Forrester eCommerce

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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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 23, 2020

B2C marketing in 2021 will take a decided turn toward retention and localization. Read on to discover how B2C marketers will adjust in the face of a post-pandemic world.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2023, we anticipate that two-thirds of global B2C e-commerce will come from online marketplaces.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We provided a list of 30 items in Forrester’s Q4 2023 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey from which 171 US marketing […] As champions of the customer, CMOs are pulled in all sorts of directions. Knowing that they can’t go it alone, we asked what areas they foresee needing the most external help with in 2024.

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 27, 2023

It's a critical time for B2C marketers to get involved in their organizations’ privacy programs. The privacy landscape is shifting quickly.

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 2, 2023

Forrester’s Q2 2023 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey featured a list of 16 marketing priorities. For each, we asked respondents (154 B2C marketing […] June not only marks the year’s halfway point, but it’s also when CMOs begin to plan for the new year. With six months left in 2023, there’s still lots to get done.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 24, 2022

Read Forrester’s advice on where to invest, where to cut, and where to experiment to create a smart B2C marketing budget in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Two types of technological change are causing the proverbial sleepless nights for business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers: updating data strategies to adapt to data deprecation, and introducing or enhancing their organization’s AI capabilities.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Retrouvez trois tendances 2022 pour les marketers B2C dans ce billet de blog. L'avenir que nous envisagions il y a seulement deux ans n'a pas changé, mais il est devenu notre présent. beaucoup plus rapidement que prévu.

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Kissmetrics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

That is where B2C niche marketplaces can help. Today, with 11 percent of all shopping is done online , it’s vital you know the digital platforms that will give your B2C niche service brand the reach it needs to flourish. What Are B2C Niche Marketplaces? As a B2C brand, it’s even more important to make the right decision.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I’m Steph, the newest member of Forrester’s B2C martech research team. I’ve been at Forrester for four years, first as a research associate and most recently as a researcher on the B2C marketing […]. Do you work with marketing resource management (MRM) or mobile engagement automation (MEA) tools? If yes, I want to hear from you!

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 26, 2023

But fret not, Forrester’s got you covered with our just published report “Navigating The 2023 Downturn: B2C Marketing Executives.” We know that fluctuating market signals have you mired in scenario planning around “economic uncertainty.” Make Brand Experience The Top Priority In All Scenario Plans In our full report, we […]

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 29, 2019

This week, Claudia interviewed Emily Collins, principal analyst on Forrester’s B2C marketing team and an expert in loyalty, on her contributions to the 2019 B2C marketing predictions […]. Recently, we spoke to Michele Goetz about how artificial intelligence will affect retailers in 2019.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Read our B2C marketing predictions for 2023. Short-term wins will be the name of the game next year. Yet a few savvy CMOs will blend both offense and defense into a smart growth strategy.

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 27, 2020

B2C customer data platforms (CDPs): all the hype, none of the follow through. That summarizes the analysis of the CDP space in our inaugural report on the category in 2018. We continue to field client inquiries about the CDP market — but the tone from marketers has grown increasingly skeptical, and vendors are asking less […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 19, 2020

In our newly published “The Forrester Wave™: B2C Commerce Suites, Q2 2020,” we evaluated the 10 most significant commerce vendors in the B2C space along 31 criteria: Adobe, BigCommerce, commercetools, Elastic Path Software, Episerver, Kibo Commerce, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Sitecore.

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Kissmetrics

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While the terms B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) marketing may sound similar, they differ vastly in practice, especially when it comes to paid social media. Before we dig into the different strategies, let’s take a deeper look at the differences between B2B and B2C. What is B2C Paid Social Media?

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 6, 2024

Read part one of the GenAI Impact On Commerce Tech blog series from Forrester Research principal analyst Emily Pfeiffer and senior researcher Nicole Murgia.

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Forrester eCommerce

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.

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Optimizely

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Both of the above are examples of B2C products, but the length of the sales cycle is very different for the two products. If your brand sells an expensive or niche product with a long B2C sales process, you have to think about your marketing differently long-term. Use content marketing throughout long B2C sales cycles.

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Forrester eCommerce

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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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 6, 2024

Source: GIPHY “What would you say… your marketing operations function does here?” If you can’t quickly and easily answer that question, you need a formal marketing operations charter STAT!

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Forrester eCommerce

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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Groove

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Search engine optimization (SEO) is vital for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) sellers to reach their target markets. SEO strategy, however, differs depending on whether you’re running a B2B or B2C business. Reach out to Groove today to learn how we can support your B2C business.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption. Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential?

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Every year, Forrester surveys over 1,000 marketing decision-makers around the world to learn about their priorities, challenges, and plans.

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Optimizely

OCTOBER 23, 2018

With B2C ad copy, you don’t have 1,000 words to explain your reasoning in a carefully researched blog post Nor do you have 30 seconds, a towering budget, and actors to convey your brand’s key selling point. We’re curious to hear your thoughts on these B2C ad copy examples and what we might have missed! Writing ad copy is hard.

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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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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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BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The 2020 IDC MarketScape Report names BigCommerce a leader among B2C ecommerce platforms.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 3, 2024

I’m pleased to announce the publication of the second of my two APAC generative AI (genAI) B2C marketing reports, Generative AI Marketing Use Cases In APAC (client-only access).

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Optimizely

JANUARY 29, 2019

But there are two that everyone keeps talking about: CDP and B2C CRM. The Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Business-to-Consumer Customer Relationship Management (B2C CRM) promise similar capabilities, but deliver very different functionality for marketers. What is a B2C CRM? And this is true of B2C CRMs as well.

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Groove

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This differs from B2C eCommerce, which refers to transactions between businesses and individuals. While B2B eCommerce involves commercial exchanges, B2C consists of retail sales. Advanced order management: Typically, B2B purchases occur on a larger scale than B2C transactions.

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 6, 2019

“The Forrester Wave™: Content Marketing Platforms for B2C Marketers, Q2 2019” is live! In this year’s 30-criteria evaluation, we assessed and scored the nine most significant vendors: Bloomreach, Contently, NewsCred, Opal, Percolate, ScribbleLive, Sitecore, Skyword, and Sprinklr.

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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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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 22, 2024

In Forrester’s Marketing Survey 2024, 61% of B2C marketers said they do not believe that Google will deprecate the third-party cookie. Google announced today it’s finally doing what everyone suspected and reversing its decision to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. It’s not […]

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