Why Do Investor Relations Departments Continue to Experiment?

The race is on.

Without Earnings Call Q&A Questions, Should Public Companies Scrap Future Earnings Calls?

After analyzing thousands of earnings calls, three university professors concluded that public companies risk stock price declines if few or no questions are posed during earnings call question-and-answer sessions (Q&As):

Investor Relations Departments are Engaging Investors in MANY New Ways

Without a standard model for how to engage investors online public companies and their IR departments have been experimenting. 

A Key IR Development of 2013: CEOs Playing a Bigger Role

Over the years, the Internet has slowly but surely transformed the investor relations industry.

What Did the SEC Mean? CEOs Don’t Care, Embrace Social Media More than Ever

The SEC has acted again -- and there’s much debate about what they meant.

How Can Sponsored Content Be Used to Reach Potential Investors?

In one way or another we’ve all been exposed to Buzzfeed. They’re masters of producing viral content that spreads quickly around the web (think: pictures of cute cats).

A Great IR Opportunity for Small-Cap CEOs

Every night, Jim Cramer interviews public company CEOs for his popular CNBC TV program Mad Money. These short segments are remarkably substantive and consistently actionable.

But for the most part, the CEOs interviewed run large-cap public companies.

The Future of the Financial Content Space -- Investor Relations Pros Hold all the Cards

As a small-cap fund manager I’m always on the hunt for new ideas. Typically these ideas arise from quarterly earnings calls of companies in my area of expertise.

Crisis Investor Relations in the Age of Social Media

So often lately, public companies have been under attack. Most of these attacks have been directed at Chinese companies publicly-traded on US stock exchanges.

Will Netflix CEO Hastings usher in a new era for online finance, investor relations & social media?

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is a remarkable entrepreneur. He founded a DVD-by-mail business in the late ‘90s that now boasts 25+ million subs and is disrupting the media and entertainment industries.

But similarly impressive and yet possibly overlooked is how he’s provided a blueprint for the future of online finance, investor relations, and social media. It’s not farfetched to conclude that Hastings’ latest actions will be the catalyst for a new way in which public companies court investors online.

Forget Twitter and Facebook! 3 Actionable Social Media Opportunities for IR Pros in 2011

A couple of weeks ago, an investor relations pro 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 all members of the financial community should take part.”