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Revolutionizing B2B Marketing With Adaptive Programs For Buying Groups

B2B buying groups are more complex than ever. Learn how to align priorities, drive consensus, and boost marketing’s impact with adaptive programs. Join us live on February 12 for buyer insights and analyst Q&A. 
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2025 B2B Marketing Predictions For Indian CMOs

Subhendu Pattnaik 4 days ago
Earlier this month, we wrapped up Forrester’s India Predictions 2025 event. I look forward to this event every year, and this year was no exception. This year’s event for India saw record turnout, with over 350 participants across three cities in India including marketing and tech leaders.

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B2B Marketing Measurement Isn’t Trusted, And It’s About To Get Worse — A Bonus Prediction

Ross Graber December 6, 2024
Let’s brace ourselves for a hard truth. Trust in marketing measurement is already poor, and left unchecked, it’s poised to get 20% worse. Learn about the challenges and market forces contributing to this decline, and find out the steps that you can take to enhance trust in marketing measurement.
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Measure Creator Marketing Partnerships With A Composite Set Of Metrics

Kelsey Chickering December 4, 2024
Best-in-class creator marketing programs are multidimensional, with many different types of creators, content, and activations.
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The State Of Business Buying: Companies Still Struggle To Meet Buyer Expectations

Barbara Winters December 4, 2024
Our latest survey of more than 16,000 global B2B buyers shows that they’re increasingly frustrated and dissatisfied. Learn where they experience friction and how companies can help overcome it.
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Customer Marketers: Be Ambitious But Not Careless

Amy Bills December 2, 2024
A whopping 86% of customer marketers say their team has too many competing priorities. Get three tips on how to prioritize without creating unnecessary friction with other functions.
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Choose A Cross-Channel Marketing Hub That Amplifies Your Customer Obsession Strategy

Rusty Warner November 18, 2024
An effective cross-channel marketing hub (CCMH) can position marketing as an indispensable component of an organization’s customer-obsessed growth engine. Think of your CCMH as much more than a campaign management platform. Instead, leverage it for next-gen customer engagement based on compelling, contextually relevant experiences. Forrester defines a CCMH as: Enterprise marketing technology that supports customer data management, […]
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Three Critical Steps Frontline Marketers Must Take To Support Pipeline Progression

Nora Conklin November 12, 2024
To support pipeline deals, B2B marketers need to change their approach in fundamental ways. Discover three critical steps they must take.
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AI Readiness Is Already High In Advanced Frontline Marketing Teams

John Arnold November 12, 2024
Learn more about what is driving AI readiness and adoption in frontline marketing in this preview of a new report.
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Retailers, Reward Loyalty With Value-Based Personalization This Holiday Season

Jessica Liu October 25, 2024
Retailers: understand the fundamentals of value-based personalization in this Forrester blog by analyst Jessica Liu and researcher Cole Walsh.
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Predictions 2025: The Media Industry Resolves 2024’s Unruly Unknowns

Kelsey Chickering October 24, 2024
Marketers will gain confidence as some lingering media and advertising questions are resolved. But they shouldn’t get too confident or comfortable. Learn what the coming year will hold.
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2024 Midyear Review: Still Losing In China, Global Brands Remain Positive

Xiaofeng Wang October 21, 2024
Competition in China’s consumer market remains challenging for some of the biggest global brands. Learn three effective strategies in this preview of a new report.

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Embracing Local Flavors: Understand Regional Differences In B2B Marketing In Europe

Christina Schmitt October 21, 2024
European B2B marketing is conquering challenges as businesses navigate fluctuating economic climates, process inefficiencies, data management challenges, and recruitment difficulties. Forrester’s Marketing Survey 2024 delves deep into how France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK each present unique markets with distinct regional needs. The insights reveal that:  Investment enthusiasm is shifting across boarders but tech matters […]
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The Future Of GenAI Is Increasingly Agentic

Subhendu Pattnaik October 8, 2024
A key theme of Forrester’s recent B2B Summit APAC in Singapore was the need to break down silos within revenue processes and reimagine a customer-centric approach that aligns with the customer throughout the entire lifecycle. Learn how agentic AI is accelerating this transformation in three critical ways.
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What’s Top Of Mind For B2B CMOs In Asia Pacific

Subhendu Pattnaik September 23, 2024
Last week, Mavis Liew and I had the pleasure of hosting Forrester’s B2B Peer Discussion session with a small group of CMOs from enterprises across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The private event format allowed an open and honest exchange about the challenges and opportunities these leaders were facing as they started planning their marketing budgets […]
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Keeping Ahead Of The Curve: How To Master European B2B Growth Amidst Challenges

Christina Schmitt September 16, 2024
European B2B marketers are charting their course through a multifaceted and shifting terrain. Confronted with fluctuating economic climates, inefficiencies in processes, data management hurdles, and recruitment challenges, these decision-makers are tasked with driving customer-obsessed growth through enhanced efficiency and a strong emphasis on innovation to stay ahead in the game.  Delving into insights from Forrester’s […]
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The Funnel Is Old, Unrealistic, And Still Helpful

Nikhil Lai August 21, 2024
In 1898, Elias St. Elmo Lewis developed the advertising funnel. He was the Association of National Advertisers’ first president and, along with the funnel, developed the AIDA model, an acronym that models a consumer’s journey from awareness to interest, desire, and then action. More than 125 years after its conception, brand marketers are still planning […]

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Check out our 2025 predictions for B2B CMOs and CSOs! Discover the groundbreaking shifts in AI, product-led growth, buying groups, and digital sales headed your way.

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Is GTM The New ABM? Or Is It Just The Latest B2B Land Grab?

Nicky Briggs August 19, 2024
Platform vendors and service providers previously associated with ABM are now adopting a different acronym. Attempting to profit on the GTM buzz could backfire.
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The Curtain Falls On GARM — Revealing Industrywide Brand Safety Issues

Mo Allibhai August 15, 2024
If you’ve ever seen The Wizard of Oz, you might remember the moment when Dorothy realizes the Wizard is not in fact all-powerful. He is just a man with a very loud voice. She also learns that she doesn’t need his power or magic to send her home — the power lies within herself. This […]
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Leverage Synergy To Stretch Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget

Matthew Selheimer August 1, 2024
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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