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Thought Leadership Marketing

In an ever more complex and demanding world, B2B companies are increasingly having to demonstrate their unique and proven expertise before they ever meet with a prospect – i.e., to show they are the “thought leaders” in their domain. Well-crafted and well-executed thought leadership marketing programs can make these firms magnets for clients.

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Customer Intimacy on Steroids: Why B2B Firms Need Online Communities

Seminars, publications, market research, and customer care centers are important tools in every B2B firm’s toolbox for understanding, attracting, serving and keeping customers loyal.  But they're not enough today. (First of a series.)

Push-Me-Pull-You: How to Turn Intellectual Property into Intellectual Capital

Professional firms often get thought leadership marketing or sales right, but not both. When they do, they are far better able to grow profitably in good times or bad. 

 

Architecting Communities of Passionate Participants: A Talk with Chris Parsons

How can a  B2B firm use LinkedIn to build a reputation for thought leadership? Christopher Parsons, who heads Knowledge Architecture, a consulting and software firm, has built a LinkedIn group with more than 1,100 members who share perspectives and insights. Doing it right requires lots of groundwork and patience.

Marketing Consulting Through Social Media: A 2011 Research Report

This report presents our the findings of research our organizations conducted this spring on how consulting firms are using social media to market their expertise, and how buyers of their services use social media to find consulting expertise. This is our second annual study on this topic. 

Moving Your Firm up the Thought Leadership Evolutionary Chart

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 competitors. In this article, we present a framework for assessing a firm’s capabilities for becoming thought leaders – an evolutionary timeline with five phases.