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Seeing Around Corners: 30 Marketing and PR Predictions for 2021

Sword and the Script

Marketing be nimble. Rather than having year-long editorial calendars for opportunities and content, marketing and communications professionals are will have to work in a much more agile, phased approach: creating evergreen content per quarter and making room for ‘rapid-response’ type communications based on what 2021 might throw at us.

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

Sword and the Script

The addition of marketing, analysis, trade show consultation, managing professional organizational memberships and everything else has made every day a whirlwind of tasks, to-do lists and semi-controlled chaos.”. Jack of all trades. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur.

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Are Facebook Ads Any Good for B2B Marketing?

Sword and the Script

To that end, I do think B2B organizations should be investing moderately in Facebook ads, with one caveat: These should be done as an effort to augment a content marketing approach, rather than solely for lead generation. If people on Facebook engage your content, Facebook will show it to more people. I put $100.00

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B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success

Sword and the Script

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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Are You Using These 33 Ways to Promote Your Content That Most Marketers Overlook?

MaccaPR

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. In that rush of adrenaline to immediately promote your new e-book or video ASAP, content marketers risk the opportunity to be creative with promotion.

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How to Use Your Blog to Connect with Your Audience

ReimaginePR

You’re writing for the web, which means that it’s okay to be relaxed, conversational and even funny, if you can pull it off! You can tease your content on a social media post, and then link back your blog. This way, you’ll start to build your community where it counts: on your blog. Diversify Your Blog Content.

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B2B Sales Cycles Get Longer and Involve More Decision Makers

Sword and the Script

36% “industry/professional online communities/social networks,”. 32% “industry events/trade shows/conferences,”. 31% “business or industry publications/trade media,”. 27% “web searches,”. 11% “local or national professional trade associations.”. 32% “industry events/trade shows/conferences,”.

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