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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Content Management Systems, Q3 2023
The Forrester Wave™: Content Management Systems, Q3, 2023 helps buyers select a next-generation content management system that will delight, convert, and further engage consumers through anticipatory digital experiences.
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Improve Your Loyalty Results With A Loyalty Services Provider
Does your brand employ a loyalty services provider in addition to a loyalty technology provider? If not, you should consider it. Brands continue to increase spend on loyalty technology and programs, but they often don’t tie their loyalty initiatives to broader corporate goals, negatively impacting their success. Services providers help here. This blog answers key […]
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One Destination, Many Paths: The Content Engagement Solutions Landscape
B2B marketers spend ample time seeking better ways to engage their audiences, convert them to buyers, and retain them as customers. While content is central to engagement, audience expectations for contextually relevant, personalized content know no limits. To get content right, technology is key, but there are many paths to the ideal content destination. In […]
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Starting The Conversation: Plan Right For Acute Care At-Home Programs
With acute home care adoption slowly ticking up, challenges are building. Not the least of these: The model hinges on a coordinated delivery of a complex set of services and uncertain reimbursement under a current waiver that’s up for redetermination in 18 months. Here are three key things that you should do now to plan for a successful acute care at-home program.
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Unlock True Customer Understanding: The Power Of “What” And “How” Data
We highlight some examples from our latest report on how companies can capture and optimize customer data using the 6C Strategy.
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AI And B2B Marketing: Three Opportunities And Challenges To Ponder
In the most promising areas of AI impact in B2B marketing, prudence, too, is advised as marketers explore use cases.
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There Is No Single “Personalization Technology” Category
Tackling consumer personalization requires strategy, data, and technology (see figure). When it comes to the third pillar, technology, consumer personalization capabilities are baked into many different technology categories across the business technology ecosystem. Companies must strive to harmonize multiple tools to deliver personalized moments that can occur anywhere in the customer lifecycle. Instead of focusing […]
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Search, The Next Big Category In Commerce Tech, Is Crucial To CX And Success
Our newly-published Vendor Landscape for Commerce Search and Product Discovery lists the 28 most notable vendors in the space and details the 10 most important use cases they’re focusing on for clients today.
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Digital Sales Rooms: Hype Or Reality?
Like other business innovations, digital sales rooms are not a magic wand. Learn what’s needed to capture the biggest benefits — and learn more at B2B Summit North America.
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Consumers Don’t Always Want The Personalization That You’re Delivering
Personalization sounds good in theory — who doesn’t want a moment customized just for them? But the reality is that not all consumers or customers want personalization from brands at the same intensity across the customer lifecycle (see figure). Consumer-brand personalization is a lot like dating: People don’t share everything about themselves early in the […]
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Let’s Chat About B2B Personalization
B2B marketers overwhelmingly agree that buyers expect an experience personalized to their needs and preferences across sales and marketing. Personalization capabilities and components are distributed throughout the B2B marketing technology stack, but organizations often struggle to define an audience-centric view of the role of personalization that extends throughout the customer lifecycle. Too often, personalization starts […]
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B2B Content: Experimentation Means Bold Bets And Cold Sweats
Optimizing the customer experience — a top priority for B2B organizations — requires dramatic improvements to the content engine. To build for the future, organizations will make bold bets, experimenting with AI to deliver contextual, personalized experiences.
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Want Better Content Performance? Fix It At The Source.
Marketing and sales enablement teams often struggle with poor content performance for years because they're not addressing the root causes. Conducting a content inventory health analysis helps pinpoint what's going on with findability, relevance, and quality issues, pull in the right teams to eliminate the problems, and then track the right progress metrics.
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Announcing A New Forrester Wave™ Evaluation Covering Commerce Search And Product Discovery
Our new commerce search landscape report publishes in just a few weeks. It features a long list of vendors and illustrates the functions and use cases that digital businesses can expect from them. I am thrilled to announce that our Forrester Wave™ evaluation analyzing this market will follow this year, covering the latest major commerce tech spin-off market!
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Leverage Data In Your Sales Strategy To Win 2023
Attention, sales leaders! In case you missed it, to win in 2023, your reps must leverage digital selling tactics and listen to buyer signals. Today’s buyer is empowered and increasingly reliant on self-discovery through digital experiences. Sales leaders need to adapt fast to win, retain, and grow revenue in this increasingly turbulent market, but the […]
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Three Personalization Mantras To Help You Survive A Data Deprecation World
The days of marketing "hyper-personalization" are ending. Let these three mantras guide you as customer data deprecation takes hold.
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The Future Of Localization Is Here: Are You Ready?
Here’s a thought experiment to test if your organization is ready for the future of localization. When you think about your customer and employee experience (CX and EX), do you think about what it’s like in each of their languages? Or do you unconsciously assume a monolingual experience? If we’re honest, many of us, especially […]
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Key Takeaways From Conversations With Patient Engagement Vendors
The shift to more accountable care and the high prevalence of chronic disease demand more proactive — versus reactive — care delivery models. Healthcare organizations and policymakers recognize that patient engagement improvement is a top priority to move this initiative forward. Discover key insights from conversations with patient engagement vendors.
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Open Banking Adoption Is On The Cusp Of Robust Growth In Europe
Over the next five years, Forrester predicts a doubling in adoption of open banking across European countries and use cases. Explore more insights from our inaugural European open banking forecast.
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Unlock Loyalty Throughout The Customer Lifecycle
Loyalty marketers, the scope of your job just expanded. And before you panic, it’s a good thing. Loyalty marketers have conventionally focused their efforts on customers post-purchase: increasing customer retention, enrichment, and advocacy. But brands and customers alike have faced unprecedented challenges over the last few years, including a pandemic, supply chain issues, and social […]
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