Shar VanBoskirk

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Marketing Leadership PROFESSIONALS

Shar serves Marketing Leadership professionals. She is a leading expert on how businesses can leverage interactive marketing channels and technologies to drive sales and deepen customer relationships. During her 12 years with Forrester, Shar has been instrumental in the development of many of the company's interactive marketing program evaluation methodologies, training courses, and marketing planning tools and has also been part of Forrester's sales and consulting organizations.

Shar's research focuses on overall interactive marketing strategies; crafting efficient, effective interactive programs; organizing for interactive marketing; and integrating interactive channels into the rest of the marketing mix. Specific subjects addressed in Shar's research include email marketing, online advertising, search engine marketing, ad serving and targeting, interactive budgeting and forecasts, and interactive marketing organizational models.

Previous Work Experience

Shar returned to Forrester in 2004 after several years away working in marketing consulting. Shar served as research director for marketing research boutique, TideWatch, where she led internal strategy efforts and client strategy projects. Shar was also a consultant with Carlson Marketing Group's Business Strategy Consulting team, developing CRM and email programs for clients including British Airways, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and Home Depot. Shar began her career at Forrester in 1997 during the early days of the Internet and has written research on customer loyalty, ad networks, and marketing measurement and planning.

A popular speaker, Shar has been seen on stage at ad:tech, MITX, DMA, and the Email Service Provider Coalition events, among others. She is on the board of SEMPO — the search engine marketing professionals organization — and is also widely quoted in the press including such media outlets as BusinessWeek, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and is a frequent guest on CNBC and National Public Radio.


Education

Shar is a graduate of Harvard University.

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    Report:Social Media Metrics That Matter

    Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders

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    Report:CI Teams: Blocking And Tackling Is Not Enough

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    We recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals about their use of analytical applications and priorities. Users are investing in solutions that transform insight into action, but a...

    • Downloads: 321
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    Tool:Determine The CORE Directive Most Critical For You

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    Charts & Figures:Elements Of A Successful Attribution Implementation

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    Report:Become Scientific About Marketing Investments And Outcomes

    Road Map: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix optimization (MMO) has become an indispensable discipline for marketing leaders because it helps in effectively allocating marketing budgets across an increasingly fragmented media and...

    • Downloads: 271
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    Report:Deliver Transparent Returns On Your Marketing Dollar

    Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...

    • Downloads: 234
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    Report:2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

    Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

    With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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    Report:CI Professionals: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

    Customer Intelligence Professionals Need Mobile Analytic Tactics

    Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...

    • Downloads: 675
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    Report:CCP Games Uses A DSP To Close The Loop On Acquisition And Cross-Sell

    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...

    • Downloads: 166
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    Report:CMO Imperatives For 2012

    Use Technology To Move From Experimentation To Driving Results

    In 2012, CMOs will need to embrace technology to help them handle big issues like: 1) addressing the maturation of social media from cool tool to critical connector with customers; 2) determining how...

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    Report:Building A World-Class Loyalty Program

    Continuous Improvement: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Successful loyalty programs offer a boost to customer retention, customer satisfaction, and the bottom line. But today, many programs fail to reach success because they haven't mastered even basic...

    • Downloads: 494
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Presents A Clear Path To Marketing ROI

    Vision: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    Today's customers interact with brands via a wide variety of touchpoints and at different stages of the brand life cycle. But companies measure campaign success using last-touch methods that fail to...

    • Downloads: 443
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Marketing Technology Adoption 2011

    Findings From Forrester's Q4 2010 Survey Of Customer Intelligence Professionals

    Forrester recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence professionals to understand their marketing technology priorities, plans, and budgets. Old issues continue to fester — a lack of a...

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    Report:CI Professionals: Plan For The Future Of Cross-Channel Marketing

    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...

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    Report:The Keys To A Social Intelligence Command Center

    Continuous Improvement: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    If you represent a large consumer brand, consider a social intelligence command center — a dedicated resource for listening to the groundswell. A command center like this can improve your...

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    Report:The Attribution Readiness Self-Test

    Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals should constantly evaluate their need for next-generation marketing measurement processes, including cross-channel attribution. Successfully implementing...

    • Downloads: 274
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    Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

    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...

    • Downloads: 72
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    Tool:The Online Marketing Suite Needs Assessment

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    Report:Twitter Automatic Messages: Easy But Dangerous

    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...

    • Downloads: 216
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Evaluate Your Marketing Optimization Readiness

    Assessment: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    To ensure continued success in this age of increasingly fragmenting audiences and multiplying communication platforms, marketers need to adapt their strategies and tactics to optimally allocate their...

    • Downloads: 220
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Road Map To Integrated Social Intelligence

    Road Map: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Too many companies remain trapped by merely monitoring or passively collecting social media. Few actually reach social intelligence: driving their marketing and business strategy using the data that...

    • Downloads: 1209
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    Report:European Marketing Technology Adoption 2011

    Findings From Forrester's Q4 2010 Customer Intelligence Survey

    Forrester surveyed 52 European customer intelligence (CI) professionals in Q4 2010 about their technology adoption plans. This report drills into the technology adoption trends of our European...

    • Downloads: 253
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Tool:Attribution Readiness Self-Test: Culture And Business Process

  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:A Holistic Measurement System Enables Continuous Improvement

    Performance Management: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

    The seminal idea behind lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) was the need to calibrate marketing's activities (and budget) to the result of revenue generation. But effective performance management of...

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    Report:The Digital Media Buying Maturity Framework

    Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

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    Report:Untangling The Attribution Web

    Using Cross-Channel Attribution To Understand Marketing Effectiveness

    In an environment where media fragmentation is the status quo, traditional one-to-one, last-touch methods of allocating demand to marketing efforts are outdated and lead to a suboptimal marketing...

    • Downloads: 724
 
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