B2B thought leadership services

Why do you actually want to be thought leaders? What are your objectives? Are your internal stakeholders aligned on what it is you want to achieve? Do you need to survey your target audience to find out what problems they’re struggling with that you can help solve and become a trusted source of knowledge on? It’s easy to rush in all guns blazing, but if you don’t know what change you want to effect, then it’s very difficult to measure success.

What opinions do you have within your organisation that are a) interesting enough to pique the interest of the media and your other stakeholders and b) support the key messages you’re interested in promoting via your PR efforts? Our experts talk to your experts to dig these out. We then mould these thoughts and feelings into well-honed media angles most likely to resonate with journalists and potential customers and clients.

There’s no single ‘best’ place for your leaders to voice their thoughts. Instead, we work across the full range of traditional and digital channels, both earned (think PR coverage) and owned (think content for your YouTube channel), to get as many of the ‘right’ eyes as possible on your thought leadership. This might involve us running your CEO’s LinkedIn profile; ensuring she’s active in the comments section of the relevant FT articles (because journos engage with commenters like never before!); writing an impassioned industry address for a prominent sector media title; and live streaming quarterly round tables featuring your CEO and prominent industry leaders. We help you go where the audience is.

Sadly one op-ed isn’t going to change the world (rarely anyway!). Our multi-disciplinary team secures the media coverage we ‘earn’ on your behalf and amplifies it using a range of paid tactics. This takes the authority and prestige that earned media coverage carries and makes it work as hard as it possibly can: we’ll promote it to your prospects on LinkedIn and other social channels – extending its reach 10x, ensuring it becomes a valuable trust signal, convincing your stakeholders you’re the real deal.

Our dedicated media relations team maintains constant contact with journalists and publications at the national, local and specialist level. They produce pitches that give your ideas the best chance of finding an audience. They will also introduce you to journalists who will only feature your thought leaders if a personal relationship exists and they’re convinced of their expertise. And because journalists regularly change beats, this is an ongoing endeavour – there’s always a new media contact to educate!

We work with you to produce content that captures each expert’s individual tone of voice, precisely conveys their points, and establishes confidence in their depth of knowledge. This might be in the form of a podcast, filmed explainer content, long-form LinkedIn articles or social media updates. Work out where the target audience is, create COMPELLING content (this bit’s important, you can put lipstick on a pig but…🐷…oink) and voila, eyeballs!