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Leverage Synergy To Stretch Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget
Today, Forrester released our 2025 Budget Planning Guides. It’s always an exciting time when we gather survey data and insights from our client conversations to produce a set of collective recommendations that B2B marketing executives should consider for the year ahead. Read below for this year’s key planning guide highlights. Benchmark your current spending While […]
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Real Talk With Ecosystem Partners: GTM Evolution
Early in my career, I received wise but tough coaching from a manager regarding struggles with a new colleague on a strategic project: Pull them aside and have a real, candid conversation with the pursuit of clarity and understanding for the sake of the shared vision and mutual success. The “real talk” that my colleague […]
Make The Right Marketing Budget Moves In 2025
Need budget perspective? Watch our 2025 budget planning webinar to hear benchmarks and analyst advice on where to invest, divest, and experiment with your budget.
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B2B Marketers Expect To Do More With More — But It’s Not As Good As It Sounds
Forrester's latest Marketing Survey shows that marketing executives and operations leaders anticipate budget increases this year. Capitalizing on this opportunity requires overcoming formidable challenges.
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A Guide For Understanding The Marketing Analytics Landscape
Harnessing the power of marketing analytics isn’t just about crunching numbers — it’s about unlocking insights. Get a roadmap for navigating the marketing analytics landscape in this preview of our new report.
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Announcing Forrester’s B2B Program Of The Year Award Winners For North America
Get ready to be inspired by these best-practice program implementations across B2B marketing, sales, and product. We reveal which eight companies will be honored at B2B Summit North America in May.
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Announcing The Winners Of Forrester’s Coveted B2B Return On Integration Honors For North America
These three companies have transformed their businesses to maximize customer value and relentlessly drive internal alignment. Get a preview of the success stories they will share at B2B Summit North America in May.
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Call For Entries: B2B Summit EMEA Awards
EMEA B2B companies: If you have a cross-functional alignment success story or have achieved exceptional results within a single function, we want to hear from you. Learn more about Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA Awards.
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TikTok’s Influence On Young Voters Makes It A Threat To US Democracy And An Asset To Marketers
TikTok's unquestionable sway over young, voting-age US citizens could pose danger, even as it makes the platform an optimal media channel.
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B2B Summit North America 2024: Your Ticket To Turning Disruption Into Growth
Explore the strategies and tools needed to drive customer-obsessed growth at our premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product teams.
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Call For Entries: Forrester B2B Summit North America Awards
Have a great B2B success story to share? Nominate it for a B2B Return On Integration Honor or Program Of The Year Award! Winners will take the stage at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America.
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Hollywood Strikes Spark AI Negotiations In Every Creative Industry
Learn how the outcome of the Hollywood strikes could set a precedent for other creative industries grappling with the impact of AI.
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Subscription Hardware Puts The Channel At Risk
Subscription-based hardware is the emerging model that every hardware vendor is promising to customers, partners, and investors. It’s a significant shift from the classic capex model in which firms spend money for outright hardware purchases. There are several scenarios such as new technology, short-term projects, test-before-you-buy, and infrastructure bundled with managed services, etc., where subscription-based […]
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Looking Ahead To Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA 2023
Throughout the year, there is an ebb and flow to the things that I look forward to, often triggered by a certain event. For example, once my family has the winter-sport holiday behind us, I look forward to warmer weather and sunshine. The same happens to me when Forrester’s B2B Summit in North America is […]
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Exemplifying B2B Excellence: Forrester’s 2023 Programs Of The Year Award Winners
Our annual POY awards, given at B2B Summit, celebrate companies that have achieved exemplary results in marketing, sales, or product management. Learn the seven companies that will be in the spotlight this year.
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Transformation Ahead For Channel Marketers: Insights From Our B2B Marketing Predictions Webinar
Channel organizations are at a pivotal moment. As partner networks have grown more complex, a more holistic, ecosystem-oriented approach is needed.
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CMOs Drive Growth With Media Inclusivity
After the 2020 murder of George Floyd, brands and agencies swiftly made bold commitments to invest in Black-owned media companies. The goal? To better reflect the diversity of brands’ audiences and create a more equitable media ecosystem. While well intentioned, it too narrowly focused media dollars solely on minority-owned media groups and away from other […]
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How A Sharper Customer Focus Will Fuel B2B Growth In 2023
As inflation woes, market turbulence, and supply chain disruptions cloud the 2023 landscape, B2B organizations will look to their existing customers to forge a more predictable path to growth. On this week’s What It Means, VP, Principal Analyst Ross Graber discusses this and other 2023 predictions for B2B marketing and sales leaders.
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Grounding Twitter Ad Dollars Is Common Sense, Not Activism
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has been — at best — chaotic and tumultuous. Advertisers are uncertain about what direction the company will take: What will happen with content moderation? Will Twitter become a mainstream Gab with a steady flow of disinformation? While Musk has tweeted that “nothing has changed with content moderation,” racist tweets have surged […]
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Forrester’s 2022 Moments Map Is Here!
Forrester’s Moments Map helps brands understand consumer awareness, adoption, use, comfort, and ultimately preference for various devices and channels.
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Your Buyers Are Evolving, And You Should Follow
Marketers need to understand how their buyers are changing and enable their buyer-facing roles with key insights to gain competitive advantage and drive growth.
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