recent survey, we found that 51% say they are likely to simply continue buying the online media that they...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Using Competitors' Trademarks In Your Paid Search Strategy

Best Practices For Competitive Branded Keyword Bidding

Recent changes to Google's trademark bidding policy across Europe have reopened the conversation around the opportunities and threats for companies bidding against competitors' brands. Most...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Keys To A Social Intelligence Command Center

Continuous Improvement: The Social Intelligence Playbook

If you represent a large consumer brand, consider a social intelligence command center — a dedicated resource for listening to the groundswell. A command center like this can improve your...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

Landscape: The CRM Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:CMOs Must Lead The Brand Experience

Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Three Ways To Find, Create, And Energize Advocates

Promote, Find, And Attract The Mass Influencers Who Matter

Fans and followers are helpful for brands, but the people who bring the greatest value in social media are not just fans but advocates — people who can and will support, engage, and share...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How Real CMOs Connect The Dots

An Empowered Report: Insights From Forrester's Marketing & Strategy Forum EMEA 2010

Forrester has called for the chief marketing officer (CMO) to be the chef d'orchestre, the conductor who assertively defines the brand and carefully knits together all of her company's offers and...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Build Your Army Of Brand Advocates From Across The Enterprise

Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketers'...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Untangling The Attribution Web

Using Cross-Channel Attribution To Understand Marketing Effectiveness

In an environment where media fragmentation is the status quo, traditional one-to-one, last-touch methods of allocating demand to marketing efforts are outdated and lead to a suboptimal marketing...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Community Benchmarking Metrics

What To Expect For The Health Of Your Community

Interactive marketers in charge of branded communities need to be able to benchmark goals and set expectations for the success of their programs. However, the benchmarks being observed are typically...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Co-Creation Contest Vendors, Q3 2011

eYeka, jovoto, Hyve, And ChallengePost Lead, With Redesignme And Napkin Labs Performing Well

In Forrester's 34-criteria evaluation of co-creation contest vendors, we found that eYeka, jovoto, Hyve, and ChallengePost were clear Leaders, due to their full-service approach to the market. Strong...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

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...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:The Marketing Case For A Branded Sales Channel

Marketers Must Look Beyond Incremental Sales And Margins To Assess The Full Impact Of A Direct Sales Channel

Every product category has a set of competitors that have a branded route to the customer — such as The Body Shop in cosmetics, Gap in apparel, and Apple in consumer electronics — while...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Partner Up For Influencer Marketing

Work With Key Collaborators To Identify And Engage Influencers

Interactive marketers are often responsible for influencer marketing programs, particularly within business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations. But identifying and engaging influencers is both complex...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To Owned, Paid, And Earned Media

The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Twitter: The Public Forum For Your Brand

How Interactive Marketers Should Tap Twitter For Real Business Results

With Twitter's usage numbers ballooning and its recent announcement of brand pages, interactive marketers are paying attention. Recognizing its potential across the marketing mix, many have already...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Cross-Channel Attribution Blueprint

A Readiness Framework For Successful Implementation

Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals are increasingly tasked with assessing marketing effectiveness across all channels within the organization. But without access to next-generation attribution...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Listening Platforms Find Traction In Customer Service Organizations

Trends 2010: Listening Platforms

Customer service managers must pragmatically balance the needs of their customers with the needs of their business. Listening platforms allow customer service organizations to better understand how...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Marketing Leaders' Approach To Content Creation For Brands

Four Examples Show How To Experiment In Branded Content Development

Marketers have long relied on advertising and their agencies to help tell the story of their brands. As consumers become immune to traditional advertising and ad clutter and fragmentation limits ad...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Case Study: Mandarin Oriental Creates A Brand-Appropriate Mobile Experience

The Hotel Group Provides Luxury Travelers With A Customized Mobile Web Site

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (MOHG) noticed that a growing percentage of its Web traffic came from mobile devices. To address a growing need, the team partnered with Siteworx to design and build a...

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