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Carrie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals and leads a team that helps these professionals in the retail, financial services, travel, and healthcare industries optimize sales and service strategies across channels. Carrie's current research focuses on online and multichannel retailing.
Prior to this position, Carrie spent eight years at Forrester researching the dynamics and growth of online retailing. In this role, she analyzed consumers' adoption of eCommerce, their multichannel behavior, and how retailers optimize sales to those consumers with key technologies and strategies. In this role, Carrie authored many key Forrester reports, including Forrester's annual eCommerce forecast. In addition, since 2002, Carrie has authored or led the research effort for "The State of Retailing Online," a Shop.org survey conducted by Forrester Research.
Carrie's background prior to Forrester includes work at the Harvard Business School, where she wrote case studies on Barnes & Noble, Frontgate, PlanetAll, QVC, Streamline, and TV Guide.
Carrie has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNBC, and CNNfn to speak about online retail trends and react to various retail news events. She has also been quoted in various newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Boston Globe.
Carrie is a magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College.
How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...
How Consumers Research, Buy, And Get Service
Our research still shows that despite the adoption of online transactions, consumers prefer in-store experiences over the Web when it comes to researching, buying, and getting customer service. This...
As consumers increasingly use social media to connect with each other and with brands, eBusiness executives seek to understand how — and if — these tools can drive online sales and...
Forrester recently released a report showing the results of a survey of more than 4,500 US consumers and their level of satisfaction with Web, phone, and in-person interactions across 12 different...
As consumers become more comfortable integrating social tools into their everyday lives, eBusiness leaders seek the right social strategy to achieve their goals. While the benefits of social media...
Experienced Web Buyers Are Becoming The New Mainstream
The online shopper is maturing: Only one in 10 Web buyers has less than one year of online shopping experience, down from one out of five Web buyers in 2005. In fact, today, nearly one-third of Web...
Understanding Web Buyers' Price Expectations For Retail Shopping Channels
Although the number of technologically inclined Web buyers is steadily increasing, Web buyers still prefer to shop in traditional offline stores, and their spending behavior confirms this — on...
US Adults Who Transact Online Are More Likely To Use The Web For Everything
Online transactors — US online adults who bank online, apply for health insurance online, and book air travel online — are incorporating a wide variety of online activities into their...
Understanding Online Auction Buyers And The Role Of The Auction Marketplace
By year-end 2007, 21% of US online consumers had purchased from an online auction in the past 12 months, representing a hefty slice of the eCommerce pie. Young, affluent, and tech-savvy, online...
Results Of Our Third eBusiness, Channel And Product Management Survey
Forrester recently conducted a survey of our eBusiness, channel and product management research panel on the topic of Social Computing in September 2007. We found that eBusiness firms struggle to...
More Advanced Online Activities Correlate To Increased Online Spending
As the Web matures, firms from health plans to brokerages are opening up eBusiness channels that introduce consumers to more and more complex online transactions that go far beyond simple book...
Canadian eCommerce Adoption Remains Stagnant
Online adoption continues to build momentum in Canada, but eCommerce adoption does not: The number of Canadian consumers shopping online during 2006 remained stagnant over 2005. What's holding back...
Social Computing Increases The Creation And Importance Of Custom Products
Interest in creating custom consumer products has remained flat overall during the past three years. But, as more young consumers embrace Social Computing, it's not surprising that Gen Yers are the...
But That Doesn't Mean Retailers Have To Bottom Feed
A history of insane promotions and deals has left the Web with the dubious reputation of being a bargain basement. As a result, online shoppers expect to find lower prices online than in other...
US auto insurance carriers like Progressive and GEICO have grown their online channels significantly over the past few years. Yet in 2006, online applications accounted for only 5% of total auto...
Industry Results Of Our eBusiness, Channel, And Product Manager Online Survey
Forrester recently surveyed our panel of 107 eBusiness, channel, and product management executives to examine their 2007 online budgets and priorities. Financial services companies represented a...
Industry Results Of Our eBusiness, Channel And Product Management Survey
Forrester recently surveyed our panel of 107 eBusiness and channel and product management executives to examine 2007 online budgets and priorities. Retail companies represented almost one-fifth of...
A look at US adults who are bidding and selling in online auctions.