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The New PR: The Intersection of Positioning and Content Marketing

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At the New PR Conference hosted by AirPR Software in San Francisco, discussion swirled around ‘New PR’ and an evolution of public relations, including PR’s place in the greater marketing mix. To be successful in the New PR is to identify the intersection of positioning and content marketing. This is content marketing.

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Can a PR Software Vendor Provide “Guaranteed” Editorial Placements? [PR Tech Sum]

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It breaks the market it into two segments PR, marketing and communications ($26b) and lead generation, risk management and customer relations ($14b). The research firm Burson Taylor puts the PR software market at $4 billion , but it’s an educated guess. iSentia is an all-in-one PR software tool based in Australia.

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3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]

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Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks. MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute published their 10 th Annual B2B Marketing report with benchmarks, budgets and trends.

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

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Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. This isn’t a reflexive reaction either. Red Bull, Johnson & Johnson).

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The 15 Best PR and Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

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This awards event celebrates the best of the best corporate, agency, nonprofit, and education teams, and the work they produced during the entry period. The annual conference for the Arthur Page Society brings together a professional association for senior public relations and corporate communications executives. Dates: March 19, 2020.

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Financial analysts say marketing is an investment, not a cost

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If marketing costs are classified as capital expenditures and not operating expenditures, they move from the income statement to the balance sheet. This is the exact opposite of what has happened with software-as-a-service (SaaS). What did marketing spend to obtain those email addresses? That library has a quantifiable value.

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Is Content Marketing Better than Advertising?

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The news article is based on data in a report by software company ScribbleLive titled, “ The Eclipse of Online Ads.” As a result, the refrain “content marketing is better than advertising” is bounced around the marketing echo chamber. Though a seasoned PR professional, I am also a serious advocate of content marketing.