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Social media raises the bar for customer intimacy

Chris Koch

Product leadership. These are companies that rely heavily on innovative, exciting, status-conferring new products to hold customer interest. The good news is that we may look back on social media as the movement that made high levels of customer intimacy as achievable as product quality seems today. Intimacy through content.

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There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks

Chris Koch

Companies that made commodity products would tell me with straight faces that even their financial processes were unique—GAAP be damned—and that they needed to customize their software to fit “our ways of doing things.” Recommend products and services that you haven’t thoroughly researched and you will most likely be out of a job.

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The five components of a successful thought leadership program

Chris Koch

Recently, I was asked by a former ITSMA client to help put together a plan for a thought leadership program for a B2B technology company that sells both products and services. A calendar helps marketing plan out the frequency and focus of its output. Here are my thoughts on the big pieces.

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The five components of a successful thought leadership program

Chris Koch

Recently, I was asked by a former ITSMA client to help put together a plan for a thought leadership program for a B2B technology company that sells both products and services. A calendar helps marketing plan out the frequency and focus of its output. Here are my thoughts on the big pieces.

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Thought leadership is still dead; long live idea marketing

Chris Koch

It may look better and read better than a brochure, but it’s still a brochure because it emphasizes our products and services over the needs of the people we are trying to reach. It presupposes that we have something to talk about besides our products and services. A calendar helps marketing plan the frequency and focus of its output.