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If you hope to get the attention and budget approval of top management, talk about the value of thought leadership in their universal language: money. I know lots of people who, with varying degrees of success, are trying to get their boss behind thought leadership marketing and raise their organization’s investment in it. I can assure you the more successful […]
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B2B companies that conduct primary research have a growing number of online options today in collecting best practice and other primary research data. In a previous post, I laid out four stages that professional services and other B2B firms go through in becoming thought leaders (Stone Age, Medieval, Industrial and Post-Industrial). Each stage reflects varying
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By labeling any content as “thought leadership,” it can lull us into a false complacency – that anything we produce, no matter how little effort we put into it, is exceptional content. Like a lightning bolt, the 140-character-or-less insults point to an issue for all of us in this emerging discipline of thought leadership marketing:
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If your firm is less advanced, perhaps the stages will provide insights on why you’re not getting the value you expected from your thought leadership investments. From 23 years of helping companies become recognized as experts in their domains, I have found their ability to do so has varied greatly. And it wasn’t because of
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By Bob Buday, Bernie Thiel, Susan Buddenbaum and Tim Parker Leaders of professional services firms can increase the return on their marketing and sales investments by asking one question: Are marketing and business development on the same team? For most firms, our research and experience tells us the answer is “no.” Although marketing and business
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Management journals must optimize for the digital age. Topic microsite and online communities help them present deep insights and engage in discussion. Several consulting firms recently have asked for our opinion of their management journals. All of them are well-written, graphically appealing, and chock full of articles. But beyond that, they all fall quite short
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