Sales enablement: David Taylor on why AR and influencer professionals need to speed up sales

Companies in many markets are able to accelerate their sales pipeline and improve their sales conversion rates by ensuring that influencer relations professionals are enabling their sales teams. That was

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Webinar playback: David Taylor and Duncan Chapple discuss sales enablement

In a recent webinar on sales enablement David Taylor, Cisco’s former head of analyst relations and marketing intelligence in EMEA, talks over the realities of analyst relations and what AR

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NelsonHall’s John Willmott on how analyst firms should respond to users’ changing needs

NelsonHall’s built an astonishingly strong reputation over more than a decade of research into BPO and strategic sourcing. At the AR Forum on October 3rd, John gave a case study

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Informa eats Ovum for breakfast: Scrambled eggs, poached or egg rolls?

It’s just been announced that 12 year Informa veteran Steve Holtham is replacing Ovum managing director Brett Azuma “with immediate effect”. The press release states that: Most recently Steve was

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Where’s your firm on the Sales Enablement Radar?

Working together, business developers and communications professionals are able to get more leads into the pipeline, make them close sooner, and improve the win rate. Sadly many technology solution providers

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Research Round-up: Five forces determine CRM vendors’ uncertain future

The last few months have seen a shift in how analysts are viewing the market for customer relationship marketing solutions.  In the enterprise, analysts say business managers must act fast

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Providers of ‘Green’ solutions can build momentum by focussing on the present and future economic benefits of sustainability when speaking with business people, but risk being disoriented by ‘Triple Bottom

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NDAs mislead, slow, weaken and pressure analyst relationships

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are a continual bone of contention between vendors and the analyst industry. Most AR professionals feel that their impact is almost universally negative, especially in relation to

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