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Analyst Relations Course

Influence industry experts and build authority with analyst relations

1h 18min | 11 lessons

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key industry analysts.
  • Secure analyst endorsements that boost credibility and influence.
  • Develop messaging that aligns with industry trends and analyst insights.
  • Utilize analyst reports and research to support marketing and sales efforts.
  • Position your company as a market leader through strategic analyst engagement.

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Master analyst relations to accelerate your product marketing program and goals

Course Length:
1h 18min. 11 lessons.

Analysts shape industry conversations, influence buying decisions, and define market leaders. If your company isn’t engaging with them effectively, you’re leaving credibility, visibility, and growth on the table. This course gives you the frameworks to develop strong analyst relationships, secure valuable endorsements, and position your brand as a top player in your industry.

After completing this online course on analyst relations, you will be able to assist your team and company with:

  • Build a structured analyst relations strategy that drives real business impact.
  • Engage analysts effectively and turn briefings into strategic opportunities.
  • Use analyst reports to support sales, marketing, and positioning.
  • Influence industry conversations and establish your brand as a thought leader.
  • Measure and track the ROI of analyst relations efforts.

This course is for you if you are responsible for:

  • PR and communications professionals managing analyst relations.
  • Marketing leaders responsible for positioning and brand credibility.
  • Business development teams looking to leverage analyst insights.
  • Executives aiming to increase industry influence and recognition.
  • Anyone responsible for building relationships with industry analysts.

Look no further than CXL, this is the best and most recommended course you will find on Analyst Relations.

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Course Curriculum

Analyst relations

What’s AR’s Role in Product Marketing

Understand what AR is and how it helps product marketing in every aspect of the product strategy. Topics covered: Understand where AR fits in product marketingApply the knowledge of how analysts help to your unique product marketing programBegin mappin …

Evaluating Firms and Analysts

AR programs are not one-size fits all. Learn how to select the right firms and analysts to partner with to achieve your strategy. Topics covered: Understand the various firms and options for creating the right AR program for your company.Evaluate the f …

Align AR with Product Marketing Goals

Know how AR professionals work and align with them in order to optimize their value to your program. Topics covered: Learn about how AR services the entire organization.Apply this knowledge to your Product Marketing programAlign with your AR team to ac …

Create a Relationship Map

Map your organization to your key analysts to identify and develop mutually influential relationships. Topics covered: Understand the importance and role of company spokespeople in creating long term, influential relationships – Product Marketing’s rol …

Develop Relationships & Build Influence

Develop a knowledge exchange partnership with analysts to maximize influence. Topics covered: Understand the purpose of each analyst interaction and how they build on one another to influence the analysts’ thinking.Remember the purpose of each interact …

Leverage AR Deliverables

Dive deeper into AR deliverables including reports, quotes, data and commissioned work to achieve goals. Topics covered: Plan to augment your marketing content and add third party credibility to your messages with analyst content.Remember that this con …

Influence Internal Thinking

Learn how to create a compelling narrative of where you see the product headed based on market insights. Topics covered: Use analysts’ insights to get colleagues excited, educated, and ready to take actionKnow what is available to you – data, forecasts …

Benchmark and Measure AR Progress

Understand the various AR metrics that will demonstrate the impact of your program. Topics covered: Understand that mapping to your company and product goals to your AR program ensures that AR is strategic and delivers results that will have impactChoo …

Elevate Your Program to Tier 1

Learn how the most mature AR programs combine best practices for maximum internal and external impact. Topics covered: Know the pitfalls to avoidInvest in an AR teamKnow the best sources for finding a top notch AR leader Resources Lesson slide deck

Augment Your AR Program

Learn about the AR services and groups that will help keep your program next level. Topics covered: Consider augmenting your AR program to invest in your people, mature your program, manage the workload and get extra help during competitive evaluations …

Maureen Todaro

Independent Consultant

Maureen Todaro is a proven communications leader with expertise in analyst relations, customer marketing, and public and investor relations. In 2006 Maureen launched MSDM Communications and Marketing, a consulting business, which helps companies establish and grow analyst relations and customer marketing programs, including long-term partnerships with Nuance, Genpact, Jive (IPO’d), Twilio (IPO’d) and currently at InVision.

Prior to this, Maureen served as vice president of corporate communications for Viisage (now IDEMIA), was a customer advocate at ATG (now Oracle), acquired her MBA from Simmons University, and worked at Harvard University in their main development office.

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Completing this course earns you an official CXL Analyst Relations Course Certificate to prove your achievement. CXL is recognized as an industry-leading qualification by employers worldwide, and it is an official qualification on LinkedIn that can be added to your profile.

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What is the difference between the monthly, quarterly and annual plans?

We offer three types of billing lengths to choose from: Monthly, Quarterly, or Annual. The longer the billing length, the cheaper the monthly cost becomes. Typically annual plans are 40% cheaper per year than paying month-to-month.

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Personal or Individual plans are meant for one person where teams have 2 or more people.

A team account has a few extras:
– Invite and manage people learning on your team.
– Create roadmaps for each individual.
– Access team learning engagement reports.
– Assign members to your team as managers to assign content and view reports.

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You’ll get:
– Access to 120+ online courses.
– Earn certificates and add them to LinkedIn.
– Thousands of playbooks and resources.
– All minidegrees
– Roadmapping and progress tracking
– Premium Support

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