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Bill serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He specializes in the attitudes and behaviors of mass-affluent and affluent investors; online investing; brokerages, mutual funds, and insurers; financial advisors; financial firms' websites; and customer loyalty. He has helped brokerages, asset managers, and insurers design their websites and understand their market opportunities. His recent reports include "Segmenting Today's Investors."
During his 12 years at Forrester, Bill has led the company's coverage of the financial services industry. He has led research on other industries as well, including media and online advertising. Bill is the author of several Forrester Big Idea documents, including "Customer Advocacy: The Secret To Loyal Financial Services Customers."
Before joining Forrester, Bill spent 14 years designing, building, and running online services for business and consumer users. As a producer-in-chief for the AT&T Business Network, Bill led the design and implementation of one of AT&T's first web-based products. He also led the development and launch of Ziff-Davis Interactive's services for Prodigy.
Before Ziff-Davis, Bill was a vice president and creative director of new product development at Citibank, where he led the development of the user interface and applications for the first full-screen consumer telephone. He also managed relationship marketing for Citibank's PC banking service. Prior to Citibank, Bill helped build and then run Huttonline, the first-ever online service from a full-service brokerage. He was also a researcher and writer at Newsweek.
Bill has been widely quoted in publications including BusinessWeek, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. He is a much sought-after speaker and moderator at conferences. As host of Forrester's Financial Services Forum for 10 years, Bill has conducted on-stage interviews with the chairmen and CEOs of dozens of major firms, including American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Charles Schwab, Citi, Edward Jones, and Vanguard.
Bill is a graduate of Harvard University.
Big US Banks Need To Demonstrate Customer Advocacy Now More Than Ever
Customer advocacy scores are down this year as the financial crisis takes its toll. Low customer advocacy scores are bad news for any firm that wants to deepen relationships with existing customers....
Consumer trust in financial institutions is returning. One year after the financial crisis brought the US economy to its knees, customers are more likely to say their financial institutions do what's...
Two years after a near collapse of the financial system, consumer trust in many US financial institutions has returned. But some firms rank much higher than others in our customer advocacy ratings....
Customer Advocacy 2011: How Customers Rate US Banks, Investment Firms, And Insurers
Marketing leaders at top-ranked financial services firms have found the secret to loyal customers. Forrester calls it customer advocacy: customers' perception that a firm does what's best for them,...
How To Evolve Your eBusiness Strategy To Deal With The Financial Crisis
The sharp worsening of the financial crisis in the past two months and the recession in most Western markets mean that eBusiness executives need to rethink their priorities — and fast. As the...
Our research shows that a key driver of deeper customer relationships among financial services consumers is a trait we call "customer advocacy" — the perception on the part of customers that a...
By 2011, Forrester expects 12 million US households to be trading online — a 48% increase over today. The bull market is driving current gains. But other factors will also fuel the growth of...
By 2012, Forrester expects 1.54 million Canadian households to be buying and selling investments online — a 73% increase over today. What will drive adoption? Market performance will have the...