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Zero-Party Data: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
As data deprecation makes customer data harder to acquire, zero-party data provides a valuable means for brands to learn more about shoppers, deliver relevant experiences, and convert them from first-time customers into regular shoppers. Learn how to use this data to improve experiences.
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Meet Forrester’s New Principal Analyst Covering Loyalty Marketing, John Pedini
In 2025, we expect consumer usage of loyalty programs to grow amid declines in overall brand loyalty. Though loyalty programs offer the rewards that price-conscious consumers crave, companies struggle to inspire emotional loyalty across various tactics aimed at improving retention. Marketers need a loyalty strategy that appropriately balances transactional incentives with an understanding of what […]
How Will 2025 B2C Trends Shape Your Strategy?
Prepare for the future with our 2025 predictions for B2C marketing and CX leaders. Learn how to refine your strategies for AI, tech stacks, loyalty programs, frontline agents, TikTok, and more.
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How Customer Marketers Piece Together A Customer Advocacy Tech Stack
The Forrester Tech Tide™: B2B Customer Advocacy And Reference Technologies, Q4 2024, shows a fractured market. Yet while recent disruption has caused angst, it has also spurred innovation. Marketers have plenty of options.
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Predictions 2025 Webinar: B2C Marketing & Customer Experience
Get ahead of the 2025 shifts in B2C marketing and customer experience trends. Explore our predictions for customer and brand loyalty, genAI, privacy, tech stacks, and more.
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The Future Of Banking: By 2030, Banking Will Be Invisible, Connected, Insights-Driven, And Purposeful
In the rapidly evolving financial landscape, banks are facing challenges that require them to adapt and innovate. But amidst all these changes, the importance of trust remains constant. Trust is the foundation upon which successful banking relationships are built, and it will continue to be a crucial factor in shaping the future of the industry. […]
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Reshaping Banking In The Age Of AI: Embracing Trust, Innovation, And Customer Obsession
Once again, the banking industry is on the cusp of transformative changes. AI and generative AI (genAI) technologies have the potential to enhance customer relationships, deliver personalized digital experiences, augment customer service, and combat fraud. But they also have the potential to shift the mindset of banking from a product-centric to a relationship-centric approach and […]
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Not-So-Open Skies: Southwest Makes Historic Change
As Southwest navigates financial turbulence, there are lessons from companies on aligning brand experience with business realities.
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Overall Canada Customer Experience Quality Drops To A Historic Low
Scores for Canadian companies are at their lowest point since Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) began. Read a few of the key findings from our Canada rankings report.
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Customer Experience Quality In The US Falls To An All-Time Low
US consumers' perceptions of CX quality are now at their lowest point since the inception of the Forrester Customer Experience Index (CX Index™). Read a few of the key findings from our recent report.
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Loyalty Service Providers Supercharge Loyalty Strategies
The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Services, Q2 2024 is geared toward helping loyalty marketers vet the right service provider for their brand. Read a few of the takeaways.
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You Better Shape Up! Insights From Australia’s 2024 CX Index Study
Our latest research, working off of Australia 2024 Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) study data, reveals that most brands and agencies in our study saw the quality of their CX either flatlining or declining. In 2024, we surveyed banking, investment, government, and, for the first time, superannuation firms.
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Can AI Improve Your Loyalty Program?
Learn about the potential of predictive AI — and, now, generative AI — in enhancing loyalty programs and strategies.
Build An Engine Of Customer Loyalty - And Revenue
Read our report to learn how to build customer loyalty, brand equity, and revenue with a B2C customer-obsessed growth engine.
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What Motivates B2B Customers To Become Advocates?
Customer advocacy initiatives often leave a key question unanswered: How do customers benefit? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Principal Analysts Laura Ramos and Amy Bills explain how B2B companies can get more value from customer advocacy by understanding what motivates customers to participate.
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The Trust Advantage For B2B Firms
Trust is paramount in high-stakes B2B buying relationships. How can B2B companies build and maintain trust among buyers? VP and Principal Analyst Ian Bruce explains on this episode of What It Means.
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Consumer Spending 2024: What It Means For Your Brand
2023 was a confusing year: The consumers blew cold, and the economy blew hot. The recession-to-be didn’t materialize, and the economic outlook wasn’t half as bad as consumers would have you believe. Yet, notes from the post-pandemic blues keep wafting in the air no matter the macroeconomic drumbeat. This year, the economy is headed for […]
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What To Do Next About Your Customer Advocacy Platform
Where does the late December acquisition of customer advocacy and community platform Influitive leave current customers? Here we provide a plan for moving forward.
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2023 Canada Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) Rankings: Industries Lose Gains Made In 2022
Forrester just published The Canada Net Promoter Rankings, 2023 report, which includes the Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) and industry rank for 100 brands across nine industries. We asked over 39,000 Canadian consumers in our annual Customer Experience Benchmark Survey about their likelihood to recommend brands that they interacted with in the past 12 months, using the standard NPS […]
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Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) US Benchmarks, 2023: Fewer Brands Show Improvement
New analyses from Forrester’s 2023 Customer Experience Benchmark Study reveals that subdued customer advocacy continued in 2023, as fewer brands have significant improvements and more brands have significant drops in Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) compared to 2022.
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Despite Economic Headwinds, Malaysian Banks Continue To Improve CX Quality
How customers perceive a brand influences how much they are willing to spend with the brand, whether they will recommend it to others, and how likely they are to forgive the brand’s missteps. Our annual Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) benchmarking study, which has been conducted in Malaysia since 2021, answers the question, “Which banks […]
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High Levels Of Trust Elude US Financial Services Firms Again
US financial services brands are struggling to earn high levels of customer trust. Forrester’s Financial Services Customer Trust Index (FS Trust Index) revealed that customer trust in US financial services firms in 2023 was relatively weak and largely unchanged from 2022. Only US banks managed a measurable improvement in average trust scores, and even that […]
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