In my last post, I only scratched the surface on some of the tools that companies are using on their IR website to make themselves more accessible to investors and increase awareness about their brands. Here are some more…….
IR CALENDAR
Another emerging best practice tool to help increase company awareness is an interactive IR calendar that provides more details and links to associated assets.
Some good ones include upcoming corporate actions, conference calls/webcasts, presentations and other related events and allowing users to add the event to their online …

Today we are going to talk about some best practice tools that companies are using on their IR website to make themselves more accessible to investors and increase awareness about their brands.
COMMUNICATING ACCESSIBILITY
It is not uncommon to find a generic email address such as info@investors on a company’s website.  Thankfully, this is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Instead we are seeing a surge in the use of ‘Contact Us’.
Quite a few companies are using the ‘Contact Us’ feature to its fullest, and I wanted to highlight some interesting …

Today I’m happy to announce, Agnico-Eagle Mines (a long-time Q4 client), has been awarded 2nd place for their investor website in CICA’s Corporate Reporting Awards. 1st prize went to Potash Corp, one of the best corporate sites in the world, and a winner in this category multiple times.
The redesign of Agnico’s investor website started late in 2009, when David Smith, VP of IR at Agnico, came to us with the goal of making their website a best practice award winner. Starting with an audit of their corporate website, we …

Today, we’ll reveal some best practice alternatives for presenting key content in different formats to the usual ways (read: pdf or long monotonous scrolls of text) on your IR website.
SNAPSHOT INFO/RELATIONAL LINKS
We are seeing a lot more companies use ‘Fast Facts’ to help provide a quick snapshot of the organization. This is a great feature to use on the Company index page or ‘About Us’ page. It is especially effective when used in conjunction with some relational links.
For example, Danisco uses the centre panel to provide fast facts …

Today, I’ll be sharing some more best practice examples of how companies are presenting their investment proposition including communicating a clear mission, sound strategy and taking the time to tell investors that the company has the right leadership team in place to execute the strategy.
MISSION
A mission statement is a brief written declaration of the purpose of a company or organization. Ideally, a mission statement guides the actions of the organization, spells out its overall goal, provides a sense of direction, and guides decision making at all levels of the organization.
For …

Last week, we began a blog series about IR website best practices. The first instalment shared ways to attract and keep investors engaged on your IR website. Today, we’ll be discussing some best practice examples to help communicate why a person should invest in your company.
WHY INVEST
More companies are incorporating a ‘Why Invest’ section on their IR website.  It is a very important section/page that should tie together key information and connect the dots on the market opportunity and how your company stands out as a good investment in …

The IR website is a dominant channel for investor communications and companies are looking for ways to do things better. We are seeing a lot of innovative things and this blog is the first in a series where we’ll share some Best Practices for your IR Website.
One of the first things companies should consider is how to make accessing site content easy for three investor audiences: potential, new and long-term.  Each audience is at a different point in their relationship with your company and they have different motivations for coming …

We’re excited to announce the release of a number of feature upgrades now available on Q4. We’ve been listening to our clients and are happy to provide this set of improved features focused on the real-time integration of social media both in terms of publishing updates to Twitter and Facebook and integrating content into the site from social media content sites  like YouTube.
Over the last couple of years we’ve been successful in working with our clients to create a customized approach that drives IR website traffic, expands content distribution and …

Read the full release!
We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Virtua Research to offer analysts and sophisticated investors the Interactive Analyst Center – a new standard of rendering a company’s financial data.

The Interactive Analyst Center was originally designed at the request of Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited with the purpose of providing investors and analysts the most advanced new suite of interactive financials and graphing tools, all embedded in a single, logical location — the investor section of a company’s website.
Some of the KEY FEATURES include:

Excel like Presentation – …

On April 15th, Google issued an advisory release that instructed people to visit their IR website for their earnings and also included the following statement:
Google intends to make future announcements regarding its financial performance exclusively through its investor relations website.
Google is able to do this based on the SEC guidance from Aug 2008 regarding the use of websites for disclosure. This guidance states that under certain circumstances, companies can rely on their websites and blogs to meet public disclosure requirements under Reg FD.
As we all remember all too well, shortly …