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Brands, Take Cover: The Tariffs Have Hit The Fan
Consumers have begun to take several steps to manage the impact of tariffs on their pocketbooks. Learn the five buying behaviors to look out for among your customers and what steps to take in response.
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Tariffs, Your Customer, And Your Brand: A Common-Sense Guide
A tariff is simply a tax — when one country imposes a tariff on another (as the US has done with China and is threatening to do with Canada and Mexico), then products imported from those countries are subject to a tax.
Loyalty And Brand Growth — What’s Working For Top Brands?
Attend CX Summit on June 23–26 to learn secrets to success from American Express, Hilton, T-Mobile, Lowe's, and other brand leaders! Discover how they drive loyalty, revenue, and growth.
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Great Digital Banking Experiences Create A Data-For-Value Flywheel
Driving engagement is top of mind for most digital banking leaders. Forrester’s research reveals the immense value — for both customers and banks — of useful, convenient digital banking experiences. The right mobile banking offerings, for example, can unlock new value for a customer and differentiate a bank’s brand. And our broader customer experience research […]
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A Run On The Bank: Lack Of Headline Failures Hasn’t Changed Consumer Attitudes
When Silicon Valley, Signature and First Republic failed last year four out of five US online consumers knew about it. This year, bank failures have been less visible. Find out why and what to expect in the future.
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Is Your Bank Ready For What’s Next In Mobile?
Our newly published research into people’s mobile banking needs, expectations, and behaviors surfaced 10 emerging must-have features and 10 emerging differentiators in mobile banking experiences.
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Meet Forrester’s New Principal Analyst Covering Loyalty Marketing, John Pedini
In 2025, we expect consumer usage of loyalty programs to grow amid declines in overall brand loyalty. Though loyalty programs offer the rewards that price-conscious consumers crave, companies struggle to inspire emotional loyalty across various tactics aimed at improving retention. Marketers need a loyalty strategy that appropriately balances transactional incentives with an understanding of what […]
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US And Canadian 2024 Net Promoter Score℠ Results: Another Year Of Decline
Forrester recently published Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) rankings for brands in the United States and Canada. As part of our annual Customer Experience Benchmark Survey, we surveyed 98,363 consumers in the United States and 43,324 Canadian consumers, asking about their likelihood to recommend brands.
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CX Platforms For Healthcare Transform Engagement From Transactional To Trustworthy: Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™
Healthcare providers and health insurers are exhausted from point-solution fatigue. Narrow focus on the “digital front door” in healthcare has yielded some success on customer acquisition but left much to be desired on the trust frontier. To earn trust, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must create value with customers. To create value, HCOs need to curate personalized […]
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Not-So-Open Skies: Southwest Makes Historic Change
As Southwest navigates financial turbulence, there are lessons from companies on aligning brand experience with business realities.
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Overall Canada Customer Experience Quality Drops To A Historic Low
Scores for Canadian companies are at their lowest point since Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) began. Read a few of the key findings from our Canada rankings report.
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Customer Experience Quality In The US Falls To An All-Time Low
US consumers' perceptions of CX quality are now at their lowest point since the inception of the Forrester Customer Experience Index (CX Index™). Read a few of the key findings from our recent report.
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Loyalty Service Providers Supercharge Loyalty Strategies
The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Services, Q2 2024 is geared toward helping loyalty marketers vet the right service provider for their brand. Read a few of the takeaways.
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A Match Made In Plastic? Capital One’s Quest To Acquire Discover
Capital One’s plan to acquire Discover will change the shape of the financial services landscape (though not the fundamental forces that drive growth and success — but more on that later). To help you understand the implications of the proposed merger, Forrester took a deep dive into our research and data (full report for clients […]
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50/50: Private Label Is Coming For You
Private-label products are increasing in popularity as prices soar. Brands should be worried — find out why in this blog post.
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Can AI Improve Your Loyalty Program?
Learn about the potential of predictive AI — and, now, generative AI — in enhancing loyalty programs and strategies.
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Discover The Future Of Boundless Experiences At CX Summit North America 2024
Join us in June to learn how to harness the power of humans and AI to deliver differentiated experiences that drive loyalty and growth.
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50/50: Gratuity Has Reached A Tipping Point
Tipping fatigue is growing as automatic prompts on digital points of sale proliferate. Find out the consumer sentiment on this hot topic.
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If You Want Customer Loyalty, You Need A Value Exchange
I regularly have discussions with clients who want to create a loyalty program. But when we dig deeper into their approach, their answers to critical questions often indicate that the client hasn’t fully considered the implications of a program: Many brands jump into a structured loyalty program (the tactic) before they have defined the strategy […]
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Consumer Spending 2024: What It Means For Your Brand
2023 was a confusing year: The consumers blew cold, and the economy blew hot. The recession-to-be didn’t materialize, and the economic outlook wasn’t half as bad as consumers would have you believe. Yet, notes from the post-pandemic blues keep wafting in the air no matter the macroeconomic drumbeat. This year, the economy is headed for […]
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2023 Canada Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) Rankings: Industries Lose Gains Made In 2022
Forrester just published The Canada Net Promoter Rankings, 2023 report, which includes the Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) and industry rank for 100 brands across nine industries. We asked over 39,000 Canadian consumers in our annual Customer Experience Benchmark Survey about their likelihood to recommend brands that they interacted with in the past 12 months, using the standard NPS […]
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