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Unlocking Success: Why Blogging is Important for Businesses

Prohibition

Today, having a blog isn’t just a nice-to-have for your page or website. It’s really important for boosting online visibility, driving web traffic, establishing credibility, staying ahead of the competition, and captivating your audience – making it a pretty powerful tool when used correctly! Why do I need a blog?

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Don't Be Naïve About Native Advertising

Mindful Marketing

Native advertising is the term used to describe “paid advertising where the ad matches the form, feel and function of the content of the media on which it appears.” Today's native advertising is much more stealthy. time spent on the site, page views) for purpose of appeal to advertisers. billion. .”

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Strong Media Brands: the answer to Native Advertising Concerns

Flack's Revenge

So is native advertising (sometimes called brand journalism or, more generally, content marketing) a curse or cure all? Is it good for what ails online advertising? It is a good read about unintended consequences, and how the banner came to not only dominate online ads but also set the stage for other unfortunate web things.

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Why Tech Is Important To PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR firms have withstood the rise of many possible “PR killers” including email marketing, digital advertising, and social media, often integrating or using those disciplines to grow their business or even make earned media more effective. For the most part, the PR industry’s slow approach to technology adoption has worked fairly well.

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How We Doubled Webinar Leads By Becoming Our Own Biggest Advertiser

Contently - Strategy

The internet was new at the time, and the media and marketing industries expected websites to be a utopia for advertising. “The rest of advertising had been ruined and dammit, we weren’t going to let that happen this time.” Aren’t people supposed to be blind to the spots designated for banner ads around the web?

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Reaching Your Audience: Which Online Marketing and Advertising Tactics Actually Work?

Buzzstream

We click through to a website we know will interest us — whether it be a news article, a video, or a blog post — and we’re immediately confronted with some kind of marketing tactic. We decided we wanted to pit a few advertising/marketing approaches against each other. We’ve all been there. Would You Rather?

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Web Ad Blocking – is it Ethical?

PRSay

The free content consumers enjoy is paid for by advertising. The Web is not free, it never was. In the present business model, publishers are paid by advertisers. Randall Rothenberg, the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau called ad blockers: “unethical, immoral and mendacious.”

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