by Pam Flores | Aug 7, 2018 | Featured Thought Leadership, Thought Leadership
Recently, during my daily morning monitoring, I stumbled across an article that spoke of The Origin of the Press Release. Thirty plus years into my career and after writing at least several thousand press releases, I had never thought about where they came from until...
by Pam Flores | Apr 17, 2018 | Featured Thought Leadership, Thought Leadership
A few years ago, I wrote a post on thought leadership in the highly commoditized commercial real estate (CRE) and financial services and how folks in the industry struggle with the same thing: how to build awareness and credibility for their expertise, and truly...
by Pam Flores | May 16, 2017 | Thought Leadership
A while back I wrote a blog titled The Original Word of Mouth about the power of a phone call as a tool to cut through the electronic clutter in trying to reach reporters. Making phone calls to connect on a deeper level with reporters is something I strongly believe...
by Pam Flores | Mar 14, 2017 | Thought Leadership
Not long ago I heard the morning crew on my favorite wake up news channel – WGN in Chicago – bantering about how LinkedIn was rapidly becoming a viable dating site. I stopped what I was doing and laughed, especially at co-anchor Robin Baumgarten’s comment on the idea....
by Kevin Lynch | Feb 27, 2017 | Thought Leadership
The tsunami of social platforms and networks for sharing content has greatly expanded the opportunity for “thought leaders” to spread their gospel. But has this proliferation of information provided clarity or is it simply adding more noise than substance? I believe...
by Kathy Baughman | Feb 14, 2017 | Thought Leadership
While creating the ComBlu Thought Leadership Maturity Model and Assessment Tool, we surveyed a handful of organizations that aspire to produce great thought leadership. This post shares some of the insights from the group and the implications of what they told us....
