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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.
Landscape: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes toward...
The CMO Must Orchestrate Mobile Tightly Into Brand Experience From The Start
Mobile is finally getting air time with the most innovative brands and marketers. Hoping to make mobile a more common and rich media choice among large brand advertisers, both Google and Apple have...
Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...
Marketing Gets Customized For Social, Local, Mobile, Multiscreen Consumers
Social is not a channel, and mobile goes beyond the smartphone. In 2012, marketers will get this concept and realize that their customer is truly "always on." The customer of 2012 expects customized,...
Location-Based Social Networking, Though Stagnant Now, Is Poised To Grow
Geosocial applications — also known as location-based social networks — hold potential for interactive marketers: They can help increase in-store visits, your brand's visibility, and...
Traditional marketing vehicles are becoming less effective in capturing and engaging the attention of today's perpetually connected consumers. Chief marketing officers (CMOs) must adapt their...

Making Smart Decisions To Support Your Business Needs
This report is a mobile messaging vendor overview designed to provide a framework for narrowing the list of potential vendors that are well suited to meet the needs of your business. Rather than an...

Benchmarks: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the...

Modern business is all about honing your predictive powers to anticipate the best move at every stage of every business process — both customer-facing and back-office. Leading-edge...
Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing
Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

European Interactive Agencies Report Their Capacity, Budget, And Industry Capabilities
Companies seeking agency partners in Europe find it challenging to identify the best agencies to meet their needs. To kick-start the vendor selection process, Forrester gathered self-reported data...
Spend Will Near $77 Billion As Interactive Gains Legitimacy In The Mix
By 2016, advertisers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing — as much as they do on television today. Search marketing, display advertising, mobile marketing, email marketing, and...

Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices
Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

Deliver What They Want Where They Want It
Mobile is becoming the new face of engagement. By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion business application buyers and/or users. Mobile is not simply another...

Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...
Assessment: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your mobile marketing capabilities. We find that although mobile budgets are beginning to increase, the majority of interactive marketers...

Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions
Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...