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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‘Influencer relations’ is no longer the best term for B2B relationship marketing

When our blog changed its name from Analyst Equity to Influencer Relations, we did so to reflect the two-fold role that analyst relations established in integrating communications: enabling relationships with

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AR Classics: Identifying and Measuring Impact and Influence

How can analysts in non-traditional, freemium, analyst firms prove their value, and how should analyst relations professionals respond to their growing impact? Until analysts start to track their impact in

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Investor relations head takes over AR at Tata

The IIAR is discussing a big surprise: one of the big 3 IT services brands just put its analyst relations (AR) under the control of its head of investor relations (IR). It

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