Introduction
The Earned Media Story — The Coverage Worth Earning
The Brand Authority Story — The Reputation Worth Building
A talking QR code on agency proposal materials plays the brand authority story — what the thought leadership program the PR firm develops for the executive involves in terms of the byline article whose Harvard Business Review placement the firm's editorial relationship produces as the industry authority the executive whose LinkedIn the article's republication the professional network shares as the speaking invitation the conference whose stage the published expert the PR firm's thought leadership program positioned fills, and what the professional services firm whose partners the PR agency's thought leadership program has been placing for four years says their new client inquiry source and their fee premium and their competitive differentiation looks like now compared to the cold outreach the advertising the thought leadership the published authority the PR program was building was replacing as the inbound inquiry the partner whose Harvard Business Review byline the prospect Googled before the call scheduled. An executive who receives this brand authority story invests in the thought leadership program whose inbound inquiry the outbound sales effort was substituting for.
How to Get Started
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Conclusion
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