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9 Content Marketing Trends That Will Rule The Roost In 2016

Cision

People now look for and essentially demand content that gets them involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience. Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors. Social Media.

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How to Grow Your Content Marketing Program

Contently - Strategy

Growing your content marketing program across the org is just as much about efficiency as it is about expansion. Producing more content without clear goals or objectives isn’t an accomplishment. In the next section, let’s go over what you can do to scale your content program and align your teams.

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How to Evolve with the 2016 PR Trends

Marketwired

Just in the past month many predictions have been made about 2016 PR trends, and a lot of them have overlapping themes. Content Strategy is Vital. We all know the importance of curating organic content for your online audience, but new levels of pressure to do so have made this truly vital for 2016.

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Content Marketing During a Downturn: Here’s What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong

Contently - Strategy

Here’s how investing in content can help you overcome today’s biggest challenges and position your company to succeed long term. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. Paid ads and content marketing have inverse reputations. How to adapt your goals during tough times.

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How to Use Multimedia For Better PR Campaigns

Cision

As consumers gravitate towards multimedia content — multimedia is also the driving force behind the content the media publishes. Furthermore, a 2016 interview with the Associated Press revealed most major news outlets will not run a text-only story. Visual Content Impacts Your Performance. Create more visual content.

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3 Data-Driven Content Strategy Solutions for the Next Era of Content Marketing

Contently - Strategy

. “And yet, the organization doesn’t know how to use it effectively.” ” Over the past few years, I’ve found that this problem plagues most organizations when it comes to content strategy. What brands get wrong about data-driven content. Data-driven content marketing isn’t a two-step process.

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7 Best, 7 Worst and 7 Favorite PR Blog Posts in 2016 [Sword and the Script]

Sword and the Script

The year of 2016 brought a fairly significant evolution for this website. In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. Over the course of 2016, I published some 84 posts, on PR , marketing and social media.

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