Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness.

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Study Media Relations Media Measurement 140

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 13, 2023

Whether seeking heightened brand visibility or driving more web traffic, success requires focusing on measurable targets upfront throughout execution. Equally important is recognizing what resonates best with your intended market — including their preferences and preferred communication channels- then delivering tailored content accordingly.

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Analytics Content Marketing Measurement Advertising 40

ReimaginePR

JUNE 15, 2020

Heck, even having a simple social media page isn’t enough; you need to have multiple social media platforms to reach a wide enough audience, and those platforms need to be managed in such a way that it brings your customers together into a self-sustaining community that your company engages with on the ground level. Tall order?

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Social Media Brand Branding Marketing 177

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. So, I started tracking the community and publishing three different writing series on PR technology ( PR Tech Sums , PR Tech Briefing s, and Product Reviews ).

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Technology Publicity Software Pitching 170

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. Here he outlines a talk from Yext’s Duane Forrester on what a future SEO job description. But inspired by preeminent statistician, George Box, Orin also outlines why asking the correct questions in measurement and evaluation is key. When do they want it?

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Tools Publicity Measurement SEO 136

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. Dorothy Crenshaw , CEO, Crenshaw Communications .

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Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 215

Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

For instance, AI can help you generate ideas for your next blog or article, advertising strategy or any facet of PR. In fact, about 50% of PR professionals spend a quarter of their time on measurement and reporting, and this trend is expected to continue. Reach and Impressions : Measures the potential audience size for your posts.

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Trends YouTube Video Social Media 105

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

These are both terrible terms, but I’ve adopted the latter as the moniker for these monthly roundups about the PR software vendor community – and I’m inclined to keep it. This is effectively native advertising, which Cision says is “proven to be more trustworthy.” CommsTech does seem like the broader category. Revenue grew to $62.6

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Publicity Survey Enterprise Pitching 86

Buzzstream

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the early days of Google, guest posting was seen as a legitimate SEO strategy, and Google didn’t publicly penalize it. Gauge Site Relevance Simply put, in guest posting, choosing sites relevant to your niche is better for your SEO. For example: “write for us” AND “SEO” if I wanted the SEO industry.

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Analysis SEO Guidelines Google 90

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Clients now expect PR people to also be search experts, content experts, working knowledge of Google Analytics, knowledge of all sorts of tracking tools to measure effectiveness, while filming, producing, and editing video and managing multiple social media accounts.”. Pressure on measurement. Additional duties. More internal comms.

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Communications Crisis Internal International 124

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Modern PR heavily involves using social media, collaborating with influencers, showcasing thought leadership, managing blogs, and organizing community events. They can develop accessible communication to handle media inquiries to ensure the brand responds to any challenges swiftly and confidently. #7.

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Video Marketing SEO Social Media 109

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. MozCon is geared for SEOs (i.e.

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Conference Marketing Case Study Content Marketing 97

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. Other disciplines, notably marketing, have encroached on PR practice in areas that lead with paid media, such as influencer marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO).

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Government Education Print Ethics 103

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. New LinkedIn research found that only 4% of digital marketers are measuring return on investment six months into a campaign or longer. Podcast advertising revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020.

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Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 101

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. Strengthening community-building and connections.

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 190

Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Podcasts have traditionally been hard to monetise through advertising because the audience is fragmented and analytics are poor. It's published a guide to community management on the platform. It's published a guide to community management on the platform. That’s great for listeners for not so good for creators or publishers.

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Viral Journalism Analytics Case Study 68

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

There’s an old saying in marketing that half of the advertising budget is wasted, we just don’t know which half. Advertising spots for the big football game this year grew to $5,000,000 for a mere 30 seconds of airtime. Some people don’t even like football, but watch the game for the community – and the commercials.

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B2B Marketing Advertising Advertising 67

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Several surveys reviewed by eMarketer suggest social media advertising continues to advance – and Facebook is often voted the most effective paid platform – even for B2B. Unlike traditional advertising, the audience gets a vote in paid social media. req.) – by Regalix found. It’s not an isolated result either.

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B2B Facebook Marketing Social Media 60

Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. Old fashioned press releases and advertising can lead to bona fide editorial coverage. Million and Eyes the U.S.

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Software Case Study Advertising Advertising 121

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The question was always the same and has a lot in common with the greater B2B community. The top challenge for marketers today is disregarding the latest sparkly things (social media, SEO, paying for leads,law domains ) and focusing instead on real techniques that generate new business. SEO is snake oil. – SEO.

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Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Today, most of the PR community know her as the vice president of implementation for a venerable vendor in the PR vertical: BurrellesLuce. Tressa credits a brief stint in corporate communications for a health care company with stoking her interest in PR. NOTE: The week of September 19 is AMEC’s Measurement Week here in the U.S.”.

