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Five social media truths for industry analysts

By on Sunday 29th November 2020 in AR, AR debates 3
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One man band, by Ferrell McCollough

Industry analyst is a tough act to master: just like a one-man-band need to combine multiple instruments, analysts usually have many talents such as writing, public speaking, educating –and ideally analysing. Do they now need to be their own publicists as well? 

The pandemic has brought in a dramatic uptick in social media usage, accelerating the move to digital for many interactions. Its convenience and immediacy make it a force that’s there to stay when the new normal finally settles. So, if you have lost the password of the Twitter account you had set-up back in 2007 to kick the tyres and haven’t got a plan to engage on LinkedIn, now is the right time to jump in.

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[JOB POSTING] Analyst Relations Senior Account Executive or Account Manager / H&K, London

By on Monday 16th November 2020 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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H+K’s Tech practice is one of H+K London’s leading and highest performing sectors and has grown rapidly over the last six years. The experience of the 35+ team spans integrated communications, from corporate, B2B and consumer communications, to digital + social, influencers, analyst relations, content marketing and internal communications. We understand technology ecosystems, consumer and business audiences and the power of the influencer. We believe in making complex technology simple – sharing its benefits to the world.

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The IIAR> AR Professionals & AR Agency of the Year 2020

By on Thursday 22nd October 2020 in AR Best practices, IIAR Agency Of The Year, IIAR AR Professional of the Year, IIAR AR Team of the Year 0
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The IIAR> is committed to recognizing the achievements of AR professionals who go above and beyond in their careers and to promote industry best practices. The IIAR> Analyst Relations Awards 2020: AR Professional, AR Teams, and AR Agencies are one of the longest-running awards run by an independent industry body for AR professionals.



The IIAR> surveys analysts to identify the best professionals in the industry. This year, we are also asking AR professionals to submit case studies to showcase the best practices and impact they drove in the industry. This survey uses the IIAR> 3R’s methodology of how AR should work with analysts to deliver results to their stakeholders.

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IIAR> Discussion Group: approaching research contracts negotiations in a pandemic

By on Tuesday 20th October 2020 in AR, AR Best practices, AR debates, Forrester, Gartner, IDC, IIAR Analyst Of The Year, IIAR Tragic Quadrant, IIAR UK, IIAR Webinar, Omdia, Ovum 0
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The Covid_19 and economic impact of lockdown is making 2020 truly unique, squeezing budgets for all companies. Most technology vendors hold contracts with the likes of Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Omdia, 451 and others ; and renewals for 2021 are predictably going to be tense.

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[JOB POSTING] Director of Analyst Relations / Blackberry, San Ramon, California, USA

By on Friday 16th October 2020 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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Reporting to the Vice-President of Solution Marketing, the Analyst Relations Director role facilitates two-way dialogue between BlackBerry and industry analysts. Focusing largely to increase awareness for the company and our products and services, while delivering key analyst insights to our internal teams. An ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing an AR team and creating and executing an AR program strategy and building collaborative relationships with influential analysts, executive spokespeople, product strategy and marketing leaders.

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[JOB POSTING] Analyst Relations Leader / MetricStream, San Jose, CA, USA

By on Tuesday 29th September 2020 in Jobs -AR roles 0

We are looking for a full-time Analyst Relations Leader for our San Jose office.

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The Analyst Relations Leader role at MetricStream is high visibility, a multi-faceted role that requires strong product marketing, analyst relations, and communications experience. This role is for a thinker with a strategic mindset and a strong marketing background with a passion for enterprise software products.

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[GUEST POST] The New Normal for Analysts

By on Tuesday 23rd June 2020 in AR Best practices, CCgroup 2
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Our current working environment has been a challenge for everyone, sector to sector. Workers have been uprooted from usual routines and practices; some have flourished, finding inspiration from their sofas, while others have been stifled by children, pets, and noisy neighbours. Despite this upheaval, we have had to adjust and adapt in the best way possible. Whilst some “norms” have fallen by the wayside, others have been embraced and formulated into a more efficient and enhanced way of working from home.

