Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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Stern + Associates

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Earth-based markets are going to have huge opportunities,” says Ekblaw, a member of the XPRIZE Space + Exploration Brain Trust. The post From Celestial Insights to Corporate Innovations: How Space Tech Enhances Business on Earth appeared first on Stern Strategy Group.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 7, 2016

Content marketing will be more than just a trend to watch in 2016. Creating and distributing consistent and relevant content is considered a proven strategic marketing approach that attracts and retains an audience and drives customers to action. Here is my Q&A with Lisa Davis, Director, Marketing, at Marketwired.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. Only 28% picked the marketing department.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. Only 28% picked the marketing department.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. Only 28% picked the marketing department.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

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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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Corp comm departments are chronically underfunded and lower on the corporate priorities list. This means they don’t use PR and comms and therefore don’t really understand the market. He was instrumental in Cison’s 2016 acquisition of PR Newswire for $841 million – and the eventual SPAC acquisition and “blank check IPO.”

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dozens of marketing and PR professionals express aspirations for 2020 along with educated guesses about the future . I’ve grouped all predictions this year into categories, which is an effort to make it easier to read: Marketing predictions. Marketing predictions. Efficient marketing execution and measurement.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Pluralistic ignorance is the 7th plague of the corporate world. Pluralistic ignorance is the 7th plague of the corporate world. Over the years, I’ve seen hundreds of companies poison their marketing, sales, and internal comms with jargon. The post Is ‘Pluralistic Ignorance’ Ruining Your Marketing and Comms?

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 19, 2017

2016 was a good year to be a job seeker. As I thought about 2016, I landed on 8 moves that I believe will change the PR/social landscape in the year ahead: Nathan Eide, director, test & learn, FRWD. Still not exactly sure what the title means, but I do know Nathan’s move from Bolin to FRWD in 2016 was a big one.

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MaccaPR

MAY 23, 2016

After college I transitioned to a job at a life science marketing agency in Chicago and am now helping healthcare clients with their communications strategies here at Maccabee. According to the 2016 Trust Barometer published by agency Edelman Health, the general public’s trust in healthcare in the U.S. What does that mean?

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 22, 2016

– influencer marketing best practices, relationship-building, and measuring your efforts. They included: Gini Dietrich , CEO of Arment Dietrich and queen creator of the popular Spin Sucks blog community; Founder of the influencer marketing platform Traackr (my client), Pierre-Loic Assayag (my friend!)

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MaccaPR

JULY 24, 2019

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigns are on the rise as brands explore how they can stand out in a crowded, noisy marketplace, position themselves apart from their competition and make a statement with consumers. But a CSR campaign is a marketing strategy that prepares a brand to align its values with action for the greater good.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 24, 2018

By the end of 2015, the automaker had introduced popular new products and finally seemed to have recovered customer and market trust. Then, on April 20, 2016, Mitsubishi President Tetsuro Aikawa resigned suddenly after admitting that his company had falsified its fuel-efficiency reporting. to $3.97) per share.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In an era where consumers are increasingly sceptical of advertising and corporate speak, PR offers a more authentic and credible way to communicate with the public. Educate the market and modify perceptions. Coach and prepare corporate spokespeople. That’s marketing ! Increase word-of-mouth by creating social objects.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

To borrow from a quote , the professional’s feet should be planted in their role, but their eyes should survey the marketing landscape. As I’m wont to do on the occasional Saturday, I’ve picked out three, reviewed them carefully and present some of the findings in this roundup series that I call the Unscripted Marketing Links.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 19, 2017

Marketers, advertisers, and public relations professionals are ill-informed and ill-equipped to manage the largest change in data and privacy in the last 20 years: GDPR. or you use software that does this on your behalf (Google Analytics, marketing automation, sales CRM), GDPR applies to you. How else will marketing and PR be affected?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020. Marketing Statistics from 2020.

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ZudePR

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All the reviews below were featured in my irregular reading list email: I issued seven in 2016. 1: Deep Work: Rules for Focused (Sic) Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (2016) £10.49. Quite simply the best marketing book I’ve ever read (and I’ve read a few). She’s a marketing expert.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 17, 2017

Now that 2016 – our Minneapolis PR agency's 20th Anniversary Year – has rocketed to a close, join us for a tour of the most popular MaccaPR blog posts of the past 12 months. Let's dive back into your favorite posts from 2016 one last time! the Top MaccaPR Posts of 2016. We ask you to please enter at your own risk.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It’s good to know where and how other marketers are finding success. We are after all forever students of marketing. Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Search marketing and SEO statistics. B2B Content Marketing ).

