Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 21, 2014

Content marketing is on my mind quite a bit this week, for a variety of reasons, so we’ll use that as our topic. A second client tasked me with building a list of recommended next steps to move their content marketing forward, AND I’ve been working on my own 2015 content marketing strategy for Rock The Status Quo.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This year, more than 20 professionals – real people that do real marketing and PR work every day – responded and with high-quality ideas that I found to be invigorating and thought-provoking. 8) Creativity over productivity. Consumers trust others of similar ilk. 12) More dramatic platform changes will challenge marketing.

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Cision

OCTOBER 29, 2015

A r eport issued by PageFair (which produces tools to measure the impact of ad blocking and develops unobtrusive advertising) states that ad blocking use grew 41 percent in the last 12 months and that publishers lost an estimated $22 billion in 2015. Images: Uwe Hermann , Steve Johnson ( Creative Commons ).

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Cision

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

But in the first half of 2015, live streaming moved to the masses with the launch of apps and Facebook’s subsequent announcement that it would test live video capabilities among celebrities. . Go outside-the-box with your content marketing. In today’s society, content is quickly consumed and discarded.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 15, 2016

Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 20, 2015. Yes, that’s where more and more consumers sate their media appetites these days. One would be hard-pressed to find a media event (or rather, an “activation”) today that did not employ one or more social media “influencers” as part of its marketing mix for driving branded buzz.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 22, 2021

. “We pivoted our storytelling to focus on armchair travel,” explained Robin Bennefield, Marriott International’s editorial director of Marriott creative and content marketing. Robin Bennefield, Marriott International’s editorial director of Marriott creative and content marketing.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 28, 2021

According to Malissa Mackenzie, director of creative services at CarMax, the turning point was gaining support from the company’s senior leadership. Malissa MacKenzie, director of creative services at CarMax. It also helps that a heavy investment in content just makes sense for CarMax.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Consider three news items that suggest how marketers are spurning traditional paid advertising and instead, re-embracing the back-and-forth engagement of public relations and its cousin, content marketing. Don’t be upset when you’re asked to subscribe, or else all you can see is scrambled content.”.

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ISEBOX

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

At a lunch with her boss, Oktavia learns that in 2015, the FDA approved more than 45 new drugs. This scenario unfolded on two notable occasions in 2015. April 15, 2015: Amgen’s Corlanor (ivabradine) for treatment of chronic heart failure. Legacy Digital Distribution: Time Consuming and Costly. In 2014, that number was 41.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Ephemeral marketing. Creativity Unbound.

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The Resolution Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

That’s an hour back a week for creative! If you try it & can’t get at least 1 good content idea for your next campaign I’ll cry. They distill the latest behavioural economics & consumer psychology research down into helpful little brain gems. 2015 has been a year of learning & sharing.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Icebreaker: What’s a cool piece of content you’ve seen that’s inspiring or super creative? But before I do, when I just throw out like a little icebreaker, I know you’re a man of content out there in the business, what do you like? There are a lot of SEO tools and content marketing tools on the market.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 11, 2017

The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]. 2) Is your brand investing in the right content? One of the primary reasons I believe businesses struggle with content marketing is that they are too reliant on best practice, and not thinking enough about being different. Talk to Us!

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

And while holiday content opens up earned media and revenue opportunities, planning all of those PR and marketing campaigns can be overwhelming. To compete with big name brands, you need to get creative. The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons tackled this strategy successfully with attention-grabbing back-to-school content.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your organization creates content or partners with existing content creators, these are the trends that are shaping your communication future. Cisco forecasts that by 2019, video will make up 80 percent of all consumer Internet traffic, up from 64 percent in 2014. Growth in traffic, volume and influence.

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Prohibition

APRIL 29, 2017

So that involves lots of exciting things like online community building, social media listening, brand audits, online crisis management, content marketing and video creation and seeding. CIPR Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Pride Awards 2015. Excellent grasp of clients’ marketplaces, audiences and routes to market.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend. ” ~ Morgan McLintic , CEO, Firebrand Communications 6.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

It is clear that our smartphone assistants are becoming more like virtual companions and soon, millions of consumers will start having meaningful conversations, or even relationships with these virtual assistants, changing the way we interact with one another. So, as comms professionals what does this mean for us?

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

When I first started our agency, I relied solely on PPC and SEO to market ThinkSEM, because I didn’t think blogs, social media or content marketing would do anything for us! The moral of the story for marketers: SEO, PPC, social media – it’s all tied together. What’s on the horizon for digital marketing?

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Their mission is singular: Our marketing industry will thrive only if it absorbs the creativity of people with diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, so that marketers are more representative of the country’s multicultural, multiracial audiences. To paraphrase WWE wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, “Hell, yeah !”

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Journalistics

MARCH 24, 2015

What’s a digital content strategy? This is a hard question to answer in 2015. Is a digital content strategy something you need for social media? Content marketing? Influence marketing? For each audience subgroup, you must understand how they consume content. What content performs best?

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

“Can we automate content creation using artificial intelligence? These are the questions we sought to answer in spring 2015 when I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale at my content marketing agency, PR 20/20. In other words, your life is already machine-assisted, and your marketing will be too.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

He's also a world-leading web strategist, content marketer, author, and speaker. 8: Dan Slee (Birmingham, UK)​ Dan runs a shared learning space for creative communications professionals. 10: Doug Kessler (London, UK) Doug is co-founder of B2B content marketing agency Velocity Partners. An all round nice guy.

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

You work in public relations, SEO, content marketing or social media marketing. You’re thinking of completely overhauling how you market your company. So I jotted down a list of PR/digital/SEO/content marketing influencers. Derek is a copywriter and content marketer. I think so.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5 Video is the most popular content marketing format for 2015, ahead of case studies, blogs and infographics ( 2015 State of Digital Marketing , a report featuring insights from over 600 marketers from Web Marketing 123).

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 12, 2015

Content is the coin of our information economy. And any content-marketing organization must answer the critical question: Does it work? Here are the four important content metrics a business involved with content marketing must consider and lessons we’ve learned at CommPRO.biz : 1. Consumption metrics .

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