November 22, 2011 – 7:43 am
This post is sent free to growth-minded subscribers to my weekly marketing and sales email, Advisor Insider. Subscribe (free) here. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Brokers aren’t used to creating their own presentations. Compliance rules, you know. Series 7s take stock presentations and add their names to personalize ‘em. I’ll let you in on a secret though: most of [...]
A contrarian approach to messaging for investor relations is to ask yourself, “What’s wrong with this company?” Then, in IR reports and presentations, address the weak points of your business – what causes investors to turn up their noses – along with your solutions. This offbeat idea was prompted by an interview with Anne Gudefin, a [...]
March 11, 2011 – 12:35 pm
Our prayers go out for the Japanese people after the massive quake and tsunami. From the Wall Street Journal page live-blogging the quake comes one small vignette that may amaze investor relations colleagues: Calbee, a snack food maker that is 20% owned by PepsiCo, had its IPO today on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The WSJ [...]
February 23, 2011 – 11:47 pm
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var addthis_config = {”data_track_clickback”:true};SLIDESHARE, the popular presentation sharing service, is becoming an increasingly important way for investor relations departments to publish their presentations. Converting presentations into SlideShare’s embeddable Flash-based player is quick, costs little or nothing, and allows presentations to easily be shared or embedded almost anywhere online. However, just because it’s easy doesn’t mean that there aren’t [...]
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January 21, 2011 – 9:30 am
Professional presentation designer Jan Schultink worked for almost a decade with McKinsey & Company advising Fortune 500 CEOs about strategy. In this guest post, he provides advice on how to design investor presentations that create a strong impact.
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January 11, 2011 – 4:35 am
IN MANY ways, the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference held each January in San Francisco is a barometer on the state of investor interest in the healthcare sector. And with this year’s attendance up smartly to more than 8,700 attendees and 350 presenting companies, things are looking decidedly upbeat. But the conference is also a [...]
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January 6, 2011 – 2:07 pm
A COUPLE of weeks ago, investor relations pro Patrick Kiss wondered why IR has been slow to adopt social media and what can be done to “move things forward”. He exhorted the IR industry, saying, “for progress to be achieved in investor relations in social media, monitoring is not enough. Engagement is necessary — and [...]
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December 13, 2010 – 4:00 am
SLIDECASTS are an easy, low-cost and reliable way for IR departments to offer investors ongoing access to webcast replays while potentially expanding the audience for their information at the same time. With so many companies having difficulty keeping track of when third-party webcasts expire, or having to pay expensive ongoing hosting fees to traditional webcast [...]
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December 6, 2010 – 8:30 am
MORE than two-thirds of company investor relations websites in IR Web Report’s benchmarking survey link to expired presentation webcasts, causing wasted time for analysts and investors and casting doubt on the accuracy and timeliness of the companies’ IR websites. The fact that 67% of mega-cap companies in our survey are failing to regularly review their [...]
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November 7, 2010 – 12:08 pm
IR WEB REPORT is today publishing new guidelines to help investor relations departments maximize the reach and ROI of their investor presentation information on the web. Investor presentations are vital sources of information for current and prospective investors and a key way for companies to tell their stories to The Street. Many hours and considerable [...]
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