{"id":478,"date":"2006-01-25T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T19:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=478"},"modified":"2006-01-25T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T19:35:25","slug":"become-a-certified-analyst-relations-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/become-a-certified-analyst-relations-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a certified Analyst Relations professional"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give. Me. A. Break<\/A>.<\/DIV>
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Industry analysts aren’t even professionals in the traditional sense<\/A>. <\/DIV>
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By all means train people, KCG – that is a good thing and a good niche business. I am all for training and helping people to better understand how to work with industry analysts. But calling the course a professional certification and accreditation is surely a stretch.<\/DIV>
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Nice client list though. And there seem to plenty of vendors hiring<\/A> AR people at the moment, which is nice. <\/DIV>
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I can’t vouch for KCG’s services myself- although I have worked with some people that have been on the course. <\/DIV>
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On the other hand if I can say I am an industry analyst, and mean something by it, then I suppose your clients say I am an AR professional!<\/DIV>
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I would love to hear from AR people generally, and “accredited AR professionals” specifically, what they think. If you don’t want to post a comment publicly just email me: [jgovernor at redmonk.com]<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Give. Me. A. Break. Industry analysts aren’t even professionals in the traditional sense.  By all means train people, KCG – that is a good thing and a good niche business. I am all for training and helping people to better understand how to work with industry analysts. But calling the course a professional certification and accreditation is surely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-7I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}