Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 26, 2023

The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. We’ll walk through examples from organizations like Google, FedEx, Cigna, and more and break down the steps you can take to develop a thought leadership program of your own.

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5W PR

MAY 17, 2022

When companies use a combination of both fast-moving and familiar options for distributing their content, they can increase both their impact and their reach. Repurposing content. When companies combine their public relations and content marketing efforts, they can look at repurposing some of the old content they’ve published.

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 10, 2015

If you’re curious about content marketing, a quick Google search will serve up no shortage of information on trends, best practices, benefits for B2B and B2C companies and what it all means as 2016 approaches. [By Lisa Davis]. We’re curious, too.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form. This analysis was part of a larger study that SEMrush published titled the Global State of Content Marketing Report 2019. Try our services.

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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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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The Wordsmith folks ran me through just how easy it is to generate monthly-type reports using Google Analytics. Technology Tools content marketing content strategy wordsmith wordsmith content wordsmith content marketing wordsmith robot' And this is where my demo comes in. Monthly reporting 101.

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Prohibition

JULY 14, 2017

Consider the changing shape of the comms industry, and you will undoubtedly come across the phrase ‘content marketing’. Content has become the ‘buzz word’ for the industry – whether you specialise in SEO, digital marketing or indeed more traditional avenues such as online advertising and PR. But what does content mean?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2015

Content marketing is the new branding. Content marketing *is* PR. Content marketing is the new buyer’s journey. But for the vast majority of marketers, especially in large organizations, content marketing is still a new concept, it’s still seeping into the culture. Almost passé.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Content marketing is blending the functions of marketing and sales to the extent, marketing has lost its focus on creating demand. That’s my take after listening to Tom Webster evolve a concept over couple of podcasts on The Marketing Companion and finally rendered in a more polished format on Mark W.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 14, 2015

Copyright law governs content, and failing to understand copyright law can expose your company to significant legal damages. At a former company I was at, an intern used a photo from a major stock photo service that they found via Google Images on the company website. So what content are you allowed to share? Christopher S.

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Cision

JULY 5, 2017

How can a brand like yours be authentic, especially in its content marketing ? . You stay true to your company values and impart them through your content. Being authentic doesn’t mean pulling crazy stunts like Burger King did recently when it hacked Google Home with its ad. But what does that actually mean? and move on.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Ah… content marketing. “Let’s do some content marketing!” When content marketing lets you down. This is a classic case of being let down by content marketing. When Content Marketing Lets You Down is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine. SAP Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Becher particularly excels at both educating and entertaining content marketing pieces on LinkedIn. 3) Search engine visibility.

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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. I oversee this, and also focus on strategy, paid advertising and event marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 17, 2015

If there’s one thing you take away from today’s post on content marketing, please let it be this: just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Content Marketing: a scenario. You’re super-excited too – content, new client, money… what’s not to love?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Put more succinctly, your customers know your content before they know your business.

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Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

Go to your website or your internal server/Dropbox/Google Drive and grab your most recent frequently asked questions sheet. Now, choose 10 of these items you’d like to use for content. Go back to your list of 10 keywords or phrases and, one-by-one, type them into a Google search bar. Cool, right?

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MaccaPR

MARCH 18, 2015

Remember when public relations required you to persuade gatekeepers – news editors, TV and radio producers and reporters – to carry your company or client''s content to their audiences? Now, brands from Red Bull to Google are becoming publishers and broadcasters themselves. But, definitions vary by marketer.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

government will finally get serious about the social media monopolies and start by breaking up Meta/Facebook, Google, etc. In addition, we’ll finally see legislation removing the blanket immunity of social media monopolies for content under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.”. Social media breakup.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It was a time when the very words “public relations” were scrubbed from the titles of corporate PR Directors. Even today, a Google search on the words “Death of Public Relations” generates 108,000,000 results - including giddy articles titled “The Many Deaths of Public Relations,” “The Death of PR Agencies,” and “Corporate PR Is Dead.”

