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Chris Koch

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The 2 questions on every buyer’s mind

Chris Koch

Assuming that you’ve done the necessary research to understand your target audience, that change can be on a personal, organizational, or industry level. An excellent, though controversial, example of this is the McKinsey article I wrote about a few weeks ago, about how US health care reform will affect employee benefits.

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The 2 questions on every buyer’s mind

Chris Koch

Assuming that you’ve done the necessary research to understand your target audience, that change can be on a personal, organizational, or industry level. An excellent, though controversial, example of this is the McKinsey article I wrote about a few weeks ago, about how US health care reform will affect employee benefits.

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Why bother with thought leadership? Five questions and answers.

Chris Koch

The most famous business incarnation of this model is the Harvard Business Review, which began publishing in 1922. Is it only focused in knowledge intensive industries? This depends on whether the products and services themselves are knowledge intensive. Why did companies start focusing on it?

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Sports Analogies Suck, Right?

Chris Koch

The example I’m about to give focuses on the fact that if you think of sports fans as business customers, they are the most loyal in the world. See if you agree about this post that I worked on with my colleague Rob O’Regan: “Professional sports teams have two problems that most businesses will recognize.

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7 reasons why social media success has nothing to do with social media

Chris Koch

Here are some examples: Most C-level executives are not in social media—they’re in search. They hold back because they know that they need the full support, commitment, and participation of the business in social media. The business case doesn’t exist for social media; but it does for idea marketing. 30% said yes.

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7 reasons why social media success has nothing to do with social media

Chris Koch

Here are some examples: Most C-level executives are not in social media—they’re in search. They hold back because they know that they need the full support, commitment, and participation of the business in social media. The business case doesn’t exist for social media; but it does for idea marketing. 30% said yes.

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Why our thought leadership is broken

Chris Koch

Marketers, meanwhile, didn’t have a wall, so they filled their content with self-aggrandizing references to their own products and services that pissed off readers and sent them to other sources for advice. Interviews with industry luminaries? The best example of this that I can think of is IBM’s Smarter Planet. Tweet This Post.