Sword and the Script

APRIL 5, 2016

Confusion over social and mobile reigns among the ranks of marketers according to the latest edition of The CMO survey by the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Much like last year’s survey , CMOs said they plan to invest in social, mobile and digital. The survey also found that just 11.5 by Frank Strong.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 24, 2018

The surveys have started. There’s are several industry organizations that field annual surveys about content marketing and they are gearing up. Last year, the data overwhelmingly found every business says they are doing content marketing. 2) You don’t treat content marketing is its own channel.

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Cision

AUGUST 23, 2017

So, which emotions do you need to target to make your content more shareable? Fractl, a digital marketing firm, carried out a surveyed of 400 people asking them to record their emotional responses to 100 of the top images from Reddit’s r/pics community. The company is active in their community.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 7, 2016

Content marketing will be more than just a trend to watch in 2016. Creating and distributing consistent and relevant content is considered a proven strategic marketing approach that attracts and retains an audience and drives customers to action. Here is my Q&A with Lisa Davis, Director, Marketing, at Marketwired.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 16, 2019

Communications professions placed press releases near the bottom of a long list of priorities for the next 12 months, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey , a collaborative effort between Ned’s Job-of-the-Week and Sword and the Script Media. Even so, these survey results raise an eyebrow.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In corporate blogging and more broadly, in B2B content marketing , it’s not so simple. That is the top line conclusion drawn from the 3 rd Annual Survey of Bloggers by Orbit Media Studios , a web design company based in Chicago. The firm says it surveyed 1,055 bloggers and published the report late in 2016.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

The PR community needs the competition. Vetted has a unique business model and value proposition that really differentiates itself from other media relations solutions on the market,” said Christophe Abiragi , CEO of ITK Information Services. “We Meltwater offers 50 suggested metrics to measure your content marketing.

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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. Most communicators say the volume of work has grown, but so too has the variety of work. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur. Less static content.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Global Communications Report, a comprehensive worldwide survey of more than 1,000 senior PR executives worldwide, reveals that the global PR industry is predicted to grow from its current estimated size of $14 billion to $19.3 According to a 2015 Chief Communications Officer survey by Korn Ferry , CCOs in the U.S.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 15, 2017

And with that, what was once a community service of sorts, with some editorial oversight, has become an advertisement. An editor at another trade publication covering the business of law explained he’d have to check with his corporate chain of command before covering a story. The Future of Marketing Looks More like Public Relations.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

For example, the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey posed this question to 223 PR and communications pros…and we received a wide variety of answers from respondents. The survey received 177 answers in total to this question. 96) “Manage the marketing for the organization.”. click image for higher resolution).

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

Nearly half of respondents (47%) in a recent survey of public relations pros found many are observing more PR work being taken in-house. In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 8, 2019

People are afraid, for example, and many corporate clients have policies that prohibit such interviews without a permission slip. Ask your customers for interviews on your corporate blog – soft interviews. For some it was an annual survey, for others it was data derived from usage of a SaaS product.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Businesses that engage corporate blogging with professionalism and process can boost visibility, grow a community, and ultimately, have a meaningful influence on sales. To keep things simple, I tend to categorize metrics into broad buckets: visibility, community strength, quality and marketing or business impact.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. This year’s survey polled 223 communications and public relations (PR) professionals.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 28, 2017

In others, such interviews are prohibited by a client’s corporate policy in order to prevent the appearance of one brand endorsing another. Build Trust with Content Interviews First. A simple way to do this is to request an interview for a corporate blog. 2017 PR Salary Survey Suggests Demand for Talent Tightening .

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I David Berkowitz , Founder, Serial Marketers. I see a few things.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

That’s according to 223 PR professionals polled for the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey. That number was up sharply – 17% – from the same survey the previous year. We solicited commentary around this question from PR professionals that took the survey to find out. 3) Augment media relations with content marketing.