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Measurement Course Advertising Advertising 60

Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Is measurement lost? I didn’t think I’d get back into the blogging saddle for a few days yet, but I couldn’t help it when I read this excellent post from Nick Lucido on the problem with PR measurement. The biggest problem with measurement is a lack of understanding of the basic principles of this art.

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Measurement Blogging Tourism Twitter 53

Prohibition

JULY 19, 2018

So in such a busy marketplace, and in an age where the budget can’t always stretch to support content marketing , social media marketing , influencer marketing , advertising, design, e-marketing, PPC, SEO and everything else you’ve been advised to invest in, how can you justify spend to stand out from the crowd? Community management.

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Publicity Advertising Advertising Tools 48

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised? Improve AI: Monitor, measure and adapt based on performance. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. trillion in 2019, ramping up to $3.9

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Conference Marketing Analytics Case Study 59

Konnect Agency

JANUARY 19, 2021

Now, you can really encourage action because you have enough data about your target customer as they’ve worked their way down the funnel to be able to reach them through advertising, promotions and other actions measured by total conversions and return on ad spend (ROAS).

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Marketing Mobile Social Media Comparison 52

Buzzstream

AUGUST 13, 2018

section 1: Introduction section 2: Authority Measures section 3: Content Relevance section 4: Content Quality section 5: Sponsored Posts section 6: Linking Behavior section 7: Author Name & Email section 8: Interaction History. Authority Measure. Introduction. Great outreach starts with a great list. It won’t hurt my feelings.

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Google Measurement Advertising Advertising 117

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised? Improve AI: Monitor, measure and adapt based on performance. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. trillion in 2019, ramping up to $3.9

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Conference Marketing Analytics Case Study 40

wiredPRworks

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Promote your business and amplify your message across communication channels: Public Relations and Social Media. Print and Digital Advertising. Ensuring your brand tells a story to maintain connections and community. 3D MARKETING MAPS: COMPETING AND CONNECTING WITH COMMUNITIES. Managing your community relations.

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Training LinkedIn Marketing Pinterest 45

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” Who do you see advertising on those pages?

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Agency Trends Marketing Survey 95

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Top tip: Using earned media as part of a Paid, Earned, Shared and Owned (PESO) or Search campaign Trust in earned media may be dented but it remains higher than other forms of media, notably paid such as advertising or promotional editorial. Advertising, production, and distribution have all fundamentally changed.

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Media Relations Media Print Newspapers 115

Prohibition

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Internet is a vast, complex system of virtual connections and communities. Still, by taking matters into your own hands and utilising various strategies for maintaining these measures, you can shape perceptions online like never before. When a job opening is advertised online, a good reputation will drive applications.

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Reputation Company Engineering Banking 62

Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

To me, this liking phenomenon is a gimmick and gimmicks on Twitter are about as old as Twitter itself (Google faces a similar challenge in SEO). We will have a Twittersphere of bots talking to bots and thanking each other for being top engaged members of the community this week. More, More and Still More. Engagement.

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Content Marketing Social Media Marketing Media 69

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Sales is driven and measured by one metric, closed business – revenue. Creating content, social post scheduling, optimizing advertising, designing web pages, and deciding what images to use in your next campaign are just some of the things that these new AI-powered tools are there to help with. 11) Sales and marketing alignment.

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Marketing Content Marketing Crisis Management Data 104

PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Publishing regular content on a blog platform is great for SEO, thought leadership, and establishing internal subject matter experts. Or use these events to drive media relations and community conversation. Measuring the effectiveness of any marketing campaign begins with defined and clear KPIs. Measurable. Performance.

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Marketing Technology Internal International 52

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising costs might increase. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Erica Holt , Guest Posts , Marketing | Tags: google instant , nonprofits , search engines , SEO | Comments (9) Site settings comment help? Ads will also continue changing as users type, which could decrease click-through rates.

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Google Nonprofit Engineering SEO 101

Landis PR

JANUARY 16, 2024

This is a community where they can openly talk about that. That creates a very close, and I must say an intimate, atmosphere where members talk very freely about their business, about their headaches, about things that they are tired of, and things that they see as possibilities and can’t tell if it’s a real possibility.

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Agency Internal International Meeting 59

Norton's Notes

JULY 29, 2015

Twitter’s approach to open data also makes measurement easy. So many organisations have experienced negative consequences of trusting SEO agencies to manage content marketing for them, only for them to be penalised by Google. Do you believe Marketing, PR, and SEO will merge into one? Not so much a campaign, but a project.

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Interviews SEO Banking Radio 28