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Thought Leadership Success Factor No. 1: A Big Appetite for the Best Expertise

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Successful thought leadership marketing — a great book, Harvard Business Review article, seminar series or other marketing tool — paints a firm as a leading expert on a certain issue. In my last post, I cited five factors that determine how proficient a company will be at thought leadership marketing – whether it becomes the […]

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Thought Leadership Success Factor No. 2: Patience

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There are no short cuts to thought leadership. None. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably sold a get-rich-quick scheme in a previous career. In my last post, I laid out the first factor behind companies that excel at thought leadership marketing: a big appetite for differentiating their product/service offering on the basis of possessing truly

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Getting Real with Thought Leadership

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From doing this work for decades, I see five factors that are key to determining how well a firm plays the thought leadership game. It’s great to see so many companies today that want to be recognized as “thought leaders” on the business problems their services and products address.  Consulting firms, research houses, and professors

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Part 1: Moving Your Firm up the Thought Leadership Evolutionary Chart

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Thought leadership can be seen as an evolutionary timeline with five phases. Here’s how to move up the scale so you can generate revenue through thought leadership. B2B companies vary tremendously in the ability to gain recognition for their expertise. Many firms with deeper and more differentiated expertise are not nearly as well known as certain

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How Do You Develop Great Content? Some Methods That Will and Won’t Work

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If your firm wants to be the thought leader on a market issue, the most important decision is choosing an “R&D” approach that will get you there. For more than 20 years, I’ve seen consultants and other advice-sellers use an array of techniques to try to come up with a big new idea to take

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