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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.
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Online Retail Spending Forecast (Western Europe): Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online buyers and average online spending by...
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Insurance sales forecast (US): Includes online insurance buyers for motor insurance and home onsurance. Additionally, segments total premiums written and net online premiums written for motor and...

Progressive Secures The Top Position, Barely Edging Out GEICO
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Online Insurance Forecast: Includes online buyers for motor insurance, home insurance, and other insurance policies. In addition, the forecast includes average online premium paid for motor and home...
Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded in February and March 2010 of 42,792 US and Canadian households and individuals ages 18 and older. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size...
Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas
There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...
Progressive Secures The Top Position, Barely Edging Out GEICO
Forrester evaluated the secure Web sites of the four largest US private passenger auto insurance providers — Allstate Insurance, GEICO, Progressive Casualty Insurance, and State Farm Mutual...
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Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, consumer electronics, and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such as online buyers, average spending per...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August and September 2010 of 4,711 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N=4,711), there is 95%...
Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded in May and June 2010 of 10,116 US households and individuals ages 18 and older. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 10,116),...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in January 2013 of 1,051 affluent US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,051), there is 95%...
Steve Madden is a designer and manufacturer of contemporary women's, men's, and children's shoes and accessories; its products are available through both Steve Madden-branded stores, the company's...
An Empowered Report
This second part of Forrester's annual survey conducted in partnership with Shop.org of Web retailers covers benchmark data pertaining to key eCommerce metrics, profitability, and spend level on...
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Online Retail Spending Forecast (US): Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, and consumer electronics and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such...
While eCommerce continues to grow and take market share from the physical retail channel, retailers also look to experiment with new approaches to their web businesses such as social commerce and...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2010 of 7,728 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 7,728), there is 95% confidence...
Designing For Mobile In The Era Of Experience
Mobile is the most transformational technology since the Internet. The phone has evolved from a single-purpose handset offering telephony services over copper wires to a wireless handheld computer...
An Analysis Of B2C Manufacturers' International Expansion
Global brands are increasingly looking to sell direct on their own websites — and not just in their home markets. After examining the global direct-to-consumer sales presence of manufacturers...