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

3) The Facebook Frozen Frog and Fodder for Content Marketing. PR is the best-kept secret in content marketing. 5) 11 Shrewd PR and Marketing Predictions You Can Bank On. 6) Survey says PR Best Positioned to Manage Corporate Social Media. 6) Google Hangs Up on Popups and Hangouts [UML].

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But even a solution like Google Alerts, or a platform that does not provide access to all media types, is not enough in the most critical moments for a brand. A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 17, 2016

If your answer involves turning to Google, then you’re not unlike the 250 or so reporters the agency Wasabi Publicity recently surveyed. The survey matches my own experience and I believe represents a substantial evolution to the classic corporate media relations program. What Does Content Marketing have to do with PR?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 10, 2018

Much to his dismay, a corporate communications person, at the Clorox Company, who reports to the general counsel, declined his story idea because the executive team was too busy. Then the story hinge swings like this: “Such is the sorry state of corporate media relations these days. Media Relations Ends; Content Marketing Begins.

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Cision

MAY 2, 2016

Fast forward a few months and with very little conscious thought I get much of my News briefs from the Apple News app, as well as from Facebook, Twitter, Amazon’s Alexa and (of course) Google. What this media consumption shift caused is a shift in how publishers view content marketing. Google Accelerated Mobile Pages.

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Cision

JULY 14, 2015

The worlds of public relations and advertising have merged to form integrated marketing. The result is advertisements and corporate communication so clever that they lead to earned/free media expanding the circulation for free. Want to learn how to stand out with your content marketing? People are inundated with content.

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5W PR

AUGUST 7, 2020

Google also has a conference where startups, investors, partners as well as thought leaders all come together to teach, learn, connect with each other, and inspire. The B2B Marketing Exchange event has a goal to empower the community by highlighting all the innovations in the B2B space.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The Role of PR in the Coming Content Marketing Collapse. As the New Year came and went, content marketing strategies were ramped up by businesses and brands all over the place. Amidst this barrage of content, Mark Schaefer published a blog on Content Shock. Marketing Analyst. Tori Sabourin.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

Across segments, the median for 2018 came in like this: corporate: $132,000; agency $88,000; non-profit: $78,300. This is another good piece from the Unscripted Marketing series focused on creativity. Unless your story today is about Google, Facebook, money or scandal, the traditional, bona fide reporters are not interested.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

If you work for a big agency or even a large corporate communications shop, you can designate one person as a relationship owner so that pitches are filtered through that person. Integration with Google Analytics for referrals. Google Analytics (GA) can tell PR how much referral traffic is coming from earned media mentions.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Fast forward seven years, and I wish I – and the rest of the public relations industry – had taken more of an interest in the evolution of search marketing. The big opportunity for the PR industry though is content marketing, an increasingly key element of SEO. D: SEO is all about tactical execution.

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Landis PR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Until recently, the execution of these strategies has not been a top priority for many corporate event clients. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow the PRGN Presents podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or any other podcast app. The shift really seemed to happen on the other side of the pandemic.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

That may be changing in the near future, particularly as content marketing has reached a saturation point.The Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi predicts a resurgence of print content led by brands and points to Airbnb, which recently launched a print magazine with Hearst. PR and SEO are joined.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 21, 2014

These giant corporations are demonstrating an interest in experimenting with new tools.”. This is a group that now seems comfortable and even excited with its newfound ability to engage its vendors, partners, customers and others in ways that could not have been imagined when most of their corporations began.”. 500 Social Media Study.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2020

Studies find media relations isn’t the top PR service anymore; PR weakness on technical skills; execs are key to shaping corporate social positions Several interesting reports on the PR industry were published earlier in 2020 but got lost in the blur that unfolded since. This weekend, I had a chance to go back and review a few of them.

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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 Craig Dekshenieks | Aderant.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2019

It’s a bit like that with gated content. Marketers tend to be for it or against it – and passion may sometimes cloud new perspective. ” “Trojan Horse Marketing” – new cartoon and post on content marketing that's too salesy [link] pic.twitter.com/AHQfKyh9Z9. The Middle Ground on Registration Pages.

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