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PR 20/20

JUNE 25, 2019

The future of marketing is more intelligent and more human. According to a survey of business buyers (Source: Salesforce , 2018): 72% of buyers expect vendors to personalize engagements to their needs. Call it marketing, call it conscious capitalism—they make a difference and involve their customers. Content production.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Data analysis of millions of articles and surveys thousands of bloggers find long-form content outperforms short form. Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

A new survey of primarily corporate communications professionals identified the hottest trends and tactics in PR – and perhaps those that aren’t so hot too. Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. 67% said thought leadership.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Nearly three-quarters (73%) said they believe “most vendors fall short” of the honesty mark, according to a third-party survey commissioned by Rob Roy Consulting. Read more: “Skepticism” is the “New Normal;” Survey Finds B2B Tech Has Trust Issues. Communications Influence with the C-Suite Grew. One question stood out.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Their mission is singular: Our marketing industry will thrive only if it absorbs the creativity of people with diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, so that marketers are more representative of the country’s multicultural, multiracial audiences. Paul residents are minorities.

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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

JUNE 23, 2015

Janet Fouts , who founded Tatu Digital Media , read this post – Scale Content Marketing: Employees are the Secret – and invited me to a Google Hangout to discuss it (She previously produced The Friday Hangout , a regular weekly show with Steve Farnsworth and Adam Helweh ). How to Energize the Enterprise for Content Marketing.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

1) Breaking Down the Results from the 2018 PR Salary Survey; Are You Earning What you are Worth? The median salary for a PR professional in early 2018 was $95,000, according to an annual salary survey by PR Week. Across segments, the median for 2018 came in like this: corporate: $132,000; agency $88,000; non-profit: $78,300.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“Marketers will begin to more fully embrace concerns about sustainability and will show more courage in implementing changes across their marketing strategies and their organizations.”. Note: Professor Moorman also champions The CMO Survey. 2) Marketing analytics enable better efficiency. “In

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2016

For the purpose of satisfying curiosity, marketing surveys are a useful vehicle for research. To that end, this post summarizes five recent market research surveys worth of a purposeful poke and pry. Marketing skills the CMO needs on the team. Corporate marketing types shouldn’t take the latter statistics too hard.

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Landis PR

JULY 31, 2023

This has created both an opportunity and a potential point of concern for professional marketers and communicators who are wondering: Do the benefits of AI outweigh the threats? The post Is AI a threat or benefit to marketers and communicators? Here are six of the top takeaways.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

It has “more than 250 corporate and government clients across Singapore and New Zealand,” according to the announcement. The company says it “will maintain focus on growing these markets while employing an expert commercial team in the US, which will be announced in the coming weeks.”. The company has been self-funded to date.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

But the rise of digital health content has complicated the way people think about healthcare. And according to a recent Weber Shandwick survey of 1,700 adults , 52 percent are concerned today’s health-related information is either false or misleading. So it’s never been easier to search and find health content online.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Overall, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as a reminder that cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and everyone can take steps to protect themselves, their organizations, and their communities from cyber threats. Companies are recognizing the value of working together to combat cyberthreats.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But the rise of digital health content has complicated the way people think about healthcare. And according to a recent Weber Shandwick survey of 1,700 adults , 52 percent are concerned today’s health-related information is either false or misleading. So it’s never been easier to search and find health content online.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 3, 2016

Those are all respectable objectives, but webinars can also help B2B marketers solve their biggest content marketing challenge : producing engaging content. Some studies suggest 60-70% of content produced in B2B goes unused: A few searches on the company website will demonstrate if this is true in your organization.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 19, 2016

I was reading a recent HubSpot report on how people interact with content (the report was published in June, and I haven’t seen too many gurus re-report it, which is a bit surprising… but then again, that leaves room for me to do so, so yay!). I think the data are fairly decent, since they say they fielded their survey via SSI.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Duane Bates, Senior Director of Digital Communications Strategy and New Media, Habitat for Humanity International. Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Officer, Content Marketing Institute. Rob Six, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications, Roll International. Daniel Lemin, President, One Good Brand.

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Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The highest skills gaps were reported as measurement (53%), budget management (44%), crisis management (37%), and digital communications/social media (35%). These skill gaps are roughly the same as they were the last time the survey was done. Source: PR Academy annual qualification trends survey. Where do you start?

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