B2C Marketing

L’expérience client est la priorité stratégique des dirigeants marketing. C’est moins vrai en France (45% des décideurs) qu’en moyenne dans les autres pays (61%). Les derniers résultats (Septembre 2021) de notre baromètre de l’expérience client (CX Index) montrent que -dans l’ensemble- la perception de la qualité de l’expérience client est inférieure en France par rapport […]

Insulation. Plumbing. Circuit boards. Marketing resource management (MRM) tools. All things that aren’t front and center but are critical for daily operations. MRM tools are the marketing engine that make your marketing department go. Resource planning and performance management in the key areas of money, people, content, and brand facilitate agile marketing across channels — critical […]

It's time to meet your customers where they are. Use these five criteria to enhance the efficacy of your mobile messaging practices.

The pandemic ripped off the Band-Aid for collaboration. Hybrid and completely remote environments drove businesses to adopt new ways of working. Videoconferencing, virtual events, and collaboration capabilities surged. One by-product is the red-hot acquisition market for these technologies. Most recently, we saw Adobe’s intent to acquire Frame.io, a company that makes video collaboration software. While […]

Retail associate enablement tools enhance the customer experience in the physical store and improve both labor and store operations efficiency. In a tight labor market with employee acquisition and retention top-of-mind for retailers, training associates thoroughly and enabling them to perform fewer menial tasks with greater efficiency and oversight should be a primary goal for retailers.

Globally, we’re seeing a proliferation of brands that are investing in loyalty — whether for the first time or to revamp their existing strategy and programs. In fact, 83% of the brands we surveyed for our new Forrester Wave™ evaluation on loyalty service providers are increasing their investment in loyalty by 5% or more this […]

The CCCM market is growing as independent players deliver innovation that outshines many of their more established competitors.

Have you noticed the growing link between commerce and loyalty? Forrester has, and we’ve set out to explore it. Our first deep dive was into promotions and offer management tools, which we define as: Software that helps businesses personalize, distribute, automate, and track promotions, incentives, and other offers across digital and physical touchpoints. We included […]

If you're unsure about the potential impact of search on your e-commerce site, remember that even back in 2018, Amazon had surpassed Google in being the first place that US online adults began a product search.

As the pressure to prove marketing’s ROI intensifies, marketing leaders should work to build a strong alliance with their finance counterparts. Mastercard’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Raja Rajamannar went one step further, hiring a CFO to serve within marketing. He explains the benefits of this unconventional approach on this week’s What It Means.

McDonald’s Corp. just named company veteran Manu Steijaert as its first global chief customer officer, who will lead a new customer experience (CX) team. The team will combine operations in data analytics, digital customer engagement, marketing, restaurant development, and restaurant solutions. After CVS and Walgreens, here, too, the CMO reports to a chief customer officer, […]

The third-party cookie is riding off into the sunset, ending the Wild West era of digital advertising. What comes next? The answer is complicated, but the opportunities are many, explain VP, Principal Analyst Joanna O’Connell and Principal Analyst Tina Moffett in this week’s What It Means.

Learn about Forrester's martech reference model to help marketers and their technology cohorts define their unique martech reference architecture.

Confused by the recent update to Google's Privacy Sandbox timelines? Get the key takeaways and recommended next steps.

To get a closer look at what other retailers did during Prime Day, we reviewed 48 retailers’ home pages, spanning numerous categories. Here's what we found.

Through a confluence of crises, public trust is shifting across the globe. In this episode, Senior Analysts Anjali Lai and Enza Iannopollo discuss the impact of those shifts and the importance of developing a trust strategy in your organization.

Companies that rely on agencies are, by extension, reliant on their agency’s technology capabilities. Our new research helps buyers evaluate agencies' technology strategies so they can make the right choice.

Consumer data deprecation is poised to upend B2C marketing. Take these four immediate actions to prepare your data-driven marketing practice.