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Customer Success Platform Consolidation Reflects Market Dynamism

Forrester eCommerce

Today, customer success platform vendors Totango and Catalyst announced their intention to merge. This is perhaps the start of an acquisition trend that Forrester predicted last year.

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Revolutionizing Customer Retention: The Rise of Digital Top-Up Cards in the Global Market

Retail TouchPoints

The global digital gift card market is expected to reach $724.3 billion by 2028, rising at a market growth of 14.2% These brands have integrated top-up cards into their payment methods, attracting a broader customer base, including those without access to traditional banking services. Consumers value the convenience these offer.

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Welcome To The Future Of Marketing Technology

Forrester eCommerce

To meet customers in their moments, marketers must design, execute, and optimize interactions across the full range of devices, channels, and touchpoints where consumers engage with a brand. Meanwhile, the marketing landscape continues to evolve with new technologies, data deprecation, and sophisticated consumers.

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Power Up Your Customer Success And Customer Marketing Partnership

Forrester eCommerce

During my freshman year of college, I took a required seminar on Western civilization. Having only attended public school with traditional instruction formats, I was confused and then deeply concerned by sitting around a table with 12 classmates and the professor, discussing the classic books assigned.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. How do you use the data sitting behind a payment to find the next loyal customer? Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many.

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Strengthening Customer Loyalty in Today’s Market

Retail TouchPoints

To stay competitive, retailers need to create and maintain loyal customers; 43% of customers spend more on brands to which they are loyal. Plus, delighted customers quickly turn into loyal brand ambassadors, helping bring in new customers. billion in sales in 2021. Even with in-store promotions, timing is everything.

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Marketers Must Mind The Customer Journey Orchestration Gap

Forrester eCommerce

Marketers — and especially martech vendors — talk a lot about customer journeys and experiences, but they usually mean just the purchase journey as opposed to the entire customer lifecycle. As my colleague Joana de […].

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Retail's Next Frontier: Exploring and Proving the Value of AI

It’s in customer service interactions, product recommendations, marketing outreach, and yes, even commerce experiences. Then, explore use cases of AI in various industries and how it can quickly impact sales, conversions, and customer experience. AI is everywhere. But not every use of AI provides the same value to your brand.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way.

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Going to Market Smarter in the New Economy

The fight to find new customers and retain existing ones is the biggest business challenge for many companies. Technology will continue to play a part in fostering buyer allegiance and building brands in the “new normal.”

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of marketing professionals have confidence that their data is 90-100% accurate.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Dominate Your Local Market With These 4 Reputation Management Strategies

Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up?