Tony Hallett

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11 essential content marketing links for Q3 26

By Tony Hallett / 10/01/2026

What’s your Thought Leadership worth? IBM research shows $107 Million Potential IBM’s Institute for Business Value has long been one of the loudest drum bangers when it comes to proving…

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Written By Tony Hallett01/10/2026
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Thought Leadership Jury: Strong on AI transparency

By Tony Hallett / 09/30/2026

Transparency. Openness. Honesty. Or just business as usual? Call it what you will.   When properly communicated, transparency around business practices generally leads to more trust with any stakeholder audience.…

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Written By Tony Hallett30/09/2026
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Thought Leadership Jury: Marketing in charge? Maybe

By Tony Hallett / 09/02/2026

Today’s Jury question was that rarity – one returning strong votes in both the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ camps and a few mixed opinions among our 12 jurors.   Photo by…

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Written By Tony Hallett02/09/2026
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Thought Leadership Jury: We can learn a lot from journalism

By Tony Hallett / 08/10/2026

Journalism still matters. And some of journalism’s tactics have a positive effect on thought leadership, too. That’s the near unanimous verdict of this edition of Thought Leadership Jury, with 11…

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Written By Tony Hallett10/08/2026
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11 essential content marketing links for Q2 26

By Tony Hallett / 07/01/2026

The 2026 B2B thought leadership playbook Kicking off with a well-constructed primer, this CMO Alliance piece gets into AI and the distinction between thought leadership and content marketing… among other…

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Written By Tony Hallett01/07/2026
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IT buyers build trust ‘in-person’ as AI generated content creates scepticism

By Tony Hallett / 05/19/2026

Photo by Jaime Lopes on Unsplash “You cannot build trust with AI and you don’t get the same human emotions with AI.” So said one IT leader who took part…

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Written By Tony Hallett19/05/2026
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11 essential content marketing links for Q1 26

By Tony Hallett / 04/06/2026

The State of AI in Thought Leadership Would be remiss of us not to lead with our big report from the past couple of weeks. GTLI Symposium – the recap…

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Written By Tony Hallett06/04/2026
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Finite – how much content is enough? 

By Tony Hallett / 03/03/2026

I’m a big fan of the daily New York Times puzzle Spelling Bee. Sure, it’s a word thing, like a crossword, and I like words. But I mention it here because I like the…

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Written By Tony Hallett03/03/2026
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What marketing can’t afford to lose in uncertain times

By Tony Hallett / 01/06/2026

I have no crystal ball. And it’s quite possible I could publish this same post in January next year. But I do know that right now too many companies, too…

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Written By Tony Hallett06/01/2026
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5 content-related reasons I’ve seen marketing campaigns fail in 2025

By Tony Hallett / 12/23/2025

The last weeks of December come with a guarantee that we’ll all be seeing lots of similar posts: the round-up.     This year, I’ve decided to compile five content-related reasons that I’ve seen marketing campaigns flop in 2025. Why? So you can…

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Written By Tony Hallett23/12/2025
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3 examples: audiences seeking out ‘the human’

By Tony Hallett / 12/18/2025

How do you stand out in a world of AI mediocrity and, more broadly, B2B same-ness?    Where in the world? Twenty years ago, I was five years into editing a weekly…

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Written By Tony Hallett18/12/2025
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A laptop on a wooden desk displaying a LinkedIn company page for ‘Collective Content.’ The screen shows the company banner with the tagline ‘Trust through understanding.’ The desk is positioned in front of a window with greenery outside. On the left side of the desk is a decorative glass lamp, and on the right side is a small potted plant.

The recipe – opening up about our content strategy for LinkedIn 

By Tony Hallett / 11/18/2025

Our CC LinkedIn content strategy is a subset of our wider content strategy. (I’ll add here that we should all have documented content strategies.) Also, I realise ours is not…

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Written By Tony Hallett18/11/2025
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