How Analysts influence the Buyer Decision Process

Symantec’s EMEA comms leader Caroline Dennington and recent Gartner alum Samyr Jriri gave an impressive presentation at the Analyst Relations Forum 2014 about analysts’ impact on sales. Context is key: analysts are

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How industry analysts can come to briefings better prepared

In private conversations, Influencer Relations professionals often critique the analysts’ level of preparedness for a briefing. However, the ?IR pros are unwilling to actually say something to the analyst for fear

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How cool is it to be a Gartner Cool Vendor

What have Box, Dropbox, Nest, Evernote, Cloudera, Palantir and Instagram in common? They where all named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in the past five years. So, what happened to

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AR Classics: Frustrated customers produce opportunities for upstart analyst firms

“Everything that has been disseminated for free this past year has been excellent. Gartner and Forrester material is either dated, too high level, not believable, or tailored to small companies

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Verdantix: the only climate change business research firm in your or any other town

We met with David Metcalfe, one of the founders and a Director at Verdantix this week. David will be familiar to you from his Forrester Research analyst and vice-president roles

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