--- title: "Quick Tip: What To Expect From An Industry Analyst Audit" description: Tips for you to make sure you are getting the most out of your industry analyst audits. image: https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/2024%20Images/JPR-BlogImages-0724-14.jpg --- [![](https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/2024%20Images/JPR-BlogImages-0724-14.jpg) ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/quick-tip-what-to-expect-from-an-industry-analyst-audit) # Quick Tip: What To Expect From An Industry Analyst Audit BY:   [ Kristin Jones ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/author/kristin-jones) Before you can plan successful public relations and marketing campaigns, you need to know where you currently stand. You need to know what’s being said, how the market views your brand, how customers view your brand and how the experts view your brand. To get to the bottom of how those industry, media and financial leaders see your company, you need to conduct an analyst audit. Analyst audits use personal contact to develop a deep understanding of what industry experts consider to be your brand’s strengths and weaknesses, resulting in both strategies for addressing those strengths and weakness and in closer relationships with those industry influencers. When you engage an agency to conduct an analyst audit for you, expect them to include the following items. - Analysis of media commentary - Direct consultation or interviews with analysts - SWOT analysis with comparisons to competitors - Recommendations for maximizing analyst relationships. **Our advice:** Don’t accept an audit—whether an analyst audit or another marketing and messaging audit—that is simply an aggregation of data. 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