Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Writers that report success with blogging share the following characteristics: They are more likely to write longer or more in-depth content; They tend to spend six or more hours writing a post; They are 2.5 They always use analytics to measure performance. 1) How long should a blog post be? Analysis: . hours to write.”.

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Blogging Survey B2B Analysis 107

Sword and the Script

MAY 24, 2016

Rather than chasing a buyer, he advises, indeed teaches, growing sales teams systems and processes to “ qualify hard and close easy.”. Having met initially at a Greater North Fulton County Chamber of Commerce event , we agreed to compare notes on sales and marketing at the Sandler office in Alpharetta at a later time.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 6, 2020

In my previous article on marketing ventriloquism , I made the case for marketers talking through voices other than their own and explained that most marketers tend to rely on advertising because of a need for perceived control. This is currently done with massively varying degrees of analytical rigor, but that is another story.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. What is thought leadership?

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Leadership Content Marketing Healthcare Google 145

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2016

5 Categories of PR Metrics Pros Should Measure. Training the entire workforce to think about measurement requires both conditioning – so that it is instinctive across all business functions not just marketing – and developing a system to support the data collection. Does your agency know how to measure results?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 16, 2016

If you peruse enough surveys covering the challenges of marketing , you begin to see that three common themes among the findings: budget, ROI and production. There is never enough budget, the pressure and time necessary to measure ROI is ever more pressing and yet production is expected to rise. Marketing Budget Predictability.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing Trends 60

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 5, 2014

There’s an old saying in advertising that half of the budget is wasted, but marketers don’t know which half. Today, there are enough analytical tools today to avoid wasting half of the marketing spend. PR Measurement Isn’t Quite the Same. What PR needs is a framework to think about measurement and organize itself to measure.

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Measurement Analytics Tools SEO 119

Rock the Status Quo

MAY 28, 2015

One simple task that significantly improves the success of your content marketing is the ability to identify what pieces of content are driving results and which are not. Once you know which ones are resonating, you can CREATE MORE content centered around high-interest topics. How can you do this? GOOGLE ANALYTICS.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. There are more blogs focused on personal development than any other topic, according to the survey.

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. On top of crafting compelling content, the most prominent challenge is driving engagement from targeted audiences. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. Blog Posts.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. An abbreviated version of this prediction was published by the Content Marketing Institute (see below). * * *.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In this spotlight, we’ve featured Cathy McPhillips ( @cmcphillips ), Vice President of Marketing at Content Marketing Institute ( @CMIContent ). I oversee this, and also focus on strategy, paid advertising and event marketing. A: It should come as no surprise that our blog is the center of our inbound approach.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 23, 2023

for every dollar spent on influencer marketing. This impressive ROI is due to the targeted nature of influencer campaigns and the ability to track and measure their impact. Having specific goals will help guide your strategy and measure success. Research has shown that businesses earn an average of $6.50

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

A 2023 Edelman study found that the responsibilities of corporate communications teams are increasing in less traditional areas like digital and social media (72%), monitoring, measurement & analytics (68%), social listening (67%), and audience insights (31%). User-generated content/word-of-mouth recommendations.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. How is public relations measured?

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 7, 2015

If you’ve bought into that, then how do you find smarter ways to measure authoritative content? So when the nature of authoritative content is changing so dramatically, how you measure the success of your content has to change as well. Does blogging still matter? Image: Thinkstock.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Embracing modern communication platforms, such as collaborative messaging apps and intranet systems, can significantly enhance the accessibility and efficiency of internal communications. Finally, diligently monitor and measure the effectiveness and impact of your communication efforts. Stay in the know through monitoring. We can help!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

There are quite a few players offering social listening, influencer management, campaign measurement, and other analytics designed to measure success and uncover opportunities using advanced AI. Users include marketers who want to scale the volume of content they publish on their blogs, social media or newsletters.

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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. If you want blogs, you don’t want press releases.

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Study Media Relations Media Measurement 140

The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The Ability to Measure Sets Paid and Editorial Apart On paper, the glaring difference between paid and editorial PR is that one is paid, which means that placement is guaranteed. However, Jerrid claims the less obvious difference (and a major advantage) of paid media is the ability to measure it. Advertising is also learning from PR.

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Advertising Advertising Measurement Storytelling 120

Prohibition

AUGUST 25, 2023

This level of personalisation not only increases the effectiveness of marketing campaigns but also enhances the overall customer experience. Digital marketing also allows retailers to track and measure the success of their campaigns in real-time.

