Cool Vendor – is it a beauty contest?

There’s always a lot of discussion in the analyst relations community about the rollout of new Cool Vendor designations from Gartner. We’d be better prepared for them if we looked

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Should start-ups put customer value before survival?

The notion that early stage businesses need to focus on solving a client problem rather than on their own long-term survival is a common one, although sometimes it can be

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PR agencies can boost analyst relations value

Many public relations agencies decelerate both their growth, and that of analyst firms, by failing to show the value created by analysts and by analyst relations. That’s the finding from

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Webinar: How Cool Vendors stay cool

  Cool Vendor and Hot Vendor winners from around the world will gather in Orlando on October 18 to discuss how the Cool Vendor title and similar designations make start-ups

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Influencer Relations book: 2nd edition spotlights Gartner’s MQ

Our book Influencer Relations: Insights on Analyst Value has an expanded second edition with a new chapter on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. As a thank you to our newsletter subscribers we’ll be

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Forrester declares a loss, shares fall 11%

Given the scale of the surprise, the 11% fall in Forrester shares on April 27 was a vote of confidence by comparison. Although the firm has been consistently profitable in

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Pitches to analysts can learn 8 things from start-up pitches

Tech firms preparing their pitch to analysts spend too much time crafting the story about their own solution, and nowhere near enough time thinking about how to build a relationship with

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Analyst relations webinar: Beyond best practice

Best practice analyst relations is changing. It is quickly being surpassed by strategic, relationship-based plans that show immediate results. In a Kea Company analyst relations webinar, Teri Green, Duncan Chapple

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