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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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Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast (US): Total offline retail sales that are influenced by online (including mobile) research. Offline-influenced retail sales by 30 retail categories such as...
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Mobile commerce forecast: Includes mobile commerce buyers segmented by age. Overall mobile commerce spending by consumers at an aggregate level across retail, travel, coupons, and mobile media and...
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Online retail spending forecast (Western Europe): Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total...
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Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, consumer electronics, and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such as online buyers, average spending per...
Coca-Cola recently announced that it is jumping into the red-hot Indian online retail arena by selling directly to consumers and small businesses, a first for a FMCG (CPG) company in India. While the...
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Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, consumer electronics, and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such as online buyers, average spending per...
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Online retail spending by category in South Korea, Japan, Australia, India, and China. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software,...
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Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast (US): Total offline retail sales that are influenced by online research. Offline-influenced retail sales by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares,...
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Online retail forecast (Latin America): Online retail spending by category in Brazil and Mexico. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and...
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Online retail spending by category in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software, consumer...
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Online travel forecast (US): Total and online travel spending by managed business and unmanaged business plus leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, hotel, car, cruise, and tours. Also...
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Consumer payments by value and and volume for different alternative payment methods, including e-wallet payments, prepaid/stored-value cards, and deferred billing, as well as credit and debit card...
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Online Retail Forecast (Asia Pacific): Online retail spending by category in South Korea, Japan, Australia, India, and China. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such...
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Insurance sales forecast (US): Includes online insurance buyers for motor insurance and home onsurance. Additionally, segments total premiums written and net online premiums written for motor and...
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Online Retail Spending Forecast (Western Europe): Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online buyers and average online spending by...
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Online Retail Spending Forecast (US): Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, and consumer electronics and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such...