Kim Celestre

Senior Analyst serving Marketing Leadership PROFESSIONALS

Kim serves Marketing Leaders. Her analysis on social trends, challenges, and best practices helps marketers create social strategies and tactics that deliver value to their prospects and customers. Her research covers B2B and B2C marketing, with a specific emphasis on the use of social marketing platforms and online communities to shape exploration and buying behaviors.

Previous Work Experience

With over 15 years of marketing experience, Kim is an award-winning social media thought leader. She held various senior management roles throughout her career, including partner marketing, developer marketing, product marketing, event marketing, and marketing communications. She was a driving force behind Sun Microsystem's use of social media and listening platforms to drive awareness and product adoption. After Sun, Kim spent a year at Oracle as a senior global campaigns manager.


Education

Kim holds a B.A. in marketing from Rider University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.

Kim Celestre's Research

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: Align Your B2B Community Marketing With Your Customers' Life Cycle

    Communities provide the interactions and content that buyers seek when they want to discover, explore, and engage with a brand. But business-to-business (B2B) marketers often hesitate to interac...

    • Downloads: 110
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: The SMART Tech Selection Guide For Community Marketers

    Many IT managers tell us that marketers seem quick to jump to technology selection without first articulating the business reason for or the organizational impact of those choices. On the other ...

    • Downloads: 59
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: Role Profile: B2B Online Community Manager

    This report is designed to give B2B marketing professionals an introduction to the online community manager role as well as an overview of the general challenges facing an individual in this pos...

    • Downloads: 116
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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report: Organizing For Community Success

    For B2B marketers, when it comes to planning, designing, and implementing a successful online community, the rubber meets the road at organizational effectiveness. In order to sustain a healthy ...

    • Downloads: 159
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

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

    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 expec...

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

    Report: Market Overview: 2011 Social Media Platforms For B2B Tech Marketing

    The large and diverse ecosystem of social media platform technologies is undergoing rapid change. As customer needs and technologies evolve, suppliers are feverishly consolidating, integrating, ...

    • Downloads: 1323
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: 2011 Social Technographics® For Business Technology Buyers

    Data from Forrester's Q1 2011 US and European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers indicates that both social media habits and the role social media is pl...

    • Downloads: 1122
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: Social Media Amplifies Your B2B Buyers' Experiences

    In today's digital and social age, your customers' perception of your brand is shaped by their total personal experience as well as the experiences of others. Social media amplifies these experi...

    • Downloads: 608
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: The Social Tech Product Launch

    New product launches involve many moving parts and require tight synchronization between product management, product marketing, sales, service, and engineering — as well as a multitude of ...

    • Downloads: 487
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: Your Community Upgrade: From Experiment To Strategic Approach

    This report is designed to help you revisit your strategy for engaging with customers through online communities and discussion forums, and demonstrate why your success will be based on taking t...

    • Downloads: 521
    • Comments: 1
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