Optimizely

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Shifting your career from business to business (B2B) to business to consumer (B2C) marketing is a surprisingly difficult task. While personalization, creativity, and data-driven campaigns work in both B2B and B2C marketing, there are many differences that you have to navigate. You’ll be doing the selling.

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Optimizely

MARCH 22, 2019

That’s why we’re so excited to share that Zaius won the award for Best Customer Relationship Management Platform (CRM) at last night’s Marketing Technology Awards 2019. Put on by ClickZ , the award ceremony celebrated a number of top technology brands in marketing, including Salesforce, Seismic, Adobe, and more.

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B2C Marketing Technology Channel 286

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past year, Forrester’s diligently covered the state of the metaverse and what it means for marketing, technology, and other business executives. On Thursday, September 29 at 11:15 am CDT, we will debate the future of the internet (Metaverse, NFTs, and Web3) at Forrester’s Technology & Innovation event.

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Events Technology Marketing Other 360

Forrester eCommerce

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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B2C Marketing Customer Experience Omnichannel 195

Forrester eCommerce

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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B2C Marketing Technology Customer 392

Optimizely

AUGUST 16, 2018

Marketers already know data is key to success in B2C and ecommerce. Unfortunately, complete and accurate customer data has been shockingly difficult to get your hands on in B2C marketing. But it takes a major shift in thinking and technology to pull it off. The many systems of B2C marketing. Own your customer data.

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B2C Customer Data Omnichannel Point of Sale 210

Forrester eCommerce

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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B2C Marketing Consumer Customer Experience 379

Optimizely

JANUARY 10, 2019

With new technologies, new social media platforms, and new competitors emerging every day, it can be tough to keep up and make your brand stand out. But even more importantly, top B2C marketers are honing their skills and working to become well-rounded. The post The Role of the B2C Marketer Is Changing Fast. Data Scientist.

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B2C Marketing Social Media Customer Loyalty 231

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Relying on these technologies can help inform the consumer about the sensory properties of a product like its texture, smell, and even taste. This is no longer science fiction. virtual reality).

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Technology Retail Customer Experience Presentation 273

Optimizely

APRIL 19, 2018

You already know that voice is a growing trend in technology, but do you know exactly how big it really is? With 75% of households expected to have a voice-enabled device by 2020 , voice is far more than a trend: it’s the fastest growing technology since the iPhone. Listen to where your customers are. Now is the time to get started.

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B2C Channel Payment Services Customer Experience 207

Optimizely

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The B2C market moves fast — there are always new tactics and new channels marketers should keep an eye on. As a B2C marketer, you should be asking yourself hard questions like: What KPIs should we care about? Here are my top 5 predictions for B2C marketing in 2018, tackling these questions to help you succeed in the coming year.

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B2C Marketing Channel Customer Data 186

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In December, B2C marketing analysts Joe Stanhope and Rusty Warner, and B2B marketing analyst Lori Wizdo hosted the second annual Martech Roundtable help marketers make informed decisions against the backdrop of these exciting and disruptive trends in marketing technology.

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Technology Marketing B2C Presentation 221

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Let’s face it, the marketing technology ecosystem is harder to navigate than ever before. In December, B2C […].

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Technology Marketing B2C Presentation 235

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Within the world of B2B and B2C commerce, where understanding consumer behavior is key, this change has spurred a quest for innovative solutions. While this poses a challenge, it’s also an opportunity to embrace cutting-edge technologies that provide deeper insights without compromising user privacy.

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ChannelAdvisor

JUNE 23, 2022

Forrester isn’t beating around the bush in its most recent assessment of the B2C environment. The new report, Vast, Fast, and Relentless: Consumer Buying Enters a New Era , looks at the state of the customer-empowered commerce landscape — and what’s to come for B2C businesses who are ambitious enough to keep up. The choice is yours.

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B2C eCommerce Travel Consumer 91

Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 23, 2021

It has become increasingly clear that technology is a critical component of the client-agency relationship. As marketing technology forms the foundation for developing consumer insights, campaign planning and execution, and measurement, it’s part of the fabric of how agencies deliver work product and engage with clients.

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Technology Consumer Marketing B2C 313

Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Marketing leaders are investing in digital experience (DX) technologies including adtech, martech, and commerce tech to support their digital marketing, commerce, and customer experience initiatives. But many struggle to measure success due to a lack of relevant metrics.

