Julie A. Ask

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.


Education

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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  • Interactive Marketing Strategy and Process
  • Past 12 months
  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:Assessing Your Content Management Processes And Organization

    B2B marketers across all industries are investing more into creating digital content to generate new business opportunities, nurture existing sales or marketing leads, and to encourage deeper...

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Agency fees spending is broken out by...

    • Downloads: 9
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Social Media Metrics That Matter

    Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders

    Social media contributes value to interactive marketing programs in many ways — but measuring that value is difficult. The sheer volume of social media metrics can quickly become overwhelming...

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  • For Market Insights Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Receptiveness To Advertising

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Gamification: "Level Up" Your Strategic Approach

    Over the past year, marketers have made the shift from learning about the meaning of gamification to incorporating it into their strategies. But so far, the results have been mixed, as the...

    • Downloads: 83
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    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:2013 Planning Brief: Listen To Customers, Engage With Influencers

      How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative

      As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Understand Immediacy, Simplicity, And Context

      Processes: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

      This report highlights the key principles of mobile experience that interactive marketers must weave into the process of crafting mobile marketing strategies. More people own smartphones than ever...

      • Downloads: 1386
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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Build An Empowered Media Buying Team

      Organization: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

      Long-term, digital media buying success requires a commitment to the right partnerships, staffing, and organizational structure. The organization report in the digital media buying playbook will help...

      • Downloads: 221
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Mastering New Marketing Automation Approaches

      Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

      The age of the customer ties success to firms' ability to know and serve their customers. Campaigns provide an instrument to drive customer behavior, but traditional campaign approaches can't keep up...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:Forrester Wave™: Search Marketing Agencies Q4 '12

    • For Sales Enablement Professionals

      Report:Content Management Process And Organization Capabilities Assessment

      B2B marketers realize that delivering an effective content marketing strategy is now a critical differentiation imperative as they align with the customer life cycle. Review the criteria and answer...

      • Downloads: 35
    • 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: 250
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Understanding Tag Management Tools And Technology

      Users Benefit From A Rapidly Maturing Market And Proven Gains

      Maintaining accurate and complete JavaScript tagging on websites is critical for ensuring the efficacy of marketing and analytics efforts. But the highly dynamic pace and volume of tag management...

      • Downloads: 524
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    • 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:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

      A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

      Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

      • Downloads: 37
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Measure The Strength Of The Marketing Technology Stack

      Performance Management: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

      The evolution from channel-specific to cross-channel campaigns affords firms the opportunity to improve relevance and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. The processes of measuring and...

      • Downloads: 163
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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:The Four Social Marketing Tools You Need

      Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook

      Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they're increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology...

      • Downloads: 553
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2012: US Online Grocers

      Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores

      Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

      • Downloads: 323
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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: 1065
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:"Owner" And "Sponsor" B2B Community Success Metrics

      Benchmarks: The B2B Online Community Playbook

      As a B2B social marketer in charge of either owner or sponsor strategy communities, meaning communities that you operate — and fund — on your domain, you need to be able to set...

      • Downloads: 182
      • Comments: 1
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Develop Content Capabilities Now

      How To Reach European Consumers In New Ad-Free Media

      Marketers' traditional advertising tactics face a new disruption: paid content. Why? Because the number of consumers buying online content in Western European countries will continue to swell over...

      • Downloads: 282
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:B2B Groundswell Awards For Communities

      Learn From The Winners About Best Practices To Emulate

      Outstanding business-to-business (B2B) community and social marketers took a variety of approaches to community marketing in Forrester's 2012 B2B Groundswell Awards, and each of them has demonstrated...

      • Downloads: 67
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:Take Forrester's Digital Media Buying Maturity Self-Assessment

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

      ForecastView Spreadsheet

      Online social media users, user penetration, and social media advertising spending for 17 Western European countries. Includes historical data back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.

      • Downloads: 3
     
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