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Announcing The CRM Forrester Wave™ Evaluations — And How To Use Them
The global customer relationship management market is projected to grow from $63.91 billion in 2022 to $145.79 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 12.5%. This second wave that CRM is experiencing is aimed at transforming engagement and business outcomes across an enterprise, surpassing its initial remit of increasing front-office productivity. Companies use CRM to […]
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Picking An Agency To Maximize The Value Of Your First-Party Data
For B2C marketers, first-party data is a lot like “Zoolander’s” Hansel: “so hot right now.” Facing massive headwinds amid data deprecation, marketers want to capture zero- and first-party data from customers and build direct relationships. In Forrester’s Q1 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022, a whopping 76% of B2C marketing respondents said that they are […]
Predictions 2022 For CX Leaders
Make CX a business hero in 2022. Discover five factors that pave the way to success this year.
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Industry CRM: A Cocreation Opportunity For Vendors And Their Partners
More and more enterprises are opting for industry CRM solutions over its horizontal counterpart. These new solutions offer a vehicle for closer, more intentional relationships with the vendor's partners. This blog explores the top four benefits, as heard from the CRM vendors we spoke with.
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What’s Next For Customer Loyalty?
Customer loyalty is not a new concept, but a confluence of trends has increased the emphasis that brands are placing on it. In this episode, VP and Principal Analyst Mary Pilecki dives into these trends and provides a sneak preview of new research that will be unveiled at CX North America.
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Three Things Tech Executives Should Know Right Now About CRM
CRM is a foundational front-office technology. Enterprises originally used CRM to provide operational efficiencies for sales, marketing, and customer service organizations. Today, CRM is undergoing a second wave of adoption, where it’s used more broadly to support customers through their end-to-end journeys. The city of Los Angeles used CRM to get emergency aid — $36 […]
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Use Forrester’s Framework To Understand The CRM Landscape
We all know that CRM today is not a singular technology. It’s a collection of discrete, composable technologies that cover a huge swath of capabilities for the front office — capabilities that depend on how complex your deployment is and the needs of your specific industry — yet irrespective of the characteristics of your organization, […]
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The Future Of CRM: A Forrester Perspective
Learn three key drivers that are expanding CRM’s remit and transforming the technology.
US Public Sector Predictions 2022
Discover how the President's Management Agenda will shape agencies' priorities in 2022.
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Make Data Strategy Your New Year’s Resolution
Start 2022 with renewed marketing opportunity by assessing your data strategy and finding opportunities to round out your understanding of customers and prospects. Last year, we saw third-party cookie deprecation heat up, Apple enact its App Tracking Transparency framework, and growing consumer privacy awareness — for example, 84% of US online adults use at least […]
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Industry Clouds Accelerate Their Momentum Into 2022
Struggling to use cloud to differentiate your brand? Learn about the rapidly-growing industry cloud market in this blog post.
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There’s A New Forrester Wave™ For Sales Force Automation — And The Leaders Embody Current Sales Trends
COVID has upended business as we knew it, and sales organizations have felt this impact. Almost half of B2B US companies have slashed their sales teams. Sellers work from home, over digital channels, and sales managers have become much more data-driven and focused on post-sale engagement to preserve and grow revenue. There’s a much-needed increased […]
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Three Key CRM Trends In 2021 That Will Allow You To Better Engage Your Customers
For a 30-year-old technology category, it is amazing to see the CRM (customer relationship management) industry continue to grow at a staggering rate. Why? Because CRM is at the heart of every business that wants to compete on customer experience. It enables companies to access 360-degree views of customers in real time to drive reliable, […]
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Retailers: Here’s How Consumers Are Shopping This Holiday Season
The retail holiday season is in the home stretch. We expect US online holiday sales this year will top $173 billion — or fully 24% more than last year.
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Salesforce Picks Up (The) Slack To Extend CRM’s Reach Into Collaboration But Won’t Dethrone Microsoft Teams
Find out how Salesforce plans to use the $28B buy to extend the reach of its CRM platform.
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What Do Your Customers Want For The Holidays? Confidence
Now’s the time to make sure your customers understand whether they’ve found the right product on your site or app, know when they’ll receive their item in time, and know how to easily return the item if it isn’t quite right.
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Predictions 2021: It’s All About Empathy, Digital, And Virtualizing Customer Care
The purpose of customer service is no longer just to alleviate run-of-the-mill inconveniences; it is to provide fundamental and necessary services for consumers devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how customer service will evolve in 2021.
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Predictions 2021: Divided Consumers Will Wrestle With Escalating Individual, Community, And Global Tensions
Escalating tensions will influence consumer behavior in 2021 as we move beyond crisis mode and see the new patterns forged from the current crisis. Read our consumer predictions for 2021.
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Real-Time, Contactless Feedback During The Pandemic
FeedbackNow by Forrester has launched new contactless feedback solutions so companies can measure and adjust their customer experiences in real-time throughout the pandemic.
Predictions 2022 Live
Chart a bold path to success in 2022. Hear our predictions for the year ahead.
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Evolve Your CRM From Departmental CRM To Unified CRM
CRM is widely used by companies both big and small. Gone are the days when it was purchased as a monolithic on-premises application. Today, it’s almost exclusively deployed in the cloud. As CRM moved to the cloud, business leaders in charge of sales, service, and marketing drove the purchase. Sales leaders only cared about how […]
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How To Make Customer Service More Digital
Phone experiences are increasingly becoming suboptimal as more and more customer service journeys begin before customers pick up the phone. This is because most companies deploy their communication channels in silos, which means that: (1) Agents have no knowledge of the customer’s prior digital interactions and (2) they cannot easily understand a customer’s prior actions […]
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