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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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What Motivates B2B Customers To Become Advocates?
Customer advocacy initiatives often leave a key question unanswered: How do customers benefit? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Principal Analysts Laura Ramos and Amy Bills explain how B2B companies can get more value from customer advocacy by understanding what motivates customers to participate.
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Don’t Miss Our 2024 Predictions Deep Dive
Hear directly from the tech, CX, and B2B analysts behind our 2024 global predictions and get an important generative AI update from Forrester’s CEO, George Colony.
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The Trust Advantage For B2B Firms
Trust is paramount in high-stakes B2B buying relationships. How can B2B companies build and maintain trust among buyers? VP and Principal Analyst Ian Bruce explains on this episode of What It Means.
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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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What To Do Next About Your Customer Advocacy Platform
Where does the late December acquisition of customer advocacy and community platform Influitive leave current customers? Here we provide a plan for moving forward.
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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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Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) US Benchmarks, 2023: Fewer Brands Show Improvement
New analyses from Forrester’s 2023 Customer Experience Benchmark Study reveals that subdued customer advocacy continued in 2023, as fewer brands have significant improvements and more brands have significant drops in Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) compared to 2022.
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Surprised? Download Forrester’s 2024 Predictions guide to see why progress will be driven by exploration — and 14 other global predictions on AI, privacy, B2B buyers, hybrid work, and more.
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Despite Economic Headwinds, Malaysian Banks Continue To Improve CX Quality
How customers perceive a brand influences how much they are willing to spend with the brand, whether they will recommend it to others, and how likely they are to forgive the brand’s missteps. Our annual Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) benchmarking study, which has been conducted in Malaysia since 2021, answers the question, “Which banks […]
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High Levels Of Trust Elude US Financial Services Firms Again
US financial services brands are struggling to earn high levels of customer trust. Forrester’s Financial Services Customer Trust Index (FS Trust Index) revealed that customer trust in US financial services firms in 2023 was relatively weak and largely unchanged from 2022. Only US banks managed a measurable improvement in average trust scores, and even that […]
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Improve Your Loyalty Results With A Loyalty Services Provider
Does your brand employ a loyalty services provider in addition to a loyalty technology provider? If not, you should consider it. Brands continue to increase spend on loyalty technology and programs, but they often don’t tie their loyalty initiatives to broader corporate goals, negatively impacting their success. Services providers help here. This blog answers key […]
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Planning Guides 2024: Customer Experience
Explore 2024 insights for investing in CX strategy to drive action, value, and revenue.
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Canadian Customer Experience Quality Falls To A New Low
The Canada Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) rankings for 2023 show brands backsliding on performance. Read about the results, and meet two brands that beat the odds and improved their CX Index scores in a tough year.
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How Creative Commerce Fuels Loyalty Across The Customer Lifecycle
From streaming services to ice cream, creative commerce is revolutionizing commerce by integrating all phases of the buying cycle. Learn how on this week’s What It Means with VP, Principal Analyst Jay Pattisall and Principal Analyst Kelsey Chickering.
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Paid Loyalty Programs Pique Premium Interest
Premium loyalty programs charge a fee for access to membership or a program tier. These can be one-time fees (REI — $30 once for a lifetime) or monthly/annual fees (Amazon Prime, Walmart +). In recent weeks, we’ve seen several new premium loyalty programs or tiers announced: Sweetgreen announced a two-tiered program in April with a […]
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Five Ways To Get Aboard Customer Success
Simply keeping accounts on the training and adoption track, while necessary, is no longer sufficient to drive predictable growth. Learn how to engineer customer success experiences that deliver value to your customers and company alike.
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Flexible Loyalty Technology Solutions Power Profitable Loyalty Programs
As brands contend with rising media costs, changing consumer behavior, and, for some, lackluster sales results, they continue to invest in consumer loyalty programs and technology solutions to help them engage and retain consumers. In fact, 53% of B2C marketing decision-makers plan to increase their spend on loyalty technology this year. But economic uncertainty adds […]
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It Pays To Share: Refer-A-Friend Programs Boost Customer Acquisition And Engagement
We’ll let you in on a secret: Cometeer coffee keeps Forrester’s B2C marketing research team running. When our colleague evangelized the innovative coffee company in a team meeting last year, the brand quickly found its way into many of our team members’ daily routines — and it’s not just because we like really good coffee. […]
Build An Engine Of Customer Loyalty - And Revenue
Read our report to learn how to build customer loyalty, brand equity, and revenue with a B2C customer-obsessed growth engine.
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Order Up: Starbucks Rewards Changes Signal A Renewed Focus On Profitable Loyalty
As one of the most popular loyalty programs in the world, the stakes for the Starbucks Rewards program are high. Today, the program boasts nearly 29 million active members, and over half of Starbucks sales are driven through the program. Starbucks Rewards members collect “stars” for every purchase they make, redeemable for free drinks, food, […]
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Contact Centers Are Leaving Money On The Table
Empowering your front line could unlock billions. Learn how agent empowerment and accountability drives revenue growth.
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We Have Liftoff! Effective Customer Onboarding Is The Launchpad To Customer Value
Customer onboarding is critical for successful adoption, revenue retention, and growth.
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