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Kate serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She is a leading expert on customer service strategies. Her research focuses on helping organizations establish and validate customer service strategies, prioritize and focus customer service projects, facilitate customer service vendor selection, and plan for project success.
Kate has extensive industry experience, with more than 10 years of leadership at customer service software companies, where she held senior product marketing and product management roles. She is also a published author on customer service trends and best practices.
Kate earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
When And How Interactive Marketers Should Build Apps For Marketing Purposes
Mobile apps hold exciting potential for interactive marketers to reach their audiences through mobile devices in ways the mobile Web can't. But today, mobile apps receive a mixed response from...

Mobile Marketing Needs To Be A Value Exchange Between Brand And Consumer
Consumers' use of mobile is nearly ubiquitous in North America, but mobile marketing is still in its early years. Interactive marketers must take advantage of the opportunity to capture consumers'...
The Time Is Right To Test Hyperlocal Near Field Communication (NFC)
Near field communication (NFC) allows consumers to use their mobile and custom devices to directly interact with almost any real-world object such as posters, clothes, and shop windows. The allure of...


How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes important content for CMOs and marketing leaders looking to improve discovery of their products and services. The discover...

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...
Contextual Marketing Demands A Unique Approach To Tablets
Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used within...
New Digital Platforms Have To Wait Their Turn, As Traditional Stores Stay Critical
CMOs of business-to-consumer (B2C) companies have lately called on shopper marketers to address the growing complexity of the impact of digital on in-store purchasing. Forrester recently conducted a...

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...

Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook
You already know your audience uses social media; one minute they're planning vacations on Twitter and the next they're toppling governments with the help of Facebook. And because your customers use...

And Why Multitouchpoint Campaigns Will Drive Value, Not Just Traffic
As in years past, natural search results, links, and personal emails are the most cited resources for finding websites. But take note: Social media — in particular social networks —...
Choosing The Right Approach For Your Target Consumers
Mobile commerce is growing in Australia at a rapid pace. To shape sensible strategies, Australian eBusiness professionals must understand the behavior of their customers. For example, they should...
Effective mobile marketing begins with understanding how consumers use the two main types of mobile devices that can deliver rich marketing experiences: smartphones and tablets. This short report...

A Technographics® Data Essentials Report
Discovery is the first phase of the customer life cycle — it's the crucial time when consumers first find out about new brands, products, and services. If the "Discover" phase is successful,...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2012 of 4,506 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,506), there is 95% confidence...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in June 2012 of 4,506 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,506), there is 95% confidence that...
Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations
Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...
