Stephanie Liu
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Pandemic Got Your Marketing Plans Down? Pivot To People-Led Planning
COVID-19 has disrupted school, summer vacations, birthdays, weddings — you name it. It has been equally unforgiving to marketers, whose carefully crafted marketing plans became irrelevant amid store closures, erratic shopping trends, and supply shortages. If there’s one upside to the pandemic, it’s pushing marketers to reevaluate their marketing planning processes. Even the most thorough, […]
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Elevate Your Mobile Engagement With The Right Vendor Using The New Forrester Wave™
This past spring, I shared why it’s important that marketers develop a strong mobile strategy to engage with consumers in the right moment and format. While a few months have since passed, COVID-19 still blurs the future of work, commerce, and socializing. Is it safe to travel? To return to work? To enjoy a beer at […]
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Straight From The Source: Collecting Zero-Party Data From Customers
Marketers are building out experiences to ask customers about volunteer zero-party data that they can’t infer, buy, or collect elsewhere.
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Stay Connected To Consumers Via Mobile Engagement Automation
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a major dent in our mobile lifestyles. But even as many of us shelter in place or stay at home, our smartphones are still with us, offering a necessary link to the outside world. In a typical morning, you can probably expect to receive messages from family members and friends […]
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Find The Marketing Planning And Operations Tool That Meets Your Needs
Wouldn’t it be great if marketers had a tool that let them plan, manage, and execute marketing activities? I hear this from B2C marketers looking to streamline creative production processes or coordinate campaigns across teams. Thankfully, there’s an entire category of tools that do just that: marketing resource management (MRM). As I explained a few […]
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MRM Has A Marketing Problem
In my four years at Forrester, I’ve crossed paths with a lot of three-letter technologies: CDP, DMP, OTT, ITP, and ETP . . . the list goes on. But MRM, or marketing resource management, has a unique challenge amid this alphabet soup: Marketers rarely call it by its name. Instead, when we speak to marketers, […]
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Meet Your Newest B2C Martech Analyst
Do you work with marketing resource management (MRM) or mobile engagement automation (MEA) tools? If yes, I want to hear from you! I’m Steph, the newest member of Forrester’s B2C martech research team. I’ve been at Forrester for four years, first as a research associate and most recently as a researcher on the B2C marketing […]
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