FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sean@cascadeinsights.com Phone: 503.898.0004 www.cascadeinsights.com Authors Sean Campbell and Scott Swigart to Speak at Annual Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference Portland, Oregon, June 12, 2012 – Campbell and Swigart will join the best in the business in a hands-on workshop and conference hosted by Investigative Reporters and & Editors held in […]
What It Is: SlideShare is a place where people can upload slide presentations on any topic. Information Provided: · Presentations that let you get up to speed quickly on trends or topics · Quick identification of Subject Matter Experts · Competitor positioning, , strengths, comparisons, partners, roadmaps, tactical and strategic plays, etc. Description: SlideShare does […]
What It Is: A place where employees can anonymously post various details about their company. Information Provided: Salaries for different roles within a company Pros and cons of working there “Advice to management” from the employee’s perspective Details about hiring interviews Description: Glassdoor (http://www.glassdoor.com) is a Web site that lets employees post a wealth of […]
We’ll be delivering a 1/2 day workshop for the Silicon Valley Product Management Association on December 4th. Register here – http://www.svpma.org/workshops.html High level outline below…. Workshop Summary Understanding your competitors’ next moves or knowing how well they are putting their current plans into effect can mean the difference between success and failure in your market. […]
Our book was just listed as one of the best Competitive Intelligence reads of 2009 and 2010 By Sean Campbell By Scott Swigart
What It Is: Yippy is a search engine that queries other search engines, then groups the results together in clusters. Information Provided: Automatic categorization of search results Parsing of results into logical groupings by content, search engine source, or top-level domain Ability to streamline search results, making them simpler to examine Description: Yippy gives users […]
New competitive intelligence tool to research company org charts: www.theofficialboard.com NationMaster.com – good statistics on countries, people, etc. – http://bit.ly/iydy NNDB Mapper – Visually connect the relationships between individuals – http://bit.ly/bKnD9 Journalist’s List of Databases – http://bit.ly/dmIaGs Happn.in – http://bit.ly/12SUDL – a way to find local tweets for your city Use LinkedIn’s new “Follow Company” […]
One great way you can get a better view into the health and business dealings of a non-profit organization is to review the Form 990 that non-profits have to file. For example, a review of 2008 filing for the American Marketing Association shows information such as the amount of money the organization made from membership […]
Using these queries from Google you can harvest information from LinkedIn’s “Company Pages” that match the following criteria: Median Age of Company Employees from 40 to 50 years old “median age, * 40..45 years” site:linkedin.com/companies/* Companies with a % of male employees from 20 to 30% “Male, * 20..30 %” site:linkedin.com/companies/* Companies […]
Many people use LinkedIn as a digital CV and a way to virtually network, but you can utilize various aspects of LinkedIn to gather information about specific companies, such as: New Hires Recent Promotions Company Headquarters and Field Office Locations What company are new employees coming from, and what company do employees go to when […]
