Forrester IT

JUNE 2, 2023

Forrester’s Q2 2023 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey featured a list of 16 marketing priorities. For each, we asked respondents (154 B2C marketing […] June not only marks the year’s halfway point, but it’s also when CMOs begin to plan for the new year. With six months left in 2023, there’s still lots to get done.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 23, 2020

B2C marketing in 2021 will take a decided turn toward retention and localization. Read on to discover how B2C marketers will adjust in the face of a post-pandemic world.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 27, 2023

It's a critical time for B2C marketers to get involved in their organizations’ privacy programs. The privacy landscape is shifting quickly.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 24, 2022

Read Forrester’s advice on where to invest, where to cut, and where to experiment to create a smart B2C marketing budget in 2023.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Retrouvez trois tendances 2022 pour les marketers B2C dans ce billet de blog. L'avenir que nous envisagions il y a seulement deux ans n'a pas changé, mais il est devenu notre présent. beaucoup plus rapidement que prévu.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 26, 2023

But fret not, Forrester’s got you covered with our just published report “Navigating The 2023 Downturn: B2C Marketing Executives.” We know that fluctuating market signals have you mired in scenario planning around “economic uncertainty.” Make Brand Experience The Top Priority In All Scenario Plans In our full report, we […]

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I’m Steph, the newest member of Forrester’s B2C martech research team. I’ve been at Forrester for four years, first as a research associate and most recently as a researcher on the B2C marketing […]. Do you work with marketing resource management (MRM) or mobile engagement automation (MEA) tools? If yes, I want to hear from you!

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Read our B2C marketing predictions for 2023. Short-term wins will be the name of the game next year. Yet a few savvy CMOs will blend both offense and defense into a smart growth strategy.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Data analysis and utilization are necessary for B2C marketers. The post Only 17% of B2C Marketers Feel Their Data-Driven Strategy Help Achieve Their Goals appeared first on. Learn from this study how they can predict future business trends and customer behaviors to have a competitive advantage.

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Forrester IT

MAY 29, 2019

This week, Claudia interviewed Emily Collins, principal analyst on Forrester’s B2C marketing team and an expert in loyalty, on her contributions to the 2019 B2C marketing predictions […]. Recently, we spoke to Michele Goetz about how artificial intelligence will affect retailers in 2019.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 27, 2020

B2C customer data platforms (CDPs): all the hype, none of the follow through. That summarizes the analysis of the CDP space in our inaugural report on the category in 2018. We continue to field client inquiries about the CDP market — but the tone from marketers has grown increasingly skeptical, and vendors are asking less […].

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Forrester IT

MAY 19, 2020

In our newly published “The Forrester Wave™: B2C Commerce Suites, Q2 2020,” we evaluated the 10 most significant commerce vendors in the B2C space along 31 criteria: Adobe, BigCommerce, commercetools, Elastic Path Software, Episerver, Kibo Commerce, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Sitecore.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 25, 2023

B2C marketing CMOs will need to navigate AI and prioritize the practical amid a tense political atmosphere. Get an overview of our B2C marketing predictions for 2024.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 17, 2020

To understand the B2C marketing predictions for the year, we spoke with Forrester experts Tina Moffett and Jim Nail. To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague Madeline Cyr and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail” series.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 19, 2020

B2C marketers’ most pressing top-of-mind issue is how data deprecation will impact targeting, measurement, personalization, and digital media buying. Data deprecation restricts tracking and access to consumer data due to regulatory, browser, walled-garden, or consumer actions.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 22, 2019

Our 2019 B2C Marketing predictions hone in on the impact of rising customer power. Forrester has been evangelizing the age of the customer for a decade, but the message is approaching a crescendo.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 28, 2022

The Forrester Wave™ for B2C Commerce Solutions surfaced a significant shift in the market, which we predicted but did not expect to see so quickly or so clearly.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To dive deeper, I talked to B2C marketing leaders in the financial services industry across the region and learned more about their priorities, challenges, and best […]

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

2020 has been a year of unprecedented political, social, economic, and healthcare disruption — and 2021 shows no signs of these trends slowing down. How should European consumer marketing leaders prepare for the coming year?

