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The five components of a successful thought leadership program

Chris Koch

Create a content development process. The key components of the program are: Create a publishing process and calendar. Marketers must become publishers, with a process for refining and presenting thought leadership content through various vehicles, (such as conference presentations, white papers, social media, etc.).

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The five components of a successful thought leadership program

Chris Koch

Create a content development process. The key components of the program are: Create a publishing process and calendar. Marketers must become publishers, with a process for refining and presenting thought leadership content through various vehicles, (such as conference presentations, white papers, social media, etc.).

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The information gap between marketing and sales—and how to fill it

Chris Koch

Of course, devising those incentives, putting them in place, and driving the cultural change necessary to make them stick is a maddeningly complex process that helps keep consultants and academics in business. Marketing automation and CRM vendors are beginning to offer ways to capture that kind of information. Information.

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The information gap between marketing and sales—and how to fill it

Chris Koch

Of course, devising those incentives, putting them in place, and driving the cultural change necessary to make them stick is a maddeningly complex process that helps keep consultants and academics in business. Marketing automation and CRM vendors are beginning to offer ways to capture that kind of information. Information.

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We need an app for that

Chris Koch

So you have to start with the bigger process picture. And as I discussed in this post, the qualification process needs to be gradual and non-invasive, what Brian has since christened “micro-conversion.” The key to this process is getting sales and marketing to work together create an integrated process. Lead scoring.

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We need an app for that

Chris Koch

So you have to start with the bigger process picture. And as I discussed in this post, the qualification process needs to be gradual and non-invasive, what Brian has since christened “micro-conversion.” The key to this process is getting sales and marketing to work together create an integrated process. Lead scoring.

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Social media isn’t enough. We need a marketing transformation.

Chris Koch

Assuming CIOs would be willing to accept the pay cut, and smart and determined as they are, I’m certain that few have the talent for or interest in the publishing process. If we automate the processes that matter, the metrics we need will be staring us in the face. What am I paying for? The funnel becomes electric.