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Emily is an analyst focused on customer loyalty programs, with an emphasis on trends, technologies, services, and analytics. She helps marketing clients navigate the evolving customer loyalty landscape and develop intelligence-driven loyalty strategies and programs. Her research examines consumer attitudes toward loyalty programs, and the tools, skills, and processes required for Customer Insights Professionals and loyalty marketers to successfully foster meaningful relationships with their best customers.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Emily spent three years supporting Forrester's Customer Insights research team and researching customer loyalty. She fielded quantitative and qualitative surveys of Customer Insights Professionals and performed primary and secondary research for reports and consulting projects. She contributed to published reports about B2B customer intelligence, marketing technology adoption, social intelligence, online testing, intelligence-powered CRM, marketing service providers, and cross-channel marketing measurement.
Before joining Forrester, Emily served as a marketing coordinator at Northeastern University, marketing higher education programs.
Emily holds a B.A. in English from Boston College.
Across the globe, more and more consumers are interacting socially than ever before. When it comes to loyalty, social channels provide an opportunity for brands to engage with members beyond the...
Loyalty programs that attempt to implement a cookie-cutter strategy and ignore customer insights typically struggle and usually lack meaningful results. Organizations seeking to build a program ...
Loyalty technologies play a central role in the execution and differentiation of customer loyalty programs and, more specifically, in driving consumer participation in a program across channels ...

Mobile continues to grow in importance for reaching and engaging empowered consumers and loyalty program members. From a data perspective, it opens up new streams of information that provide bet...
Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes towar...
Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...
This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence executives working on driving customer loyalty. Many loyalty programs fail because they focus too heavily on dis...

This report outlines Forrester's performance management solution for customer intelligence executives working on driving customer loyalty. Measuring the performance of loyalty programs remains a...
Companies turn to loyalty program service providers for support across the loyalty value chain — from program strategy, technology, and program management to creative, fulfillment, and lia...

Successful intelligence-driven loyalty involves five major components: strategy, data, customer intelligence, offer management, and measurement. This report outlines Forrester's assessment proce...

Successful coalition loyalty programs like Nectar and Airmiles cover a majority share of consumer spend and offer a neutral currency and loyalty card across multiple partners, covering grocery, ...
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