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Working with CSuite Content
CSuite Content uses a uniquely integrated approach to executive thought leadership and communications. Our monthly retainer includes strategic guidance from our expert team, executive interviews, content creation and revision by our staff of journalists, earned media placements in prestigious tier-one outlets, newsletters and blogging, and social media management for your accounts. By taking an integrated approach, we can ensure seamless alignment from strategy to implementation and accelerate the impact of your program.
Effective executive thought leadership is rooted in strategy. Our first 30 days are dedicated to identifying your goals and laying out a clear path to achieve them. We start with a comprehensive media audit to identify what’s currently being said and shared about you. Through a series of in-depth interviews, we work with you to establish what you want to stand for as a leader and why, as well as how you can best support larger business objectives. This research is integrated into a comprehensive implementation plan that includes your business goals and KPIs, thematic buckets and content ideas, target audiences, channels for delivery, and a timeline for deployment. From there, we seamlessly progress to implementing your strategy. Starting in Month 2, our team will begin crafting and publishing social media content, as well as longer-form articles, blogs and newsletters on your behalf, while also working behind the scenes to grow your online community and disseminate key messaging.
Our packages are customized based on the unique needs of our clients. All of our programs integrate strategic counsel and guidance on executive communications, content creation, earned media pitching, and social media management.
CSuite Content’s engagements typically start at 6 months. This is the minimum amount of time needed to design an effective executive communications strategy, develop and deploy social media content, newsletters and earned media, and begin to see clear ROI in terms of raising awareness, improving share of voice, and generating strategic engagement with target stakeholders.
Absolutely. At CSuite Content, we have a long track record of collaborating with in-house and external partners to achieve executive communications goals. For example, we can partner with your marketing or corporate communication team to integrate core company messaging into an executive communication program, or work with your design team to develop custom graphics to enhance an executive’s social feeds. We also work with internal teams to support executive speeches and presentations for keynotes and conferences. On the agency front, we can collaborate with your existing PR agency to extend the life of executive thought leadership content through PR pitches, executive profiles and more.
The business leaders we work with are consistently impressed with our ability to share their message with a strategic audience and drive real business results. Within our first months together, you can expect to see your perspectives shared in tier-one business media and strategic trade outlets in the form of articles and bylines, raising awareness for you and your company. You’ll also see a dramatic increase in following and engagement on your social media channels, as our team works to share compelling updates and build a targeted community of followers in your industry. Most importantly, you’ll notice clear progress toward business goals, whether that’s attention from target clients and critical investors, invitations to conferences and speaking events, improved customer awareness or enhanced recruiting and retention efforts.
Thought Leadership Related
Thought leadership is a way for business leaders to use their unique experience and passion to cut through the noise and connect directly with a target audience, whether that be customers, employees, or other stakeholders. Critically, thought leadership is not about directly selling a product or service but about providing real value to an audience in terms of expertise, insights and useful takeaways. In a crowded media landscape where competition for attention is fierce, thought leaders use their humanity, their personality, and their special expertise to stand apart, get noticed and drive strategic goals.
Thought leadership represents a powerful way to share your message without relying on traditional media or paid ads. Skilled thought leaders become influencers in their own right, driving conversations, dictating the agenda and making headlines as go-to authorities on their industry. For business leaders, in particular, thought leadership represents a way to retain and attract talent, humanize a company, build a personal brand, and advance strategic business goals.
Thought leaders build their reputation and audience through insightful articles and blog posts, media appearances, thriving social media feeds, newsletters, conference appearances, books and more. They reach audiences directly by sharing unique insights and in turn develop strategic followings composed of customers, employees, investors and industry peers. Ultimately they become influencers in their own right, connecting with a target audience directly rather than relying on traditional media or paid ads to tell their business story.