Building Thought Leadership - Beyond SEO

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Tips and advice on Thought Leadership how you can become an authority in your industry and drive conversation online about your brand, product or service. This presentation also covers content marketing and how it is a tactical process vs. thought leadership which is strategic. Included are examples and tools which you can use in your content marketing strategy and develop thought leadership for your clients. This talk was presented at Oxon Digital.

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Building thought

Beyond SEO Leadership

Presented by Kunle Campbell @KunleTCampbell Digital Marketing Professional & Founder of Fuzz One Media

CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT EACH OF THESE

PEOPLE & BRANDS STAND FOR IN A FEW WORDS?

Don’t forget Authorship …Author Rank ?!

Link Building As we know it is on-going

Forever…

But what if.. Your competitor does all the above

can you gain a competitive edge? HOW

You have

to Lead…

INFLUENCE THOUGHTS… INNOVATIVE THINKING and NEW IDEAS...

LEAD the MINDs of your AUDIENCE

Lead opinion

The goal is.. Leading Minds

LINKS WILL FOLLOW  

Wikipedia

“A person or entity  

that is recognised by peers for having PROGRESSIVE AND

INNOVATIVE IDEAS”

Thought LEADERSHIP…

Think…

Purple cow The  

Spotted zebra

The  

Differently  

To Attract attention Stand out from the Crowd

PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION…

Don’t Just You’re

boring me!  

Drive it!

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION Thought Leadership is NOT

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP is NOT Content Marketing

But Content Marketing is used to drive it

HOW can YOUR  AUTHORSHIP AUTHOR RANK

influence links and rankings?

SETH GODIN: Ranks 1st for ‘marketing blog’ – no mention of marketing blog in title tag or content.

Google is rewarding Thought Leaders  

EVEN WITH LOWER RANKINGS Thought Leaders  

Are  Likely  to  get    Higher  SERPs  CTR  

ReL=author …a Self fulfilling ‘thought leadership’ prophecy

Having a Google+ Profile Helps!

PFFT… AuthorRank it’s Authority that I crave for

USE YOUR Data!

#2  

PornMD: IF A COMPANY IN THE PORN

INDUSTRY CAN DO IT… MOST CLIENTS HAVE NO EXCUSE!

WHAT £250K COULD BUY YOU OVERSEAS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GUARDIAN

rightmove overseas:

LIST OF 15 COMPANIES WITH THE MOST LISTINGS

OF $60K JOBS ON FORBE.COM

INDEED.com:

Deloitte:  Use Annual Benchmark Reports

to Generate New Business

Today: Deloitte are ‘football finance experts’ with Football Money League Annual

Deloitte’s Annual Review of Football Finance - Annual"  Now Price: £600 per copy

Now have 18 High calibre clients

ANNUAL REVIEW OF CREATIVE MARKETING AGENCIES ANNUAL BENCHMARK OF THE TOP 50 ADVERTISING AGENCIES

Kingston Smith

TOP 20 chartered accountants 9  out  of  the  50  Agencies  on  list  are  clients!  

Annual Publication, since 1990

SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTANTS FOR START-UPS TO £5M TURNOVER BENCHPRESS, BENCHMARKING FOR CREATIVE COMPANIES

The wow company

They Have Picked a niche small  business  +  crea;ve  agencies  

And Have stuck to it! h=p://bit.ly/1m-­‐agency  

THE PIONEERS OF Of ‘Corporate Blogging’

The McKinsey Quarterly – ‘BIG’ INSIGHTFUL VISONARY CONTENT

think Encourage your clients to get involved in speaking events. Do they organise events?

#4  

Get visual with Images & Video Reinforce your Thought Leadership efforts with Video Promotion & Feature Infographics

#5  

We process visual information

60,000x faster in the brain than we do text

Google+ Authorship

Reports have Authorship Adoption to be as low as 9% and as high as 17%. 

Reinforce your personal authority on the SERPs

#7  

James cann Working Hard to become a Thought Leader

Working Hard to become a Thought Leader

On start-ups & Entrepreneurship

But… he doesn't seem to have REL=AUTHORSHIP tag?

Flaunt your success On your website or blog Your  website  and  blog  should  be  the  hub  of  all  your  thought  leadership  efforts  

#8  

execution and approach Owned Media Paid Media

Earned Media (Organic)

Blog Facebook

Twitter YouTube Google+

Search PPC Social PPC Sponsorship Banners Retargeting / Remarketing

LinkedIn Slideshare

Pinterest Instagram

Press Coverage Interview Request Search Rankings Reviews from Happy Clients Awards & Recognition Viral Social Reach

Promoted Brand Content

Converged Media

Brands that ask for shared

media

Sponsored Customers

Thought Leadership

Big Message or Major Finding

Regular Content Marketing

LEAD THE CONVERSATION

Gear 1

- Blogging - Quora

Gear 2

- Video - Podcasts - Webinars / Hangouts - Infographics

Gear 3

- Guest Blogging - Guest Interviews on Podcasts - eBook - Lead Online Communities

Gear 4

- Events - Public Speaking - Seminar & Workshops - Press Coverage - Industry/Trade Publication(s)

Gear 5

- Get Published - Book - Tier 1 - News Coverage - TV Appearance - Columnist

personal brand & voice advanced engaging content...

Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest YouTube Slideshare Instagram Social Media

low cost broadcast medium by-pass mainstream media

Survey Benchmark Cause Research Ground Breaking Quarterly Internal Data Innovation

Peers Prospects Clients Regulators Industry INFLUENCE

...building your following & affiliations establishing expert authority

Fuzz One Ltd © 2013

Journals Report Mining

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP blueprint

credits to... Image Credits:

Slide 7 – Spider & Web by rhett maxwell

Slide 8 – Chess Background Image by ALAN LEVINE cogdogblog

Slide 37 – Image of Gary V speaking by BenLucier

Slide 44 – Image of Gary V Speaking by Silicon Prairie News

Presentation design by

Kunle Campbell fuzzone.com

Tel: +44 (0)1865 6000 62

E-mail: kc@fuzzone.co.uk

Twitter: @kunleTcampbell

Contact ME  

Presented by Kunle Campbell @KunleTCampbell