Kudos to the Institute for Industry Analyst Relations for persuading IDC’s Insights businesses to stop demanding sales lead information from companies wanting to brief Insights analysts. In a recent post

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$23 million plus some debt seems like a small price to pay for Jupiter Research, once one of the bigger names in the analyst industry. It should help Forrester’s stock

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Our Credo series on AR principles comes into the final stretch with our seventh belief: different analyst relations approaches are effective for different ICT solutions, even from the same vendor.

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Dave Kellogg, a Silicon Valley marketer and blogger, recently provided commentary on a previous article from Alan Pelz-Sharpe of CMS Watch. Alan’s article covered rules he thinks vendors should follow

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Influencer relations needs action research to look beyond the left-overs

Analyst relations professionals increasingly find themselves discussing influencer relations. Don Bulmer uses a nice definition: a systematic way to identify, measure and build bridges with influential people who impact customer

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Jonny’s offering a free 30 minute webinar on dealing with web 2.0 overload. We can’t believe it’s free, and recommend you jump at the opportunity, now! Jonny explains the course

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Since our relaunch in April, AnalystEquity.com has had 36% more visitors. According to Alexa.com, that makes us the most visited AR site. However, other sites around the analyst industry are

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As we mentioned last week, Analysys Mason has bought telecom software shop OSS Observer. That’s a significant move for Analysys’ managing partner Tony Lavender: he arguably now leads the biggest practice in BSS/OSS/telecoms IT

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