There’s a line in Forrester’s latest report on content marketing platforms, or CMPs for short, that I love. The post Contently Emerges as a Top Choice for B2B Content Marketers in Report by Forrester appeared first on The Content Strategist. MORE

Forrester Research has bad news for marketers. Well, thankfully Forrester has some answers on that as well. The post Forrester Finds the Future of Video May Not Be Television appeared first on Vidyard. Remember commercials? MORE

Marketing Sales forrester b2b forrester insideview forrester marketing forrester research tips forrester research webinar forrester sales marketing forrester sales research forrester thought leadership forrester webinar laura ramos webinar sales marketing alignmentOne of the hot B2B topics these days is around sales an […]. MORE

And Forrester’s latest research report, B2B Loyalty, The B2C Way , outlines practical ways B2B marketers can apply B2C principles to deepen relationships and engagement. As Forrester analyst Emily Collins underscores, “B2B companies stand to benefit from three core tenets valued by B2C marketers, which have nothing to do with discounting, and everything to do with building a flexible, customer-obsessed loyalty strategy.” MORE

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Forrester does a great deal of buyer journey research on sources of influence in a lot of other dimensions: First, buyers do like to talk to vendors early in the process. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. MORE

As the number of days in 2016 winds down, my own days at Forrester are adding up. I recently joined Forrester as a new B2B marketing research director, working alongside Peter O’Neill. I appreciate how your appreciation of the insights and guidance from our team led to the need for more leadership, and I am […]. account-based marketing (ABM) B2B marketing MORE

That’s what Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Laura Ramos has found in a new report, Advocate Marketing Creates B2B Customer Relationships That Last A Lifetime. . MORE

“If ‘mobile-first’ is the new rallying cry for digital design, then ‘sales-first’ should be the mantra by which marketing delivers and distributes content.” – Laura Ramos, Forrester Analyst. MORE

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Forrester has been following marketers to ask them how those efforts were going, and the answer is… not so well. The post No marketing tactic works well Forrester says, it’s all about strong content appeared first on Vidyard. MORE

The Oracle Data Management Platform is proud to be named a “Leader” in the recently released report: The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2017. Click here to learn more and download The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2017. [1] MORE

It’s written for companies that are evaluating their investment options in a Lead to Revenue Management (L2RM) strategy , a term first coined by Forrester in 2010, categorizing the marketing processes involved from lead generation to sales close. MORE

That’s according to Forrester Research’s newest Enterprise Marketing Software Suite (EMSS) Wave, a market assessment that looks at vendors who compete in the “marketing cloud” landscape. MORE

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave TM : Predictive Marketing Analytics for B2B Marketers, Q2 2017. In the first report of its kind for the predictive marketing analytics space, Forrester named 6sense a leader among predictive analytics providers. In Forrester’s new report designed to help B2B marketers make the right decisions when choosing a partner to help them identify and reach ready-to-buy prospects, 6sense emerged as a leader of the pack. MORE

And nobody understands this better than Forrester. In their latest report, Forrester breaks down why B2B brands need to move from channel-centric to customer-centric marketing, and focus on customer outcomes, not on feature stories. MORE

Forrester Report: Understanding the Performance Levers in Your Lead-to-Revenue System. Forrester suggests that it is, in fact, feasible to accurately predict the outcome of your marketing efforts if you take an analytical approach to understanding the key performance drivers. MORE

The years change but the marketing plans pretty much stay the same, according to recent research from Forrester. ” – Forrester Research. ” – Forrester Research. The post Forrester Sounds the Digital Marketing Alarm appeared first on Vidyard. MORE

So, with that said, we were pretty excited to see Act-On Software named a Leader among lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) platform vendors in the Forrester Research, Inc., report: The Forrester Wave™: Lead-to-Revenue Management Platform Vendors, Q4 2016. “… What Act-On might miss in depth, it reaches in breadth,” writes author Lori Wizdo, Principal Analyst for Forrester Research in the report. The Forrester Wave™ research process is rigorous, objective, and transparent. MORE

At the Forrester’s Sales Enablement Forum last week, a study by Andy Hoar, Principal Analyst at Forrester was revealed showcasing this 22% expected decline over the next five years. A Forrester survey of 250 B2B Buyers reveals that it’s not just B2C purchases that have moved online. MORE

The post Kapost and Forrester Live Q&A: Are Content Marketing Platforms the Answer? Content is critical for B2B marketing success. That’s nothing new. Planning, creating, distributing, and analyzing all this content is a big challenge that is only getting bigger. That’s also nothing. Webinar] appeared first on Kapost Content Marketing Blog. Marketing Strategy MORE

Many marketers are underestimating the importance of distribution and treating it as an afterthought, according to a recent Forrester report. Different people are on different platforms for different reasons and Forrester argues that your content must align with this. MORE

