Vikram Sehgal

VP, Research Director - Data serving Customer Insights PROFESSIONALS

Vikram leads the forecast team, which is responsible for producing all forecasts within M&S research. He is focused on the consumer commerce areas including retail, travel, and financial services. He is keenly involved in understanding the evolution of consumers' online behavior and technology adoption.

Previous Work Experience

Vikram came to Forrester Research through its acquisition of Jupiter Research, where he started in July 2000. Prior to Jupiter, Vikram worked at IRI, a leading market research company, where he worked closely with some of the leading CPG companies.

Vikram often appears on TV, radio, and comments in the press on the US online retail and travel industry. He has been quoted in The L.A. Times, Business Week, The New York Times, CNN Money, and American Banker. He has also appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Radio, NPR, Fox Business News, and ABC.


Education

Vikram earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech and a B.Com from N.M College in Mumbai, India.

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    Client Inquiry:Who Are The People Responsible For Purchasing Marketing Applications And Cross-Channel Platforms?

    Who (job title, level, and role) are the (across multiple industries) IT professionals that influence selection, purchasing, and implementation decisions regarding marketing applications and...

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Remarketing Done Right

      Maximize Display Effectiveness By Optimizing Your Approach

      New upstarts like Dotomi and FetchBack have recently invigorated interest in the value of remarketing, but it's a tried-and-true display tactic that's been around for years. Marketers can...

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      Report:Marketing To Millennials: The Next Generation Of Purchasing Power

      Why Marketers Must Use A Skillful Approach To Reach Millennials Effectively

      As Millennials continue to flow into the workforce, marketers will naturally focus more of their efforts on this emerging adult generation with increasing purchasing power. However, Millennials are...

      • Downloads: 1059
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      Charts & Figures:Social Media Can Enhance Traditional Media Channels

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      Report:Best Practices For Display Marketing

      Processes: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

      As more and more interactive marketers buy digital media programmatically, the technologies and processes they use are rapidly maturing. Whether you're a digital media buying skeptic working to build...

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      Report:Manage Your Marketing Mix Modeling Vendors

      Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

      Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...

      • Downloads: 175
    • 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: 353
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      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: 237
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Adapting To Media Fragmentation In Europe

      The Impact Of Media Fragmentation Patterns On Communication Strategy

      Consumers across Europe are embracing new media platforms that change the way they consume content. This year's European Technographics® data shows a continuous growth in the amount of time...

      • Downloads: 380
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Midyear Planning: Predictions For 2011

      Marketers Move Toward Multichannel Planning And Execution

      Interactive marketers are working hard to keep up with the evolving landscape of channels, tools, and technologies at their disposal for 2011 budget planning. Seventy percent of marketers expect...

      • Downloads: 1295
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Scale Success with Programmatic Multichannel Media Buying

      Continuous Improvement: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

      This report of the digital media buying playbook will guide marketers to think beyond the possibilities of programmatic media management in display; take them down the path to embracing programmatic...

      • Downloads: 349
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Client Inquiry:What Were The Selection Criteria For Inclusion In Forrester's Marketing Mix Modeling Wave?

      What were the selection criteria for inclusion in Forrester's September 21, 2011, "The Forrester Wave: Marketing Mix Modeling, Q3 2011" report.

      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Western European Social Media Marketing Forecast, 2012 To 2017

        Growth Slows But Remains Strong Despite Legislative Uncertainty

        Social media marketing spending in the European Union (EU) will rise over the next five years, boosted by increasing numbers of addressable devices; consumers' willingness to use them; continued...

        • Downloads: 122
      • 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: 251
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Choosing The Right Media Mix 2010: Europe

        From Creating Awareness To The Act Of Purchase

        Television is still the dominant medium to get messages in front of European consumers, but the Internet is now the primary medium consumers use to research their purchases. Within the digital...

        • Downloads: 654
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        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
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Tool:Calculating The Media Fragmentation Index

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        Report:The Always Addressable Customer

        Vision: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

        This report introduces Forrester's vision of mobile marketing for interactive marketing professionals: Discover the new ultra-connected customer, for whom mobile is the key touchpoint. In 2010, we...

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        The Email Marketing Playbook

        Graduate From Email To Integrated Messaging

        The rules for how to best message your users are changing. Now your customers check their email, text messages, and social media posts in parallel. Even trickier: People tap their inboxes from...

        • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

          Report:Testing Emerging Media: A B2B Framework

          B2B marketers are beginning to introduce new digital tools like social media, mobile, and online video into their marketing mix. Nonetheless, many B2Bs lack a clear process for prioritizing and...

          • Downloads: 711
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          Report:2011 Interactive Marketing Predictions

          Reorganize To Tear Down Channel Ghettos And Focus On The Customer

          Flush with cash, interactive marketers will experiment aggressively in 2011, using the careful planning and execution learned in the recent downturn to increase the success rate of innovations. Look...

          • Downloads: 1512
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          Tool:Forecast: US Interactive Marketing Spend, 2009 To 2014

        • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

          Report:How To Integrate Email With Search Marketing

          Coordinating Email And Search Can Jump-Start Integrated Marketing

          Interactive marketers can ease into integrated marketing by starting small and coordinating the efforts of two of the more established channels: email and search. This process requires simple changes...

          • Downloads: 753
        • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

          Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To Owned, Paid, And Earned Media

          The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...

          • Downloads: 709
        • 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: 624
         
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