eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Introduction A well-executed B2B customer experience (CX) strategy can be the cornerstone of long-term success in today’s competitive landscape. Unlike B2C interactions, B2B transactions are more complex, involving multiple decision-makers, longer sales cycles, and intricate touchpoints.

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B2B Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 297

Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 2, 2023

Hey B2C marketers, who else is feeling the pain of: A proliferation of consumer touchpoints? B2C marketing has undergone so much change since the 2010 dawning of the age of the customer that companies have no choice but to become customer-obsessed now. Unpredictable and fast-changing macroeconomic conditions?

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B2C Marketing Touchpoint Consumers 26

Forrester's Customer Insights

MAY 6, 2024

Read Principal Analyst Emily Pfeiffer's insights on the shifts in the B2C Commerce market over the past two years.

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B2C Marketing Consumers Retail 58

Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 15, 2024

Learn the five most common barriers impeding widespread customer adoption of sustainable offerings and how to encourage sustainable behaviors among B2C buyers.

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Consumers B2C How To Customers 34

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Understanding consumer behavior is the underpinning of effective B2C marketing strategies. Simply put, they champion their customers every step of the way. Some of the best CMOs aren’t only culture-reflectors but culture-makers — both in the brand stories they tell and the brand experiences they create.

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Consumers B2C Culture Brands 48

Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 8, 2024

Awareness around generative AI (genAI) among consumers is peaking. According to Forrester’s July 2024 Consumer Pulse Survey, only 5% of US online adults and 8% in the UK have never heard of genAI. As awareness peaks and usage creeps, how will consumers engage with genAI in the future?

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Consumers Engagement Survey Report 47

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to the second installment of Forrester’s Generative AI Consumer Outlook Quarterly Blog Series! With GPT-4 Turbo’s launch in late 2023, Google’s announcement of Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot’s Superbowl ad, consumers are now faced with plenty of options for consumer-facing gen AI tools. But as new […]

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Consumers Tools B2C Marketing 57

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Over the next decade, four factors will fundamentally drive how firms must evolve to meet consumer buying demands. Start exploring them.

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B2C Consumers Meeting Customer Relationship Management 58

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For the past few years, four forces – consumers’ dissatisfaction with invasive audience targeting, browser and operating system restrictions, legislators and de facto regulators like Apple limiting consumers’ trackability, and advertisers’ ceding control to walled gardens […]

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B2C Survey Marketing Advertising 55

Forrester's Customer Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Hindsight Is 20/20 — Foresight Is Priceless How consumers spend, and on what, is of great interest to us; in that data lies kernels of insights that enable brands to shape their marketing strategies to maximize profitable growth and boost total shareholder return.

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Consumers Brands Strategy Marketing 55

BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to Birdeye’s The One report , 38% of consumers say leaving a favored service provider is emotionally difficult. But they need to become your customers before such a deep relationship is built. Then they must nurture them through the marketing funnel, gradually transforming them from prospects to loyal customers.

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Marketing Social Media B2C B2B 59

Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 19, 2020

B2C marketers’ most pressing top-of-mind issue is how data deprecation will impact targeting, measurement, personalization, and digital media buying. Data deprecation restricts tracking and access to consumer data due to regulatory, browser, walled-garden, or consumer actions.

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B2C Data Marketing Strategy 40

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

How will consumers engage with GenAI in the future? As my colleague Audrey Chee-Read summarized it in a recent blog post, consumer adoption of GenAI with brands will happen unnoticeably. As such, consumers […]

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Consumers Technology Brands Engagement 40

Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But what about consumers? I’ll be taking you through how consumers know, feel, and use Generative AI every quarter. Generative AI continues to be the topic du jour, as businesses race to understand the technology for fear of being left behind. Forrester is closely tracking this. And no, this blog post was not written by […]

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 28, 2024

As is often the case with poorly understood tech that promises to change the world, consumers worry about its ethics and human impact. Yet a vast majority of these skeptics will use (and love) genAI during 2024, whether they know it or not. Like it or not, know it or not, genAI will seep into […]

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Consumers B2C B2B Trends 67

Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 22, 2019

Our 2019 B2C Marketing predictions hone in on the impact of rising customer power. Forrester has been evangelizing the age of the customer for a decade, but the message is approaching a crescendo.

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B2C Marketing Consumers Connections 43

Forrester's Customer Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Impulse spending behavior is growing — and companies are finding opportunities both online and offline to entice consumers to add to their basket. Forrester’s February 2023 Consumer Pulse Survey found that roughly one in two of US and UK Gen Z adults report making impulsive decisions when shopping.

Consumers 55

Consumers Retail Survey Report 55

Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

The situation when B2B CX was very distant from B2C CX has been rapidly changing. Now at least 80% of B2B buyers now expect the same buying experience as B2C customers. We’re moving towards personalized omnichannel experience in B2B customer journeys. So let’s start!

