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This Semrush Acquisition of Backlinko hits PR, SEO and Content Marketing Trifecta [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Here’s another one: In 2013, the trade publication Bulldog Reporter was about to shutter after 30 years of covering PR news. In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. And I have a massive library of SEO and content marketing material.”.

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Content Marketing: Is Now a Good Time to Double Down? [Coronavirus]

Sword and the Script

Buyers were taking in content before talking to sales even before the Coronavirus hit; now is a great time to double down on content marketing Today is the last day of the first quarter of 2020. When I think about that statistic in today’s context – this is another moment for true content marketing.

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116 Content Marketing Insights Worth Tattooing on Your Body

Cision

Writing is the heart of content marketing, and I also think it’s our liver, lungs and central nervous system.” “Content is a filter that can qualify your audience better.” Want more content marketing insights from Ann Handley? “We spent $500 billion in 2013. Click to tweet!

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20 Retail Journalists You Should be Following on Twitter in 2020

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It’s also a great platform for relationship-building for anyone in public relations or content marketing. At Digiday, Anna covers retail and internet marketing focusing on digital strategies of big-box retailers and DTC startups. . Twitter is an invaluable resource for both PR pros as well as top media and influencers.

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We Should Measure Content Marketing by Relationships

Sword and the Script

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.

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LinkedIn Pulse: The Next Content Marketing Must-Have?

MaccaPR

Preceding its $90 million acquisition by LinkedIn back in 2013, Pulse was a news-aggregator app that curated your favorite publications and news sources and presented them in a Flipboard-type manner. Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine.

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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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