Council focusses AR Forum on sales enablement

The 2014 AR Forum must focus on building and measuring sales enablement. According to early responses to the AR Forum survey, members of our international advisory council to the AR

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Dates announced for 2014 AR Forum and AR leaders’ workshop

Analyst Relations professionals are under pressure to deliver real business value. Though we are all intrinsically motivated to deliver value, what does business value really mean for AR? What does

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Initial council members announced for 2014 AR Forum

Thom Erbé and I met yesterday to get the ball rolling for the 2014 AR Forum in September. We’re starting earlier than last year in order to consult more widely

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AR Classics: Get Ahead of Analysts: The Murphy Approach

For several years in the 1990s I shared a household with an old golden retriever named Murphy. Murphy had ESP. He’d know exactly where one of us would want to

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Back online: AR guide published by CFA Institute

The CFA Institute is best known worldwide for its rigorous chartered financial analyst (CFA) curriculum and examination program. It’s an interesting expression of the lack of openly-accepted best-practice guidance for

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SageCircle joins Kea Company

On March 3rd 2014, Kea Company announced its purchase of SageCircle. It’s great news for the analyst relations profession, and I am excited that Dave Eckert will be joining our

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Yarmis, Loudermilk & Myers host AR Forum webinar on leveraging Social AR

In 2013 the Analyst Relations Forum started drilling down on social AR. We’re delighted that Stephen Loudermilk and Michael Myers agreed to join Jonathan Yarmis and me in our webinar

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Not Guilty: Our surveys suggest HFS is wrong to roast independents

A recent post on the HFS Research blog focusses on some independent analysts as “pay to play”.  It’s a useful post, but that key point doesn’t fit with our annual

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