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Generate Better Leads? Make ABM Engage Buyers? Start With Your Messaging!
What is the most effective way to generate qualified leads and make your account-based marketing (ABM) strategies pay off? Start with a customer-centric message. This advice sounds laughably basic but proves to be very difficult to accomplish in practice. Few get it right. How do I know? Earlier this year, Forrester published new research examining […]
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Kicking Off Our New Research On Autonomous Finance: FORR/3 Video
Forrester has recently kicked off some new research focusing on services and companies that make financial decisions and take action on behalf of consumers. You can take a very short survey on this topic here. I’m psyched to present here our first FORR/3 video episode on this topic (see below)! In it, Oliwia Berdak and […]
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The Importance Of Defining Event ROI In The B2B Marketing Mix
Do you know how to measure your events' ROI?
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Retail Mobile App Experiences: A New Best-Practices Series
Best practices for retailers' mobile apps gleaned from an evaluation of 15 apps in the US and Europe.
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European Banks Are Redoubling Their Mobile Banking Efforts In 2019 — Just Not All At The Same Speed
Customers have come to expect easy, effective, and contextually relevant mobile banking experiences. Bolting a shiny new user interface on top of a patchwork of legacy systems won’t cut it anymore.
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CX Execs Rise To Power Across B2C And B2B Industries
Unprecedented Growth Chief customer officers and chief experience officers were once a small community of visionaries and practitioners pioneering customer experience (CX) across industries. But we’ve seen more than 1,000% growth in the CX executive role in just five years, and in that time, many have turned that new frontier into an established practice and […]
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Employee Personas Strengthen Your EX Strategy
Employee personas help in the experience design process for everything from hiring, onboarding, and training to productivity.
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T-Mobile MONEY’s Checking Account: Game Changer?
On April 18th, T-Mobile officially launched its T-Mobile MONEY checking account, after a soft launch late last year. This is not the first time we’ve seen a telecommunications firm enter the banking space – it’s already been happening for years in Europe and Asia, with large telcos such as Orange and KDDI. And this isn’t T-mobile’s first foray into banking either. So should banks be worried? Watch below to learn more.
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The Inclusive Design Imperative: Win And Retain More Customers
Inclusive design is good for business. I lay out the reasons why in my latest report, “The Inclusive Design Imperative: Win And Retain More Customers,” and explain how you can establish the foundation for it to take hold. Once you raise awareness of inclusive design and spark the desire in employees to do better, it’s […]
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CX Pros, Add Rigor To How You Prioritize And Drive Business Results
Firms Are Failing To Differentiate With CX Today, customer expectations are outpacing brands’ ability to adapt and differentiate with customer experience (CX). Take Australia, for example. Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) data shows how CX quality in Australia languished, and yet again, no brand managed to make it into the excellent category. On average, […]
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The French And UK Customer Experience Index Results Are In!
Each year, based on a survey of your customers, Forrester releases results of its Customer Experience Index (CX Index™). The methodology measures how well a brand’s customer experience strengthens the loyalty of its customers and ultimately drives business growth. The French CX Index and UK Retail CX Index results are in! Key highlights from the […]
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Countdown To Forrester’s CX Sydney 2019 Forum
Change The Game By Embracing Radical CX Innovation OK, so you’ve elevated and transformed your customer experience (CX) practices over the past five (or more) years. These practices have become more professional, more analytical, and more focused on business impact. But there’s one area where many of us still fall short: innovation. I’m not talking […]
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Enable Marketing’s CX Ambitions With Real-Time Interaction Management
One of our 2019 B2C marketing predictions is that enterprise marketing technology will meld with customer experience (CX) investments to deliver the relevancy and consistency that consumers crave from brands. Real-time interaction management (RTIM) provides critical capabilities that enable marketers to realize their CX ambitions. Forrester defines RTIM as: Enterprise marketing technology that delivers contextually […]
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How To Build A VoC Program In Healthcare
There is a customer experience (CX) imperative taking over in healthcare. To drive success, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must be able to understand how good — or bad — experiences are and where to focus improvement efforts. Watch the video below to understand the role voice of the customer (VoC) programs play to effectively drive CX improvements. […]
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Align Martech Investments With Your Digital Transformation Strategy
Customers demand that marketing coordinate with sales, service, and commerce to deliver better experiences. That’s why enterprise marketing technology (martech) is melding with customer experience (CX) to deliver consistency and relevance (see Forrester’s “Predictions 2019: B2C Marketing” report). Martech is a direct line to consumer touchpoints, and marketers should embrace and leverage it to drive […]
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Be Better Than Best-Guess Development
Developers sometimes feel as though they work in the dark, writing code, pushing updates, and delivering features but remaining detached from the customers they serve. Often relying on feedback from internal experts and best guesses, dev teams rarely have an unobstructed view into how customers truly use their features and feel about their products. Fostering […]
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Emphasize Emotion In Your Holiday Customer Service
As the holidays approach and the post-holiday return rush quickly follows, a few things will occur simultaneously: Hundreds of millions of customers will make purchases, total holiday retail sales will push the $720 billion mark, and millions more will send odd, ill-fitting, or unwanted gifts back from whence they came. It’s in this frenzy of […]
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2018 Marked 20 Years Of Customer Experience Research At Forrester!
I didn’t want to leave 2018 without noting a milestone for all of us here at Forrester who cover customer experience. It was 20 years ago, all the way back in September of 1998, when we inaugurated our customer experience research by publishing our first report about CX. That report, “Why Most Websites Fail,” introduced […]
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‘Tis The Season – Your Customers Might Need A Little Nudge
On November 5, in line with tradition, a huge array of sparkling displays took place across the UK to celebrate Guy Fawkes night (“Remember, remember, the fifth of November . . . ”). As days get shorter, Bonfire Night is also a friendly reminder that it’s that wonderful time of the year (again) when we […]
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To Thrive In Retail, Obsess About Your Customers And Invest In Your Associates
Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) research shows that, year on year, retail performance is still not reaching levels of “excellence.” Instead, retailer performance clusters around the “OK” level. There are of course bright sparks, with retailers such as John Lewis outperforming peers, but even those standouts are only reaching “good.” So what is holding […]