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• Report Q&A: The Marketer's Guide To SMS

  So You Want To Set Up An SMS Marketing Program. Here's What B2C Marketers Should Know

  March 3, 2021 | Stephanie Liu

  SMS offers opportunities for B2C marketers to communicate directly with customers in a highly engaging format. However, it's also a unique message format that requires additional consideration...

• Report Research Overview: Marketing, CX And Design, And Digital Transformation Services

  A Guide To Forrester's Marketing, CX, And Digital Transformation Services Research

  March 3, 2021 | Collin Colburn

  Buyers of marketing, customer experience (CX), and digital transformation services face a complex landscape. Many agencies or service providers in this space position themselves as a one-stop shop...

• Report The New Privacy: It's All About Context

  Vision: The Customer Trust And Privacy Playbook

  February 26, 2021 | Fatemeh Khatibloo

  In the age of internet-connected devices, with cameras everywhere and sensors in our most private spaces, privacy is essential for earning and maintaining consumer trust. Context is key —...

• Report Now Tech: Cross-Channel Campaign Management, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 42 Cross-Channel Campaign Management Providers

  February 22, 2021 | Rusty Warner

  You can use cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) solutions to better understand your customers, orchestrate digital and offline customer experiences, and propel your brand strategy from...

• Report Increase Engagement With A Customer-Centric Loyalty Program Refresh

  Case Study: How PCC Community Markets Deployed An Enterprisewide Approach To Loyalty

  February 19, 2021 | Emily Collins, Sarah Dawson

  Earning customer loyalty demands more than implementing a rewards program. Seattle-based PCC Community Markets (PCC), the largest community-owned food market in the US, used an enterprisewide...

• Report Assess The Strength Of Your Marketing And CX Alliance

  Assessment: The Experience-Led Marketing Playbook

  February 18, 2021 | Emily Collins

  The quest for customer engagement has left marketers with mountains of data, bloated martech stacks, and distraught customers. With trust, privacy, and choice now driving buying decisions,...

• Report How To Build A Martech Reference Architecture For Banking

  February 16, 2021 | Rusty Warner

  Marketing technology (martech) ecosystems in the banking industry are more complex than those within other vertical sectors due to requisite enterprise integration, mandatory regulatory compliance,...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Customer Database And Engagement Agencies, Q1 2021

  The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  February 8, 2021 | Fatemeh Khatibloo, Nick Monroe

  In our 29-criterion evaluation of customer database and engagement agencies, we identified the eight most significant — Acxiom, Bond Brand Loyalty, Epsilon, Havas Helia, ICF Next, Merkle, RRD, and...

• Report Understand Your Customers To Build Trust: Forrester's 2020 Consumer Privacy Segmentation

  Landscape: The Customer Trust And Privacy Playbook

  February 5, 2021 | Fatemeh Khatibloo, Stephanie Liu

  As the privacy landscape evolves, consumers are more aware than ever that companies collect and use their personal data for marketing and advertising purposes. B2C marketers must understand their...

• Report Now Tech: Cross-Channel Campaign Management In Asia Pacific, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 27 Cross-Channel Campaign Management Providers

  February 4, 2021 | Xiaofeng Wang

  B2C marketers can use cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) offerings to better understand customers, orchestrate outbound interactions across touchpoints, and deliver contextually relevant...

• Report Get Your Data Deprecation Plan Together

  Adapt By Prioritizing Privacy, First-Party Data, And New Marketing Approaches

  February 1, 2021 | Tina Moffett, Fatemeh Khatibloo, Joanna O'Connell

  Data deprecation hampers many popular marketing tactics by restricting the consumer, audience, and marketing performance data B2C marketers track and access. In this report, Forrester defines data...

• Report Know Your Social Media Audience In 2021 — And If They Want To Interact With You

  Landscape: The Social Marketing Playbook

  January 29, 2021 | Jessica Liu, Sarah Dawson

  The question B2C marketers should be asking is not whether consumers use social media but how best to use social media to interact with consumers. Forrester's new social consumer segmentation...

• Report Omnichannel Advertising Delivers Positive ROI

  Business Case: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  January 27, 2021 | Joanna O'Connell, Corey McNair

  Marketing professionals struggle to articulate the value of an omnichannel approach to advertising because of the level of commitment required and the difficulty directly attributing financial...

• Report Create An Omnichannel Advertising Strategy Centered On Customer Experience

  Executive Overview: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | 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...

• Report Marketing Measurement's Higher Calling: Lead Your Firm To An Insights-Driven Future

  Vision: The Marketing Measurement And Insights Playbook

  January 5, 2021 | Tina Moffett, Jim Nail

  Statistical analytic techniques used for marketing performance measurement give marketers the confidence to be more accountable for the ROI of their spending. Unified marketing measurement is...

• Report Three Ways Marketers Can Use Content Intelligence To Drive Business Outcomes

  Look To Generate Clear Business Value Through Assistance For Creators, Better Content Analysis, And More Effective Response Copy

  January 4, 2021 | Ryan Skinner

  Over the past five years, content intelligence — the use of AI and machine learning (ML) to uncover content's inherent qualities — has matured into a real driver of business value. Three major use...

• Report Marketing Measurement Morphs Into Insight-Driven Marketing

  Executive Overview: The Marketing Measurement And Insights Playbook

  December 18, 2020 | Tina Moffett

  Marketers must shift their attitude toward measurement from passively reviewing post-campaign reports to proactively analyzing results and optimizing future marketing and business plans. To do...

• 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 Chart Your Course To Marketing Measurement Maturity

  Roadmap: The Marketing Measurement And Insights Playbook

  December 1, 2020 | Tina Moffett, David Novitzky

  Marketing measurement and optimization is an indispensable discipline for B2C marketing leaders because it helps tame the flood of marketing and customer data, providing insights that fuel business...

• Report The ROI Of Privacy

  Business Case: The Customer Trust And Privacy Playbook

  November 30, 2020 | Fatemeh Khatibloo, Reggie Lau

  Organizations have traditionally focused investment and resources on preventing data breaches, but consumers are growing more aware of privacy breaches and creepy experiences. B2C marketers must...

• Report Make Social Media Bigger Than Marketing

  Executive Overview: The Social Marketing Playbook

  November 25, 2020 | Jessica Liu

  B2C marketers know that social marketing works but can't articulate how. That's because too many of them launched social programs without a clear strategy. Mastering social media requires more than...

• Report The Future Of Enterprise Marketing Technology

  Vision: The Enterprise Marketing Technology Playbook

  November 25, 2020 | Joe Stanhope, Rusty Warner

  Enterprise B2C marketers have invested heavily in marketing technology (martech) to deliver contextually relevant customer engagement. But to stay ahead of the curve, firms need to rethink their...

• Report Model The ROI Of Enterprise Marketing Technology Investments

  Business Case: The Enterprise Marketing Technology Playbook

  November 20, 2020 | Rusty Warner, Stephen Odell, Jennifer Adams

  Enterprise marketing technology (martech) promises to enable better customer experience, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report helps B2C marketing professionals make a...

• 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 Make Privacy A Competitive Differentiator

  Executive Overview: The Customer Trust And Privacy Playbook

  November 13, 2020 | Fatemeh Khatibloo

  Consumers are increasingly aware of the value of their personal data. As a result, companies can no longer afford to dismiss customer concerns about the use of that data — failure to respect...