Chris Koch

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I’ve been working with my colleagues at ITSMA on another survey on social media for B2B marketers that I hope you’ll take by going here. As we put together the questions, we struggled with the issue of social media strategy. Social media is no silver bullet. I resisted treating it as a standalone in the survey.

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Chris Koch

MARCH 12, 2010

Social media is raising the bar on customer intimacy. Social media is making that fact plain. We’re all struggling to move from the traditional arm’s-length, temporary campaigns to the always-on, direct relationships inherent in social media management. Social media reduces the incremental cost of content.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 22, 2010

I wish I could say that social media leads to sales. So when we think about social media ROI, we need to make a leap of faith. To make ourselves feel a little more comfortable with this idea, we may need to categorize social media with something whose hazy ROI we’re more familiar and comfortable with: PR. I really do.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 15, 2010

Pledging to do more with social media isn’t the answer. Getting into social media really means getting into publishing. I think the suspicion that we see of social media, which is justified, is mixed with fear. But a white paper isn’t just content; it is data. This is where social media tools are helpful.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 21, 2011

Social media have created so much noise that it’s becoming more difficult for the good old white paper to stand out. The social media noise is personal. But let’s look at the social media noise more carefully. The characteristic that stands out is that these channels are all more personal than more traditional content.

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Chris Koch

MAY 21, 2010

Social media is beginning to teach us that long qual forms are going the way of the dodo. Both Facebook and we have traditionally believed that the content services that we provide—in our case studies, white papers, webinars, etc.—come I find much more value in Twitter than in any of the other social media networks.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 29, 2010

The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. But it’s less familiar to lower-level buyers, who are only beginning to calculate this piece as the economics of social media open up the privileges of relationship from cheesy tchotckes at trade shows to online social networks.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 29, 2010

The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. But it’s less familiar to lower-level buyers, who are only beginning to calculate this piece as the economics of social media open up the privileges of relationship from cheesy tchotckes at trade shows to online social networks.

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Chris Koch

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In part it is being driven by social media. ITSMA’s annual survey of IT buyers found that this year, for the first time, a majority of buyers in the US—and 75% when you include other countries—are using social media in the purchasing process—especially the younger ones. No, there’s something bigger going on here. Tweet This Post.

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Chris Koch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

And they’re linking this content to their social media management strategies. The same web analytics that have destroyed publishing are now getting marketers fired because nobody’s clicking on their white papers and surveys. But that’s only part of the answer. But from the ashes of publishing, subtle association is making a comeback.

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Chris Koch

MARCH 18, 2011

Now, you may think that because I’m using revenue and thought leadership together in the same sentence that I’m going to reveal some secret way to measure the link between the white paper you published last month and the complex solution sale you make six months from now. Most salespeople don’t know what to do with a 20-page white paper.

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Chris Koch

MARCH 26, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for B2B social media marketers isn’t creating content, it’s helping others create content. Marketing is the default head of social media management in most companies. Very few writers are able to get their best thoughts out on paper without some help. Have regular pitch meetings. Tweet This Post.

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Chris Koch

AUGUST 21, 2009

What types of thought leadership vehicles (councils, conferences, white papers, social media, etc.) 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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Chris Koch

AUGUST 21, 2009

What types of thought leadership vehicles (councils, conferences, white papers, social media, etc.) 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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Chris Koch

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Back in the eighties, when newspapers were only beginning to disappear, I worked for a local paper in a very competitive (journalistically, anyway) part of the world: the moneyed, New York City suburban area of Fairfield County, CT (Greenwich, Stamford, etc.). How to use social media to create thought leadership.

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Chris Koch

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Idea marketing is not purely about the nature of the content (Gartner’s definition sounds like it intends the output to be white paper to me). What types of vehicles (councils, conferences, white papers, social media, etc.) There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks (christopherakoch.com).

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Chris Koch

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Here’s a list of things I wish we would stop doing and thinking as of December 31 st : Social media. Social media cause people to waste time at work. Social media relationships are shallow and meaningless. Soon, we’ll be able to automate our social media relationships through bots that can judge sentiment.

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Chris Koch

MARCH 12, 2012

For about 20 years (sad to say I was a journalist for even longer than that) it seemed that every white paper that crossed my desk began with some variant of this sentence: “As the world becomes more global and interconnected, businesses need a way to see through the complexity. My destination? New Jersey.

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Chris Koch

JULY 29, 2011

McKinsey recently learned a difficult lesson about what happens when the world takes your thought leadership marketing seriously—and when you lack the ability to respond in the moment through social media. Despite its prowess in thought leadership—McKinsey is simply the best—the firm is falling dangerously behind in social media.

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