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Technology Marketing Customer Experience Operations 195

ESW

DECEMBER 4, 2023

ESW acquired Scalefast in June 2022, and the combined organization offers brands and retailers a complete portfolio of technology and services that cost-effectively support any stage of a company’s development. Furthermore, Shopware relies on a global network of 1,600 sales, technology and solution partners, securing a stable ecosystem.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Technology Shipping Costs 88

Optimizely

JULY 9, 2019

See an exclusive demo of our new Assisted Marketing Technology. The post On-Demand Zaius Demo: Delivering a Customer-First Experience with B2C CRM appeared first on Zaius. You’ll get to: Learn how you can drive predictive audience selection, automate tasks, and more. …and much more.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 14, 2020

A few weeks ago, I teamed up with some treasured colleagues to discuss the marketing technology landscape in a conversational webinar: Steve Casey, who joins me in covering B2B marketing technology, and our compatriots Joe Stanhope and Rusty Warner who cover B2C marketing technology, engaged in a spirited (‘cause we don’t always agree) conversation (..)

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Forrester eCommerce

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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B2C Marketing Customer Customer Experience 369

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In December, B2C marketing analysts Joe Stanhope and Rusty Warner, and B2B marketing analyst Lori Wizdo hosted the second annual Martech Roundtable help marketers make informed decisions against the backdrop of these exciting and disruptive trends in marketing technology.

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Technology Marketing B2C Presentation 170

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 26, 2024

I’m pleased to announce the publication of The B2C Customer Data Platform Landscape, Q1 2024. Forrester’s landscape research is a valuable resource for marketers to understand and differentiate the range of solutions available to them in a very dynamic market.

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B2C Customer Data Marketing Customer 276

ChannelAdvisor

JUNE 23, 2022

Forrester isn’t beating around the bush in its most recent assessment of the B2C environment. The new report, Vast, Fast, and Relentless: Consumer Buying Enters a New Era , looks at the state of the customer-empowered commerce landscape — and what’s to come for B2C businesses who are ambitious enough to keep up. The choice is yours.

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B2C eCommerce Travel Consumer 59

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Enterprise marketing suites are the foundation of the marketing technology stack. This is especially true during turbulent times as B2C marketers confront a range of challenges and opportunities such as changing consumer needs, data deprecation, and a post-pandemic/pre-recession economy.

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B2C Technology Marketing Consumer 195

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Making sense of the enterprise marketing technology (EMT) landscape can easily overwhelm even the most dedicated martech aficionado. 2018’s “Martech 5000” is astonishingly closer to 7,000 vendors, rendering vendor differentiation difficult and vendor selection a nightmare.

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Technology Marketing Recommendation B2C 359

Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 12, 2023

My favorite holiday-themed ad is Hershey’s “Christmas Bells,” which debuted in 1989 thanks to the creativity of David Apicella at Ogilvy & Mather, among others. Since then, the ad has run every December. In a market crowded with viral creative like Spotify’s Wrapped, Hershey’s pithy ad continues to perform.

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Technology Marketing Other B2C 251

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

One of our 2019 B2C marketing predictions is that enterprise marketing technology will meld with customer experience (CX) investments to deliver the relevancy and consistency that consumers crave from brands. Forrester defines RTIM as: Enterprise marketing technology that delivers contextually […].

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Management B2C Customer Experience Technology 349

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Rue21 will tap into learnings from his experiences at these organizations, especially his technology strategy expertise, to further enhance the brand’s customer journey and “optimize its platforms to support growth and enhanced interactions with rue21’s diverse community,” according to a company statement.

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Fashion B2C B2B Customer Experience 242

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Agencies in 2021 will begin to resemble software companies, offering combinations of creative and media products bundled with the services to manage them. Read our predictions for agencies in 2021.

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Technology Management B2C Marketing 451

Forrester eCommerce

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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B2C Marketing B2B Technology 369

SellBrite

JULY 19, 2019

Whether you are reeled in by an Instagram ad, hear about a cool new product from a friend, or get a half-dozen texts from your wife reminding you to order more filters for the coffeemaker, most quick B2C purchases we make follow the above pattern. Every year, B2B buyers are acting more and more like B2C buyers. Let’s get to it.

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B2C B2B eCommerce Live Chat 114

Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 9, 2019

I’m excited to share that our evaluation of loyalty technology providers — The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Technology Platforms, Q2 2019 — is now live.

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Technology Customer Loyalty B2C Marketing 316

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 10, 2022

Customer data platforms (CDPs) are among marketers’ top marketing technology (martech) priorities in Asia Pacific (APAC).

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B2C Customer Data Technology Marketing 195

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 29, 2019

That’s why enterprise marketing technology (martech) is melding with customer experience (CX) to deliver consistency and relevance (see Forrester’s “Predictions 2019: B2C Marketing” report). Customers demand that marketing coordinate with sales, service, and commerce to deliver better experiences.

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B2C Customer Experience Technology Marketing 343

Forrester eCommerce

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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Marketing B2C Recommendation Technology 195

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Banks need a customer-led strategy to govern cross-functional personalization efforts and to determine the right technology investments.

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