Comments on: PacktFront Gets Red Herring Award

By: Randy West Jr

Randy West Jr — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:04:05 +0000

JD Power Awards, though they primarily deal with B2C stuff, are pretty legit as they use research audits to back their Awards. Frost & Sullivan has research to back their Awards as well but most of these other Awards like Red Herring don’t seem to have any value to the customer. A magizine reporter likes your company, which is good, but does that lend any credibility to your product or service? Does it show how you rank against competitors? It really doesn’t which is why I don’t put much stock into them

Even the Gartner Awards have a catch.

I heard that Gartner Awards only go to companies in their “Magic Quadrant’ listing. I think you have to spend quite a bit of money just to be in the Magic Quadrant so I guess you can buy your Gartner Award if you like

I’m still looking to see if JD Power and Frost are the only “true” awards but haven’t found any others that match up to those two yet. – Randy

By: Ann Treacy

Ann Treacy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:12:17 +0000

I like to read the Red Herring awards; I think they do a good job. But I certainly understand what you are saying. I just got an email invitation to nominate myself for the “prestigious Princeton award”. I’m pretty sure that was a scam to get me to buy the directory of other award recipients.

That being said, I do like the Red Herring awards. Thanks! Ann

By: Randy West Jr

Randy West Jr — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:18:12 +0000

So this company is one of 99 other companies that got this? This type of Award isn’t very prestigious if 99 others get it too.

Based on what it says on their website, Red Herring gives out 100 of these, invites you to their “investor conference” and lets the investors (who happen to sponsor the event) get dibs on who they want to meet with. Its not much of an Award.

Besides, the journalists pick these so called Awards…no research, no methodology, no criteria for selection….just who ever they like…seems like a big scam to me.

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