To wrap up 2015, Forrester Research, Inc. According to Forrester, all of these developments add up to a lot of change: B2B marketers will have to accept a fundamentally different role in the modern enterprise, reimagine their relationship with sales and change their approach to demand generation. Forrester says this will only happen if predictive analytics “becomes a demonstrated decision-support tool” for marketing and sales and not simply a new layer of marketing technology. MORE

” So begins the preamble to this year’s Forrester Wave for Email Marketing Solutions, Q218. That’s why we are the only vendor who has earned the Leader designation in every Forrester Email Wave for the last thirteen years! I trust that few readers have actually reviewed all seven Forrester Waves for Email Marketing since 2005. “Email Marketing: Old salt of your toolkit, and still the most cost-effective promotional channel.” MORE

Allison Snow is a Senior Analyst on Forrester’s B2B marketing team with a focus on marketing performance management. Forrester survey results reflect that the single biggest challenge faced by B2B marketers as they set budgets is "attributing program spend to revenue results." MORE

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing. MORE

Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. I asked Lori Wizdo, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst, to provide her thoughts on what the survey results say about how where most B2B marketers fall on the revenue marketing maturity curve. MORE

report entitled “The Forrester Wave™: Lead-To-Revenue Management Platform Vendors, Q1 2014.”. Here are our 4 takeaways from the Forrester report around driving change and progress in technology adoption, as well as some added tips: 1. MORE

We just published The Forrester New Wave™: ABM Platforms, Q2 2018, which profiles the 14 most significant vendors in this market: 6sense, Demandbase, Engagio, Jabmo (formerly Azalead), Lattice Engines, Madison Logic, MRP, Radius, RollWorks, TechTarget, Terminus, Triblio, True Influence, and ZenIQ. MORE

The Total Economic Impact™ Study of Bizible is a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Bizible in December 2016. MORE

Forrester Research recently evaluated 11 lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) platform vendors including Act-On, Adobe, bpm’online, CallidusCloud, HubSpot, IBM, Marketo, Oracle, Right On Interactive, Salesforce, and Salesfusion against 36 criteria. MORE

According to Forrester Research, a revolution is coming for account-based marketing. Discover why Forrester is predicting skyrocketing usage of account-based marketing in 2017 in their new report Predictions 2017: ABM Boosts B2B Marketing’s Customer Obsession IQ ! MORE

And Forrester is taking notice, predicting massive shifts in marketing in the coming year. Forrester Predictions for 2016: B2B Marketing's New Mission. Check out the rest of Forrester’s predictions in their report, here. B2B buying has changed. MORE

Marketers “will find Lattice to be a proven solution” and that Lattice has “the most consistent performance” across all of the vendors they evaluated MORE

forrester marketing Sales Intelligence sales productivity Smarketing sponsor technologiesThere’s no doubt B2B marketing is getting harder, especially when you see stats like these: 74% of business buyers conduct more than half of their research online before making an offline purchase. 59% of those same business buyers prefer not to interact with a sales rep as their primary source of information. More and more, […]. Events Marketing Sales B2B b2b sales customer 2.0 MORE

The Forrester New Wave report lists 14 ABM platforms that matter the most and how they stack up. Forrester says: “6sense announced its acquisition of ZenIQ on April 11, 2018. But the more accurate number is… lucky number 13! MORE

So we wanted to share this brand new Forrester report to help you make informed decisions about the future of martech – with advice from the experts! The post Forrester Ranks the Martech that Makes the Biggest Impact appeared first on Vidyard. MORE

Today, it’s my pleasure to share that Oracle’s Maxymiser was cited by Forrester Research as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Online Testing Platforms, Q3 2015. Click here to download a copy of the Forrester report at Maxymiser.com. MORE

Analysts at Forrester and Gartner have outlined how advocate marketing strategies can spark B2B growth by increasing leads, brand awareness, and customer retention. The post Forrester Report: Customer Goodwill Is An Untapped Marketing Goldmine appeared first on Influitive. MORE

Mary Shea, PhD, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, shared her wealth and depth of B2B sales and marketing knowledge with Open Lounge today, explaining how organizations can cope while everything around them is changing. Events Thought Leadership 2016 df16 Dreamforce forrester forrester alignment forrester b2b forrester dreamforce forrester marketing forrester millennials forrester sales mary shea mary shea forrester mary shea research Open Lounge MORE

Today, it’s my pleasure to share that Oracle’s Maxymiser was cited by Forrester Research as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Online Testing Platforms, Q3 2015. Click here to download a copy of the Forrester report at Maxymiser.com. MORE

Now, two years on, the forecast from Forrester is even gloomier, with faster than anticipated disintermediation. Alinean Consultative selling Death of a B2B Sales Rep Diagnostic Assessment Forrester interactive content Pisello ROI Calculator Sales Enablement Value Marketing Value Selling MORE

Even Forrester Research Analyst, Nick Barber, said so in his latest report, Online Video Platforms for Sales and Marketing : If you think “doing video” means having a YouTube channel, then you need to up your game. Believe it or not, posting videos on YouTube isn’t a video strategy. MORE