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Generative AI is among the hottest topics that B2C marketers in APAC wanted to hear from us in 2023. The top asked questions include: What are the most applicable use cases of generative AI in marketing today? What are generative AI’s key potentials to improve marketing efficiency? How leading brands are using generative AI for […]

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Forrester IT

MAY 6, 2019

“The Forrester Wave™: Content Marketing Platforms for B2C Marketers, Q2 2019” is live! In this year’s 30-criteria evaluation, we assessed and scored the nine most significant vendors: Bloomreach, Contently, NewsCred, Opal, Percolate, ScribbleLive, Sitecore, Skyword, and Sprinklr.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This may seem cheeky and slightly exaggerated, until you learn that a whopping 78% of B2C marketing leaders say that they don’t know anyone on their security, risk, and compliance team. The current relationship status between marketing and security and risk (S&R) pros is best described as “it’s complicated.”

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Forrester IT

JUNE 27, 2022

For B2C marketers, first-party data is a lot like “Zoolander’s” Hansel: “so hot right now.” In Forrester’s Q1 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022, a whopping 76% of B2C marketing respondents said that they are […].

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 5, 2021

This just in: Forrester asked 150 US B2C marketing executives (across industries) how challenging the various 2022 priorities will be to achieve. Seventy-one percent of B2C marketing execs indicated that demonstrating the value of marketing to the CEO, CFO, and the board will […]. But what will be the most challenging?

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Forrester IT

MAY 8, 2023

According to Forrester’s 2023 State Of Customer Obsession Survey, 90% of CEOs indicate their focus on customers guides their brand, product, and pricing strategies – while only 57% of B2C CMOs feel the same. This fundamental misalignment is just one of the […]

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Over the next decade, four factors will fundamentally drive how firms must evolve to meet consumer buying demands. Start exploring them.

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Forrester IT

JULY 17, 2023

In Forrester’s Q1 2023 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, nearly three-quarters of US B2C marketing and advertising execs say they plan to partner with creators and influencers in 2023. However, that doesn’t mean all of these partnerships will succeed.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Understanding consumer behavior is the underpinning of effective B2C marketing strategies. Some of the best CMOs aren’t only culture-reflectors but culture-makers — both in the brand stories they tell and the brand experiences they create. Simply put, they champion their customers every step of the way.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 8, 2023

For 2024, marketing executives must steer clear of “growth at any cost” and make strategic decisions about their B2C marketing budgets and work closely with CX and digital teams. Read our recommendations.

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Forrester IT

MAY 24, 2022

The flurry of changes in the advertising and marketing ecosystem driven by cookie and ID deprecation, rising walled gardens, and privacy-preserving measures, has B2C marketers scrambling for solutions to help them develop data-driven marketing strategies.

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 20, 2016

B2C purchases are highly influenced by social media. Here are three of the hottest social engagement trends for B2C this summer. Whether it's Facebook or Foursquare, Tumblr or Twitter, you need a social engagement strategy that targets more consumers and provides you with a huge return on your investment.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

COVID-19 is now an unavoidable part of consumers’ lives, and marketers need guidance on how to effectively communicate with them in these ever-changing times.

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Forrester IT

MAY 20, 2019

Unprecedented Growth Chief customer officers and chief experience officers were once a small community of visionaries and practitioners pioneering customer experience (CX) across industries.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

One of the biggest transformations in retail that Forrester highlighted in its recent B2C buying research stream is the growth of brand manufacturers in commerce and the corresponding tension with marketplaces like Alibaba, Amazon, and others around the world. (“Brand manufacturers” are traditionally wholesale companies that distribute (..)

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 6, 2022

“Over half of CMOs will make employee experience (EX) essential to brand planning” – Forrester’s Predictions 2022: B2C Marketing And Innovation A New Frontier Emerges I spent most of the winter months hounding a panel of brand experts for their insights as I wrote Forrester’s annual brand spotlight report (to be published later this (..)

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Forrester IT

JUNE 17, 2020

The ancient Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” might be neither ancient nor Chinese, but it’s wholly applicable to 2020. Words and phrases like “unprecedented” and “the new normal” are, well, the new normal as infection and social unrest sweep the globe.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Forrester sees 2022 as a tale of two B2C CMOs: Some will be sidelined by the likes another chief “something” officer. However, elite CMOs (those with data, martech, customer experience, and product chops) will capitalize on this moment in time to duly expand their remit across the marketing mix.

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