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 18, 2018

While top-tier marketing and advertising are valuable, associated PR campaigns can help propel a brand to the next level of emotional attachment. For companies looking to differentiate themselves from the pack, PR (integrated with advertising and marketing) can help build a foundation of brand love. You feel connected to these brands.

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PRSay

APRIL 22, 2021

The bulk of this loss comes from stock market volatility stemming from financial disinformation campaigns, but the widespread proliferation of misinformation has also forced companies and organizations to increase spending on reputation management, brand safety, employee health and wellness, and crisis communication efforts.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As I’ve done in recent years, I’ve asked a whole bunch of smart people for their marketing predictions or PR predictions for the next year. And now on with the marketing and PR predictions for 2020. 1) Marketing embraces sustainability. 2) Marketing analytics enable better efficiency. “In 5) Marketers will slow down.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 19, 2016

Marketers are reporting better results stemming from content marketing. That’s according to a recent survey published by Ascend2 titled 2016 State of Content Marketing Survey Summary Report. Click Here to Subscribe to Sword and the Script by Email.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A paper published by Harvard Business Review reports that almost four in five corporate transformations fail. Financial metrics included revenue, stock price and market value. 128 global companies that have undergone transformation between 2016 and 2020 were analysed as part of the project.

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Axia PR

AUGUST 12, 2020

It's hard for corporate communications and marketing professionals to be creative. And since we don't, it can be hard for corporate communications and marketing professionals to be creative. Creativity would be easy if we had unlimited time, budgets, and resources. Sometimes inspiration comes from strange places.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

Now, she’s crushing it at Best Buy in social media marketing. Ashley Gustafson, Marketing Specialist – Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (nominated by Arik Hanson). So much of effective social media marketing is based on instincts. Thomas classroom many years ago. But, who are the next LeeAnns, Sarahs and Allisons?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 22, 2016

The first 2016 edition of #measurePR took place on January 12th at our brand new time (we’re testing it) from 8:30 to 9:30 pm ET. We were lucky to welcome two special guests: Rebekah Iliff , Chief Strategy Officer of AirPR and Suzanne Blackburn , PR Manager for Experian Marketing Services. Based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As we close in on the year’s end, I looked back over these marketing and PR statistics in an effort to surface those points that in some way, shape or form, help to summarize 2018 as a year. Statistics about content marketing. The C-Suite views the top marketer as a publicly facing agent of trust. of revenue in marketing.

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Marketwired

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Nasdaq’s Corporate Solutions business supports over 10,000 clients in 60 countries with Investor Relations (IR), Public Relations (PR), Communications and Governance services and solutions. Subject to customary closing conditions, the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2016. You can read the complete news release here.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Our guests include Denise Chan , the Senior Content & Community Manager at Bitly; Jordan Feise who does digital, events & influencer marketing for Traackr; Corina Manea , Chief Community Officer at SpinSucks & Arment Dietrich and Founder of NutsPR; and Erica Moss , Community Manager at Trello.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 5, 2016

The volume of PR and marketing predictions reached an apex as we rounded the corner on a New Year and into 2016. In 2016, expect editors and reporters to be informed by metrics that help them decide what to cover, like Mashable’s predictive analytics tool. Goldy Hyder , Hill & Knowlton | Marketing: Portraits in PR.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Our kick-butt guests included: Brandon Andersen , Chief Strategist at Ceralytics; Janet Fouts , CEO of Tatu Digital Media; David Klein , Director of Marketing at ClickTime; and Fay Shapiro , Publisher at CommPRO Global Inc. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn #measurePR Recap (October 2016): Measuring Content.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2016

Curiosity is an attribute that serves marketers well. Yet in this data-driven marketing climate, we’ve got to find ways to quantify those hunches. For the purpose of satisfying curiosity, marketing surveys are a useful vehicle for research. Marketing skills the CMO needs on the team. vehicles.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 24, 2016

On where PR fits within the integrated communications context: A2: PR is a two-way communication channel now that weaves itself throughout all of marketing and business. A2: PR/Marketing collaboration = success. A2: PR/Marketing collaboration = success. AMECSummit #measurepr. AMECSummit #measurepr. amecsummit #measurepr.

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