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Andy serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses primarily on B2B and B2B2C eCommerce, as well as issues related to enabling channel partner businesses for manufacturers. Andy's current research areas include multichannel retailing, mobile couponing, affiliate marketing, and enabling manufacturers to sell online.
Prior to joining Forrester, Andy spent 11 years in product and marketing leadership roles within Silicon Valley. In that time, he developed Yahoo's Web2Store local shopping initiative, co-founded an eCommerce company, and helped create several award-winning products in the consumer Internet and mobile software spaces. Before moving to Silicon Valley, Andy spent four years in Washington, D.C., as a research analyst for an economic consulting firm.
Andy has been quoted in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, Direct Marketing News, American Banker, and CNBC.
Andy is a summa cum laude graduate in economics from the University of Dayton and holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. in integrated marketing from Northwestern University.
I would welcome your point of view regarding Everest Group. I met with Peter Bendor Samuel this week and he told me that about 40% of their revenue is now from syndicated research - what's your point...
It's not a question of one OR the other, rather one AND the other: both Forrester and Gartner are IMHO excellent in their own way.But in allocating finite time and ressources, I'd be curious to know...

Strategic Plan: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers constantly ask us how to prove the value of their AR programs. Worryingly, so do some of their bosses. Unfortunately, many struggle because they didn't build plans to...

Communications (comms) AR — characterized by programs of outreach to analysts with no clearer view of value beyond this — is weak. It's bad for your company, and, if you aspire to a top...

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Executive Overview: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Industry analyst relations (AR) is a profession. Done well, it delivers high business value through unique resources — industry analysts. But vendors understand its value poorly and resource it...

Professional measurement is an integral part of fully professional AR; it is not optional. But AR managers get confused about who the measurements are for, as well as what measurements to take, how...

Business Impact: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
It's understandable that AR newcomers think — or maybe just hope — that there's a one-size-fits-all AR program that they can apply to their companies. After all, they're short on money,...
Hello Everyone!I am contacting you all from Claddagh Resources, an international boutique executive search firm.The reason for my discussion post is in relation to a retained assignment I am...
Supporting Sales Is The Hardest Challenge For AR
A bewildering array of options besets industry analyst relations (AR) as it tries to identify the value it can bring to a high-tech supplier. A recent Forrester survey shows that AR reports fair...
Landscape: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
The industry analyst relations (AR) tradition of supporting marketing and sales all too easily limits AR when the parent vendor faces greater business challenges elsewhere. Furthermore, whether AR is...

AR's Measurement And Achievement Of Sales Contribution Is Improving
Myriad options puzzle industry analyst relations (AR) professionals as they try to measure the value they bring to high-tech vendors and to deliver consistently against related targets. A Forrester...
Influence: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Most valuable AR programs rely, sometimes exclusively, on analysts enhancing the commercial fortunes of the vendors by influencing marketplace players like buyers, partners, journalists, and...

Assessment: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers get very little time to assess their AR programs because they're so busy executing on the next apparent priority. To help, Forrester has distilled AR best practices...
We've been approached by London-based The Smart Cube to brief them. Any experiences you can share? Any sense of who their audience/clients are?
Unleash Maximum Business Value From Industry Analyst Relations
Industry analyst relations (AR) is a profession. Done well, it delivers high business value through unique resources — industry analysts. But vendors understand its value poorly and resource it...
Vision: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
What are the attributes of a first-class AR professional running a first-class AR program? In this report, we visualize the peak of your profession by showing how different it is from commonplace AR....

TheIIAR is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s IIAR Analyst of the Year and Analyst Firm of the YearAND THE WINNERS ARE…Analyst of the Year:Gold medal – Alex Soejarto, Gartner...
A reply from Mel Ruby to my question about whether AR was growing combined with a series of conversations I had this week at the AR Council meeting in DC and discovering two members had influencer...
One standard report we plan to write amounts to a guide to the best way to spend the first 100 days in a new AR job. I’d therefore love to hear:What did you find effective when you last started a new...
Forrester has published a lot of research on best practices in briefing analyst firms. However, I cannot seem to find what may appear as basic information on the subject. Can anyone share an outline...
This self-assessment tool helps you review your current industry analyst relations (AR) program, analyze its weaknesses, and identify what you need to change if your program is to join the best. The...
