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Peter serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses on eCommerce technologies and solutions, including B2C and B2B eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, digital in-store technologies, and digital commerce. Peter has specific expertise helping eBusiness leaders understand the integration challenges between eCommerce and back-office technologies across channels and touchpoints. His interests focus on mobile and tablet commerce trends, digital in-store experiences, multichannel retail, social commerce, and digital media.
Peter has extensive experience working with an ecosystem of eCommerce technologies, including eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, content management, web analytics, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), digital asset management, payment systems, and social media, to name a few. Peter has more than 13 years of experience in eCommerce and web technologies. Most recently, Peter held both product management and product marketing positions at Elastic Path, a leading eCommerce platform vendor. He also worked as a senior business analyst at JP Morgan and Ford Motor Company, where he started his career in eCommerce developing a direct online channel for new vehicle sales in the UK. Peter's experience spans both business and technology, including business analysis, product management, product marketing, solution architecture, user experience, and online marketing.
Peter holds a BEng in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
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...

B2B marketers across all industries are investing more into creating digital content to generate new business opportunities, nurture existing sales or marketing leads, and to encourage deeper...

B2B Marketers Need To Expand Their Online Advertising Horizons
Display marketing is part of most B2B interactive marketers' plans for 2011, but few are prepared to unlock its full potential. Rather than miss opportunities by simply porting over print media...
Benchmarking Web Sites Using Forrester's Online Video Product Scorecard
Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for adding video to your Web site. In this report, we demonstrate how our online video product...

The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...
The Payment Methods That Appeal Most And Least To Leisure Travel Bookers
Since 2007, US travelers' usage and interest in alternative payment methods (APMs) for online travel purchases has been slowly, but steadily, increasing. Fifteen percent of US online leisure travel...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Agency fees spending is broken out by...
An Empowered Report: Content Is A Product, Too
Disruptive consumer behavior is profoundly affecting your ability to engage consumers through traditional media and marketing channels. Empowered product strategists within your organization must be...
Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders
Social media contributes value to interactive marketing programs in many ways — but measuring that value is difficult. The sheer volume of social media metrics can quickly become overwhelming...

The Most Valuable Searchers Click On Both Paid And Natural Listings
Search marketers often try to profile consumers who click on paid ads against those who prefer natural search results. But the reality is there is little discernable difference between paid and...

The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...
Over the past year, marketers have made the shift from learning about the meaning of gamification to incorporating it into their strategies. But so far, the results have been mixed, as the...
Use SPARC To Create Digital Content Experiences That Users Will Pay For
Sales of paid digital content have stalled, although consumer demand for many services is still growing. Despite a clear and profound shift in the way we access and consume media content, traditional...
How To Protect Your Email Data
In facing security woes such as the Epsilon breach, email marketing professionals have received a wake-up call: Security failures can cost a lot — not just a lot of money but also goodwill with...
Those Who Plan Carefully Before Investing Will Achieve Optimal Results
As tech marketers begin to embrace discussion forums and online communities as effective ways to engage with BT customers, they increasingly seek guidance on best practices and recommended...
Make The Most Of Your TV Media Buys
Networks have launched co-viewing apps for PCs, tablets, and smartphone devices and are seeing some great results — from driving tune-in to additional engagement, loyalty, and recall....
The Decision About Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) Is An Immediate Priority
Most companies have been looking at the upcoming availability of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as a brand and trademark protection issue rather than as a significant new business opportunity....
Segmentation has always served as a core underpinning of traditional marketing. The benefits are myriad and well understood by those in the offline world. The very recent advent of the data...
The Case For A Music Product Strategy Reset
Digital music product strategy is in urgent need of a reset. While tumbling CD revenues and stuttering digital sales continue to highlight the diminishing relevance of current music products, a...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
While 80% of US consumers still use a branch for some part of their banking needs, more than 40% now use the online channel. US consumers are continuing to make greater use of digital channels,...
Location-Based Social Networking, Though Stagnant Now, Is Poised To Grow
Geosocial applications — also known as location-based social networks — hold potential for interactive marketers: They can help increase in-store visits, your brand's visibility, and...
Although social media gives interactive marketers the opportunity to gather more data than ever about customers, few marketers use this data to improve the performance of their email marketing...
How Interactive Marketers Should Tap Twitter For Real Business Results
With Twitter's usage numbers ballooning and its recent announcement of brand pages, interactive marketers are paying attention. Recognizing its potential across the marketing mix, many have already...

Marketers Must Start Paying Attention And Stop Buying Bad Inventory
The more online video advertising matures, the more it resembles TV advertising. But if marketers aren't careful, the inventory they're buying can look like overnight rather than prime time. Too many...
How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative
As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...
