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Don’t Miss Out: Keynotes At Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA 2024
In today’s fast-paced B2B landscape, staying ahead requires more than just traditional strategies. At the upcoming B2B Summit EMEA 2024, our keynote sessions will equip you with the insights and tools needed to drive meaningful change and achieve sustained growth. Here’s a sneak peek into the value-packed sessions you won’t want to miss. It’s Time […]
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Why You Can’t Afford To Miss Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA 2024
Learn how to uplevel B2B strategy and sharpen your competitive edge at Forrester's premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product leaders this October.
Skyrocket Your Growth And Revenue With Our B2B Predictions
Watch our B2B predictions webinar exploring the opportunities successful B2B marketing, product, and sales leaders will embrace — and the genAI content mistake to avoid.
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For Demand And ABM Teams, 2025 Won’t Be About Doing The Same With Less But Rather Doing Better With Less
Forrester’s Budget Planning Survey, 2024, uncovers a dual narrative for marketers in the coming year: The challenge lies in managing tight budgets but also in the dichotomy of needing to invest in recent technology- and process-related advancements to stay relevant. Strategic budget divestment is required in this environment.
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Why Is Demand Marketing An Obstacle To Its Own Success?
Organizations must stop working in silos and align their marketing, sales, and customer success strategies to one thing: buyer needs. A unified frontline marketing approach will enhance customer experiences, drive growth, and ensure that marketing efforts contribute meaningfully to the revenue process.
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Paris Olympics: Luxury Democratized, Ads Lose The Plot, And Women Shine
Every Olympics brings insights into the current cultural zeitgeist. Here are five observations from this year's big event.
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B2B Summit APAC 2024: Transform Your Growth Engine
Learn what to expect at Forrester's premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product leaders and teams in Asia Pacific this October.
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Can Your Customer Success Strategy Withstand The Heat?
Summer is officially here — and we know this not simply because the calendar says so but also because the scorching temperatures outside are testing every thermometer’s limits (and ours, too). The intense heat forces us to adapt our plans and navigate unpredictable summer storms, leaving us pivoting quickly to find alternative activities. Solving our […]
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Every Revenue Process Transformation Will Be Unique — Just Get Started
A revenue process transformation isn’t a project or single workshop initiative. It’s an ongoing, collaborative effort that requires organizations to meet their buyers at every stage of their journey. Learn what it takes to get started.
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The Global State Of B2B Events — Eight Key Findings On Event Trends From Forrester’s Recent Survey
Over the past four years, marketers have navigated unprecedented change in the B2B event sector as first the pandemic and then inflation impacted their plans. To help leaders better understand this dynamic landscape, Forrester’s Q1 2024 State Of B2B Events Survey gathered responses from over 200 event decision-makers to identify and analyze the key trends. […]
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Eight Key Takeaways From Cvent CONNECT, San Antonio 2024
Attending Cvent CONNECT as a speaker earlier this month gave me the opportunity to sit in on a number of sessions, talk with the Cvent leadership team, and chat with other attendees. Here are eight of my key takeaways from the event: Events are booming. In his opening keynote, Cvent Founder and CEO Reggie […]
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Five Standout Features Of Real-Time Revenue Execution Providers
Real-time revenue execution platform vendors have built important features that enable companies to improve revenue outcomes. After evaluating the top vendors in this category, five features stood out.
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First-Line Sales Managers: Promote Or Hire?
Today Forrester is publishing new research revealing that, all else being equal, B2B sales leaders achieve better revenue results when they hire first-line sales managers (FLSMs) externally, rather than promoting individual contributors (ICs). This runs counter to standard practice and tradition, but the data is clear: Externally hired managers and their teams perform better. Our advice […]
Fuel Growth With Strong Marketing-Sales Alignment
Download our alignment handbook to thrive in a complex buyer landscape with teams, processes, and objectives aligned across the customer lifecycle.
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Forrester’s AI Webinar Series: Navigate The Choppy And Exciting Waters Of Enterprise AI
AI is having — and will continue to have — a profound impact on how data scientists, software engineers, and other job functions perform their roles. Get tips on how to define, build, and implement your enterprise AI strategy with the help of Forrester's AI Advantage client webinar series.
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Embrace Reinvention To Drive Growth: Five Key Takeaways From Forrester’s B2B Summit North America 2024
Last month’s event set the stage for navigating the frenetic pace of change in B2B and capitalizing on growth opportunities. Read our top five takeaways.
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Focus On Customer Value To Deliver B2B Customer Growth
Last week, I presented at my 10th, and final, Forrester B2B Summit North America. I say final not because the event is ending but because I’m retiring from Forrester in June of this year. One of my sessions introduced the Forrester Customer-Led Sales Growth Model, which was a perfect way to summarize my views on […]
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Brand Is A Long Game: The Tangible Value Of B2B Brand Investments
Brand investments are like retirement investments. The idea is to invest regularly and consistently starting as early as possible, knowing that by the time retirement hits, the value will have accrued over time and the investments will have compounding returns. When we begin the uphill climb of investing, the returns may feel modest. It’s difficult […]
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Buying Signals Help B2B Organizations Reignite Revenue Interactions
Buyer expectations for immediacy, relevance, and instant gratification have carried over from B2C to B2B and been amplified with Millennials and Gen Zers comprising more than half of the modern workforce. From their consumer interactions, digitally savvy B2B buyers are aware that they’re signaling their interests through their behavior, content consumption, and social interactions. In […]
It Was Never About Leads: Why Adapting To Buying Groups Is A Must
Find step-by-step guidance for identifying, engaging, and winning opportunities based on how buyers actually buy.
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Harness The Power Of Buying Signals At Forrester’s B2B Summit
B2B organizations must know their buyers, anticipate their needs, and empower them with each interaction — or lose to providers that do. Signals help transform the way we interact with our audiences across functions, disciplines, and interaction types, helping B2B organizations deliver contextual interactions with immediate value throughout the customer lifecycle. Check out these sessions […]
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A New Supergroup For Revenue Technology Emerges: Revenue Orchestration Platforms
In the world of revenue technology, three distinct categories have converged to form a new supergroup of revtech capabilities. Learn more about revenue orchestration platforms in this preview of a new report.
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Five Ways That Generative AI Brings Superpowers To Portfolio Marketers
Portfolio marketers have a broad role, from keeping up to date on market intelligence and developing go-to-market strategies and messages to launching offerings and training sellers. Learn five ways generative AI can help portfolio marketers automate tasks and increase productivity and creativity.
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