Prohibition

JANUARY 29, 2024

Here, we’ll be delving into why blogging is the tool your business needs, as well as some tips on how to write an attention-grabbing blog to consolidate your content marketing strategy. The more quality content you post on your site, the more opportunities you’re creating for your business to appear higher up in search results.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 6, 2015

If content marketing was a self-evaluated college class, marketers would give themselves a “C.” That’s my sense after reading the new B2B Content Marketing 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America report. The annual report is a joint effort between MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute.

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Cision

DECEMBER 20, 2017

They also fill their blog and YouTube pages with educational content, company updates and industry news, which they promote via social media. One trap content creators can quickly fall into is creating content purely about the product or service the company sells. Brainstorm Related Topics. Use Visuals.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 13, 2023

Equally important is recognizing what resonates best with your intended market — including their preferences and preferred communication channels- then delivering tailored content accordingly. Tip 4: Utilize content marketing for PR On a budget, content marketing is a potent tool for enhancing PR efforts.

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5W PR

APRIL 21, 2021

One of the key elements of marketing is companies being able to develop and execute creative marketing and advertising ideas, which isn’t always an easy task. Social Media Strategies. Another great way for companies to build a bigger social media following is by actively participating in social conversations.

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5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

This field involves a combination of media relations, content creation, event planning, and social media management to effectively communicate a company’s innovations, milestones, and values to the target audience. Social Media Engagement: Leveraging social media platforms for technology brands is a fantastic idea.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2018

Gone are the days of using AVEs (advertising value equivalents) or the number of clips or impressions as ways to gauge success. To get better at what we do, we need to understand how areas like content marketing and social media fit into PR. Now, public relations practitioners are expected to deliver real ROI.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 19, 2016

Most social media marketers share the same thoughts as they open up their mobile phone or computer each morning: Who am I going to reach today? However, your social media strategy must run deeper than that. You also have to consider how social touches other aspects of your multichannel marketing plan.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 20, 2015

I organize them by categories: MN blogs, advertising blogs, PR blogs, content blogs. And social media blogs. But, over the last number of months, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with the landscape of social media blogs. How to Get Your First 1,000 Real Facebook Fans (Infographic).

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A survey by Spiceworks Ziff Davis found B2B tech marketing prospects say they consume 11 or more piece of vendor content Pieces of content. There are unpolished phrases the marketing community kicks around to describe the outsized role content marketing has in the sales cycle. Consumption.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Specifically, the survey found storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership topped the list of more than 20 tactics or trends related to PR in terms of importance. 67% said thought leadership.

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Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

Owned content. Owned content is created content. It’s the well-known press release and media kit. It’s also tactics like content marketing, a broad umbrella that includes blogging, social media updates, email marketing, infographics, visuals and video. Third-party content.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For instance, does direct mail work, or has digital marketing rendered it obsolete? As social media and search advertising have become integrated into our everyday lives, many believe that direct mail is an outdated way to reach consumers as smartphones allow millennials to access information, products and services instantly.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 27, 2023

The early 2000s saw the addition of social media features. Multimedia releases, including social media components, have become more popular (especially with wire services). When a news outlet publishes or airs your story, you’ve earned that coverage ( earned media ) which lends credibility over advertising (paid media).

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. In that rush of adrenaline to immediately promote your new e-book or video ASAP, content marketers risk the opportunity to be creative with promotion.

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Solo PR Pro

AUGUST 14, 2018

The infographic below highlights the importance of online reputation and the impact it can have on your brand. Infographic by MDG Advertising. Use Your Content Marketing Strategy. Use your existing platforms – website, blog, social media channels – to tell your client’s story often and well.

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Cision

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Now, they’re also in charge of social media and content marketing. If you’re going to spend all this time and put all this money and resources into doing that one really fantastic piece of content, you can get months of content out of that one piece if you think about how to break it up into those smaller pieces.”.

