Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2017

The knowledge gained working for a PR agency is often described as a mile wide and an inch deep. If dynamics of clients and agencies are likened to relationships, it’s the effective integration of these two perspectives that often make a meaningful difference. 1) You spent a long time at an agency and then when in-house.

Agency 60

Agency Corporate Interviews eBook 60

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. Also, see these related posts: How to Generate Media Referenceable B2B Customers with a Blog. based reporters said, “ensuring content is 100 percent accurate is the most important” in their organization.

Survey 102

Survey Report Media B2B 102

Journalistics

JANUARY 24, 2016

In my first post of the year, I confessed my blogging sins and provided some insights around what caused me to blog less the past few years, and what I learned from the process. This posts was the first step in my journey to blog more in 2016. About This Two-Part Series.

Blogging 40

Blogging Strategy How To Writing 40

Cision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Erik Wheater, account executive at Burns360, details his transition from a five-year career in television news to the PR agency life. While Burns360 is an agency that is embracing new PR concepts like digital and content marketing, its belief that journalism is essential to PR has never wavered. Rapid Fire Round.

Television 120

Television Pitching Journalism Interviews 120

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

She has never published a blog post, or an article for a leading association of business communicators , or given a formal presentation. Recently, KPS Digital, a marketing organization in the UK, named me to a list of the Top 100 Influencers in Content Marketing. She doesn’t have any Twitter followers.

Marketing 60

Marketing Study Survey Content Marketing 60

PR in High Definition

JUNE 25, 2020

The effect this has had is to require a major change in approach for most PR agencies and in-house teams. Content – Earlier during the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for thinking content marketing should take a backseat. After all, people don’t want to be marketed to at the moment, right?

Exercises 71

Exercises Employee Social Media Communications 71

PR in High Definition

JUNE 25, 2020

The effect this has had is to require a major change in approach for most PR agencies and in-house teams. Content – Earlier during the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for thinking content marketing should take a backseat. After all, people don’t want to be marketed to at the moment, right?

Exercises 62

Exercises Employee Social Media Communications 62

Communications Conversations

JULY 19, 2018

But I see this as a positive, as it forces me to exercise and strengthen my influencer muscle like never before. You have big opinions in the content marketing world–I’ve seen you share some pretty interesting viewpoints on LinkedIn (and I’ve agreed with many of them). That’s content marketing.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2B Content Marketing 60

Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

The market for tools in PR is exploding. A crowdsourced exercise by the #AIinPR panel over the past few months has characterised more than 120 tools. The exercise was highly subjective – hence so is the analysis and interpretation of the data. I sought him out to lead this initiative when we set up the panel earlier this year.

Analysis 60

Analysis Technology Tools Exercises 60

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In today’s scenario, employee advocacy means enlisting the support of your workforce in pushing out strategic content to enable your business goals. You could encourage employees to share anything from blog posts to event information and job vacancies. Now consider this exercise in the real-time social media scenario.

Employee 40

Employee Measurement Social Media Product Launch 40

Cision

APRIL 13, 2015

Content marketing can be challenging for health care communicators, especially at the local level — hospitals, clinics, and medical practices. So how do you do health care content marketing? So how do you do health care content marketing? Want to rise above the content clutter?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Communications Crisis Communications Marketing 120

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

A high profile blog was “tipped off” to the feigned outrage and the rest of the media then picked up on it and duly reported the incident as controversy. For many, media relations is just an exercise in exporting a spreadsheet of contacts and hitting the send button. 3) Augment media relations with content marketing.

Survey 377

Survey Media Relations Media Ethics 377

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. The exercise is a useful reflection on what happened over the course of this past year. Respondents said their organization is placing more or much more emphasis on owned media (60%), like blogs, newsletters and websites. PR measurement.

B2B 118

B2B Marketing Survey Software 118

Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

In fact, as all savvy marketers know, more than “what” you sell, “how” you sell creates a bigger emotional, and thus bankable, impact. The whole point of the exercise is to get closer to buyers. Buyer personas have the potential to catapult businesses into the big league with personalized marketing wins.

How To 120

How To Tools Exercises Viral 120

ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

Links out to the 10 best blog posts I've read (on getting stuff done) during five months of exhaustive research. If you'd rather download a pdf of this 9,000-word post to read later, and want some bonus content (my top 51 deep work productivity tips) click this link. Such are the risks of blogging and email. My favourite seven.

Writing 114

Writing Social Media SEO Blogging 114

Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Taral Patel is PR Executive at PRmention , a digital PR agency for startups. An organic audience refers to those who are driven towards your website or blog through unpaid distributions. Their campaign was highly successful, although the content hardly mentioned Dove in the videos. Create a strong content marketing plan.

Infographics 120

Infographics eBook Content Marketing Video 120

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 5, 2014

While there’s a ton of blog posts from PR pundits telling you what you can’t do for measurement — and they do so with a frightening zeal that borders on religious fascism — few offer pragmatic advice. What PR needs is a framework to think about measurement and organize itself to measure.

Measurement 119

Measurement Analytics Tools SEO 119

Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hence, this isn’t a typical 500-word blog post with 10 tips to ( insert random PR activity ). Long form blog posts? And you are not just competing against other PR teams for budgets, but also against advertising, digital, and marketing. In 2014, turnover rates reached over 55 percent in PR agencies in the United States.

How To 60

How To Software System Employee 60

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Steve has long been a believer “content marketing” even before the phrase gained the popularity it has today. The content marketing hype-cycle helped alert those asleep at the wheel that this was a requirement for doing business in an information (Google) age. I quit my job went to work at a PR agency.

Content Marketing 112

Content Marketing Mobile Google B2B 112