Write Like a Thought Leader: How to Find a Constant Stream of Story Ideas to Position Yourself As the Go-To Expert in Your Niche

Forward-looking solutions articles are focused on how to solve the problem or be prepared for new problems and scenarios. Retrospective solutions articles are focused on the historical analysis, or hindsight about why we have the problem in the first place.

How was I able to convince the experts that their hard work of writing had resulted in a dull article, but that they could make it very interesting by getting the story angle right?

thought leaders are those individuals and companies who are ahead in the race to establish ideas.

is born of your thought-leadership niche and brings in your opinion and life or work experience.

To find good angles about your core idea, you need to map out your ideas in a structured way to see their relationships

What do I mean by your experience, expertise and/or your education? This is your subject-matter expertise. It is the subject you love, live and own. These are the ideas you burn for. Maybe the subject is something you taught yourself or something you majored in in college. But it doesn’t have to be. The main point is that the subject is one in whic

it’s also solutions writing because you come at the reader with concrete ideas about how to approach a particular problem in a better way.

He said he begins with evidence from social science and then looks for ways to illustrate it.

Your niche subject must be an area that you love, live and own. It’s essential to get a fresh angle to your subject matter to write about it in a compelling and interesting way. Thought leaders frame stories so they are useful, actionable and address the problems of their audience. Framing a story is like selecting a composition for a photo: To do

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