Retail 62

Retail Marketing Analytics Social Media 62

Contently - Strategy

JULY 24, 2019

We know that not every content marketer begins their program from scratch. If you’re a content marketer focused on growth rather than creation, you could be in any number of situations. You might have inherited a content program when you started a new job. Analyze your benchmarks and set new goals.

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Strategy Content Marketing Measurement SEO 111

PR 20/20

MAY 31, 2023

HubSpot is a powerful tool that can help you automate your marketing, personalize your outreach, and measure your success—all in one place. Research by the Content Marketing Institute shows 73% of top-performing organizations prioritize audience research when developing their content marketing strategies.

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How To eBook Infographics Content Marketing 81

PR 20/20

JUNE 6, 2023

At the core of HubSpot is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform that provides businesses with a powerful and user-friendly system to manage their customer relationships. CMS Hub : CMS Hub is a content management system that allows businesses to create, manage, and optimize their website content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 26, 2015

We welcomed four stellar guests including the Washington Business Journal ‘s Jennifer Nycz-Conner , digital marketing brand strategist for V3B Shelly Kramer , founder of Red Shift Writers (and regular contributor to this blog!) With four great guests on hand, we began to chat about measuring content.

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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. Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for a publicly-traded company that developed and sold software to the PR market. Did you know?

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Technology Publicity Software Pitching 170

Landis PR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Note: This is a reposted blog by our Public Relations Global Network Partner, Katie Casciato – Roopco. For the original blog, please visit here. Content creation is merely experiencing the next wave of its evolution. Even as AI continues to evolve, there will always be something uniquely human about the art of storytelling.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 29, 2017

To that end, it’s really hard to sell more if you stop talking to your market. Instead of taking a hatchet to the budget, I’d suggest P&G re-allocate some of that ridiculous spend in display and programmatic ads into content marketing and PR. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML].

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Marketing Measurement Content Marketing Survey 68

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Analysis: B2B marketing must develop its market. While lead generation specialists don’t like to spend money they can’t attribute to sales – investments in content marketing , education, awareness, and branding are inherently linked to finding prospects and cost of conversion. These are the metrics B2B lead gen measure.

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B2B Report Marketing Survey 64

wiredPRworks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In this engaging and immersive experience, you’ll discover routes to social media success: strategic maps, memorable moment,s and relevant ROI measures. Direct Deploy: Engaging Content Marketing. Dynamic Design: WIRED Marketing System. Social Selling Secrets Social Media Marketing Deep Dive.

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LinkedIn Storytelling Facebook Measurement 52

PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Below is a comprehensive list of the most effective content formats to engage your TOFU target audiences. Blog posts A blog is great for addressing your prospective customer's specific pain points. Writing informative blog posts on topics related to your product or service can help prospects understand their problem better.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

It’s hard to measure but there’s negative consequences for not doing it.”. The point this comment gets after — I believe — is that businesses hold some aspects of marketing – PR, social media and content marketing – to a higher standard. Marketing automation can take it even further.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Fittingly, I asked a whole bunch of folks for predictions to include in a blog post here (if you want to be invited next year, you can sign up here ). 6) Finding a content marketing niche. Continued drive toward niche content and blogs, such as cybersecurity for the hospitality industry, or regulatory law for marijuana growers.

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Marketing Content Marketing Crisis Management Data 104

The Proactive Report

MAY 12, 2017

A fast-growing business can be just the opposite, if you don’t have the planning and systems in place to cope with the rapid growth. CMOs at the largest technology companies report that building out content marketing as an organizational competency is the second most important initiative, only behind measuring ROI. (

Knowledge Base 113

Knowledge Base SEO Strategy Digital PR 113

PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The key to an effective marketing scorecard is to align marketing KPIs with overall business goals, have a logical and well-documented process for updating and reporting results, and develop systems for turning data into intelligence and intelligence into action. Step 12: Integrate into a project management system.

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Their content marketing and brand journalism has not yet evolved to a place where they are comfortable letting employees take the spotlight, allowing independent voices to ring out with options, truth and expertise. Take advantage of the LinkedIn blogging platform – called long-form posts.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 5, 2016

Just as every parent thinks their own sons and daughters are the best looking and most brilliant children on Planet Earth, too many companies and marketing agencies – our Minneapolis PR firm included – are convinced that their blogs could hardly be better. But visitors love content. Blog designs should be highly visual.

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