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PRSay

APRIL 19, 2016

To translate this for communications purposes, if the brand is using billboards or other outdoor signage, try finding local bloggers in that neighborhood and pitch them a story or some custom content. B2B Content Marketing + Pinterest – Surprisingly, Pinterest is a huge traffic builder for my B2B client sites.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In PR, where users spend hours researching contacts and monitoring media placements, the need to streamline processes is always at a premium. I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In PR, where users spend hours researching contacts and monitoring media placements, the need to streamline processes is always at a premium. I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

It’s a question as old as the web – should you gate your content? It appears that most marketers do and reported gating “ 80% of their major content marketing assets ” according to a survey vetted by MarketingProfs. The same study points out there’s some content – infographics for example – is rarely gated.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 16, 2017

You’re one of the few agency owners/presidents in town that I see showing up in social media circles consistently (namely, Twitter and LinkedIn). Why do you continue to invest your time in social media? Especially when clearly, few of your colleagues believe it’s worth the effort?

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Ishmael's Corner

MAY 10, 2015

One person who has labored over B2B content, what works and what doesn’t work, is my good friend and colleague Steve Farnsworth. In short, Steve knows content marketing and the nitty gritty of lead generation. With this as the backdrop, here are his top 10 tools and resources that he applies to content marketing campaigns.

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Cision

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Radick emphasized that the key to having fruitful content is to focus on telling authentic stories and providing content that actually helps your customer, instead of obsessing over the numbers and keeping up with the latest algorithms on social media channels. “Cheap metrics lead to cheap content.”

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 6, 2015

Just as we did in 2013 with " PR and Social Media Counsel from MaccaPR''s Most Popular Posts ," we''re now taking a look back at the most successful recent posts on MaccaPR, according to our readers. A Social Media Grammar Lesson from the AP " was a Maccabee classic that contains a handy list of popularly-misspelled social media terms.

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Cision

MAY 9, 2016

Images drive engagement with social media and content marketing. A media bank is now an expected aspect of a press release. which I can do with public domain and CC-BY or CC-BY-SA (sharealike) licenses (a great infographic describing how different CC licenses can be used can be found here ).

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

But when paired with other advertising methods, PR is a great way to leverage those marketing efforts. For instance, partner PR with content marketing. If your marketing budget is not very big, you will not be able to maintain paid campaigns or get the level of exposure you really need.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Share your post liberally on social media. There are several ways to do this without giving the webinar content away. Given advertising deadlines, buying ad inventory is usually much smoother if you plan both content and budget for it in advance. 7) Have graphics for social media prepared.

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PR Fuel

JULY 5, 2020

Although social media and content writing has its place, these methods are better at reaching consumers instead of news organizations. It first helps to know the difference between a press release and a regular piece of content marketing. Press releases can be used for SEO in several ways, such as: New Content.

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ReimaginePR

AUGUST 29, 2016

When it comes to generating leads, creating a community, and interacting with your customers, nothing tops social media. Social media is the perfect way to build exposure for your brand and increase traffic to your website, but how do you do that? Here’s a handy social media marketing checklist.

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ReimaginePR

JUNE 27, 2016

Your audience should see the same, consistent message throughout your website and your social media platforms. Then you can share this story across your branding and all over your social media platforms. Media Kits Are a Must-have. Brand cohesiveness is also another must-have in the online world.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Feed Social Media As If It’s A Living Breathing Organism. Marketers know that social media is as revolutionary to our culture as the printing press was in Gutenberg’s day, turning mobile phones and PCs into access points for endless connectivity. Social media needs to be nourished by human expression.

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ReimaginePR

AUGUST 1, 2016

Focus on One Social Media Platform. Be on only one social platform? If your market is saturated, shouldn’t you be everywhere to compete? They’ve already proven their value to you as a business, and, if you continue to nurture them, they’ll buy more from you and they’ll tell their friends about you. Not necessarily.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 12, 2015

Everything from how understand the value of earned and social media through specific metrics – not things like UVM and impressions, rather multi-channel flow and direct vs. indirect traffic – to how to maximize AdWords and SEO strategies, the audience is becoming much more aware of the importance of measurement. Are you ready to join?

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Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Technology, social media, and search are just a few of the things that continue to shift how public relations, marketing and communication professionals practice. SMART can be modified to fit your area of work, as Neicole Crepeau did for social media, using SMART as Specific, Measurable, Active, Realistic and Timely.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5 Video is the most popular content marketing format for 2015, ahead of case studies, blogs and infographics ( 2015 State of Digital Marketing , a report featuring insights from over 600 marketers from Web Marketing 123).

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Images for promotions, such as ads or social media images, are generally more like pitches than other types of writing. Certain images, such as infographics, are “allowed” to have a lot more information packed into them than other images. When in doubt, keep your image simple.

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