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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Guest post: Karin Nauth Shelley on The Trusted Advisor

Forrester alumna Karin Nauth Shelley, who recently joined me here at Kea Company, has written this excellent review of The Trusted Advisor. I met the book a dozen years ago, in

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Pitching to analysts is a dance around categories

The second-most important pitch for start-ups, after the investor pitch, is the analyst briefing. These are the formal oral presentations that are more or less mandatory for any new solution

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Techconsult: Sales to German SMEs will deteriorate drastically

The German analyst firm techconsult sent me an English-language version of a lead chart from their latest survey of SME businesses in Germany. “The prospects for the coming three months have

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AR Classics: The ups and downs of using consultants to select vendors (1990)

It’s Not That Simple, writes Efrem Mallach. Since World War II, the growth of management consulting has literally skyrocketed. At the beginning of this decade management consulting was a $32

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Did Apple & IBM know which analysts could trash share prices? Do you?

You probably don’t know all the investor-savvy analysts pushing down tech share prices. Apple’s shocking $40bn share price fall in through September and mid-October wasn’t simply about actors’ privacy. And the $20bn

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Save $710 on “Maximizing The Value of Analyst Relations”

Originally $748, $38 is the new price for ‘Maximizing The Value of Analyst Relations‘, one of the most insightful books I’ve ever reviewed about AR. It’s now available as a

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Guest Post: Digital research shows AR’s tight connections

The Analyst Relations Forum on Twitter It is now relatively common that conversations happening at events can be captured on Social Networking Sites such as Twitter as well as physically

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