Forrester eCommerce

MAY 6, 2024

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

B2C 436

B2C Marketing Consumer Management 436

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.

SEO 280

SEO B2B B2C eCommerce 280

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 11, 2022

Today, we have fresh data from Forrester’s Q2 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022 — a cross-industry survey among 153 US B2C marketing executives, VP and above, at brands with at least 500 employees. We provided a list of 13 trending marketing priorities and asked respondents to indicate the degree to which each is a […].

B2C 341

B2C Marketing Customer Experience Customer 341

Groove

JANUARY 13, 2025

Valued at over $30 trillion in 2024 , the global B2B eCommerce market is growing faster than B2C, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 16 percent. With tools like AI, predictive analytics, and robust eCommerce platforms, businesses can streamline operations, expand their reach, and deliver superior customer experiences.

eCommerce Platforms 385

eCommerce Platforms B2B Payment Services eCommerce 385

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

To begin to address the issue holistically, retailers must aim to ensure that the right products are being targeted to their customers and that products meet their expectations before they even hit the checkout button. Retailers can combat this by providing customers with focused insights during the decision-making process.

Retail 298

Retail BigCommerce B2C Channel 298

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 8, 2023

CEOs believe their companies are more focused on customers than their CMOs believe. According to Forrester’s 2023 State Of Customer Obsession Survey, 90% of CEOs indicate their focus on customers guides their brand, product, and pricing strategies – while only 57% of B2C CMOs feel the same.

B2C 368

B2C Customer Marketing 368

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.

B2C 263

B2C Marketing Technology Customer Data 263

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.

B2C 447

B2C Blog Retail Customer 447

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Forrester’s Q4 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2024 provided a list of 17 initiatives and we asked respondents (127 US B2C marketing executives) to select up to three. With budgets set for 2025, CMOs are about to enter the new year with several critical initiatives. What’s bubbling to the top? The top five most commonly […]

B2C 222

B2C Marketing Customer 222

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

GetWhen I describe what customer experience management requires to be able to transform a CX vision into reality, I often hear from my audience: “this is interesting, but we are different“ The nature of that difference is then often stated as: we are operating in B2B, not B2C; or we operate in a heavily regulated […].

B2C 516

B2C B2B Customer Experience Operations 516

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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

B2C 244

B2C Marketing Customer 244

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 5, 2021

This just in: Forrester asked 150 US B2C marketing executives (across industries) how challenging the various 2022 priorities will be to achieve. Seventy-one percent of B2C marketing execs indicated that demonstrating the value of marketing to the CEO, CFO, and the board will […]. But what will be the most challenging?

B2C 483

B2C Marketing Customer 483

Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s time for B2B marketers to close the gaps in their customers’ digital experiences with the assistance of automated conversations created by chatbots and virtual assistants (VAs). These solutions are already popular in B2C and B2B markets, creating experiences that: Meet modern buyers’ expectations of immediacy.

B2B 511

B2B B2C Marketing Customer 511

Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 27, 2022

For B2C marketers, first-party data is a lot like “Zoolander’s” Hansel: “so hot right now.” Facing massive headwinds amid data deprecation, marketers want to capture zero- and first-party data from customers and build direct relationships.

B2C 369

B2C Marketing Customer Customer Experience 369

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 […]

B2C 469

B2C Marketing Customer 469

Groove

OCTOBER 24, 2024

B2B businesses have to nurture customers through a complex buyer’s journey. Unlike in typical B2C retail, these customers often have multiple decision-makers who need to agree on purchases. This carefully designed software will help enhance the customer experience by improving personalization and driving growth.

eCommerce Software 306

eCommerce Software B2B eCommerce eCommerce Platforms 306

Groove

JANUARY 19, 2022

Improving customer experience is a focal point for many online businesses. As the demand for frictionless shopping increases and consumer shopping habits constantly change, merchants must optimize their stores to accommodate shoppers at each stage of the eCommerce customer journey. What Is The eCommerce Customer Journey?

