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• Report Now Tech: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 36 B2B Marketing Data Providers

  January 11, 2021 | Steven Casey

  You can use B2B marketing data providers to create personalized and timely account-centric engagement, improve customer marketing, and achieve true customer obsession. But to realize these...

• Report Chatbots And Virtual Assistants Can Help B2B Organizations Close The Digital Experience Gap

  Automated Conversational Engagement Meets The Modern B2B Buyer's Need For Immediacy

  December 11, 2020 | Steven Casey

  Social distancing has fast-forwarded the B2B buyer journey into an almost exclusively digital adventure. With face-to-face meetings all but impossible, buyers are seeking experiences and content...

• Report Forrester Predictions 2021: Accelerating Out Of The Crisis

  October 28, 2020 | Sharyn Leaver

  2020 shattered the status quo. In 2021, advanced organizations will adapt and use the upheaval to forge a competitive edge. Discover your organization's path to success. Read Forrester's 2021...

• Report Define Your CRM Plan

  Strategic Plan: The CRM Playbook

  August 28, 2020 | Kate Leggett

  To avoid wasting time and effort on ill-conceived CRM initiatives, organizations should keep a laser focus on creating business value. Sound planning for CRM requires application development and...

• Report Research Overview: Online Marketplaces

  A Guide To Buying, Selling, And Creating Market Leverage Via Everyone's Favorite Digital Platform Business Model

  August 17, 2020 | Allen Bonde, Caleb Ewald

  Online marketplaces aren't a new idea. Yet over the past few years, they have (re)emerged as a preferred channel for consumers, small businesses, and a growing number of enterprise buyers. For...

• 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 The Democratization Of B2B Sales

  Talent Wins Games, But Teamwork And Intelligence Win Championships

  August 3, 2020 | Mary Shea, PhD

  As pre-COVID and COVID-accelerated trends come together, industries, business models, and sales strategies will be disrupted. B2B sales leaders who seize the moment will abandon traditional seller...

• Report Forrester Infographic: The State Of Better And Best Practices In B2B Marketing

  Landscape: The B2B Marketing Playbook

  July 28, 2020 | Lori Wizdo, Meredith Cain

  Marketers at high-growth B2B companies demonstrate similar strategies and tactics that set them apart from their peers at companies with average or subpar performance. While there is no "paint by...

• Report Microsegmentation Yields Contextual Customer Experiences That Convert

  Strategic Plan: The B2B Marketing Playbook

  June 30, 2020 | Lori Wizdo

  Segmentation is the bedrock of B2B marketing campaigns. Marketers use segmentation to partition their databases and plan interactions with key audiences. But B2B marketers must rethink segmentation...

• Report Messaging In The Time Of COVID-19

  Generate More Than Sympathetic Communications To Give B2B Customers The Confidence To Survive And Thrive

  June 16, 2020 | Laura Ramos, Meredith Cain

  Communicating your company's response to the coronavirus pandemic requires more than expressing sympathy or reinforcing your philanthropic efforts. Meaningfully supporting and creating value for...

• Report Now Tech: Sales Enablement Automation, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 32 Sales Enablement Automation Providers

  May 27, 2020 | Laura Ramos, Mary Shea, PhD

  You can use sales enablement automation (SEA) to give sellers more time to sell, improve their effectiveness and relevance with buyers, and acquire and apply the best buyer-facing skills. But to...

• Report New Tech: Influencer Marketing Solutions, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 47 Providers

  May 11, 2020 | Ryan Skinner

  Today, most marketing organizations use influencers — often hundreds of them — to drive product awareness, brand storytelling, and sales. But managing influencers, from identification and...

• Report What B2B Buyers Crave

  Modern B2B Buyers Expect To Be Treated As Partners, Not Targets

  May 4, 2020 | Steven Casey, Lori Wizdo

  The evolving environmental factors driving fundamental changes in B2B buyers' behavior have reached an inflection point — and now pose an existential threat to all organizations. It's more than a...

• Report Credible Empathetic Content Wins Over Elusive B2B Buyers

  Four Practices Deliver Value And Engage Your Buyers' Attention

  April 30, 2020 | Laura Ramos

  Self-sufficient and digitally adept business buyers are tired of wading through piles of marketing and sales content that isn't helpful or interesting. B2B marketers need to step away from...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Master Emerging B2B Marketplaces

  April 15, 2020 | Allen Bonde, Caleb Ewald

  Alibaba and Amazon have disrupted B2B commerce across industries, demonstrating the reach and impact of large-scale, online marketplaces. In an age where competition is fierce, the (re)emergence of...

• Report Customer Marketing Elevates B2B Post-Sale Experiences And Buyer Value

  Raise Your Customer Marketing Game To Win Customers' Hearts And Wallets

  March 31, 2020 | Laura Ramos

  Post-sale marketing activity often plays second fiddle to product marketing, demand generation, and branding. Now, subscription-based business models make keeping and growing customers essential....

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Sales Training And Services, Q1 2020

  The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  March 17, 2020 | Mary Shea, PhD

  In our 28-criterion evaluation of sales training and services providers, we identified the nine most significant ones — Baker Communications, Challenger, Corporate Visions, Force Management, IMPAX,...

• Report The B2B Consumer Grows Up

  Marketers Need To Adapt Now Or Get Left Behind

  March 2, 2020 | Steven Casey

  More and more B2B buyers are acting like consumers every day. A combination of digital consumers' native and learned behaviors is driving this change — and having a dramatic impact on every phase...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q3 2018 (Updated)

  The 12 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  February 24, 2020 | Steven Casey

  In our 21-criteria evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Bombora, DataFox, DiscoverOrg, Dun & Bradstreet, Infogroup, InsideView, Leadspace, Orb...

• Report Now Tech: Healthcare CRM, Q1 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 17 Healthcare CRM Providers

  February 21, 2020 | Arielle Trzcinski, Kate Leggett

  You can use healthcare CRM to attract, acquire, and retain customers; aggregate complex and disparate data sets; and provide insight to drive behavior change. But to realize these benefits, you'll...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Millennial Buyers Seek Credible, Concise, And Curated Content

  February 13, 2020 | Laura Ramos

  Forrester surveyed purchase decision makers and found their dissatisfaction with most content marketers make available continues unabated. As an increasingly influential buyer segment, Millennials...

• Report Research Overview: Lead-To-Revenue Marketing

  A Guide For Leveraging L2RM For Marketing Transformation

  February 10, 2020 | Lori Wizdo

  Lead-to-revenue (L2R) marketing is a business process for marketers — both business and consumer marketers — who must power up new marketing processes to achieve customer acquisition, customer...

• Report Research Overview: Strategic Message Management

  A Guide To Getting B2B Messaging Right

  February 10, 2020 | Laura Ramos, Lori Wizdo

  Savvy CMOs know that communication can become muddled as different stakeholders (marketers, executives, sales, and customer service) engage prospects and customers without the connective tissue of...

• Report Now Tech: B2B Commerce Suites, Q1 2020

  Tools And Technology: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

  February 6, 2020 | Joe Cicman

  You can use B2B commerce suites to digitize buying and selling processes, provide convenient engagement for customers, and uncover valuable customer insights to personalize the buying experience....

• Report Now Tech: Sales Training And Services, Q1 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 23 Sales Training And Services Providers

  February 5, 2020 | Mary Shea, PhD, Meredith Cain

  You can use sales training and services (STS) to increase the effectiveness of your sales force, foster better alignment between marketing and sales personnel, and deliver better experiences to...