The 2 Types of Authority All Businesses Need for Marketing Success
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In business, being the trusted authority in your space is the best way to earn your customers’ trust. Or is it the other way around? Do you become an authority in your space by earning the trust of your customers and clients over time?
Authority, clout, credibility — the immediately earned trust of a customer through purely social indicators is one of the most sought after statuses as a brand or a business. To understand how to earn authority and trust, we must understand the two types of authority that matter the most in the 20th century and utilize them for maximum success.
The word authority, the way I mean it, is defined as a person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere.
So how do we, as