
Category: Vendor Sales and Analysts


Tool for Sales – The Prospect Profile Form

If analysts do not get their impact, do your executives?

Ask your customers about their use of the analysts when they are guest speakers at the annual sales kickoff

Why AR Matters – Analysts can get your company on short lists that you were excluded from
Why analysts matter – “I get asked daily in one medium or another who to buy”
![Equipping Sales for the MQ Effect: the Magic Quadrant & Tech Vendors [part 7]](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/icon-mq-130.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
Equipping Sales for the MQ Effect: the Magic Quadrant & Tech Vendors [part 7]

Have you noticed any change in Forrester’s direct influence in IT purchases
![AR-Sales Partnership [part 6]: Action items to launch a project](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
AR-Sales Partnership [part 6]: Action items to launch a project
![AR-Sales Partnership [part 5]: Use edu-marketing to drive participation](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
AR-Sales Partnership [part 5]: Use edu-marketing to drive participation
![AR–Sales Partnership [part 4]: Take baby steps by rolling out a small pilot phase](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
AR–Sales Partnership [part 4]: Take baby steps by rolling out a small pilot phase
![AR-Sales Partnership [part 3]: Creating the plan](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
AR-Sales Partnership [part 3]: Creating the plan
![AR-Sales Partnership [part 2]: Building the bridge to Sales](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
AR-Sales Partnership [part 2]: Building the bridge to Sales

Call for case study volunteers – How the analysts impacted a sales deal
Why technology buyers use the IT industry analysts
![Top Five Ways Analyst Relations can Help Sales [Vendor Sales]](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
Top Five Ways Analyst Relations can Help Sales [Vendor Sales]
![Using the analysts to educate IT buyers beyond praising your products [Vendor Sales]](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
Using the analysts to educate IT buyers beyond praising your products [Vendor Sales]
![Training the sales reps: keep it simple, short, small words [Vendor Sales]](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
Training the sales reps: keep it simple, short, small words [Vendor Sales]
![AR–Sales Partnership [part 1]: It’s not about pushing out reports](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
AR–Sales Partnership [part 1]: It’s not about pushing out reports
![Do your customers assume that Gartner or other analysts have done all the due diligence? [for Vendor Sales]](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)
Do your customers assume that Gartner or other analysts have done all the due diligence? [for Vendor Sales]

Now that is not the way to exploit an expensive Magic Quadrant reprint
![Vendor sales reps should ask which analysts are advisors on deals [Vendor Sales]](https://i0.wp.com/sagecircle.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/icon-dollar-euro.jpg?resize=450%2C450&crop=1)