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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

This piece originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelance Creative. When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. “What separates excellent content marketing from the mediocre, in part, is care and attention to detail.

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How to Go Beyond the Persona and Find Your Muse

Contently - Strategy

.” Besides supplying the info we need to target Sally with Instagram ads for crap she’ll regret buying, personas are designed to help the creative process. This is based on a long-established idea about creativity: It’s best to have a person in mind when you’re creating. ” Is that a weird freaking quote?

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How to Create a Content Contributor Guide

Cision

When you invite internal and external subject matter experts to contribute to your content marketing program, it’s important to have guidelines for them to follow. The less time you need to spend editing content and following up with contributors, the more time you have for strategy and optimization. Want to write for Cision®?

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How Simple Automation Saves Time And Tedium In PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

But much of it can be automated, allowing more time for developing the creative subject line or the new launch idea. AI-generated content is picking up steam. This is the most important one for PR agencies. The entire process of media outreach is by nature frustratingly inefficient.

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7 Media Statistics from an Annual Survey of Reporters that Gives PR a Glimpse of their Mindset

Sword and the Script

It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. based reporters said, “ensuring content is 100 percent accurate is the most important” in their organization. Comment: Content marketers should borrow this hint from reporters in their own work.

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Marketing Content: A Decision Matrix for Reviews and Approvals Done

Sword and the Script

This large global company spent a ton of money recruiting the best marketing talent and then stuck them in an environment where people who had never even marketed a lemonade stand were dictating how they did their jobs. PR professionals will joke that it takes a few hours to write a press release and three weeks to get one approved. >>>

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The Pressure for Clicks; Off Script #14: Erik Sherman, Freelance Journalist

Sword and the Script

He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. His experience sitting on both sides of the table, and a conceivably comparable pressure for clicks, has given him a balanced and long-term perspective on business communications and marketing. Erik Sherman, freelance journalist and writer.