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• Report Research Overview: Personalization

  A Guide To Our Personalization-Related Research

  December 11, 2020 | Rusty Warner, David Novitzky

  B2C marketers strive to deliver relevant, personalized customer experiences. But heightened customer expectations, conflicting business goals, overlapping technologies, and execution challenges...

• Report Industry Analyst Relations And Insight

  Insight: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook

  December 2, 2020 | Kevin Lucas

  Insight is analyst relations' (AR's) forgotten child, usually coming second to influence. But AR spends more on insight than on influence, and analysts think insight is what they exist to deliver....

• Report Evaluate Your Marketing Performance Measurement Maturity

  Assessment: The Marketing Measurement And Insights Playbook

  November 17, 2020 | Tina Moffett, David Novitzky

  In order to measure the impact of marketing and media campaigns on key business metrics, B2C marketers must build a new approach to marketing performance measurement that includes data and...

• Report Service Desk 2020: It's All About Employee Experience

  Reliable, Accessible Services Fuel Innovation And Satisfaction

  October 6, 2020 | Charles Betz, Andrew Hewitt

  Although new technologies emerge every day, employees can't do their best work because they can't find the services they need, and when they do, bureaucracy causes unacceptable delays. In an era of...

• Report A Three-Step Approach To Jump-Starting CX Transformation In Government

  Government Organizations Are Making Inroads But Have A Long Journey Ahead

  August 25, 2020 | Riccardo Pasto

  High-quality customer experience (CX) drives mission success. When government CX improves, customers engage, trust, and forgive; government operations run more smoothly and cost less; and people's...

• Report Q&A: Defining "Customer" At B2B2C Companies

  Insights From A CX North America Panel Discussion

  August 11, 2020 | Judy Weader, Sam Karpinski

  B2B2C companies deliver value to multiple types of customers (including partners — the first "B" — and end consumers), which can make it difficult for them to know the types of customers on which...

• Report AR's Graveyard: Unmet Sales Commitments

  August 4, 2020 | Kevin Lucas

  The proportion of industry analyst relations (AR) people who commit to supporting sales among all AR people whom we survey has barely reached 50% since 2007. And AR's not improving enough either —...

• Report Advance Your Approach To Customer Loyalty

  Assessment: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

  July 24, 2020 | Emily Collins

  If you're serious about earning and maintaining customer loyalty, you can't treat it as a tactic or a discrete program anymore. Customer loyalty requires strategic alignment, deliberate planning,...

• Report Q&A: What Marketers Need To Know About Social Media Consumer Segmentation

  Social User Data Allows Marketers To Build Novel Segments For Uniquely Relevant Insights

  July 22, 2020 | Ryan Skinner

  Social media data, in the form of profiles, connections, likes, shares, and posts, can be the raw material for remarkably relevant marketing. The data serves as a map to consumers' preferences,...

• Report How Ending CX Bonuses Boosted CX Scores And Profitability For Volkswagen Group Australia

  July 21, 2020 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Even though paying employees for delivering good customer experience (CX) is a bad idea, many firms still do it. This report for CX professionals shows how Volkswagen Group Australia, a firm in an...

• Report B2C Marketers, Use Reference Models To Accelerate Your Martech Strategy

  Reference Models Provide A Common Language To Help Optimize Martech Investments

  July 20, 2020 | Rusty Warner, Gordon Barnett

  Successfully enabling a customer-obsessed strategy is dependent on well-coordinated marketing technology (martech) investments championed by both marketing and technology executives. To succeed,...

• Report Predictions 2020: India

  Value-Driven Firms In India Will Win In The Post-Pandemic World

  May 7, 2020 | Amit Bhatia, Arnav Gupta, Satish Meena

  At the start of 2020, business across the globe was humming. Then, COVID-19 blew up around the world — and things changed fast. As the situation evolves, how will Indian firms react? In the...

• Report How 29 Companies Adjusted Policies To Help Customers During The COVID-19 Outbreak

  Creating New Standard Operating Practices For Business As Unusual

  April 21, 2020 | Judy Weader, Rick Parrish

  Crisis reveals character. Right now, businesses are showing their character as they respond to unprecedented change in near real time. As governments order whole sectors to shut down, customer...

