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M&A as a Shortcut to Content Marketing Results

Sword and the Script

Content marketing is about the audience. The same dynamic applies to content marketing too. The Content Marketing Shortcut: M&A There is a short cut: buy the audience through an M&A transaction. Educating executives on what content marketing is and isn’t ought to be part of the due diligence.

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20 Insightful PR and Marketing Predictions for 2018

Sword and the Script

Here we go…20 insightful PR and marketing predictions for 2018 follows below. Convenience’ (more of it) and ‘friction’ (less of it) are going to be critical terms for brand messaging in 2018, whether through marketing or PR efforts. 6) Finding a content marketing niche. 6) Finding a content marketing niche.

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Five Critical Points of Blogging & Image Law Every PR Pro Must Know

Rock the Status Quo

Agencies, PR and marketing professionals, bloggers and anyone doing social media (who doesn’t?) You paid the photographer AND agency, after all, so it belongs to you!) She can be an agency or marketing departments best friend. Right where it counts! Nope, not on your kisser but, even worse, in your wallet.

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Why ALL the Data Matters to B2B Marketers

Shift Communications

We’ve been tracking the marketing industry convergence and conversation around data, and when marketers start actively talk about solving “dark social” and “gray social” – it’s for a reason. Marketers are digging deeper, trying to get to every last bit of data to understand its meaning.

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Compounding Returns: 5 Financial Analogies that Explain Good Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

The graphic shows how one dollar invested in small cap stocks in 1926 was worth more than $27,000 by 2014. This compounding effect is analogous to some aspects of content marketing , especially in audience growth. Here are several financial and investment analogies and the relationship to content marketing.

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The Pros Weigh In: The Best Books for the Marketer on Your List

Polaris

For my money, there’s no better way to acknowledge the marketer in your life this holiday season than with a book. For help in deciding what books to put on my holiday list, I asked a dozen marketing pros to weigh in with their recommendations. Most useful offline reference resource: Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi.

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

Sword and the Script

Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. However, these all stem from the usual suspects for marketing case studies (i.e.