Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

be the year that some SaaS vendor figures out how to manage and market B2B influencer marketing at scale. They enable consumer brand marketers to connect with influencers who have large followings on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, in a straightforward transactional manner. But B2B influencer marketing works completely differently.

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Prohibition

MAY 18, 2023

When they endorse or promote a product or service, their audience is more likely to perceive it as genuine and trustworthy compared to traditional advertising formats. Influencers are also skilled storytellers who know how to connect with their audience on a personal level. Get in contact today to find out how we could help you.

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 25, 2022

billion users by the end of the year, TikTok is now an essential platform for marketing, advertising – and can even be utilised for PR. Unlike advertising on social media platforms such as Instagram or Facebook, TikTok requires users to be constantly engaged with the latest trends to ensure their content has maximum reach and impact.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 6, 2023

When launching a campaign, video has great storytelling potential – showcasing your brand’s campaign findings far and wide. Storytelling is a huge part of PR and video marketing offers exactly that. Advertisers spend billions across social media platforms, targetting businesses and consumers alike with their messaging.

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Even as AI continues to evolve, there will always be something uniquely human about the art of storytelling. These tools still don’t understand the nuances of true storytelling, and they’ve certainly never interacted with your customers on a face-to-face basis. All of that said, I’m not against the use of AI in content creation.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media . My B2B clients are more open to sponsored content. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives will be incredibly important, but when the next crisis hits, consumers will be reminded to look back on major brands that only paid the topic lip service.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 16, 2016

Especially in B2B, multiple decision makers from multiple departments, including procurement and IT, weigh in on any given decision. ————————————— B2B Marketing Struggle. The B2B marketing struggle comes full circle in production.

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Cision

APRIL 7, 2015

And as the content competition heats up, brands need to find ways to distribute their content, often through paid means like syndication and native advertising. Consider the following from the Content Marketing Institute’s B2C and B2B reports: 70 percent of B2B marketers and 69 percent of B2C marketers create more content than a year ago.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Quality PR practitioners are expert storytellers. This consumer attachment is the envy of all brands. Authentic interactions, entertaining content, and honest storytelling can capture hearts and minds in ways paid advertising cannot. PR creates brand advocates . Good PR can help turn customers into brand ambassadors.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The statistics selected can be grouped are heavily weighted along the following topics: Statistics about – or for – the CMO ; Statistics about digital and B2B marketing ; Statistics about PR or media relations ; and. As a percentage of revenue , B2B product organizations invest 6.3% 13) Storytelling the hottest trend in PR in 2018.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. True ROI can only be effectively measured by letting a campaign play out for as long as a company’s sales cycle, which in B2B can be months or even years. 5) Marketers will slow down. 16: Ted Seward.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Storytelling is bigger than ever—and it’s a skill that marketers will continually need to hone to stay ahead of the competition. Storytelling is bigger than ever—and it’s a skill that marketers will continually need to hone to stay ahead of the competition. Social Media B2B. Advertising Week.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Advertising is a distant third. She and her research team conducted a focus group with 46 participants and also using a panel to survey 1,500 consumers. B2B thought leadership drives perceptions, trust and sales A survey of 3,000+ business executives by Edelman and LinkedIn connected B2B thought leadership to trust and sales.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 28, 2017

New technologies are helping make the measurement of public relations results easier, less time-consuming and more meaningful. The PR campaign’s goals were to infiltrate the college market, and our storytelling focused on college readiness for freshmen. Take, for example, just how hot Domino’s Pizza is today.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Before starting any campaign, you need to carry out research on the type of content your target audience is engaging with and the online mediums they’re consuming content on. Dream job campaigns involve brands advertising job of a ‘lifetime’ to drive conversations online. The importance of storytelling in PR.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. From legacy videos and anniversary books to corporate birthday events and digital archives, what follows are five ways smart brands have leveraged their company histories in brand storytelling. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? Annoyed and overwhelmed, consumers are fed up with intrusive advertising and sales tactics.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

However, winning new accounts or business can be challenging from a creative perspective as well as incredibly time-consuming. This approach, which is utilized by our internal agency called The Records Lab, continues to help us generate winning PR and advertising campaign ideas for our commercial clients. Winning new business.

