Get Your Competitive Edge By Creating Thought Leader Status For Yourself
Feb 8, 2010 wealth building
What is being a socially relevant expert? An author or expert who is able to apply their experience, education, credentials, wisdom and knowledge to issues that are important to society today. How do you know what the issues are? Follow the news daily, read newspapers, magazines, follow websites such as MSN.com or CNN.com or MSNBC.com and become familiar with where the news is with your topic area. This gives you a good idea of your starting points.
Comment on the news using your blog as your “practicing format”. Why a blog? Still formal but with less pressure – no one needs more pressure. What you need is PRACTICING commenting concisely on the issues of the day in a conversational tone. This mimics the style of a TV or radio show. TV and radios shows like commentary that’s focused, concise, to the point. They do NOT want to hear about what happened yesterday, they don’t want yesterday’s news but they want your fresh and current comments.
Blog everyday! That’s right. It’s not hard and not time consuming. Blogging everyday will you build up the expertise you need to be cutting edge so you can offer insight and commentary based on your history of knowledge about the topic. Success is about keep you finger on the cutting edge of society. What is the news in your industry, what are the challenges and what are they talking about? You want to know these answers!
Stay current in your commentary. Yesterday’s comments are about as in demand as yesterday’s newspaper – everyone knows what it said and now everyone wants the update! New fresh commentary, new perspective on the news, commentary on next steps. As more news events unfold in the story you are following, keep the updated commentary coming on your blog. This proves you know the story and have been following it as it was unfolding. This in depth knowledge will be helpful to you and may be the reason you are booked above someone else.
Always stay original. It’s your thoughts and commentary the media and your clients want. They don’t want you to be someone else, they want you to be you. Only you have the perspective that comes from your unique set of circumstances, knowledge, education and experience. Never borrow commentary from anyone else. Use your own stuff and soon you will find that you know a lot more than you thought you knew. You simply started to apply your own skill set to the issues at hand. Blogging helps you stay original and get creative. You going to love blogging!
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