AR Classics: Identifying and Measuring Impact and Influence

How can analysts in non-traditional, freemium, analyst firms prove their value, and how should analyst relations professionals respond to their growing impact? Until analysts start to track their impact in

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Why CIOs Rely on IT Industry Analysts

CIO and Darwin Magazines conducted a survey to gage CIOs’ use of IT analyst firms’ services to make IT purchase decisions. More than half of the executives we spoke with

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AR Classics: Why corporations pay technology analysts $15 billion a year

Corporations pay technology analysts $15 billion a year for unbiased technology research. But many common analyst practices look suspiciously like conflicts of interest. By Christopher Koch For many business executives,

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Darwin’s Buyers’ Guide: Get the most from analyst services

Get the most from the analyst services you buy by following these tips Discover the specialty. | Most of the analyst companies have a dizzyingly comprehensive list of services, but

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AR Classics: Ed Gyurko on How to Impress Industry Analysts (2001)

When Ed Gyurko first approached industry analysts as a marketer for the technology company he then worked for, he did it all wrong. He says, “I mistakenly thought that that

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AR Classics: Melissa Ruby’s analyst relations myths

Seattle’s Melissa Ruby wrote this for the Washington Institute of Technology magazine almost ten years ago. Then analyst relations manager for Intermec, the Honeywell business, Mel’s prior background at Edelman brought a

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AR Classics: Paul Allen on EMEA analysts’ perspective

In Q1 and Q2 2005, Paul Allen conducted research with 50 EMEA analysts across the leading analyst houses into exactly what they thought of both technology vendors and PR/AR agencies. Back

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AR Classics: Vicky Griffith’s ten tips to increase sales

Vicky Griffith, who succeeded me as director of analyst relations at Brodeur in 2002, shared these ten tips to increase sales on the Pleon website in 2005, when she was still

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