When I had my final interview at UserEvidence, I told the team something that I thought they *may* fight me on... I told them that I thought (at least) 30% of my time in the content marketing seat should be spent NOT creating branded content. Instead, it would be spent advising, strategizing, and creatively supporting our key internal thought leaders. Aaaaand spoiler alert: THEY AGREED (if they hadn't, I prob wouldn't have taken the job TBH.) So, here are the 3 things I'm doing to get our internal thought leadership program off the ground: 1️⃣ Processes + Prompts I've created shared calendar views (heeey Notion's new calendar integration) that I put calendar holds for creating and posting LinkedIn posts (a key channel for us). In those cal holds, I put a prompt + key stats, reference points, or CTAs that I'd like them to include. This keeps topics and priorities aligned with our other content programs. All boats are rowing in the same direction. 2️⃣ Q'ly Video Interviews Ya can't take the journalist out of me!! I love doing video interviews because the content is *so* repurpose-able. So I'll be doing a q'ly video interview with each of our internal thought leaders to ask them questions that I think will support our POV and key messages for the quarter. Today, I'm getting some reactions from Evan Huck on stats from our original research report so that I can pull quotes and clips for podcasts, blogs, social posts, etc. aaaaaaall quarter long. 3️⃣ NOTHING GOES UNTRACKED Beam Content 💡 set us up with Shield, which gives us access to growth + engagement metrics for all of our thought leaders' LinkedIn profiles. No more shrugging when asked if thought leadership content is working. We've got engagement and audience targets as part of my OKRs for the quarter. What else should I be doing as we get this program up and running? (ps nature walks w/ jill is officially a thing now)
Love this approach Jillian Hoefer. Have you checked out Letterdrop? Parthi Loganathan and the team are building tools to help enable authentic internal thought leadership. Thought there may be some overlap
LOVE how proactive and made-easy 1️⃣ is
This is my first time seeing “Q’ly” stylized this way and I’m fully bought in
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Have you thought about: 1. Product marketing and getting all the company assets, cheatsheets, case studies, etc and converting them into infographics and/or carousels and tying it to each of the internal thought leaders points of view. 2. Lead magnet 🧲 : 5 day educational email course — 5 biggest mistakes customer service leaders make launching their case study program 3. Activate the link under your name: add the ‘subscribe to newsletter’ button that leads to #2 and funnels people in the TOFU. Own the audience — don’t leave it rented on here. 4. Create a deep dive weekly newsletter that can be a deep dive on how your best customers have implemented their case study program. More content for repurposing. 5. Capture their backstory. Dave Gerhardt has 5 questions in part 1 of his Founder Brand book that are a great place to start. That’s what I’d add and build it out into the flywheel that feeds itself: Social —> email course —> newsletter Once you do that — let me know and we can talk about YouTube!
Jillian Love this! We've got alllll this already sorted for you and scaling programs just like this! in 30 days! Here's our Notion with a few short videos to show you EXACTLY how we've done it.https://verdant-turnover-9ff.notion.site/Demandi-co-Intro-1226e17ec977806e9e15ca827654ba55?pvs=4
I'm right there with you Jillian... enjoying Notion's calendar integration and the ability to hold time slots. Do you plan on spinning up a branded live event series? Great way to highlight thought leadership and show how clients have leveraged UserEvidence.
Love the approach to empowering internal thought leaders! Aligning efforts with clear prompts and tracking is key. SEO can elevate these initiatives by boosting visibility on search engines, helping you attract a wider audience and enhancing content engagement.
That’s how you do it! Questions: are your internal thought leaders creating & posting content by themselves? And how did you get them on board?