Marketing Resources: Thought Leadership

• A Five-Step Process for Hosting a Webinar That Generates Salesby Greg Digneo
  When hosting a webinar, you want people to show up and you want to generate leads. But meeting those goals isn't easy. Here's a five-step plan that'll take the guesswork out of hosting an effective, successful webinar.
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• Jeff Bezos and the Shoe-Store Owner: How to Build Instant Rapport With Your Customersby Aman Basanti
  In April 2009, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos convinced Zappos founder Tony Hsieh to sell his online shoe store despite his initial reluctance. The story serves as a lesson to all marketers on building rapport with customers.
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• How to Hire a Chief Content Officer: 11 Key Traitsby Ann Handley
  What should a business look for in a chief content officer—the key person responsible for sharing and creating its content? To succeed in this important role, your ideal candidate should have these critical (but not so obvious) skills.
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• Four Questions With Guy Kawasaki: Enchantment, Influence, and Marketing to the Rest of Usby Stephen Denny
  Having been neck-deep in the psychology of influence and the business of marketing while launching my own book, I had the opportunity to ask Guy Kawasaki about succeeding by embracing the "nobodies," thinking differently about demand generation, and enchanting your ...
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• Seven Ways to Take Control of Your Online Reputationby Jamie Fairbairn
  What are others saying about you and your company online? With so many online channels available to consumers and competitors, it's time you took control of your online reputation. Just follow these seven simple steps.
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• Five Relationship Blunders to Avoid in Your Sales and Marketingby Kathy Sacks
  With Valentine's Day here, I'm reminded that marketing is like dating. You have to attract leads and differentiate yourself from the competition. Steer clear of these five mistakes, and build long-term relationships with your customers.
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• Stop Selling and (Instead) Help Your Customers Buyby Steven Van Yoder
  The latest recession has profoundly altered consumer behavior. As home values plummet, stock portfolios shrink, and company profits erode, prospects are less likely to make purchases, and thrift is back in vogue. Time to stop selling; instead, become a trusted ...
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• 10 Ways to Entice Your Whole Company (Not Just Marketing) to Blogby Ann Handley
  It's a lot easier to maintain a robust, active blog when you have many contributors—not just one person responsible for writing compelling content, day in and day out, rain or shine, in sickness and in health. One place to look ...
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• Content Marketing Has Been a Successful PR Strategy for Decadesby Ford Kanzler
  The highly effective strategy of creating informational content that's valuable to prospects and customers has been with us for decades. Demonstrating expertise, becoming an authority, providing "how-to" information, and speaking about subjects of interest or relevance to your market are ...
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• What Online Content Will People Pay For?by Miles Galliford
  Since the Internet began, some 40 years ago, most of its content has been free to access. Today, that is still the case. However, paid content is one of the fastest-growing areas of Internet business, generating more than $15 billion ...
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• Establish Credibility and Persuade Customers via Contributed Articlesby Ford Kanzler, Bob Peterson
  This is the strategy: Get company executives or yourself published in an editorial context for significantly greater marketing credibility than self-publishing another whitepaper that just sits on your website.
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• The State of Social Media Marketing, by the Numbers: A Sneak Peekby Tim McAtee
  Before writing The State of Social Media Marketing—an in-depth, thorough study of social media use among marketers—we looked around at the existing research to see what other organizations were asking in their surveys. Much of it seemed interesting, but lacking ...
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• Recruiting Executives and Industry Experts for Qualitative Researchby Scott Swigart, Sean Campbell
  Your studies are not appropriate for participants found on purchased lists, and the participants will take part in a series of in-depth interviews. So how do you find your interviewees?
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• Is Anybody Following Your Thought Leadership? Five Best-Practicesby Paul McKeon
  A big part of making market leadership pay off is an ability to convey and promote thought leadership. Thought leadership is the outward expression of market leadership. It conveys your views on where your market-space is heading (or should be ...
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• 11 Tips for Challenging Government-Marketing Myths and Reaching Buyersby Becky Sheetz-Runkle
  Just as selling to government is different from selling to any other industry, marketing to government requires a distinct approach. Although there is no shortage of ways to reach government buyers, some ways are better than others. To help shatter ...
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• 10 Practical Tips for Creating Blockbuster E-Booksby Jonathan Kranz
  Without careful planning, your e-book may become a sinkhole of confused agendas, missed opportunities, and poor distribution. Here are a few key things that might help you avoid the pains and achieve the gains.
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• A Newbie's Field Guide to Twitter for Business: 29 Questions (and Answers) About Starting Outby Beth Harte, Ann Handley
  So you've heard that Twitter is a great tool for connecting with customers in ways that haven't been previously possible. But you still don't get it, right? Not only doesn't Twitter make obvious and immediate sense, but it's also marked by ...
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• You Had Me at 'Recession-Proof': The Hispanic Marketby Blaire Borthayre
