Ten AFOTY14 winners delivering value in Asia Pacific

Because 2014 was the first year when the Analyst Value Survey had around 140 valid responses from Asia and Oceania, Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 can also spotlight the

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Ten AFOTY14 winners delivering maximum analyst value in EMEA

Trends across Europe, the Middle East and Africa vary greatly, but the five firms there delivering the most value in Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 (AFOTY14) are international firms with

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10 winners with the most influence on the demand-side in 2014

These awards have been superceded by the most recent Analyst Firm Awards. Most users of analysts’ services are on the demand-side, and that Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 (AFOTY14) segment

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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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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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