Creating field-specialist brands

Thought-leadership programmes

Cultivating expert status wins customer confidence.

Our thought leadership programmes elevate market perception of your brand.

In many B2B industries, customers’ needs are complex. Technical product criteria, the need to fulfil legislative requirements, multi-stage project considerations, among others.

Establishing a perspective on your industry and maintaining a flow of authoritative content and events earns confidence in your market. And confident customers place orders.

Three steps to thought-leadership

A strategy to earn market respect

1
Establish an industry view point or philosophy

Identifying a particular perspective on your industry demonstrates your market intelligence. It doesn't have to be revolutionary, but any focus helps to add substance to your content programme.

2
Identify audiences, mediums and channels

It's important to be clear about the main audiences that you want to win the confidence of. Then you can identify the mediums they are most likely to engage with and the channels that will reach them best.

3
Maintain consistent content and engagement

Lastly, it's all about maintaining a consistent flow of substance but varied in style and format. Aiming to mix published content and personal engagement (online and in-person events) achieves a strong combination.

Thought leadership made simple

We make it straightforward to go from average supplier to a recognised industry expert, with a reliable monthly programme that requires minimal input from you.

Thought leadership strategy

We offer an initial workshop to explore opportunities for a thought leadership position within your market. Reviewing the market characteristics, the challenges that customers face, and then the solutions that you provide, we help to identify synergies that could underpin a distinctive perspective. This exercise can be woven into your initial brand strategy development with us.

Establishing a schedule

With your thought leadership strategy in place, we then work with you to agree on a schedule of content and potential events that will convey your expertise month by month. This can be a straightforward monthly quota of content, or a schedule of quarterly themes with a mix of content and events per quarter.

Keeping up the flow

We make it easy to maintain a consistent flow of authoritative content that builds your reputation as industry expert. Based on a monthly meeting in which the detail of the content plan for the month is agreed, we then take ownership of getting the content creation over the line and shared with target audiences. We also engage directly with your in-house specialists and external subject matter experts to secure the essential insights that feed into your content.

“A key prospect told us that they used to view us as the poor relative in the industry, but they now view us as up there with the main players. That’s thanks to what you’ve done”
Client: Rutland
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