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Steven serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He is an authority on Australian online retail, including the behavior of Australian consumers, the sector's pattern of growth, Australian online retail technology adoption, and local retail practices across the entire customer life cycle, including marketing, merchandizing, and customer experience. A consistent theme of his recent research is the need to bury the funnel as a model of how marketing and commerce function, replacing it with a holistic understanding of the customer life cycle. From his base in Australia, Steven observes Asia Pacific trends, with a focus on China. His global research has addressed issues that range from content moderation and green marketing to global marketing management.
Before joining Forrester, Steven spent almost five years with the global, full-service public relations agency Hill & Knowlton. There he launched and managed the company's digital PR offering in Australia. Prior to this, Steven's roles included editor of Australian Macworld and eBusiness editor of Marketing magazine.
Steven received an MBA from the University of Technology Sydney, a graduate certificate in professional writing and editing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and a B.A. with honors in economic history and industrial relations from the University of Melbourne.
Continuous Improvement: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook
Managing brand health has become more complicated as the expansion of marketing, sales, and service channels creates a vast array of consumer data that can be used for analysis in the 21st century....
What To Expect For The Health Of Your Community
Interactive marketers in charge of branded communities need to be able to benchmark goals and set expectations for the success of their programs. However, the benchmarks being observed are typically...

Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions
Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...
Findings From Forrester's Listening Platforms Wave™ Evaluation
We recently surveyed 153 listening platform customers about their vendor partnerships and Social Intelligence practices. Listening platform customers represent companies of all sizes and industries...
Harnessing Digital Data To Monitor The Brand's Past, Present, And Future Health
Big data holds big promise for marketers who want to understand and manage their brand's health with greater precision. But challenges abound. While the technology is available to process new sources...

Medallia And MarketTools Lead With Strong Performers Close Behind
In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of enterprise feedback management (EFM) satisfaction and loyalty solutions, we found that Medallia and MarketTools led the pack with comprehensive software...
Market Insights Professionals Should Assess Their Social Market Research Readiness Level For Embracing And Listening
Forrester has been tracking the emergence of social market research since 2008, and it is clear that it has reached an inflection point. Social market research is no longer hype and is now a...

Landscape: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Over the years, we've evaluated the tools that marketers use to monitor, measure, and learn from online conversations. These listening platforms capture social media to help users analyze data and...
Benchmarks: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Forrester recently polled 108 listening platform customers to learn about the evolution in companies' social intelligence practices. We reviewed their vendor partnerships, the ways they use listening...

Assessment: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook
Today's digitally empowered consumers have more opportunities than ever to voice their wants, needs, and expectations, forcing marketers to rethink the way they build successful brands. This report...
An Empowered Report: How Data-Driven Strategies Strengthen Empowered Organizations
An empowered organization gives its employees the resources they need to build relationships with their constantly evolving customers. But many companies still struggle to adapt their marketing...

How Vendors Will Drive Co-Creation Uptake By Product Strategists
Co-creation will become a pillar of product innovation by 2015. Although the market remains relatively immature, we have witnessed growing awareness of co-creation from our clients across a wide...
Trends 2010: Listening Platforms
Customer service managers must pragmatically balance the needs of their customers with the needs of their business. Listening platforms allow customer service organizations to better understand how...

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...
