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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 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: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 CMO Professionals

Report:Shopper Marketing Breaks Out Of The Store

Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Five Retail eCommerce Trends To Watch In 2011

2010 marked a year of significant changes in the Internet landscape (primarily with the growth of social networks and mobile devices); these changes forced retail executives to think hard about the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Optimizing The Affiliate Channel For Deal-Driven Customers

Traffic Has Increased And The Channel's Matured, But Proving Incrementality Remains A Challenge

Customers are flocking to affiliate deal sites that offer promotional coupons and offer codes. The slowdown in the economy, advances in technology, and a more favorable consumer mindset toward...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Case Study: FreshDirect Drives Business Success Through Customer Intelligence

FreshDirect, an online grocer based in New York City, evolved from a loss-making company to a high-growth, profitable business. How? The company captures a wide array of customer data and applies it...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Orchestrate Direct-To-Consumer Sales As Part Of Your Brand Experience

The hope of greater margins and more control may drive a consumer goods company to embrace direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. But while those are sound reasons to sell directly, they sell the value of...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Five Foundational Requirements For Retail Customer Intelligence

In the age of the customer, the old rules and standards of database marketing will be the downfall of traditional retailers. While financial services, travel, and a handful of cutting-edge merchants...

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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 Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Retailers: Differentiate With Customer Intelligence

Why Retailers Must Invest In Maturing Their CI Capabilities

Multichannel retailers, who often have a direct-marketing provenance, have marts and warehouses full of customer data. But very few of them are turning that data into Customer Intelligence (CI) the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:CRM And eCommerce Converge In A World Of Multiple Touchpoints

Welcome To The Era Of Agile Commerce

Traditional ways of describing multichannel commerce no longer work, because customers don't interact with companies from a channel perspective. Customers now use a rapidly evolving set of devices as...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016

Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...

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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

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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Online Retailing In Australia 2010: Marketing, Merchandising, And Customer Service

In "Online Retailing In Australia 2010," a Forrester study incorporating data collected in partnership with the Online Retailer Expo & Conference 2010, we found that, on the whole, Australian online...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Organizing For Interactive Marketing

You Should Prepare For A Distributed Organizational Model — Here's How

The question of how marketers should staff and structure their internal interactive organizations is growing more common as the interactive marketing function takes a more central role in overall...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:European eBusiness Executives Take A Cautious Approach To Daily Deals

Brand And Margin Protection Inhibit Adoption, But Other Approaches Are Emerging

Skepticism is the watchword across Europe as eBusiness executives consider engaging with daily deals sites such as Groupon and Living Social. Concerns about brand damage and sales cannibalization are...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Investing In Marketing's Technology Future

How CI Can Use Technology To Drive Competitive Advantage

Marketers require ever more technology to capture, integrate, analyze, and apply customer data to marketing programs. Forrester recommends that marketers establish an enterprisewide marketing...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Online Retailing In Australia 2011: Marketing, Merchandising, And Customer Service

Despite the momentum in Australian online retail, the sector is still quite focused on the basics of customer engagement. When it comes to marketing, this means online retailers don't just prioritize...

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