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Julie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Julie's 25 years of work experience is balanced between the engineering and management consulting work she did in the first half of her career and her work as an analyst for the past 12 years. The combination of technical and business expertise positions prepared her well to work with business leaders to identify new opportunities offered by mobile technology and to develop strategies to engage with consumers on mobile devices. She has worked with hundreds of clients across retail, travel, banking, insurance, CPG, healthcare, retail, and more to advise and guide the development of their mobile strategies.
Julie's research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, RCR Wireless, and The Onion and on CBS, NBC, and PBS.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Julie holds a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending
Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...

Consumers Define Which Aspects Of The Brand Experience Are Critical
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Are your clients excited about actually registering the dot-brand extension, because each can be quite costly? Do you think that brands will justify the expense? What is the interest level for other...
Although television is the overall dominant advertising medium in US, marketers are now seeing audience fragmentation across the spectrum of broadcast and cable networks. In the digital world,...
According to a recent AdAge Article, births have surpassed immigration as the main driver of growth in the U.S. Hispanic market. This is reigniting the question of how brands can most effectively...
How much time and money are you investing into your SEO? What is your website page rank? your visibility online, your net reputation and online conversions? Are you familiar with " The Anatomy of...
We're looking at how aggressively marketers are increasing their spend and hiring this year, and need your input.- What's your attitude towards the economy, are you spending more this year to fuel...
How can marketing best support sales with marketing tactics that work best in a complex business-to-business (B2B) sales environment to drive leads, develop relationships with centers of influence...
How Marketers Can Get Better Work From Their Brand Agencies
Great creative advertising is always in demand. But when it comes to providing strategic direction to agencies, marketers are their own worst enemy. Why? Many marketers' organizational structures,...
Budget season is upon us. With a rapidly changing media landscape, many marketers are re-evaluating how they allocate their marketing dollars. What's on your mind as you plan your budget for 2012? ...
I'd love to see more of these articles that show comparative data. All too often we get a EU or UK version that pops up 3-4 months later. Surely it could easily be wrapped up into one article.
I've been challenged with developing new product creation ideas. Is there a model to follow or specific research resources that Forrester recommends?
It used to be that TV was one of the easiest media channels to plan against. Marketers pulled reach and frequency reports were content to know their spots aired during a show that got a specific...
I just blogged about how B2B budgets and Charles Dickens have something in common. They both come with Great Expectations.Forrester's recent B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey shows...
Marketers, does the idea of a digital-only 'super' agency network entice you at all?
Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook
Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...