  The Hispanic market seems to be the only one still flourishing these days in the face of economic doom and gloom. Foreign-born Hispanics in the US have been historically unaffected by economic downturns. Why? And how can you tap the market ...
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• My So-Called Marketing Life: How Do I Extend the Reach of My Brand?by Sue Duris
  Although she has been successful in promoting and extending corporate brands, the author entered into another chapter of her life a few years ago: re-energizing an acting career. Eventually, she came to see marketing herself as an actor as the ...
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• Email Marketing Success Is All About the Value of Contentby Steve Adams
  A great-looking email template is important for establishing credibility and brand recognition with readers; but, as the old saying goes, never judge a book by its cover. The same mentality should always be applied to email campaigns. A nice-looking template means ...
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• Nine Great Ways to Avoid Being a Thought Leader [Slide Show]by Craig Badings
  Do the words "thought leader" give you cold chills? If you don't want the limelight and you desperately want to conceal your expertise, take these nine steps to fade into ...
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• Six Traits of an Effective B2B Social Media Conversationalist
  As we leave the summer behind and gear up for a fresh, crisp autumn B2B marketing push, here's a quick question to ponder: How's that social media outreach going for ...
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• How to Be a Great Panel Moderator
  Got your social strategy off the ground? Want to draw more attention to it? Consider increasing your business's profile at an industry conference. Even if you aren't ready to keynote, ...
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• IT Pros Value Thought-Leadership Vendor Content
  Fully two-thirds (67%) of North American information technology (IT) professionals say they find vendor-produced content such as whitepapers "extremely useful" or "useful," according a new study from IDG Connect. IT ...
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• When Wrong Grammar Is Right
  If you say "this is she" rather than "this is her," or "it must have been they" rather than "it must have been them," your high school English teacher would ...
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• Hot New Tools to Provide Hot New Blog Content
  One way to build trust is to position yourself as an authority on topics associated with your product or service. Blogging helps, but any blogger knows that expert blogging demands research, ...
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• How to Generate Leads With Content Syndication
  "In today's economic climate, content syndication is one of the lowest risk lead generation vehicles there is," writes Howard J. Sewell at The Point. "At our agency, the programs we ...
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• Three Ways to Replace a Superstar Blogger
  Companies may find themselves in a touchy situation when their established social-media star leaves to pursue other interests. Just what do you do with a famous blog when its author ...
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• How to Get Your Whole Company Blogging
  "Maintaining a blog that's consistently interesting and relevant isn't an easy task," writes Ann Handley at MarketingProfs. "It's a challenge to create consistently awesome blog posts, and it's a challenge ...
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• How to Become a Newsmaker
  When you're ready to position yourself as a media resource, says blogger Nettie Hartsock, you can hire publicists who pitch your expertise to journalists—or you can start making news at ...
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• Thoughts About Being a Thought Leader
  Don't make the mistake of assuming thought leadership springs automatically from content marketing. "Thought leadership is not created with one, two or three pieces of content," writes Ardath Albee at ...
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• Four Ways to Use SlideShare to Boost Your Reach Online
  It's the social weapon you just don't hear enough about: SlideShare. At first glance, it comes across as a mere archive for uploading presentations, but oh—it's so much more than ...
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• It's All in How You Present Yourself
  "The basic method of gaining a subscriber is simply asking someone to sign up for your mailing list," writes David Godot in a Pro article at MarketingProfs. "If a customer ...
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• Don't Forget Those News Guys
  Last month, we offered a bunch of options for optimizing your local search advertising. Well, here's a way to extend your local search marketing options even further: through your good-old ...
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• eBay Sells Stake in Skype
  eBay is selling a 65% stake in Skype for $1.9 billion in cash and a $125 million note, reversing a 2005 acquisition that had puzzled analysts.
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• All You Ever Needed to Know About Twitter
  Michael Martine considered writing a book on how to make the most of Twitter. Fortunately for us all, however, he chose instead to share his insight—gratis—at Remarkablogger in an extended ...
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• Can We Link Up Sometime?
  What are two of the biggest obstacles companies face in link marketing? Consultant Justilien Gaspard believes they are: (1) developing linkable content, and (2) making people aware of it. In a recent ...
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• Tweet Like You Mean It
  Lots of companies are scrambling to see how they can use Twitter to promote their products and services. But a few good tweets can also provide great customer service. Glenn ...
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• Did You Know?
  Did you know that the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004? Did you know that today's learner will have 10 to14 jobs by the age ...
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• Give Away the Good Stuff
  "If you want to create something very good," says Tom Peters, "it takes time, energy, and sometimes money." That, he argues, is exactly why you should give away your finest ...
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Thought Leadership case studies, deconstructing real life examples and illustrating lessons learned

