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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.
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.
Shar is a graduate of Harvard University.
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An Empowered Report: Tools To Assess How Employees Use Technology
To have a fact-based conversation about what your employees need from technology, you have to ask them. Field a survey when you absolutely must have the facts without bias. For a quick and dirty...
You're absolutely right to say that EA should contribute well to these exercises. We've been involved in a similar Application Maintenance bid process at BP. The key areas where we supported were:...

Mobile Banking's Time Has Finally Come
Empowered Employees Solve Customer Problems: Find Them And Help Them
Groundswell technologies — social, mobile, video, and cloud — put tremendous power in the hands of customers. Only empowered employees can respond at the speed of empowered customers...
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to investigate master data management (MDM) as a strategic means to deliver a trusted view of critical data throughout the...
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This is super ground breaking work. The reference model is extremely valuable in comparing to vendor implementations. Do you have an assessment or RFI template for IC-BPMS?
Vision: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes Forrester's vision of strategic software sourcing for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives. It is more difficult than ever for software sourcing professionals to meet...
Microsoft has entered the enterprise search market with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), joining BEA Systems, Google, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and a long list of pure-plays in a volatile...
Jawbone, a privately-held company based in San Francisco with a $1.5 billion valuation, today announced the relaunch of its UP wristband, which it discontinued one year ago due to manufacturing...
A Look At How Consumers Describe Their Banks And Investment Firms
We examined how often consumers use the words "honest" and "helpful" to describe their primary bank and investment firm. It turns out that Seniors are the group most likely to use these terms across...
Despite early signs of a global recovery, online shoppers in all regions of the world continue to be cautious in making purchase decisions. Consumers today are visiting a variety of sites before...
Local Franchises Have Strategic Advantages Over National Competitors
Events and entertainment are a strategic business for local media properties online. Local entertainment is under threat from national providers that can spread the necessary software development...
Was the introduction of the Ford Model T an improvement or an innovation over the horse drawn wagon? As an SVM professional, you may ask, “Why is this question important for me?” But as...
Some positions prove to be more difficult to fill than others. One area where managers see many challenges in obtaining and keeping quality employees is in the world of eBusiness. It proves to be...
Building off of Tom Grant's post about Google Buzz earlier today, Google Buzz is an interesting case study about how winning market share is not just about having the first or the best product....
One interesting question is whether or not EA 1.0 to EA 2.0 is evolutionary or revolutionary. Can EA 1.0 org's and people make the change? or does the EA 1.0 organization need to be totally...