How do we turn our experts' knowledge into content when they have no time to write?
Stop asking experts to write. Interview them. Thirty minutes of a specialist answering real client questions, recorded and transcribed, holds enough material for several articles. A writer who understands the subject shapes it, and the expert corrects the draft in ten minutes. The expert's job is to know things. Writing was never the scarce skill. Their knowledge is.
Why it never gets written.
Experts talk well and write badly, or not at all
Your best engineer, partner or consultant will explain a problem brilliantly across a table. Give them a blank page and they freeze, or produce something that reads like a contract. It is a different skill, and at their rate an expensive one to practise.
Billable work always wins the diary
An article has no deadline and no client chasing it, so it moves to next week, every week. This is not laziness. It is a firm correctly putting revenue first, with a side effect nobody chose.
Generic content fills the gap
When the experts do not write, a junior or a copywriter does, working from Google. The result says what every competitor's blog says. Buyers skim it, and AI assistants have no reason to cite it.
What it is costing you.
Count the sales calls last year where a senior person spent the first half hour explaining something they have explained many times before. For example, 60 calls at 30 minutes each is 30 hours of your most expensive people, reaching one prospect at a time. Written down once, the same explanation reaches every buyer who searches, including the ones who never ring you.
Check it yourself in ten minutes.
You need your sent folder, your phone and one colleague.
- 1
Search your sent email for the longest replies you wrote to clients this year. Each is an article already written.
- 2
Ask whoever takes sales calls for the five questions they hear weekly. Check whether your site answers any.
- 3
Record yourself answering one of those questions for five minutes. Have it transcribed and see how much is usable.
- 4
Read your last three blog posts. Could a competitor have published them unchanged?
What we would do in the first 90 days.
One interview a month is the whole ask of your experts. We do the rest.
- Week 1
We agree the question list: what buyers ask before they hire, taken from your sales conversations and search data. Then we book the first expert.
- Weeks 2 to 4
The interview becomes three expert pieces in that person's voice. They read and correct each one before it goes out under their name.
- Weeks 5 to 12
Two more interviews, six more pieces, a different expert each month if you have them. The strongest piece is pitched to the trade press.
Reputation That Wins turns a monthly 30-minute interview into three expert pieces a month in your voice, from £1,999 a month excluding VAT.
How Reputation That Wins works ↗The short answers.
It should sound like the person interviewed, because the words start as theirs. We keep their phrasing, their examples and their opinions, including the unfashionable ones. If your expert would never put it that way, the draft is wrong and we rewrite it.
Thirty minutes for the interview, plus a short read of each draft. Call it an hour a month per expert. We prepare the questions beforehand, so nobody has to work out what to say, and there is no homework. People who hate writing rarely mind talking.
You can, and you will get fluent articles containing nothing your competitors could not also generate. The value is in what only your people know: the job that went wrong, the number that surprised you. A tool can tidy that. It cannot supply it.
Founders who said this also said these.
I should post on LinkedIn. I never do.
For a founder-led B2B firm, usually yes. Buyers look up the founder before a call, after a cold email and during a tender, and an empty profile tells them nothing. What works is specific opinions and lessons from real work, not motivational content. Keeping it up needs a system: one recorded conversation a month yields several weeks of posts.
Reputation That WinsI am still our best salesperson.
A founder usually outsells everyone because they carry authority, know every past project and can change the offer in the room. None of that transfers by hiring a salesperson. What does transfer is the work before the meeting: finding the right firms, researching them and opening the conversation. Hand that over first and keep the closing meetings.
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Bring this one to the call.
Thirty minutes with a founder. We look at your site, two competitors and what Google and ChatGPT say about all three beforehand. You leave with three fixes in writing.