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[JOB POSTING] Director of Analyst Relations / Blackberry, San Ramon, California, USA

By on Thursday 18th June 2020 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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Reporting to the Vice-President of Solution Marketing, the Analyst Relations Director role facilitates two-way dialogue between BlackBerry and industry analysts. Focusing largely to increase awareness for the company and our products and services, while delivering key analyst insights to our internal teams. An ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing an AR team and creating and executing an AR program strategy and building collaborative relationships with influential analysts, executive spokespeople, product strategy and marketing leaders.

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[JOB POSTING] Communications Manager, Workplace / Facebook (London, UK)

By on Friday 24th April 2020 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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Workplace from Facebook is an enterprise communication platform that enables employees at any organization to collaborate and communicate using many of the same features available on Facebook. Launched in 2016, Workplace is growing quickly. Workplace now has more than 3+ million paid monthly users and tens of thousands of companies around the world using the platform to connect their employees and work seamlessly across teams and geographies. To help with the ongoing growth of the Workplace business, we are seeking a highly-motivated Communications Manager to lead a variety of initiatives across our global product and brand communications, analyst relationships and strategic response (crisis comms). 

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[GUEST POST] The 7 Ups of Building Credibility Through Analyst Relations

By on Thursday 13th February 2020 in AR Best practices 0

By Andrew Lochart (LinkedIn, @andrewlochart) and reposted from lochart.com with his permission.

I’ve been leading B2B tech product marketing teams for more than 20 years and I’ve seen how easy it is to fall into what I call the “content trap”. We’re constantly creating new content to fuel our campaigns, to keep things fresh and interesting for our audiences. We try new messaging, new content types, new offers. It can be fun and exciting.

But it’s a trap because in our haste to create new content, we do the easy thing – start writing about how our product or service is newer, better, different. That kind of content might help generate awareness amongst buyers, but it fails at generating something much more important: Credibility.

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[GUEST POST] Influencer relations so much more than going from an A to I

By on Monday 6th January 2020 in AR, AR Best practices, Guest posts – AR pros, Influencer Relations 0
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I’ve been in AR for a long long time, so long that when I started (working at Text 100 representing Microsoft in Europe – yup I am showing my age!) reaching out to industry analysts while at a PR agency most of the analysts I spoke to thought I had called the wrong department. Almost 20 years later (yikes!) and AR is cool again, especially if it is part of your influencer relations strategy.

You missed that trend? Let me explain, today everyone is an influencer (wasn’t that always the case?) and if you work in marketing you need to reach out to them to ensure you can influence their thinking and in turn they will influence your customer, or if you are an agency practioner your clients’ customer.

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[NEWS] 451 Research acquired by S&P

By on Saturday 7th December 2019 in 1/4 news, 451 Group, Destrier AR 1

By Simon Jones (LinkedIn, @SimonDestrier) and Ludovic Leforestier (LinkedIn, @lludovic).

451 Research, one of the leading independent analyst firms has been acquired by credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics giant S&P Global.

The deal marks expansion plans for 451 Research, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and has around 90 analysts and 15 consultants on its roster.

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[JOB POSTING] Analyst Relations Strategist / H&K, London, UK

By on Friday 6th December 2019 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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H+K’s Tech practice is one of H+K London’s leading and highest performing sectors and has grown rapidly over the last six years. The experience of the 35+ team spans integrated communications, from corporate, B2B and consumer communications, to digital + social, influencers, analyst relations, content marketing and internal communications. We understand technology ecosystems, consumer and business audiences and the power of the influencer. We believe in making complex technology simple – sharing its benefits to the world.

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[JOB POSTING] Director of Analyst Relations / Blackberry, San Ramon, California, USA

By on Monday 25th November 2019 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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Reporting to the Vice-President of Solution Marketing, the Analyst Relations Director role facilitates two-way dialogue between BlackBerry and industry analysts. Focusing largely to increase awareness for the company and our products and services, while delivering key analyst insights to our internal teams. An ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing an AR team and creating and executing an AR program strategy and building collaborative relationships with influential analysts, executive spokespeople, product strategy and marketing leaders.

