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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.
Success Will Depend On Measuring The Handoff Between Phases
To get the best returns from the adoption of a customer-centric approach to marketing, Forrester believes that marketers must make the shift from the traditional marketing funnel to the customer life...


Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...
Measurement And Staffing Challenges Keep Social From Taking Off
As more European consumers use social media, more European interactive marketers are adopting the channel as well. But there are still key challenges to overcome. First, marketers fail to measure the...
Four Technologies For Engaging Customers With Content
CMOs need to keep an eye on emerging technologies that have the potential to drive improvements in customer engagement. This second in a series of reports on emerging technologies explores tools and...
And The One Way They Shouldn't
Every year social media users around the world post hundreds of billions of pieces of social content about the products and services marketed to them. But few marketers track this data, and even...
The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

Almost half of interactive marketers tell us they're trying to create brand awareness — but few know how to measure brand impact online. Interactive marketers must use tried-and-true survey...
A Decision-Making Framework For Lifetime Value Analysis
Customer lifetime value (CLV), a forward-looking indicator of customer profitability, became common parlance as relationship marketing gained momentum. However, calculating CLV remains a significant...

CCP Games, a massive multiplayer online game provider, knew that its existing approach with key channels like display was suboptimized and that it could drive more efficient customer acquisition if...
Five Key Metrics For Tracking Progress
Are your interactive marketing efforts keeping pace with the marketplace? In this report for interactive marketers, Forrester identifies the five key benchmarks that help you gauge how well you are...

Business Case: The Social Marketing Playbook
The demand has never been greater for marketers to validate and measure the benefits delivered by their increasing investment in social media. Marketers often frame this question as, "What is the ROI...

Dashboards Provide A Face For The Marketing Accountability Framework
The demands on Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals to demonstrate accountability and marketing success to support the case for continued marketing investments are intensifying. Forrester's...
Poorly Used Auto DMs Decrease Affinity And Engagement On Twitter
The ability to send automatic direct messages (auto DMs) to new followers is not built into the Twitter platform, and for good reason. While some brands and people use third-party tools to send auto...
As social media becomes more prevalent, the data it creates becomes a critical research and insight-generation activity. Businesses turn to listening platforms to harvest the rich trove of consumer...
Forrester partnered with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to better understand marketers' current attitudes toward TV and digital video advertising. Marketers have regained their...

Experiences Of Big Data First Movers
Forrester interviewed three organizations that have deployed Hadoop to support customer-facing processes, the back office, and even their research and development operations. Although these early...
Market Insights Needs To Track Business Success To Show Value-Add
Market insights professionals often struggle to understand how they can identify and measure customer, competitive, and business changes and effectively guide stakeholders toward business success via...
Performance Management: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Social media — with its seemingly nebulous returns, such as "engagement" and "advocacy" — often baffles customer intelligence (CI) professionals trying to measure and optimize their...
