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Modernize Marketing With CRM Marketing Services
From marketing service provider to CRM marketing services ... what’s in a name? An evolution and some confusion.
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The Customer Service Tech Landscape: What It Means For You
To succeed, customer service organizations must curate a set of technologies that underpin their operations. To discover the most important ones, we surveyed technology decision-makers, suppliers, and other subject matter experts for their opinions about which ones really mattered.
Align Marketing And Sales Teams On Customer Value
Want to maximize revenue by prioritizing customer value? Discover how the Forrester Opportunity Lifecycle keeps teams engaged with customers at every stage of their journey.
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Capitalize On A CRM Strategy That Leverages Top Emerging Technologies
Close to 70% of organizations plan to increase their CRM investments over the next year. Learn more about the the impact emerging technologies are having on CRM performance and adoption across three benefit horizons.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Marketplace Development Platforms, Q4 2024
Orchestrating your partner ecosystem creates new value with e-commerce. Make no mistake, becoming a marketplace is a business transformation, not a feature rollout.
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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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Customer Marketers: Be Ambitious But Not Careless
A whopping 86% of customer marketers say their team has too many competing priorities. Get three tips on how to prioritize without creating unnecessary friction with other functions.
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Choose A Cross-Channel Marketing Hub That Amplifies Your Customer Obsession Strategy
An effective cross-channel marketing hub (CCMH) can position marketing as an indispensable component of an organization’s customer-obsessed growth engine. Think of your CCMH as much more than a campaign management platform. Instead, leverage it for next-gen customer engagement based on compelling, contextually relevant experiences. Forrester defines a CCMH as: Enterprise marketing technology that supports customer data management, […]
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How Customer Marketers Piece Together A Customer Advocacy Tech Stack
The Forrester Tech Tide™: B2B Customer Advocacy And Reference Technologies, Q4 2024, shows a fractured market. Yet while recent disruption has caused angst, it has also spurred innovation. Marketers have plenty of options.
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ZERO-IN 2024 Aims To Elevate Customer Success
Last week, I attended the fourth annual ChurnZero conference, ZERO-IN (formerly Big RYG), in Washington, DC, and the energy and inspiration are still resonating.
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Slash The Hidden Costs Of Your Customer Surveys
Nearly all CX measurement and VoC efforts use customer surveys. But your surveys are costlier than you think. Obvious costs include the budget for a tech vendor you use to send and analyze surveys or incentives for customers.
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Get Ready For GenAI Chatbots: The State Of Conversational AI
Talk about change! As we approach the two-year anniversary of the announcement of OpenAI’s launch of GPT-3.5, conversational AI has been reinvented to incorporate generative AI (genAI) to take advantage of the many ways that this technology can make self-service applications smarter. Previously, the conversational AI tools used to create chatbots and intelligent virtual agents […]
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What’s Top Of Mind For B2B CMOs In Asia Pacific
Last week, Mavis Liew and I had the pleasure of hosting Forrester’s B2B Peer Discussion session with a small group of CMOs from enterprises across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The private event format allowed an open and honest exchange about the challenges and opportunities these leaders were facing as they started planning their marketing budgets […]
Harness The Power Of A NEW Customer-Centric Revenue Framework
Watch our webinar replay to unlock the potential of Forrester's NEW Opportunity Lifecycle Framework. Revolutionize your revenue process by breaking down barriers that neglect customers, fail buyers, and distort focus.
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SaaStr 2024 Shines A Spotlight On Customer Success
Last week I attended the 10th annual SaaStr conference in San Mateo. For those unfamiliar, SaaStr is a community and resource hub that covers the building and scaling of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. The conference brings together industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors to network and share insights. It’s a valuable resource for anyone involved in the […]
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The Four Agreements That Enterprise Business Applications Must Adopt
Enterprise business applications run all phases of a company’s operations such as sales, customer service, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory, and manufacturing. They streamline and coordinate work across the enterprise, supporting corporate goals of revenue, profitability, and cost optimization. As a result, the market for these applications continues to aggressively grow. Today’s business applications are […]
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Fifteen Common B2B Customer Advisory Board Mistakes
Learn where customer advocacy programs can fall short — and how B2B marketers can keep the focus on value.
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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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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 […]
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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Scaling Customer Success Through Digital Can Double Your ROI
B2B companies double the impact of their investment when they scale customer success by creating a digital-led experience that includes learning and advocacy.
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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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Q&A With Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager At E.ON
Following his recent appearance on stage at Forrester’s CX Summit EMEA, Keith Fletcher, international customer experience manager at E.ON, answers more audience questions on using customer journeys to fuel sustainable growth.
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