How to deal with industry analysts for startups

View back the recording of Michael Coté’s talk early 2014 on dealing with analysts, narrowed down to startups.

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Influencer Insights Podcast February News

This first episode of Kea Company’s Influencer Insights Podcast covers a number of interesting developments in the IT research industry including a number of prominent Forrester analysts leaving and an interesting move at Germany-based

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Equipping Sales for the MQ Effect: the Magic Quadrant and Tech Vendors (Part Seven)

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant can have a powerful impact on IT vendor sales cycles – anointing some vendors as a prime candidate for a sales opportunity while denying other vendors even

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Guest Post: When Your Company Takes Out Your Favorite Analyst

It happens to the best of us. Your analyst relations program is humming along nicely – your analysts are behaving, your internal constituents under control – when one day, wham!

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The Danger is Complacency: the Magic Quadrant and Tech Vendors (Part Six)

There is a certain amount of self congratulations that occur when a vendor achieves a favorable “Leader” position on a Magic Quadrant. Because they are in the “Leaders” block, vendors

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How To Eat An Elephant – A Recipe For Proper Analyst Relations

When starting with analyst relations companies often realise that the task lying ahead of them is pretty daunting. There are several hundred analyst firms with thousands of analysts publishing research

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Create a New Market Category by Courting Analysts Your Customers Respect

Marketing is by far the most complex organization within a business. The same individuals tasked with building brand standards and designing websites are also architects of intricate demand generation programs

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Crunching the Numbers – Behind the Scenes of an Analyst Briefing Campaign

It is quite easy to talk about the qualitative aspects of analyst relations, but when it comes down to the numbers, things tend to get more confusing. Measuring has become

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