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3 tips for increasing the reach of your next white paper
In our experience, marketers work incredibly hard to develop and publish thought leadership but they tend not to put as much muscle into getting clients to engage with the paper or report or article. It’s time for a new approach.
Content marketers: still having Groundhog Day moments?
It’s Groundhog Day! Remember the movie of the same name, where Bill Murray, as an arrogant weatherman, is forced to live the same day over and over again? Seems to me that’s often how many marketers experience the development of thought leadership content.
Six Ways to Make Thought Leadership More Effective
A new study by Edelman and LinkedIn reveals that 58% of respondents said thought leadership directly led decision makers to award business to an organization. More startling: 29% decided not to award business to a company based on its thought leadership.
A lesson in how not to write thought leadership
It’s surprisingly easy to slip into promising something and not quite delivering, to become overly focused on the firm’s approach or methodology, or to create something that doesn’t have a strong engaging story.
The Art of Story Telling
Ever sit in on a presentation as you strain to read the small font delivered in a Tolstoyan-length PowerPoint, where each chart is packed with information? And then somewhere in the middle … you start thinking about lunch. You’re done!
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.
Where will your next generation of thought leaders come from?
Who are your current thought leaders? How old are they? And who’ll be authoring the bulk of your company’s thought leadership in 10 years’ time?
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.
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.