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Landis PR

JULY 31, 2023

Like other automation technologies we’ve seen crop up over the years, AI could handle monotonous and often time-consuming tasks, freeing up marcomms professionals to focus on big-picture strategy and relationship building. Solid storytelling, writing and editing skills are still very much in demand.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Or, if it’s in B2B, “How might some of these initiatives help drive a demand generation program?” Right, it still makes a lot of sense because those are people who are natural storytellers and having great storytelling capability, I think, will be a perennial thing and should always be something that’s always there for comms.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

In the B2B technology world, which is the lenses through which I example things, I’ve found PR usually reports to marketing – but supports the whole business – when a company is small or young. 22) “I am a storyteller and I look out for people.”. 63) “I am a storyteller.”. 67) “I’m a storyteller.”.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 23, 2023

Videos are also a great storytelling device. Strong visuals or animation, supported with powerful audio, captivates audiences and can generate genuine feelings of sentiment among consumers towards your brand or business. As the content is B2B, rather than B2C in nature, the video should be informative as well as engaging.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

“The cultural divide due to ‘fake news’ and distrust of media will deepen in 2019 forcing marketers and PR to push harder on content distribution with their own consumer channels as the most direct line of communication with the company or client. Consumers trust others of similar ilk. Also see PR and Storytelling; Off Script No.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A study found that B2B buyers spend 83% of their time during their buying journey not engaging with vendors. 2021 will see an increase in podcasts, with more brands and institutions harnessing the power of this very intimate form of communication as some consumers attempt to ration their screen time. Do you blog regularly?

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 18, 2023

If they’re especially engaged, they’ll consume your brand message across multiple channels, reinforcing their recall and retention. Amplification is incredibly efficient. It’s taking a PR win that you’ve already secured and repackaging it to reach your audience when and where they want it. Think about how you can make the most of a PR win.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Tactically, we feel data storytelling is going to be a key pillar in 2024 – so now is a good time to build the infrastructure to be able to pull that data, analyze and present it on a regular and timely basis.” Something similar has happened in B2B marketing over the last 20 years.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Facebook is the premier mobile marketing platform for any industry, any sector, from government to healthcare to consumer goods. As marketers and communicators, we should consider whether long-form video storytelling has a place in our efforts. Facebook isn’t shying away from its AI ambitions, either.

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MaccaPR

JULY 23, 2014

The woman who coined the term "infobesity," social media expert Ekaterina Walter , now speaks frequently on the topic of visual storytelling. These visual storytelling insights that follow were inspired by their recent presentations. Develop visuals that are relevant to current events and consumer taste. Stay "on brand."

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MaccaPR

MARCH 12, 2019

But today, medical device is only 20 percent of our agency’s business; our other marketing work spans the entire scope of health: health insurance, pharmaceuticals, and direct to consumer healthcare products. I take it that consumer attitudes toward breast pumps today is not the same as that of their own mothers 20 to 30 years before?

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The Hoffman Agency

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Research is your best friend: Diving into the tech industry without any previous knowledge on B2B technology was a steep learning curve. Whether it was semiconductors or digital advertising, I was tasked with drafting social media captions, media pitches, blog posts, coverage reports and more for clients in these fields.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Today’s buyers (whether an organization or consumer) are more informed and choosy about who they decide to do business. Yet, one could make an argument particularly for B2B companies that someone with deep influence over 100 people has more value than someone with superficial influence over 10,000 people.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

You have two options: Promote through paid media (pay-per-click advertisements & sponsored posts). Journalists and consumers crave videos. Persuasive and authoritative, whitepapers remain absolutely vital to B2B marketers. Promote via earned media (media coverage & social mentions). million words. more views.

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