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Best Practices: The Social Marketing Playbook
After years of aimlessly chasing fans, it's time marketers start driving real business results from Facebook. This requires building a Facebook page that has a clear focus and offers value to...
Strategic Plan: The Social Marketing Playbook
We're several years into the social marketing boom, but still many executives are going about social strategy backward: picking technologies like Facebook or Twitter first instead of focusing on what...
Which Digital Shopper Marketing Tools To Invest In And Why
Forrester's TechRadar methodology provides a framework to aid decision-makers in prioritizing investments and tools related to their discipline — in this case, shopper marketing. Consumers are...
The Splinternet Engagement Index
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes content relevant to customer experience professionals. Here's why: Firms deliver experiences across an increasing array of...
Use The Splinternet Engagement Index To Jumpstart Your Agile Commerce Strategy
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes content relevant to eBusiness and channel strategy professionals. Here's why: The golden age of the Web is over. The...
More people own smartphones than ever before and they’re using them more often too. This makes a mobile marketing strategy crucial for any interactive marketer. Yet today we find that although...
Social media will have an outsized impact on relationship-based businesses like investment firms, life insurers, and private banks. Some of these wealth management firms are piloting programs that...
Social media is changing the way audiences engage with TV. Led by Generation X and Generation Y, audiences are increasingly multitasking on digital devices while watching TV — and sharing what...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Websites Of Five Australian Consumer Electronics Retailers
Consumer electronics retailers in Australia face many challenges, but online retail is booming despite the relatively modest feature set provided by most Australian sites. To dig deeper, Forrester...
Interactive Marketing Is The Best Way To Reach Attractive Consumers In The BRICs And Beyond
Interactive marketing often takes a back seat in emerging markets, a victim of the low online penetration in these countries and of local marketing teams who lack experience with interactive tools....
As four of the largest and arguably most currently influential technology companies — Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook — continue to exhibit ambitious tendencies to capture...
Analyzing Your Customers' Engagement Across Touchpoints
The splinternet — the fragmented world of incompatible web, social, video, and mobile touchpoints — is where your customers live now. They want to reach you in more touchpoints, but you...
A Joint Study With Channel Intelligence Examines Best Practices Regarding Online Conversion
To better understand how manufacturers can increase the ultimate conversion rate on leads they send to online retailer websites, Forrester teamed up with Channel Intelligence to analyze the patterns...
Online consumers' preferences for online customer service channels are evolving. More online consumers have adopted online self-service in the past two years; it has also disappointed more consumers....
eBusiness executives in retail will grapple with three key trends in 2012: growth of mobile device usage, heightened competition from Amazon.com, and continued market share shift to web retail....
North American Technographics®
Digital natives have grown up in the age of technology and cannot imagine a life without computers, cell phones, and social networking. Although digital natives may not have large amounts of...
Factor The Real Risks And Opportunities Into Your Own Domain Strategy
The application window for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is upon us. Some organizations think that this is the greatest opportunity ever to take control of their online identity, while others...
Global Social Media Adoption In 2011 And What Interactive Marketers Should Do About It
It's no secret that the groundswell has gone global: Internet users all over the planet have embraced social media. But there are strong differences from country to country in how people use social...
A Review Of Forrester's Social Technographics® Data From Around The World
Social media has gone global: The majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metropolitan Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. But usage patterns vary widely by country and...
And Why Multitouchpoint Campaigns Will Drive Value, Not Just Traffic
As in years past, natural search results, links, and personal emails are the most cited resources for finding websites. But take note: Social media — in particular social networks —...
Asia Pacific Consumer Technographics®
For the past six years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. Similar to recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online...
As consumers access online content on more devices — computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, eReaders, and even gaming consoles — managing and delivering digital content has grown...
Russia is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world today. In recent decades, Russia made tremendous progress in terms of democracy and the economy, but it still has a long way to go when it...
North American Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...
Spanish banks have been at the forefront of banking innovation in Europe, yet customer behavior in Spain has been slow to change. Spanish customers are more likely than customers almost anywhere in...