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Part 3: Leapfrogging on the Thought Leadership Evolutionary Chart

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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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What is Thought Leadership?

Bob's Vault, Compelling content, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

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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Part 2: Where is Your Firm on the Thought Leadership Evolutionary Chart?

Bob's Vault, Building capability, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

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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The Arrival of the Ultimate Thought Leadership Vehicle: Online Communities

Bob's Vault, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

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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Does Your Content Lead to Service Innovation or a Veneer of Expertise?

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Even if it’s backed by your best research, your marketing will backfire if you can’t practice what you preach. Companies with savvy marketers spend lots of time determining how to market a piece of compelling “thought leadership” content, especially one based on deep primary research. What blog posts can we create, and what bloggers should we

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Thought Leadership Success Factor No. 5: Fueling Service Innovation, Not Just Marketing

Bob's Vault, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

Thought leadership content can fuel new services or new approaches to existing services – beyond creating client interest in them through marketing. Thought leadership programs serve one master in most B2B firms: Marketing. Marketing generates content (commissioning studies, writing white papers, and so on). Marketing packages and distributes that content (producing academic-looking publications, seminars and

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