Net Promoter Score 268

Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Customer Experience 268

Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 11, 2024

European consumers are forming four distinct groups with regard to how their consumption habits impact both the environment and their daily lives: Country-Level Stereotypes No Longer Apply: Southern Europe Leads […]

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Consumers Groups B2C Trends 53

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It helps explain customer mental models and why people don’t always act the way they say they do. This is especially important when it comes to environmental issues: Many consumers would like to adopt greener behaviors but struggle to do so due […]

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Consumers How To B2C Customers 36

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are fueling disruption by radically reorienting consumer expectations. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, brands of all kinds are looking to shore up their own DTC efforts as more consumers seek authentic and engaging brand relationships in increasingly digital spaces.

Consumers 36

Consumers B2C Brands Engagement 36

Forrester's Customer Insights

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

How should European consumer marketing leaders prepare for the coming year? 2020 has been a year of unprecedented political, social, economic, and healthcare disruption — and 2021 shows no signs of these trends slowing down.

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B2C Marketing Healthcare Trends 51

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A year ago, we predicted that the number of green consumers would stay constant in 2024, despite climate chaos and backlash. Despite evidence of accelerated weather-related disasters and a desire among many consumers to act sustainably, we predicted that inflation and the cost of living would heavily influence buying decisions.

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Consumers B2C Trends Marketing 26

Forrester's Customer Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With a new administration set to take office in 2025, a different set of economic policies will come into play, shaping consumer sentiment and driving spending behavior. We aren’t sure quite yet exactly what these policies will be – just as for brands, campaign promises often diverge significantly from the delivered experience.

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Consumers Policies Brands B2C 26

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation is rampant, and beleaguered consumers are reeling from high prices. Has The Economy Got You Down?

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Consumers Trends B2C Brands 55

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As Forrester’s consumer behavior analyst, I’m going to say something controversial: the consumer does not need to be a part of every business decision. There’s no shortage of supply or demand for consumer insights.

Consumers 55

Consumers Tools Marketing B2C 55

Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 17, 2020

To understand the B2C marketing predictions for the year, we spoke with Forrester experts Tina Moffett and Jim Nail. To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague Madeline Cyr and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail” series.

B2C 48

B2C Retail Marketing Management 48

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that we’ve been measuring precisely how the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing consumer appetite for commercial exchange — we do this by applying Forrester’s Consumer Energy Index, our data-driven framework that captures how ready and willing consumers are to reach out to brands.

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Consumers Measurement Data Brands 62

Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US in March, we’ve been tracking precisely how the pandemic and related crises have taken an emotional toll on consumers by applying Forrester’s Consumer Energy Index, our data-driven framework that captures how ready and willing consumers are to reach out to brands.

Consumers 55

Consumers Data Brands B2C 55

Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 28, 2024

My colleague Jitender Migliani and I have just published a report (Consumer Spending And The Economy Grow Despite Persistent Pessimism) based on the H2 2024 US macroeconomic trends and consumer behavior data that we’ve collected and analyzed.

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Trends Consumers Brands Report 34

Forrester's Customer Insights

MAY 5, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis means European B2C firms are broadly in one of three response modes right now: Survivors (travel, hospitality, and some nonessential retailers) have been massively disrupted by the current lockdown.

Consumers 65

Consumers B2C Hospitality Travel 65

Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 30, 2024

Buyer expectations for immediacy, relevance, and instant gratification have carried over from B2C to B2B and been amplified with Millennials and GenZ comprising more than half of the modern workforce.

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B2B Interaction B2C Consumers 59

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

2023 was a confusing year: the consumers blew cold, and the economy blew hot. The recession-to-be did not materialize, and the economic outlook wasn’t half as bad as consumers would have you believe. Yet notes from the post-pandemic blues keep wafting in the air no matter the macroeconomic drumbeat.

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Consumers Brands Advertising Measurement 34

Forrester's Customer Insights

MAY 29, 2024

Introducing the digital double: a consumer-owned, algorithmically driven AI agent. You soon may be able to build an algorithm that makes algorithms work for you.

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Consumers Meeting Virtual Agent B2C 34

Middlesex Consulting

MAY 31, 2015

Buying decisions are taken by real people whose “Thoughts, Emotions and Actions” (the “TEA” of Experience) are shaped by the experiences they go through, not just with what they encounter at their work, but significantly by the day-to-day experiences that they undergo in their own personal buying as consumers.

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B2C B2B Omni-Channel Customer Experience 60

Forrester's Customer Insights

JUNE 3, 2024

Brands are expanding their loyalty budgets: 65% of B2C marketing decision-makers in Forrester’s 2024 Marketing Survey said they were planning to increase their investment in relationship/loyalty marketing in 2024.

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Loyalty Strategy B2C Consumers 32

Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

The situation when B2B CX was very distant from B2C CX has been rapidly changing. Now at least 80% of B2B buyers now expect the same buying experience as B2C customers. We’re moving towards personalized omnichannel experience in B2B customer journeys. So let’s start!

Net Promoter Score 150

Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Customer Experience 150