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A pitch-perfect pitch can get top influencers to cover your product

Topics: Journalist, Analyst, Analyst relations, Message, Corporate communications, Technology

Run Smooth-as-Silk Analyst Briefings

Analysts are undeniably one of today’s top enterprise influencer groups - providing value with their finger on the pulse on the market, understanding of customer needs and pain points, and ability to advise clients which vendor and solutions to consider.

Topics: Analyst, Analyst relations, Messaging

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Why it’s time to create a winning analyst relations program

Open your marketing toolbox, and you’ll see a whole range of weaponry with which to conquer your market. From advertising and public relations to sales promotions and sponsorships, these tools are tried-and-proven elements of every selling effort.

Topics: Analyst, Analyst relations, Brand

 

Topics: Insider, Public relations, Marketing, Analyst, Analyst relations, Market research

7 Questions to Ask Before Trying DIY Analyst Relations

Analyst relations is simply too critical to simply do yourself or leave in inexperienced hands. Analyst relations could make or break marketing efforts for your technology products. Their objective and expert insights greatly influence technology buyers’ decisions, and your ability to influence these influencers could mean the difference between analyst coverage/ recommendation of your product and...well, the absence of it. Before you say, “How hard can it be?” ask yourself these questions:

Topics: Analyst, Analyst relations, Objective, Message, Technology

Taking an account-based marketing (ABM) approach pinpoints your focus on a few high-opportunity, high-value accounts who are more likely to pay attention to your communications because they actually need your product and have the budget for it.

Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM

Amy Kenigsberg, COO & Co-founder, talks about how K2 can up your ABM game

Ask any marketer - account-based marketing, which targets and engages specific accounts with personalized campaigns, is a powerful and profitable strategy.

Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM

At first glance, account-based marketing (ABM) and inbound seem like polar opposites: ABM focuses on decision makers within particular enterprises and engages them with personalized communication. Inbound marketing takes a more expansive approach, attracting customers to products and services by creating valuable content.

Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM

Build up ABM success by bringing down the silos

Not all prospects give you the best fit or highest value for your solution - thus, the ever-increasing adoption of account-based marketing. Approximately 92 percent of B2B marketers consider ABM a critical component of their marketing efforts; and 87 percent of ROI-measuring marketers say that ABM tops all other marketing investments.

Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM

With massive cyberattacks on organizations and states, cyber security is one of the hottest news topics. Every day, a new cybersecurity startup proclaims it will solve those challenges, further crowding an already congested market.

This begs the question: How can cybersecurity companies, with proven innovations on offer, break through the logjam to get the media recognition they deserve?

Topics: Public relations, Press coverage, Media coverage, Cybersecurity, Statistics, Objective