Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Surveys show earned media is still the most credible; exec appreciation and collaboration with PR improved during the Coronavirus Regular readers know these pages are filled with surveys and statistics. Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten.

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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. That’s one surprising conclusion I drew from a survey of 850 bloggers by ConvertKit. The Average Length of a Blog Post.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Pitching media remains a challenge; Twitter is still a journalist favorite; PR dabbled with generative AI as businesses worried about misinformation Regular readers know I publish a weekly post every Tuesday. Many of the things I choose to write about are reports and surveys that give us a sense of what’s happening in the industry.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The trick to getting good content from an AI service is to learn how to write excellent prompts. Give it an identity to write from, a tone of voice to use, and enough context about the topic so that you get a great response back. What are people saying about your brand when discussing CRM systems on social media?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 17, 2024

Midway through 2023, I wrote a blog post on why tech is important to PR , including a section on “the chatbot in the room,” aka generative AI. TL/DR version: AI is to PR now what social media was to PR in the early aughts. It surveyed 1,001 PR professionals from November 2 through December 14.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

If you work in PR and engage in media relations , it’s a good idea to keep an ear out as to what is on the minds of those that work in the media. The 2018 State of the Media report by Cision is an annual survey of reporters that offers some insight. 10 Fundamentals for Successful B2B Media Interviews.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 20, 2019

A report from Vuelio suggests that blogging is becoming a source of income for a quarter of bloggers. Blogging is professionalising and has become a paid activity for up to a fifth of bloggers. Bloggers typically start out blogging as a hobby and overtime shift to paid activity. Blogs are a highly trusted form of media.

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PRSay

MAY 9, 2019

In a Muck Rack survey of 800 communicators, ranging from boutique agency coordinators to chief communications officers at global brands, 72 percent said that the top challenge they face is “measuring business impact,” with the second most prominent challenge (at 65 percent) overcoming the “lack of quantifiable measurement.”

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That’s according to a report by Muck Rack based on 193 survey responses from marketing and PR professionals late last year. PR agencies Additional findings from the survey I found interesting are: Generative AI. Just 7% say they are unlikely to use it; Top social channels for PR. While I’m based in the U.S., See our services.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2023

Just 28% of 1,034 PR professionals surveyed by Muck Rack in March and April 2023 say they are using generative AI (gAI). Another 33% say they “plan to explore it” although the timeline was not clear in the survey results. That cohort certainly shouldn’t be counted as among those who are using AI, although it has been.

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Landis PR

APRIL 29, 2024

In this week’s blog, our Public Relations Global Network partner, Taru Tujunen from Ellun Kanat , writes about the business environment in Finland. The blog covers Finland’s history of innovation and current investment opportunities, particularly in sectors like bio & circular economy and sustainable technology.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 18, 2021

That’s according to a survey of 750 communicators tallied up in the 2021 Communications Benchmark Report by Ragan Communications. According to a survey, comms professionals gave themselves good grades. This mirrors the sentiment in a separate survey that quantified a self-assessment by CMOs. click image for higher resolution).

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

A recent survey conducted by Ned Lundquist’s Job of the Week (JOTW) in partnership with Sword and the Script Media, LLC sought to find out the true status of our industry. The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%).

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Flack's Revenge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Many wish to continue to write off public relations and kick it to the curb – by coldly saying that the profession and/or its trappings are dead. So why have a blog with “revenge” in the name if I can’t get me some? Or at least blog a strongly worded rebuttal. Is the Press Release Truly Dead?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 18, 2021

But earned media doesn’t always achieve the frequency we need to promote client brands, and some stories have a lengthy gestation period. And given the ubiquity of social media, there’s an almost endless need for content, content, and more content. Earned results aren’t usually enough for a robust PR program.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

PR can also involve managing events, speaking at conferences, and developing social media campaigns. PR practitioners use a variety of methods to get their message out, including press releases, media relations, social media, and more.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Each year, something called “Orbit” (don’t worry, I had to look it up, too) publishes a survey of 1,000+ bloggers on best practices in the industry. Anyway, the survey polls bloggers, but I believe some of the lessons learned also pertain to people like us who manage corporate blogs. More than an hour longer!

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

90% of comms pros surveyed say their work has changed some, and of those, 50% say communications work has changed significantly. That’s according to The 5th Annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey for 2022 , which polled 483 communications professionals – mostly in the US. Real effort into digital and social.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 22, 2017

Electronic communications have made writing so easy that we don’t put as much thought or effort into the task anymore. At least not to the degree we did when we had to sit in front of a typewriter or hand write a note with a bottle of white-out nearby. Email has made our writing lazy. 1) Words matter in communication.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 13, 2013

There’s a ton of stuff going on, so here at WUL we’re taking a short break from “live” blogging this week. So, in the spirit of education and the public good, here are are five articles that will provide you with blogging tips from optimizing your excerpts to increasing your readership.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogs…blogs were everywhere. We started a blog for our employer, a startup in the IT operations space. Some of the newer and smaller startups that had been blogging for a while ran circles around us.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 19, 2019

Prospects are bombarded with so many marketing emails, social media messages, and video marketing campaigns that it can be tough to cut through the noise. Conducting surveys are a great way to gather customer feedback to continuously improve your product. For example, customers might review you on your social media channels.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 2, 2021

This blog is just a clever cover story for a boutique and savvy marketing and PR consultancy serving B2B tech. Brandwatch provides “social listening” which is industry jargon for old-fashioned social media monitoring. It later merged with near-peer Crimson Hexagon in 2018 and acquired Qriously , a survey tool, in 2019.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2020

According to the Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020, the top PR challenges are: 1. You’re not alone; that’s the sentiment that came through in the “challenges” section of the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey. Here’s a look at the top challenges facing PR according to the survey – and some ideas for what you can do about it.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A Guest Post B y Rana Shenawi, G raduate Student, American University, PR Expanded Blog Contest Winner. As a nonprofit, you need to know how to be a good storyteller because it is a powerful tool to attract volunteers, grow awareness, and motivate young adults to get involved and become agents of social change.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The moderator sits there pleading for participants to write in and then a few seconds of awkward silence ensue. You can also ask your social media manager to pull in questions from social media. Post-Webinar Survey. It’s simple – create a short survey that will pop-up once the webinar ends.

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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. Which posts have your readers enjoyed least?

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

According to a 2018 Association of National Advertisers (ANA) survey, 75% of marketers are using influencers as a marketing tool and 43% plan to increase spending on it in the next 12 months. The trust and loyalty that social media influencers establish with their audiences are among their most valuable assets.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 19, 2019

Prospects are bombarded with so many marketing emails, social media messages, and video marketing campaigns that it can be tough to cut through the noise. Conducting surveys are a great way to gather customer feedback to continuously improve your product. For example, customers might review you on your social media channels.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 6, 2016

Marketers who participated in the survey said that influencer engagement was effective in building brand awareness, generating leads and nurturing loyalty. Here are 5 ways to take audience engagement on social media to the next level with influencer marketing: 1. How to Boost Social Media Engagement with Influencer Marketing.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It can be helpful to survey this audience about your current branding. Editorial Guidelines: Establish writing standards to ensure consistency across content. Once you have established your brand guidelines, they need to be carried through across all company communications vehicles and owned media : Websites. Informative?

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Presspage

MARCH 13, 2018

In January, the social media platform announced it was making branded posts less prominent in users’ news feeds, dramatically decreasing organizations’ already struggling reach. Andrew Brown, director of media relations and online content for Kalamazoo College , warns PR pros not to panic.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2019

For B2B companies, earned media and branded content ranked the highest. The survey found 30% of B2B respondents cited news coverage as the way they “people learn about new products online that they can use for their day jobs.” Branded media, defined in this report as blogs, social media and video weren’t far behind with 27%.

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Cision

MARCH 1, 2016

In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” They write: “Facebook’s IPO is a flop.” Writing recently in Public Relations Tactics, John J. Identifying a PR crisis.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2022

Critical Mention offers an integrated earned media monitoring service which includes broadcast, podcast, online news and social media for clients in the U.S., along with a validated media contact database,” according to the press release. As I write this post, the current asking price on OpenSea is $36,099.60.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 12, 2020

Better organize your announcements and media contacts, make the “news” easy to find and stick to business etiquette; pro PR tips About a year ago I started writing a monthly summary of PR technology news. A secondary benefit of a distribution email for media is you can put it on your press releases.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I know there is only so much time in a day, but some of your best time can be spent helping your colleagues who write books or do research for the PR industry. For example, new books on PR, social media, strategic planning, influencers, etc., I use my blog, PR Expanded , for video book reviews. The Shout-Out.

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