• How One Company's Thought-Leadership Content Is Driving New Business, Exposureby Roberts & Durkee, P.A.
  CASE STUDY: Emulate these best-practices for launching a well-trafficked corporate blog, and you'll be well on your way to establishing yourself as a trusted authority in your marketplace.
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• SEO and Sex: A Recipe for Successby Dr. Helaine Smith, DMD
  CASE STUDY: How does an SMB owner run a business day to day, do his/her own marketing and promotion, and make sure the biz keeps going and growing? Just maybe, SEO+Sex=Success!
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• How One Company's Content Marketing Improved Qualified Lead Generation, Boosted Revenue 38%by Intellitactics, Inc.
  CASE STUDY: Good content can position your company as an expert in its field, delivering more and better-qualified traffic to your door. Here's how one company leveraged its vendor-neutral whitepapers, podcasts, and more to increase leads, conversion, and (ultimately) revenue.
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Thought Leadership online seminar broadcasts from the best minds in marketing

• MarketingProfs University: Presentations that Resonate With Me! How to Persuade Any AudienceBroadcast on 11/18/2011 11:00:00 AM
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• The State of the Thank You EconomyBroadcast on 9/22/2011 11:00:00 AM
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• How to Rapidly Grow Your Business by NOT MarketingBroadcast on 8/11/2011 11:00:00 AM
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• Winning with Speed: 4 Ways Speed Can Topple the Goliath in Your IndustryBroadcast on 6/23/2011 11:00:00 AM
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• The Art of EnchantmentBroadcast on 6/2/2011 11:00:00 AM
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• How To Be a Social Media Strategist, Not the Social Help DeskBroadcast on 1/27/2011 11:00:00 AM
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• Kick Off the New Year With Seth Godin: 57 Ways to Connect With Customers and Get Them to Spread Your Ideas for YouBroadcast on 1/13/2011 11:00:00 AM
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• FREE: Cisco and the Social Web: Our Adoption and EvolutionBroadcast on 8/26/2010 11:00:00 AM
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• Summer Social Media Series: The Rewind (FREE)Broadcast on 12/3/2009 11:00:00 AM
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• Content Marketing: How to Position Your Company as a Trusted Expert ResourceBroadcast on 12/4/2008
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• How to Develop a B2B Lead Nurturing Program that Really WorksBroadcast on 12/20/2007
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• The New Rules of PR: How to Use Press Releases to Reach Buyers DirectlyBroadcast on 6/29/2006 11:00:00 AM
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Thought Leadership Take 10 Webcasts—tactical marketing know-how in just 10 minutes from subject matter experts

• Take 10: How to Gather Competitive Intelligence from Q&A ForumsReleased on 4/29/2011 10:00:00 AM
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• Take 10: Everything You Need to Know About LinkedIn PollsReleased on 10/8/2010 10:00:00 AM
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• Take 10: Everything You Need to Know About LinkedIn GroupsReleased on 7/16/2010 10:00:00 AM
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• Take 10: Everything You Need to Know About LinkedIn AnswersReleased on 7/16/2010 10:00:00 AM
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Thought Leadership marketing downloads for the busy professional

• LinkedIn Success Stories
  LinkedIn is used by 55 million professionals as a place to network, trade advice, and demonstrate business expertise. See how 11 companies, including PR firms, advertising agencies, and software companies, are using LinkedIn to show expertise, generate leads, and conduct research.
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