A Product Marketer of a medium enterprise computer software company is very likely to recommend The Skills Connection for the following reason:
They are professional, helpful, engaged and understand our needs well.
Based on a response of 10 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend The Skills Connection?”
A CMO of a medium enterprise professional services company is very likely to recommend The Skills Connection for the following reason:
Excellent client service and smart team!
Based on a response of 9 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend The Skills Connection?”
We became a leader in the Magic Quadrant and have remained a leader for the last 3 years. We are also now a leader in the relevant IDC MarketScape (in our first participation in the assessment) and also a leader in Nelson Hall’s NEAT assessment as one of the top-rated vendors
— Product Marketer, Medium Enterprise Computer Software Company
The Skills Connection was able to help us with formulating our story, which resulted in a positive movement in our Gartner Magic Quadrant position and improvement in our relationship with some of the analysts. Additionally, the Skills Connection team’s previous experience as analysts in the industry, has provided us invaluable insights on how to engage and communicate with the analysts.
— Strategy Director, Large Enterprise Professional Services Company
The Skills Connection provides an invaluable outsider’s perspective and asks us the key questions the analysts will want answered. They are intensely committed to ensuring we’re optimally positioned and prepared for every analyst engagement.
— CMO, Medium Enterprise Computer Software Company
5/5 Stars
We utilized The Skills Connection to prepare an Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) briefing deck to move our dot. We also utilized them to discuss messaging with the analysts when we had a CEO change and an impending lawsuit with an industry giant and one of our technology partners mid-way through the MQ process.
We thought we were going to just have a great briefing deck. What surprised us and also exceeded our expectations was the breadth of service and process around the preparation of the inclusion package, right down to how the document should be presented/formatted, the references and the Critical Capabilities report. All of those components made a significant difference. Without them we likely would have repeated the same mistakes made the prior year and quite honestly, I’m convinced without them we likely could have risked even lowering our position instead of improving it.
5/5 Stars
We use The Skills Connection to develop Gartner Magic Quadrant responses. The Skills Connection do an excellent job by helping us understand our strengths and weaknesses in the context of an MQ. This understanding is then used to help us develop plans and materials to capitalise on the strengths and constructively address the weaknesses found.
I would strongly recommend The Skills Connection. Not only do they understand and communicate what the analysts are looking for, they actively engage with us and push us, politely but firmly, to think deeply about how we can best portray ourselves. The interactive, enquiring nature of the engagement gets the best from us. The excellent results speak for themselves.
4/5 Stars
They provide us support during the Gartner Magic Quadrant process, preparation and execution of analyst vendor briefings and analyst relations planning in general.
They bring in a valuable outside view and challenge my team to produce better results.
4.5/5 Stars
The Skills Connection helps drive our analyst relations program and enriches our analyst content to support our success.
I recommend The Skills Connection to anyone who has a great product and needs analyst relations expertise to move it forward in the market.
5/5 Stars
The Skills Connection works together with our internal resources on our Gartner and Forrester rankings. They help us to nurture the relationship we have with the analysts.
Yes, we would recommend them and have done already. Why? Because we are very satisfied.
5/5 Stars
- Preparing analyst briefings.
- Advice for creating a working analyst engagement plan.
Definitely! It has been a very effective co-operation. The questions they asked were perfect in order to better structure our go-to-market and analyst engagement approach.
5/5 Stars
We are working with The Skills Connection, as an extension of our Analysts Relations team, to help us through consulting and organizing the activities and stories we need to create and execute to engage better with the analyst community.
Yes, we see great value in working with The Skills Connection.
4.5/5 Stars
We use Skills Connection as an extension of our Marketing team to manage our analyst relations.
Absolutely – and I do often. They’ve transformed how we interact with, and communicate to, the core analysts in our industry. They helped us hit our Magic Quadrant goal and as a result, have allowed us to give the sales team the ammo they need to be more aggressive when positioning the company against our competitors.
4/5 Stars
The Skill Connections helped us to answer our most recent Magic Quadrant (MQ) questionnaire. The new result was that our position in the MQ improved.
Yes, definitely. The why is simple – because we obtained visible results.
4/5 Stars
The Skills Connection helps us to establish and improve our overall Analyst Relations. In Terms of Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) Analysis they guide us through the whole process and challenge our positions. With their highly proficient skills they have helped us to improve our MQ Position for the third successive time.
Yes. With the length of experience they have in the analyst business they really complete our team. They help us to persistently focus our analyst communication on what really counts.
4/5 Stars
The Skills Connection helped us to re-build our analysts presentation, particularly focusing our company offering on relevant & effective messages. This was all based on their extensive experience and knowledge with analysts companies.
I would. Their valuable knowledge and in-house familiarity with Gartner makes their service extremely valuable for companies who decided to invest in promoting their analysts relations.
5/5 Stars
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Yes, I would strongly recommend The Skills Connection for the following reasons:
