Sword and the Script

MARCH 28, 2017

The Media Reference Challenge. However, for many B2B marketing organizations, obtaining publicly referenceable customers willing to speak to the press is an insurmountable challenge. A simple way to do this is to request an interview for a corporate blog. Is your PR agency bringing creative ideas to the table? Talk to Us!

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to WordPress, users create 70 million blog posts per month through its platform. Add to that all the content created across other platforms, and you’ve got a world saturated with content. Helping your brand stand out requires not just creativity but also strategic alignment. What Are Topic Pillars?

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Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

Text at the click of a button There’s a great deal of excitement about the technology as it seemingly is able to mimic human creativity and generate and edit content incredibly quickly. It does not provide information about sources and will make up references. It can also use machine learning to summarise text.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

If you’re only partially committed to creating and distributing content, Content Marketing Institute founder Joe Pulizzi would rather you do no content marketing at all. This may not have been the message Content Marketing World attendees were expecting to hear during Joe’s welcome address.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Creativity: PR practitioners must be able to think creatively and come up with new and innovative ideas for campaigns and projects. If anything, AI tool that writes will make creative writing more important, because when everyone has the same tools to write content, it will all sound the same. Maybe more. .

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ZudePR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

And my primary sources of information, advice, enjoyment, and inspiration have been blogs (and bloggers). So I can return later and use as reference material. All this blog-reading has not gone unremarked. Family think I’m a bit bonkers, reading all these blogs and passing them on for free. Thousands of them.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

On the creative side, 57% of PR firms report that earned media has become more important in the current economic climate , but more than half (53%) think that their agencies aren’t viewed as the best option by clients to lead earned-first creative ideas. User-generated content/word-of-mouth recommendations.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Marketing content should be a key component in our ideation processes — especially during quiet periods. . With that in mind here is a refresher on ways that PR teams can use content marketing assets to drive PR results and ideas. Case studies are a great customer reference and sales tool for any growing company.

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Prohibition

MAY 10, 2023

User generated content (UGC) has become a critical component of social media marketing in recent years. It refers to any content created by users themselves, rather than by a brand or business. It is content that is shared publicly on social media platforms, forums, or other websites.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

When you spend ages on the PR side saying we don’t need your money , it’s hard going back to say that you actually do ,” says Jerrid , referring to traditional PRs who prided themselves on gaining coverage with little budget. It’s one of the only practices that, for hundreds of years, has been solely about storytelling?—?and

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PR in High Definition

JUNE 3, 2020

If the picture is on sites such as Flickr, you might also need to consider Creative Commons attribution. Again, this will depend on any applicable Creative Commons licences, but if you’re using someone else’s image it’s generally good practice to attribute their name. Attribute the author.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 7, 2018

Everyone is surrounded by “noise” that they don’t have time to parse through, our attention spans are shrinking by the day and far too often, the content we do consume isn’t even truly novel. Creativity is desired, yet is in short supply. I had never heard of it before skimming through the blog post. Just not our basics.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

As each year comes to a close, we like to sneak a peek into the SHIFT archives to see our content hits and misses. When devising a content strategy for a new year, it’s important to take note of what worked (and why) to plan what’s to come next year. Want to see how to do this for your blog? Here’s how.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

16% on marketing analytics. I suggest thinking about distributing existing content elsewhere. If you do this as part of an overall content marketing program, then the investment both supports lead generation AND growing your own audience and subscriber list. 2) Flip you spend from tier 1 to tier 2 analysts.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Writing on the company’s blog , Lindsey Woodward , who leads the client support team said, “Whether jumping on a call to assist in creating an internal newsletter or report for your boss or setting up new employees on the Meltwater platform, we want our clients to have personal and open communication with Meltwater.”.

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PR in High Definition

JUNE 3, 2020

If the picture is on sites such as Flickr, you might also need to consider Creative Commons attribution. Again, this will depend on any applicable Creative Commons licences, but if you’re using someone else’s image it’s generally good practice to attribute their name. Attribute the author.

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ISEBOX

OCTOBER 4, 2016

People always talk about finding your “angle” when referring to writing. If you write your press releases this way, they can be multi-purposed to be used as blog posts in your media center! Are you just joining us in our 14 Part Blog Series for The Well Written Press Release? The same is true for your press release.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 21, 2019

That led her down a series of paths including content marketing, ecommerce and today, in B2B marketing. BH: When I stepped into the world of content marketing to understand what was happening there, it was in healthcare. The platforms where people hang out are more fragmented and the creative competition is steep.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2015

Podcasts are another means to deliver content, so the same process for planning and developing a blog post or paid content would be appropriate for a podcast. Chris Moritz of Lowe Campbell Ewald , recommends doing a “gap analysis” between the content that you have and the content that your audience needs.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 23, 2018

B2B organizations that find content marketing effective are committed to these programs. These organizations have a content marketing plan in writing. Those are among the top-level findings from an annual survey of content marketers by the Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs.

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Stuart Bruce

JUNE 24, 2015

Last week I spent two fantastic days with Mynewsdesk at its FutureComms15 conference and then the following day at a content marketing master class with the Content Marketing Institute’s Robert Rose. PR actually sat in the attic and was frequently referred to as the poor relations.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2017

And when you know of a new product coming to market next quarter, bring your agency team in the loop today. Doing so delights them and, more importantly, results in better preparation, more creative ideas, and spot-on messaging. Boots on the ground interviews with PR, marketing, sales leaders. Inspect what you expect.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In today’s hi-tech, fast-moving, cluttered digital world, content marketing is one of the most practical, effective and useful marketing strategies to date. It’s an essential aspect of today’s digital marketing landscape. So what does content marketing mean? Common ones include: Blogs.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Measuring genuine ROI and a marketing campaign’s long-term contribution to revenue takes time, and marketers need to slow down to do it.”. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn. 6) Relationships with people who have the ear of your target market. “It’s

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 23, 2018

Though he worked “in marketing” he had never taken a writing class. Even so, he was inspired to pursue writing and creative work in his efforts to persuade. While he later promoted to creative director, among other marketing leadership roles, he says an appearance in AdAge was his first big break. Let me take that back.

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Buzzstream

MAY 9, 2018

Groups that reference past promotion get a further boost of +2.3%. Reference to past promotion. Refer to Past Promotion. References to past promotion are precisely what they sound like. SEO Content Marketers – A mixed bag, but shows that still the majority of value is derived from the initial outreach campaign.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. CSR Is a Popular Use Case That Often Lacks Creativity.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 9, 2019

For GE, however, it’s the culmination of a decade-long commitment to content marketing. As a result, the brief brims with journalistic rigor, pulling in stories from GE Reports , the brand’s main content hub, where employees across the globe explain new research and innovations by focusing on ideas instead of products.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here are the seven tasks to focus on before you start creating content. A few years ago, athenahealth debuted athenaInsight, its data-driven news publication, to make a serious investment in content marketing. In content chaos , the first mistake marketers make is leaning too heavily on intuition. Enter: Google.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

When you map all of your content marketing to the funnel, things get trickier. Most content marketers, unlike sales reps, usually shy away from promotional ad copy that could scare their audience away. What is the content marketing sales funnel? They also know Contently gave that information to them.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And if you want to absorb marketing news and insight from industry leaders during your commute with a new podcast, we’ve got you covered with 12 of our team’s favorites. This Old Marketing. and Epic Content Marketing. Overview: First started in 2013, This Old Marketing is THE podcast for content marketers.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The survey doesn’t get into how that budget would be broken out, which means it could include entail headcount, creative or design, social media management tools, and paid social. It helps cut through the clutter with creative targeting. I want to advocate for paid social and specifically as part of a media relations program.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. CSR Is a Popular Use Case That Often Lacks Creativity.

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Content Marketing Industry Trends 59

Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Icebreaker: What’s a cool piece of content you’ve seen that’s inspiring or super creative? But before I do, when I just throw out like a little icebreaker, I know you’re a man of content out there in the business, what do you like? There are a lot of SEO tools and content marketing tools on the market.

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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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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 24, 2017

So says the Atlanta-based marketing strategist Jeff Beale who also goes by Mr. Marketology. Jeff is a contributing author to the book Influencer Breakthroughs which is available on Amazon and promotes a flavor of marketing he refers to as “authority marketing.”. 1) You advocate “authority marketing” as a concept.

Marketing 60

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

An organic audience refers to those who are driven towards your website or blog through unpaid distributions. Dove did a great job reaching their target audience through innovative and creative videos. Their campaign was highly successful, although the content hardly mentioned Dove in the videos.

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