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How can you use Thought Leadership to stay ahead of the competition?

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Thought leadership is more than just sharing your expertise or opinions on relevant topics. It's a strategic way to position yourself or your organization as a credible, influential, and innovative force in your industry. By creating and distributing valuable, engaging, and original content, you can attract and retain your ideal audience, build trust and loyalty, and differentiate yourself from the competition. But how can you use thought leadership effectively to achieve these goals? Here are some tips to help you.

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Shantanu Verma

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Jason Patterson

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1 Define your niche

One of the first steps to becoming a thought leader is to identify your niche or area of specialization. What are you passionate about? What problems can you solve? What unique perspective or insights can you offer? By narrowing down your focus, you can establish your authority and relevance in a specific domain, and avoid spreading yourself too thin or competing with too many others. Your niche should reflect your strengths, values, and vision, and resonate with your target audience.

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Shantanu Verma

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More important than your niche, is the differential value you to bring to the table. Your prospect is already on their journey, they have skills and experiences. So if you just repeat what they already know, they won't consider it as 'thought leadership'. What is the surplus value are you bring to the table? What can you see that they can't see? Articulating that differential is the soul of your thought leadership - taking them, not from A to B, but from B to C.

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2 Know your audience

Speaking of your audience, you need to have a clear understanding of who they are, what they need, what they care about, and how they consume information. By researching and segmenting your audience, you can tailor your content to their preferences, challenges, goals, and pain points. You can also use feedback, surveys, analytics, and social media to learn more about your audience and their behavior, and adjust your strategy accordingly. Your audience is the key to your thought leadership success, so make sure you listen to them and engage with them.

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Shantanu Verma

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Survey your clients and audiences once every quarter - that is the only REAL way to understand them deeply. Ask questions like this in context to your domain, For example, "What 3 daily frustrations do you experience in managing your CRM?" "What is the most urgent crisis you need to solve when it comes to your manufacturing processes?" "What do you need most right now to be able to deliver on your quarterly revenue targets?" 3-5 simple questions. The answers are PURE GOLD. Swipe and use them in all your posts and offers.

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3 Create valuable content

Content is the core of your thought leadership strategy. It's how you showcase your expertise, share your ideas, educate your audience, and inspire action. But not all content is created equal. To stand out from the noise and the competition, you need to create content that is valuable, relevant, original, and engaging. You need to provide solutions, insights, stories, or perspectives that your audience can't find elsewhere. You also need to use different formats, channels, and platforms to reach and attract your audience, such as blogs, podcasts, videos, webinars, ebooks, or social media.

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Shantanu Verma

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Drop the practitioner's perspective. A practitioner is not a thought leader. A practitioner often speaks almost like a professor, sharing esoteric concepts and technobabble. As an expert, it’s your comfort zone. Here's the catch: Your audience are consumers, not practitioners. A thought leader offers easily digestible bites of wisdom. What are you delivering that your prospect hasn’t already been exposed to? What is that differential value? Lead with that gap and own the space.

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Paola Duran

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One thing I’ve found helpful while creating thought leadership content is to dare to give bold opinions. Anyone is able is give an vanilla opinion. Thought leadership requires courage to put yourself out there and show vulnerability and strong opinions. Those are the contents that your audience will love.

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4 Be consistent and authentic

Thought leadership is not a one-time thing or a quick fix. It's a long-term commitment that requires consistency and authenticity. You need to produce and distribute content regularly and frequently, to maintain your visibility and credibility, and to build a loyal following. You also need to be authentic and transparent , to show your personality, values, and voice, and to connect with your audience on an emotional level. Don't be afraid to be yourself, share your opinions, or challenge the status quo. Your authenticity will set you apart and earn you respect.

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Let your output be a whiteboard: listen adapt, improve, integrate. If you are trapped in orthodoxy you are not a thought leader, if you can't change your mind you are not even a thinker. Don't be a Thought Manager - be a Thought Inspirer. Anyone can martial a case - be someone who can provoke output beyond and better than your own.

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5 Collaborate and network

Thought leadership is not a solo act or a zero-sum game. It's a collaborative and networked effort that involves learning from, partnering with, and supporting other thought leaders, influencers, experts, or peers in your industry or niche. By collaborating and networking with others, you can expand your reach, exposure, and impact, as well as gain new insights, perspectives, and opportunities. You can also leverage the power of social proof, testimonials, referrals, or endorsements to boost your reputation and trustworthiness. Don't see others as competitors, but as allies and resources.

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6 Measure and improve

Finally, thought leadership is not a static or fixed process. It's a dynamic and evolving one that requires constant measurement and improvement. You need to track and analyze your performance, results, and feedback, to see what works and what doesn't, and to identify your strengths and weaknesses. You also need to keep learning, experimenting, and innovating, to stay ahead of the trends, changes, and challenges in your industry or niche. You need to be flexible, adaptable, and open-minded, to grow and improve as a thought leader.

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7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Jason Patterson

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Thought leadership is the only type of content that AI can't write, which makes it your brand's best shot at differentiating itself through content. But bland platitudes and boiled water recipes won't work here. You've got to be willing to take risks, and say things others might not agree with, because thought leadership advances the discourse, and sometimes that means advancing it in a direction others don't want to go.

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