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What do you do when the phone isn’t ringing or email box pinging with inquiries? We know many professional firms whose lead streams remain soft. Â And they are worried (as they should be) because they realize thought leadership marketing is not a lead-generating spigot that can be turned on or off. Â Developing a compelling, […]
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Decision-makers need to see a reason to engage your expertise. Is your marketing missing something? It’s easy to get caught up in the social media hysteria and believe everything you learned about marketing is obsolete.  We heard a similar line a decade ago, when e-commerce and e-everything were going to Amazon every bricks-and-mortar business out
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Some thought leadership marketing lacks a compelling argument about why some serious business problem exists in the world and that there is a new, proven way of solving it. Thus, it falls short in capturing client attention. To get clients to respond to their marketing campaigns, professional services firms must demonstrate deep and novel insights
Creating Economies of Content: The Power of a Point of View Read More »
The right content on the right issues, quality execution and good marketing will help you get the most from your investment and generate leads. Nearly every professional services firm we talk to is counting on thought leadership marketing to boost the lead stream – especially with clients squeezing discretionary spending to the bone.  However, many
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A successful business book engages readers, provides solutions to a pressing business problem and, most important, generates consulting business for the firm that authors it. The siren song of becoming a best-selling author is strong for many advice-givers. The prospect of having one’s ideas consumed by thousands or millions of people can be difficult to
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Investments in service delivery and marketing/ sales are often made across too many service offerings and industries to build superior expertise and effective marketing programs in any one of them. For professional services firm leaders who continue to search for that elusive growth formula, it’s time to ask a fundamental question: Is your firm sufficiently
Why Focus is Crucial to a Professional Services Firm’s Growth Read More »