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Continue ReadingEvery well-meaning marketer wants a piece of “thought leadership.” But apparently not everyone knows what it is. Here are four things I often see posing as thought leadership.
Continue ReadingI think the quality of thought leadership is declining. Here’s what I see as the main sticking points – along with my thoughts on how you can start unsticking things.
Continue ReadingMessage for marketers needing to publish new thought leadership: Make sure your authors have their ducks in a row.
Continue ReadingAdmit it, marketers: sometimes your authors – your subject-matter experts – come up empty. If your thought leadership is flat-lining, it’s time to call in the story doctors.
Continue ReadingIt would be great if more strategic content was written to prompt “action this day” – or any day, for that matter.
Continue ReadingWriters aren’t all manufactured on the same assembly line. Which kind of writer is most valuable to most marketers most of the time?
Continue ReadingWho are your current thought leaders? How old are they? And who’ll be authoring the bulk of your company’s thought leadership in 10 years’ time?
Continue ReadingIn our experience, marketers work incredibly hard to develop and publish thought leadership but they tend not to put as much muscle into getting clients to engage with the paper or report or article. It’s time for a new approach.
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