• Report Lessons In Customer Acquisition: Learn From DTC Disruptors' Consideration Strategies

  DTCs Establish Credible Differentiation Rapidly With Social Proof, Design, Trials, And Email

  April 10, 2020 | Ryan Skinner, Sarah Dawson

  Direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptor brands are growth engines, capturing the imaginations (and wallets) of a new generation of consumers, often for entirely novel product or service categories....

• Report Video: How To Find Your Value-For-Customer Sweet Spot

  Use This Exercise To Find The Differentiating Blend Of Value Dimensions That Matches Your Target Customers' Needs

  March 30, 2020 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Shar VanBoskirk, Su Doyle

  Even if you think about "value for customer" the right way, you must still find the sweet spot in which you uniquely help your most important target customers create value. To help you do that,...

• Report Use A Content Strategy Template To Ensure Content Serves Both The Business And Customer

  Businesses Need To Cultivate Clear And Standardized Approaches To Why And How They Make Content

  March 16, 2020 | Ryan Skinner

  This research began with the hypothesis that top-down content strategy, decided centrally, is a dead end. But our analysis reveals that content strategy from the bottom-up doesn't work either....

• Report How To Be A Loyalty Company

  Vision: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

  February 28, 2020 | Emily Collins

  B2C marketers are already onboard with the idea that earning customer loyalty requires more than just offering a loyalty program. Yet they struggle to evolve their efforts when faced with the scope...

• Report Lessons In Customer Acquisition: Learn From DTC Disruptors' Awareness Strategies

  DTCs Move Customers Quickly From Discover To Buy

  February 28, 2020 | Ryan Skinner, Sarah Dawson

  Direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptor brands are growth engines, capturing the imaginations of a new generation of consumers, creating new markets, and opening the M&A wallets of much larger...

• Report Evaluate Your Enterprise Marketing Technology Maturity To Enable Martech Planning

  Assessment: The Enterprise Marketing Technology Playbook

  February 25, 2020 | Joe Stanhope, Rusty Warner

  Delivering contextual customer experiences requires a significant investment in enterprise marketing technologies. B2C marketing professionals tasked with planning and defining enterprise marketing...

• Report Use Personalization To Drive Loyalty And Customer Obsession

  January 28, 2020 | Emily Collins

  The personalization imperative for loyalty is clear: Companies that can't meet customer expectations for relevance and value risk losing their customers to brands that can deliver. But it's hard to...

• Report Social Technographics® Reveals Who Your Social Audience Is — And How To Approach Them

  Landscape: The Social Marketing Playbook

  December 11, 2019 | Jessica Liu

  The question for B2C marketers is no longer whether your customers use social media, but how you can best use social media to interact with those customers. But how well do you know your customers...

• Report Employee Experience Efforts In Asia Pacific Are Well-Intentioned But Misguided

  AP Firms Are Turning Their Attention To EX To Fight Rising Challenges, But Need To Do More

  December 9, 2019 | Amit Bhatia

  The employee experience (EX) is hot in Asia Pacific (AP). Conferences on the theme sell out; EX-related job titles are increasingly visible in the market; vendors across the region have been...

• Report Target Industry Analyst Relations With Achievable Metrics

  December 9, 2019 | Kevin Lucas

  Myriad options puzzle industry analyst relations (AR) as it tries to measure the value it brings to high-tech vendors and to deliver consistently against related targets. A Forrester trends survey...

• Report Embrace Innovative Marketing

  Executive Overview Of The Marketing Innovation Playbook

  November 26, 2019 | Melissa Parrish

  Marketing has come a long way, but it is not yet customer obsessed. True marketing innovation focuses on evolving from staid and traditional marketing approaches toward a new worldview that...

• Report Create An Omnichannel Advertising Strategy Centered On Customer Experience

  Executive Overview: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  November 22, 2019 | Joanna O'Connell

  B2C marketers need to embrace omnichannel advertising strategies to orchestrate connected experiences that drive better results. How? By adopting a customer-obsessed planning and buying approach...