100% of surveyed CEOs and other C-level staff agreed that The Skills Connection provided true value for money.
4.5/5 Stars
Preparing for Gartner Magic Quadrant submission; interpreting requirements, story boarding our response, reviewing references, preparing presenters for the briefing presentation and reviewing collateral to be submitted.
Yes, they are easy to work with, and truly become part of the team. They understand Gartner absolutely.
5/5 Stars
The Skills Connection supports us through the whole Magic Quadrant (MQ) process; identifying the key messages, selecting and briefing our reference customers and preparing the vendor briefing.
Definitely, because I think that working with The Skills Connection was essential for us to gain a better understanding of the MQ process and to be able to manage it effectively. It also helped us to better communicate the value our solutions provide to prospects and customers.
5/5 Stars
We leverage The Skills Connection to refine our approach with the analyst community and ensure that we communicate effectively. They provide us with an annual strategy and then work with us to ensure we are executing effectively on that plan.
Yes we would recommend The Skills Connections. Employing The Skills Connection is like hiring an analyst bootcamp. They will work with your team to develop and refine your companies analyst strategy and then continually push your team to execute.
4.5/5 Stars
We use the Skills Connection as an extension to our own analyst relations (AR) team and to provide the knowledge, objectivity and consistency we could well lack if we relied solely on our own in-house resources.
Absolutely, because they have helped us get far better and more consistent results with our AR program and clearly have the skills in abundance to do that for other organizations looking to achieve the same.
3.5/5 Stars
To help prep materials for analyst research submissions.
Yes. They’re extremely knowledgable about how analysts think, which is a very different mindset than when you work with industry experts or customers.
4/5 Stars
We use The Skills Connection to support one specific analyst study and to inform and influence our other analyst interactions.
Yes. They have strong expertise that has made us much more focused and effective in all of our analyst interactions.
The money we spent with The Skills Connection proved to be a great investment. Our target analysts have a much sharper understanding of the value we deliver, and have rated our service more highly which has led to a tangible increase in new business opportunities.
— Analyst & Influencer Relations, Large Enterprise Computer Services Company
A Product Manager of a large enterprise computer services company is very likely to recommend The Skills Connection for the following reason:
We have received excellent support from The Skills Connection. We simply would not have been able to reply to the Magic Quadrant we were working on without them.
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?”
4/5 Stars
We would recommend The Skills Connection to companies with a technical focus who need to abstract themselves from the technology to better explain the value and vision of their products in terms analysts can relate to and understand.