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Is your strategic content on an assembly line or coming out of skunk works?
Imagine you’re in a luxury automobile factory, watching cars come together on the assembly line. But something strange is happening: several cars are being pulled off the line, and a crew is taking them apart and reassembling them so they start looking different from the others.
Does your thought leadership make readers take action?
It would be great if more strategic content was written to prompt “action this day” — or any day, for that matter.
4 Reasons Why Thought Leadership Projects Fall Flat
Because the competition for mind space is so acute, you must avoid the pitfalls discussed here. With this approach, you’ll convince readers that your insights have value, and that your thought leadership is worth following.
What Thought Leadership Actually Costs
There’s no clear-cut dollar answer to the thought leadership cost question. But there are guidelines that can help you plan and budget — and that’s what we’re sharing here.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Content Marketers
From wrangling creatives to controlling the budget — see what it takes to be a content marketing maestro.
You really shouldn’t try to fake expertise
Far too often, we find ourselves reading a piece of thought leadership that, had we been locked in a quiet room with access to the Internet and a large bowl of M&Ms, we could probably have written ourselves.
How PowerPoint is wrecking your thought leadership
You’ve seen them: papers that start out with a tantalizing headline and opening text that really grabs you in anticipation of learning something great. And then you get to the first chart [sound of screeching tires].
4 things that just aren’t thought leadership
Every 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.
What Ought to Happen Before Thought Leadership Happens
The Scouts have had it right all along. That whole “Be Prepared” thing? It applies just as much to thought leadership.