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Analyst Relations Manager / Google Cloud, London, UK

By on Saturday 9th November 2019 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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About the job

Whether you’re on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product’s journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the voice of the product and help it grow a consumer base. This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you’ll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

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[JOB POSTING] Senior Manager for IT Analyst Relations and Influencer Relations / ServiceNow, Santa Clara, CA, USA

By on Wednesday 9th October 2019 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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ServiceNow makes the world of work, work better for people. With a service-orientation toward the activities, tasks and processes that make up day-to-day work life, we help the modern enterprise operate faster and be more scalable than ever before.  We’re disruptive. We work hard but try not to take ourselves too seriously. We are highly adaptable and constantly evolving. We are passionate about our product, and we live for our customers.  We have high expectations and a career at ServiceNow means challenging yourself to always be better.

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10 things analysts want most

By on Tuesday 23rd July 2019 in AR Best practices, IIAR AR Professional of the Year 1

Here are the top ten best practices we un-earthed during the IIAR> AR Professional Of The Year 2019 survey.

  1. Regular briefings
  2. Targeted coverage
  3. Open discussion about company strengths and weaknesses
  4. Sending the deck ahead of the briefing so there’s time to come up with in depth questions
  5. Well organised AR events that encourage conversation not mere presentations
  6. Support for research interviews, being pragmatic during Evaluative Research. 
  7. When AR helps to get the right people on the table for f2f meetings and when AR gives feedback  about what kind of information is the most valuable for its organization
  8. Pro-actively flagging developments in coverage areas
  9. Knowing the kind of material/projects my company works on. 
  10. Sharing data under NDA
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[JOB POSTING] Analyst Relations Manager / AWS, Paris

By on Wednesday 10th July 2019 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced, self-starting, highly intelligent, personable, and detail-oriented manager to join the EMEA analyst relations (AR) team to focus on the French, Italian and Spanish markets. The successful candidate will have the unique opportunity to help drive creation and execution of core strategic AR programs for AWS in these markets. The AR Manager role is tasked with driving awareness of the rapidly expanding number of services in the AWS technology infrastructure portfolio and to facilitate the conversation around security, trust, and data protection issues.

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[JOB POSTING] Analyst Relations Manager, Google Cloud, Sunnyvale, New York or Redwood City, USA

By on Sunday 7th July 2019 in Jobs -AR roles 0
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Google is developing groundbreaking cloud solutions for companies, leveraging years of experience in building secure, reliable, and scalable cloud technology. As we rapidly bring new products to market that are transforming how companies collaborate and operate, we are seeking an experienced Analyst Relations (AR) Manager to communicate our product vision and roadmap to the global industry analyst community. You will influence how analysts think about our products, particularly Google Cloud Platform. You will work with leaders across Google Cloud, collaborating with teams in communications, product management, marketing, sales and partner teams. This position offers the opportunity to blend high level, critical thinking with more tactical operational activities. This is a meaningful role for Google Cloud, as you will be responsible for creating and driving the industry analyst communications strategy to effectively articulate our value and differentiation to customers, partners and prospects. 

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[JOB POSTING] Global Analyst Relations Specialist, IFS, Itasca / IL, USA

By on Sunday 7th July 2019 in Jobs -AR roles 0

IFS is currently seeking an Analyst Relations Specialist to join the Global Communications team. This individual is responsible for supporting the Global Analyst Relations Manager and the execution of the IFS Analyst Relations program, with the objective of “influencing the influencers” – targeted industry analysts whose research and commentary impact IFS customers, prospects, partners, and press. The Analyst Relations Specialist will work closely with key internal partners in support of maintaining positive relationships with targeted analyst, acting as the program manager on key competitive report responses, and tracking established metrics to measure program performance for internal awareness.

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