eCommerce 349

eCommerce Customer Merchant Services Payment Services 349

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Forrester has published The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Platforms for B2C, Q3 2024. Given the heavy buyer and vendor interest in customer data platforms it evokes the obvious question “What took you so long?!” For context, consider the history […]

Customer Data 244

Customer Data Games B2C Customer 244

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2024

A look at the mindset of the online shopper relative to customer service should remind every retailer that they are only as good as their current interaction. Online shoppers focus on current needs, as only 12% consider prior interactions with customer service reps important when using online customer service.

Customer 285

Customer Live Chat Social Media eCommerce 285

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.

B2C 398

B2C Marketing Technology Customer 398

Forrester eCommerce

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.

B2B 450

B2B B2C Consumer Marketing 450

Forrester eCommerce

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.

Financial Services 489

Financial Services B2C Consumer Travel 489

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Forrester sees 2022 as a tale of two B2C CMOs: Some will be sidelined by the likes another chief “something” officer. However, elite CMOs (those with data, martech, customer experience, and product chops) will capitalize on this moment in time to duly expand their remit across the marketing mix.

B2C 360

B2C Customer Experience Marketing Customer 360

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

While a lot of AI use cases exist today both in the back end and in customer-facing applications there are still many companies that are waiting to achieve ROI on their AI investments. How are retailers in the B2B and B2C space preparing for supply chain disruptions caused by potential tariffs in 2025? administration.

Supplies 289

Supplies Shipping Costs B2C Channel 289

Forrester eCommerce

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.

Consumer 364

Consumer B2C Marketing Customer 364

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This may seem cheeky and slightly exaggerated, until you learn that a whopping 78% of B2C marketing leaders say that they don’t know anyone on their security, risk, and compliance team. The current relationship status between marketing and security and risk (S&R) pros is best described as “it’s complicated.”

B2C 423

B2C Marketing Management Customer 423

Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 12, 2024

According to Forrester Global Marketing Survey, about 30% of B2C Marketers use MMM […] MMM gauges the impact of marketing and media investments on vital performance indicators like sales or revenue, while also forecasting the revenue potential of marketing endeavors.

Marketing 418

Marketing B2C Customer 418

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 (..)

B2B 454

B2B B2C Webinar Technology 454

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!

Operations 261

Operations B2C Marketing Customer 261

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. Customer journey orchestration (CJO) platforms enable a more holistic view, and marketers should pay more attention to these adjacent capabilities.

Customer 368

Customer Marketing B2C 368

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

At the heart of it is ensuring that every enterprise we support can provide its customers with the best digital experience possible, wherever they are in the world. No one wants to waste their time, and if a customer runs into a problem as a web page loads or during the checkout process, there are many opportunities to spend money elsewhere.

Customer Experience 317

Customer Experience Payment Services Customer eCommerce 317

Groove

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As an all-in-one solution for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service, it checks a lot of boxes, but you may not recognize the full extent of what it has to offer. HubSpot is a cloud-based software-as-a-service company that offers a full stack of marketing, sales, and customer support software for your online store.

eCommerce 293

eCommerce Marketing B2B Management 293

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.

B2C 369

B2C Marketing B2B Technology 369

Forrester eCommerce

JULY 5, 2022

CX leaders can ensure that sustainability is more than just good words and intentions by weaving their firm’s sustainability goals into customer journeys as they unfold. But many CX pros miss the opportunity because they: Fail to make sustainability real.

Customer 370

Customer Customer Experience B2C B2B 370

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 6, 2022

“Over half of CMOs will make employee experience (EX) essential to brand planning” – Forrester’s Predictions 2022: B2C Marketing And Innovation A New Frontier Emerges I spent most of the winter months hounding a panel of brand experts for their insights as I wrote Forrester’s annual brand spotlight report (to be published later this (..)

Marketing 368

Marketing B2C Customer 368