AR Classics: Don’t panic if a competitor hires your Gartner analyst

After Gartner’s French Caldwell retired he joined MetricStream, one of the GRC vendors he followed for Gartner. Folk are often surprised when top analysts move over to the supplier side.

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AR Classics: Melissa Ruby’s analyst relations myths

Seattle’s Melissa Ruby wrote this for the Washington Institute of Technology magazine almost ten years ago. Then analyst relations manager for Intermec, the Honeywell business, Mel’s prior background at Edelman brought a

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AR Classics: Paul Allen on EMEA analysts’ perspective

In Q1 and Q2 2005, Paul Allen conducted research with 50 EMEA analysts across the leading analyst houses into exactly what they thought of both technology vendors and PR/AR agencies. Back

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AR Classics: What the arrival of HFS Research tells us about freemium

In September 2014 Phil Fersht at HfS Research published some charts which showed its lead position as the firm had increased the most in influence over the preceding year. That’s

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AR Classics: Vicky Griffith’s ten tips to increase sales

Vicky Griffith, who succeeded me as director of analyst relations at Brodeur in 2002, shared these ten tips to increase sales on the Pleon website in 2005, when she was still

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AR Classics: How analysts influence the Buyer Decision Process

Symantec’s EMEA comms leader Caroline Dennington and recent Gartner alum Samyr Jriri gave an impressive presentation today about analysts’ impact on sales. Context is key: analysts are increasingly stretched, something

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What the Analyst Attitude Survey shows your firm can learn from IBM

This week we’re reviewing some responses to our Analyst Attitude Survey, and we’ve just posted a video to explain the survey and how it works. One of the huge surprises for

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AR Classics: Netscout unwisely sues Gartner for “Pay for Play”

Yesterday a Boston Globe website reported Netscout’s case against Gartner, making public the allegations that Gartner’s research harmed Netscout’s reputation in retribution for Netscout’s refusal to increase its investment in Gartner services. While

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