Forrester eCommerce

JULY 8, 2021

The channel is very large, highly diverse, and incredibly decentralized. Channel partners know that to be successful, they need to carve out a niche — whether that be by line of business, by industry (and, increasingly, by subindustry), by size of customer, geographically, technologically, and by business model.

Channel 535

Channel Social Media Technology Customer 535

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Management and growth of the channel is too important to be left to chance. Here are the five actions to take in Q4 to ensure you and your organization are ready to begin building your 2022 channel sales plan.

Channel 365

Channel Management Customer 365

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 6, 2020

Preparing for this years list of future channel trends has been an immersive experience to say the least. In 2019, I was able to talk to 497 companies one-on-one about their channel strategy and programs, including 130 of those face-to-face.

Channel 524

Channel Technology Customer Experience Omnichannel 524

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 8, 2021

When I published the “What I See Coming For The Channel 2020” I totally missed the pandemic, social unrest and pandemonium, and even murder hornets somewhere in the middle. Coming off of a year like 2020 makes analysts and futurists reluctant to make any kind of predictions going forward! That being said, many of the […].

Channel 476

Channel Marketing 476

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Out of the 14 different spheres of influence that we track at Forrester, the channel industry trade press ranks near the top. Smart vendors and distributors know that the magic of finding, influencing, recruiting, enabling, and nourishing a top performing channel boils down to three simple questions about partners: What do they read?

Channel 478

Channel Social Media Marketing 478

Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 21, 2023

Empowered customers expect seamless cross-channel experiences. A cross-channel marketing hub (CCMH) can help marketers overcome data and channel integration complexity to consistently engage […] B2C marketers must understand customers and create value exchanges in their individual moments of need.

Channel 195

Channel B2C Marketing Customer 195

Salsify

JUNE 1, 2023

Explore the basics of channel segmentation as well as some tips and tricks for consumer market segmentation to help you effectively reach your audience.

Channel 78

Channel Consumer Marketing Omnichannel 78

Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 17, 2022

I am often asked how brands are handling issues of channel conflict with retail partners, when discussing brands’ direct to consumer (DTC) digital strategies. However, there are a few forerunners to my response: A brands DTC digital strategy is not just about direct transactional sales to consumers.

Channel 195

Channel Retail Consumer Customer 195

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Based on evolving B2B buyer needs and preferences, investing and collaborating with your channel partners is becoming increasingly prevalent and important. That said, it is unwise and unrealistic to support all partners in your ecosystem equally. Aligning resources to engage and enable the right ones is crucial.

Channel 195

Channel B2B 195

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 11, 2019

Leverage Channel Data To Give Partners A Better Experience: Winning In The Channel Requires Data-Driven Program Innovation Brands that provide an enhanced partner experience grow faster than their peers, are more profitable, and drive higher customer satisfaction and retention downstream.

Channel 415

Channel Customer Multichannel Customer Experience 415

Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 15, 2023

Channel organizations are at a pivotal moment. As partner networks have grown more complex, a more holistic, ecosystem-oriented approach is needed.

Channel 195

Channel B2B Webinar Marketing 195

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, we have seen two examples of physical channel events take shape after almost six months of virtual. In earlier research around communities, I have pointed to the 150 events per year that were happening before COVID-19. Most of these events carried on virtually, with mixed results.

Channel 488

Channel Events Customer 488

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A couple of years ago, I made the prediction that we were entering the third stage of sales and marketing — the decade of the channel ecosystem. With over 75% of world trade flowing indirectly, I started to sense an influx of investment in and attention on indirect sales by firms in all industries. Looking […].

Channel 448

Channel Marketing 448

Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 22, 2021

The channel organization must have a strong interlock with the marketing operations team to ensure the measurement roadmap is focused on the right areas.

Channel 293

Channel Operations Marketing 293

Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 24, 2020

How will the technology channel be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? Read a list of likely scenarios and what it could mean for the long-term.

Channel 435

Channel Technology 435

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A focus on enhancing partner experience and generating customer value are key to channel marketing success in the year ahead.

Channel 370

Channel Customer Marketing B2B 370

Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 1, 2019

Channel incentives are used to improve indirect sales performance, orchestrate partners’ behavior, and engender channel loyalty. For decades channel professionals have used channel incentives to drive behavior; whether establishing new behaviors, suppressing old ones, or repositioning partners for a new opportunity.

Channel 412

Channel Management Improvements Marketing 412

Kissmetrics

JANUARY 8, 2021

How do you ensure your YouTube channel is reaching the right audience and helping you achieve your marketing objectives? But, if you want to make the most of this channel, you need to ensure your content is high-quality, targeted, and optimized. Why Your YouTube Channel Needs an Audit. By performing a YouTube audit.

