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• 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 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 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...

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  Webinar Vast, Fast, And Relentless: Consumers And The Future Of Buying

  October 22, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Anjali Lai

  The ways in which consumers buy products and services have been in a constant state of change over the past decade, and there are no signs of it slowing down. To survive, B2C firms must constantly...

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  Webinar Adtech And Martech Enter An Era Of Disruption: When And Where To Invest

  September 17, 2020 | Mary Pilecki, Emily Collins, Sarah Dawson

  Marketers need technologies that enable omnichannel advertising and memorable, moments-based experiences. These advertising and marketing technologies are not new, but industry forces like data...

• 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 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 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....

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  Webinar The Future Of DMPs In A Cookieless World

  April 9, 2020 | Tina Moffett

  Data management platforms (DMPs) help advertisers analyze, create, and syndicate audiences through media buying platforms by connecting the advertiser's first-party data with third-party cookie...

• 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 The Future Of Omnichannel Advertising Must Be Customer Obsessed

  November 8, 2019 | Joanna O'Connell, Susan Bidel

  Advertising is a decades-old revenue engine for brands, but it's gone off the rails in an era of data and technology obsession. Little understanding of consumer ad sentiment and too much short-term...

• Report Improve Loyalty Measurement With Behavioral And Emotional Metrics

  Performance Management: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

  October 4, 2019 | Emily Collins

  Earning customer loyalty is critical to business success, and B2C marketers need to be able to measure and demonstrate that loyalty to the business. Marketers predominantly rely on retention...

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  Webinar Marketers, Stop Sacrificing Long-Term Goals For Short-Term Wins

  July 30, 2019 | Tina Moffett

  B2C marketers know long-term marketing goals like brand health and sustainable revenue growth are important, but they too often focus more on short-term goals like sales conversions. The...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Service Providers, Q3 2019

  The 14 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  July 15, 2019 | Emily Collins

  In our 22-criterion evaluation of loyalty service providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — Aimia, Ansira, Bond Brand Loyalty, Brierley+Partners, Capgemini, Epsilon, ICF Next, Inte Q,...

• Report To Adapt To Direct-To-Consumer Trends, Use A Direct-To-Value Strategy

  Brands Benefit From Direct Consumer Relationships That Offer Unique Value

  April 2, 2019 | Ryan Skinner

  Direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups like Warby Parker and Casper used to be rare; now they number in the hundreds, and they'll soon be in the thousands. Marketers whose response to this competition...

• Report Harness Marketing's Most Powerful Tool: Emotion

  New Techniques Reveal Consumers' Real Decision Process

  February 14, 2019 | Jim Nail

  Emotions are essential to marketing, experience, and loyalty but have long seemed beyond rigorous definition and quantification. But market research firms are translating recent neuroscience and...