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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  • Shar VanBoskirk
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Asia Pacific Online Advertising Forecast, 2012 To 2017

    China Dominates A Rapidly Growing Yet Cautious Market

    By 2017, marketers advertising with online display and search media in India, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and China will grow their investments at a 23% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to...

    • Downloads: 144
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:How To Organize For The Digital Future

    Assign An Owner To Digital Strategy, Governance, And Execution

    To survive the destructive forces of digital disruption, firms must use eBusiness and interactive marketing capabilities to become customer obsessed. Yet most current digital organizations are too...

    • Downloads: 533
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

    Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

    Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

    • Downloads: 1117
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:2013 Interactive Marketing Predictions

    The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing

    In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...

    • Downloads: 611
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Bid Management Software Providers, Q4 2012

    Kenshoo Leads, With IgnitionOne And Marin Software Following As Strong Performers

    In response to growing demand for bid management software, Forrester evaluated this category in addition to two others in separate Forrester Waves™: search marketing agencies and SEO platforms....

    • Downloads: 249
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: SEO Platforms, Q4 2012

    Rio SEO Leads, With BrightEdge Following As A Strong Performer

    Forrester's 21-criteria evaluation of SEO platforms evaluates the four largest providers of tools for organic search auditing, ranking support, measurement, and project management: BrightEdge,...

    • Downloads: 370
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Search Marketing Agencies, Q4 2012

    360i, iCrossing, And Performics Lead The Way Toward Discovery Marketing

    In Forrester's 25-criteria evaluation of search marketing agencies, we researched, analyzed, and compared seven agencies that have search marketing services at their cores. This report details our...

    • Downloads: 414
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The New Search Marketing Review

    Introducing Forrester's Search Marketing Review Methodology 2.0

    Paid search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are still mainstays in the interactive marketer's toolkit. And many legacy best practices still apply to paid search and SEO. However,...

    • Downloads: 383
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Email Marketing Scorecard

    Assessment: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your email marketing capabilities as well as the quality of the user experience for recipients of your marketing emails. Like Forrester's...

    • Downloads: 1545
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Build An Integrated Messaging Approach

    Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...

    • Downloads: 348
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Compare Your Campaigns To 70 Others

    Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

    • Downloads: 1517
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Apply Best Practices To Your Email Marketing

    Processes: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report highlights key processes that constitute best practices for interactive marketers whose responsibilities include email marketing. In an FAQ format, we address long-standing issues such as...

    • Downloads: 1063
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Balance User Needs With Business Goals

    Strategic Plan: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report articulates a strategic plan for how interactive marketers can improve their email programs today and create humanized, integrated messages in the future. We recommend marketers build...

    • Downloads: 249
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Introducing Forrester's Email Marketing Security Review

    In 2011, marketer-collected data — specifically email addresses — became the target of highly sophisticated hacking scams launched against businesses and email marketing service...

    • Downloads: 126
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How US Marketers Use Email

    Landscape: The Email Marketing Playbook

    Forrester periodically surveys marketers to get a pulse on how they employ the most veteran of tools in their interactive toolkits — email. We've found that more business-to-consumer (B2C) than...

    • Downloads: 917
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Choose The Right ESP For Your Needs

    Tools And Technology: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report helps interactive marketers select tools and technologies for email marketing. Most email marketers outsource the delivery of their email marketing programs because it unburdens internal...

    • Downloads: 241
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Improve With Simple Innovations

    Continuous Improvement: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report for interactive marketers is part of Forrester's email marketing playbook and provides our current recommendations for how to continuously improve your email marketing programs. By...

    • Downloads: 1083
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The New Messaging Mandate

    Vision: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report lays out Forrester's vision of email marketing for interactive marketers: Integrate email into a multichannel conversation that includes a number of non-email communication vehicles. Why?...

    • Downloads: 948
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Value Your Subscribers More Accurately

    Performance Management: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report, part of the email marketing playbook, provides interactive marketers with advice on email marketing performance management, with a focus specifically on list maintenance. We've outlined...

    • Downloads: 588
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Defining DMARC

    A New Way For Emailers To Defend Themselves Against Email Fraud

    Hundreds of brands are hijacked by phishing scams every month, costing companies and ultimately their end customers billions. And existing methods to fight phishing like email authentication...

    • Downloads: 109
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Why Care About Combination Clickers

    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...

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Mobile Marketing — A Forrester Compilation

    More people own smartphones than ever before and they’re using them more often too. This makes a mobile marketing strategy crucial for any interactive marketer. Yet today we find that although...

    • Downloads: 326
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:When To Pick A Niche Email Vendor

    Even the best email marketing service providers with the broadest relevance can't suit every possible marketer situation. This report: 1) identifies when you should consider other vendor options in...

    • Downloads: 251
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:US Financial Services Lead Interactive Marketing Spending

    US financial services interactive marketing spend will more than double by 2016 but won't grow its investments in every channel at the same pace. This brief report breaks down the increase by channel...

    • Downloads: 552
    • Comments: 1
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Vendors, Q1 2012

    Responsys, ExactTarget, And Experian CheetahMail Lead The Market

    In Forrester's 37-criteria evaluation of email marketing vendors, we identified the six significant providers in this category — Epsilon, ExactTarget, Experian CheetahMail, Responsys,...

    • Downloads: 1395
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