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Personalization delivers more relevant, effective experiences to customers, but only if firms can hit the mark with privacy, timing, and insights. Read about how to use personalization effectively.
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Minivans Vs. Motorheads — Why The Right Content Fuels Proper Personalization
Digitally savvy customers have increasingly high expectations that put brands under pressure to deliver the right content, at the right time, to the right individual. In fact, 80% of US online customers are comfortable sharing some form of personal information to personalize their retail experience, according to Forrester Analytics’ Consumer Technographics® survey data. Customers want […]
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Financial Service Firms Need To Stop Thinking Like Retailers On Personalization
By thinking like retailers, banks are leaving money on the table.
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The Future Of Creative Agencies Requires Taking A Human + Machine Leap
Agency data and technology capabilities are taking center stage as every CMO feels the mounting pressure for more performance from their marketing and media investments. Agencies are betting heavily on data and building audience activation platforms to deliver growth, efficiency, and scale. These moves are paying off in media. However, the promise of data-driven creative […]
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Is Money (Still) Too Tight To Mention? Forrester’s New Research On The Future Of Financial Well-Being
Now is the time for the retail financial services industry to take a much more proactive, holistic approach to customers’ financial well-being.
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Marketers: Manage Your Automation Portfolio
Automation creates opportunity for marketers. It also generates risk. Marketers must master automation while closing the gap between customer expectations and the current operating model. Learn more.
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The State Of Retailing Online 2019: Omnichannel, Personalization, And Marketing
This year’s State of Retailing Online report focuses on omnichannel fulfillment, personalization, and digital marketing.
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Content, Experiences Key Focuses At Adobe Summit
At Adobe’s marketing conference, the company focused on content and experiences as the key differentiators for brands. Watch my video summary of the event that explores these key themes. Questions or comments? Find me on Twitter. Forrester clients: Set up an inquiry.
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Maximize Your Tech Investment By Making Sense Of The Digital Intelligence Tech Landscape
Digital Disruptions Complicate Digital Intelligence Needs Digital intelligence (DI) — the practice of understanding and optimizing digital customer engagements — has been around for as long as the internet itself. But it has not remained stagnant. The practices and technologies needed to support DI have continued to be revolutionized by the digital disruption. And the number of […]
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Omnichannel And Personalization: Make A Lasting Impression In The Marketplace
With the holiday season in full flight, creating a memorable customer experience is more imperative now than ever. Watch the video below to learn how omnichannel and personalization tie together to generate a lasting impression for a consumer. Have questions on how you can better differentiate your brand through omnichannel and personalization? Schedule an inquiry to dive deeper.
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These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For: B2C Marketers And CDPs
Six months ago, we started a conversation about customer data platforms (CDPs). The timing was right; CDPs were driving attention toward a historically sleepy corner of the martech universe centered around data management, gaining traction among vendors, and racking up mentions in the marketing trade press. Questions, hope, and more than a little confusion ensued. […]
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Introducing The Consumer Tech Stack For Europe
In the past few months, my colleague James McQuivey has written several blogs about the exciting times we live in. In these posts, he focuses on how technology is fundamentally changing the way we interact with the world around us and how that change is grounded in evolution. His research shows that our uniquely evolved […]
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Seeking Magic Moments — Why It’s Time To Tune Up Your Digital Experience Stack
The legendary R&B singer and songwriter Ben E. King got it so right in the Drifters’ 1960 recording of “This Magic Moment.” The song is timeless because it tells a classic tale of a first kiss. It also captures a moment in time in words and song that reminds us of the power of storytelling, […]
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Changing Attitudes To Targeting Could Threaten Digital Ad Spending
The balancing of the privacy-personalization paradox will be the defining dynamic impacting digital ad spending over the next several years. Future growth in digital ad spending is heavily based on the expectation that as targeting capabilities improve, marketers will be able to justify paying a higher price per ad, which will lead to higher overall […]
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Marketers, You Don’t Understand How Consumers Feel About Advertising
Marketers, you don’t know how consumers feel about your advertising, and it may be hurting you in ways you don’t understand. Did you know, for example, that some people are totally cool with personalization in exchange for something useful, relevant, or valuable to them, while others — even when they understand what’s happening with their data […]
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Marketers, You Don't Understand How Consumers Feel About Advertising
Marketers, you don’t know how consumers feel about your advertising, and it may be hurting you in ways you don’t understand. Did you know, for example, that some people are totally cool with personalization in exchange for something useful, relevant, or valuable to them, while others — even when they understand what’s happening with their data […]
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Just Released: Top Retail Tech Investments For 2018 — Overview
In today’s increasingly crowded digital commerce market and with increasingly tighter budgets, retailers have to make smart choices about which technologies to invest in and which they should forego for now. To help retailers sift through the options, we conduct an annual top trends study. This year, we interviewed more than 30 retail industry professionals to ask about retail […]
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Transform Your Personalization Strategy At Forrester’s Consumer Marketing Forum
Where are you on your company’s journey to personalize the customer’s experience? Are you one of the 89% of digital businesses that are investing in personalization – companies like Coca-Cola, Fabletics, Netflix, Sephora, USAA, and Wells Fargo. What’s new now? Businesses need to evolve their definition of personalization – from tactical segmentation, to strategic individualization. […]
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Help Forrester Benchmark The Privacy/Personalization Paradox
Modern day marketing and advertising has created a paradox: customers want to be recognized and rewarded for their loyalty, but they also want their privacy to be respected and their data used ethically. We firmly believe that balancing this privacy-personalization paradox is crucial to building customer trust and thriving in the age of the customer. […]
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From Darling To Workhorse: Programmatic’s Growing Pains And What Comes Next
I attended AdExchanger’s semi-annual Programmatic I/O conference last week to absorb the latest in industry talk and get a pulse check on the health and wellness of the programmatic ecosystem. This show was illuminating in that I found signs of both enthusiasm and beleaguerment in equal measure. It felt, in short, like a meaningful corner […]
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Forrester Releases First Of Its Kind Industry Wave Focused On Retailers’ Mobile Websites
Home Depot and Wayfair take leading spots You already know Forrester for its iconic Wave graphic that ranks technology vendors on their strategy and capabilities to serve industry clients. Starting today Forrester is introducing new kind of research document called a Forrester Industry Wave that evaluates digital experiences of firms that serve end customers. The […]
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