Channel 343

Channel Social Media SEO Marketing 343

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The current market disruption will have an ongoing impact on the channel, and channel marketers must cultivate acceptance and empathy toward partners and their buyers during these challenging times. Understanding partner and buyer needs is paramount during 2021 planning.

Channel 357

Channel Marketing 357

Kissmetrics

JUNE 8, 2021

Have you defined the distribution channels that will be used by your company? In short, distribution channels determine the path goods will take from the manufacturer to the final consumer. There are many types, formats, and levels of distribution channels. What Are Distribution Channels? Direct Channels.

Channel 282

Channel Retail Consumer eCommerce 282

My Wife Quit Her Job

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Zach runs a YouTube consultancy called We Are Video Makers and manages the YouTube channels for many famous creators with millions of subscribers. But since then, Zach has been helping me with my channel and I have grown about 50k more subs in a span of just 2.5 years to get there. Today I have my friend Zach Mitchem on the show.

Channel 246

Channel Management Social Media 246

Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B channel chiefs often forget or overlook the impact that partner profiling has on the indirect business. An ideal partner profile is a “job description” for hiring new partners, and this profile data is connected to every decision that a channel chief will make.

Channel 327

Channel B2B 327

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 8, 2020

With COVID-19 still spreading and broad quarantines, shutdowns, and other measures to contain it continuing, it is still impossible to make definitive predictions of its impact on the tech channel. Instead, we are using three scenarios that take into account different recovery start times and shapes of recovery graphs.

Channel 415

Channel Definition Other B2B 415

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 16, 2019

We have seen more disruption in the channel in the past 18 months than we saw in the past 37 years combined. Private equity will continue its sweep of the channel software space, creating some unicorns along the way. As a review, here were my 2018 predictions. Verdict: As mentioned in the […].

Channel 418

Channel Multichannel Marketing Management 418

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Channel professionals want to talk about expanding their partner programs and building broad ecosystems, but the truth is that many of their basic program and channel management processes are still painfully manual and error-prone.

Channel 321

Channel Management Technology Customer Experience 321

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As brands increasingly use different types of partners to reach, influence, transact, and retain customers, partner relationship management (PRM) solutions are being asked to serve both traditional and nontraditional channels at a new level of scale and personalization.

Channel 377

Channel Management Customer Operations 377

Optimizely

APRIL 3, 2018

What matters more to your B2C business — a new customer buying your product or the new marketing channel that brought in the new customer? The marketing channel is only important because it brought in that new customer. Instead, you need to shift your focus from “which channel should we optimize next?”

Channel 327

Channel Marketing Omnichannel B2C 327

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 20, 2020

Online marketplaces have been around in one form or another for decades. Accelerating the trend is a myriad of factors including changing buying behaviors and demographics, companies shifting to subscription and consumption models, and the rising importance of ecosystems.

Channel 537

Channel Subscription Consumer Customer Experience 537

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 23, 2019

A lot has changed in the 25+ years I have spent in the technology channel. The one constant is the […].

Channel 419

Channel Marketing Technology Multichannel 419

Optimizely

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We recently released a new whitepaper reviewing why channel-centric solutions are missing the mark for marketers wanting an omnichannel marketing strategy. Channel-centric solutions solve for one specific channel, like email, SMS, or web. The post Channel-Centric Solutions Are Missing the Mark appeared first on Zaius.

Channel 195

Channel Omnichannel Download Marketing 195

Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 26, 2021

A Forrester channel TEI study highlights the economic metrics and the business advantages to choosing to work with that partner. These studies can explain and break down the economics and the outcomes of a partnership investment in real-dollar terms partners understand — not just gold, silver, and bronze.

Channel 195

Channel Customer Marketing 195

Optimizely

JUNE 23, 2020

With consumers spending nearly two and a half hours each day browsing Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, brands are compelled to have a social media presence and use these channels for generating leads, promoting content, and even delivering customer service. The post The Value of Owning Your Channels appeared first on Zaius.

Channel 195

Channel eCommerce eCommerce Marketing Social Media 195

Steve Dennis

AUGUST 3, 2020

Despite the accelerating growth of digitally-enabled shopping, the concentration of power in the hands of consumers and the blurring of the lines between retail channels , it’s still common for retailers to report their sales for e-commerce and physical retail as two separate figures. This is more than a semantic argument.

Channel 206

Channel eCommerce Customer Retail 206

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With the continuing uncertainty and turmoil caused by COVID-19, channel sales leaders must act now to ensure their team can hit the ground running on day one of the new year. Even in the best of times, starting the new year off fast is important.

Channel 259

Channel 259

ESW

APRIL 3, 2023

As we headed home, we reflected on key topics and trends that are poised to shape the landscape for brands with DTC channels. To meet that demand, retailers and brands with DTC channels cannot depend on ecommerce sites alone. Brands must know their target customer and which channels that customer prefers.

Channel 78

Channel Customer Loyalty eCommerce Retail 78