Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Most of these come from registering for one-off gated content like white papers and webinars – these assets are expensive to create and promote. And I have a massive library of SEO and content marketing material.”.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 21, 2014

This week I was reminded of a post I wrote back in March on jumpstarting your B2B content. MarketingProfs’ latest B2B Content Marketing 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends report. The report provides some great insight into how B2B marketers are thinking about content and where they’re stuck. The reminder?

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Cision

DECEMBER 18, 2017

However, given the rise in popularity of content marketing, marketers now find value in having an internal content calendar to stay organized with what they publish on their blogs, websites, press releases and social media. Here’s why you should consider creating a content calendar for your company.

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Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

We don’t need to sell you on the benefits of content marketing. When compared with other forms of marketing, content marketing has the potential to form a meaningful and long-lasting relationship with your customer or prospect. So, how do you get it right when it comes to content marketing?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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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PR Fuel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

There’s an art to headline writing — but it’s not rocket science. It’s possible to write a headline that always captures attention, you just have to remember the fundamentals. All too often we tend to overcomplicate things when it comes to marketing copy. Offer Your Readers Educational Content.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Leading up to the webinar, we’d like to share an overview of the reasons to work with a PR agency, how an agency can contribute to your communications strategy, tips for selecting the right agency for your business, and how to set expectations for a productive relationship.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Anne Carton is a small business consultant, digital marketing expert and blogger working with Designhill , the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace. Ann primarily writes about social media and growth hack strategies, SEO and e-commerce. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016? The answer is simple!

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Onclusive

JUNE 24, 2020

Creating valuable content is never easy, and doing so at scale is even more difficult. You likely have great staff who can help write content, it’s worth your while to try to enlist those experts at your company for their subject matter expertise. Measure and improve. Seek internal experts.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2024

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificia l Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. One of the top challenges marketers ask us about at Marketing AI institute is how to use artificial intelligence (AI) for blogging. AI can help.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

“News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. PR lesson: Take the time to produce content of real depth and value. Provide journalists with the material they’d need to write and publish such a story.

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Presspage

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

So, here are several tips on how to develop and maintain a global newsroom in today’s fast-paced digital world. Any worthwhile content marketing strategy starts with a goal and online newsrooms are one channel of content distribution that should be leveraged in an overall strategy. Set Goals and Know Your Audience.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

If left to my own devices I write in a passive voice, I habitually use compound sentences, and my vocabulary choice is less than ideal (humblebrag – I use too many syllables). On a weekly basis, I get a platform to the communications and marketing communities and need to write effectively for them. Tools to improve your speed.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

“News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. PR lesson: Take the time to produce content of real depth and value. Provide journalists with the material they’d need to write and publish such a story.

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Analytics Digital PR Measurement Enterprise 100

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When considering how to make a brand stronger, business leaders often look to operational influences. One of the ways to achieve this is by harnessing the power of in-person community engagement and event marketing. When she isn’t writing, you can find her with her nose buried in a book or hiking with her dog, Charlie.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

As a writer, digital marketing pioneer and WSJ bestselling author, Ann Handley hardly needs an introduction. In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MAY 30, 2023

Diversity of content can be a particularly effective route to take here. More creative content marketing methods help you reach a variety of audiences while also meeting the various accessibility needs of your demographics. The post How to Incorporate Accessibility into a PR Campaign first appeared on Burrelles.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 5, 2015

But how many of us are effectively measuring it? Here are some tips on getting started measuring your storytelling efforts. 5 “W”s to Consider Before Starting PR Measurement. The other half involves measuring to prove ROI,” says Gina Joseph before she reveals the big “W”s. ” 4. Silverman.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The reason for this, it turns out, is super simple: Most marketers don’t ever talk to their prospects and clients. The empathy marketing problem. According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2019 B2B Research report, just 42 percent of B2B marketers talk to clients as part of their research.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 17, 2023

From CMS Wire : "Instead of pushing them through a cascading sequence that metaphorically resembles movement through a funnel, Forrester said, businesses must now figure out how to entice them down the road.". Find out what they do and don't like on your site and how they interact with current content offerings.

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Cision

JANUARY 11, 2018

There were also a lot of big changes here at Cision, including a complete rebrand , celebrating our 150-year heritage by going public and launching new technology that makes PR measurement possible. Read this post to learn how to better interact with journalists on social. How Cision® Impact Measures Earned Media.

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Polaris

MAY 14, 2015

Rid Your Writing of These Annoying Grammar Mistakes. I’ve been working hard to eliminate the passive voice from my writing. My goal is to write more clearly and avoid overly complicated sentences. Then, I had to learn how to write more actively. Here’s how: I kept half the cookies for myself. 4: Lie or Lay.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. I believe when people write predictions, they aren’t just saying what they think will happen but revealing a reflection of sorts. Eventually, and thankfully, DEI will be expected and not a marketing point.

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Cision

JANUARY 9, 2017

After all, there is a certain prestige to being published by an established publishing house, and many people perceive self-publishing as lower echelon of the measure of quality, publicity, and distribution of as lower quality. But this post isn’t about helping you write your book. Lulu also has very well-elaborated support.

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Or maybe email marketing is still strong and steady, while your online ads are stumbling. “The more your teams can measure, the more you can see where to invest,” writes Laurie Smith in Aligning Strategic Communications with Business Goals. But start out with one change so you can measure the impact that tweak had.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

But here’s the thing: Marketing budgets are increasingly shifting to focus on content marketing and other efforts that can show a concrete return-on-investment. It’s incredibly difficult to measure a direct return-on-investment from most traditional media relations efforts. Shared Media.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Companies aren’t sure how to perform research, so they skip it altogether. Content marketers often have difficulty getting executive buy-in for customer research. Let’s look at five ways you can do customer research—as well as how you can mix and match them based on your business objectives. Lack of buy-in.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

However, given the rise in popularity of content marketing, marketers now find value in having an internal content calendar to stay organized with what they publish on their blogs, websites, press releases and social media. Here’s why you should consider creating a content calendar for your company.

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Cision

APRIL 25, 2015

You can, and should, write a press release and send it to your targeted media group to drum up publicity. Want to stand out with standout content? Get our free “Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR” white paper now! Measure your results. How many people downloaded the podcast?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” When asked “How much you trust that institution to do what is right?” Keep your content marketing separate and distinct. Write with journalistic ideals. 57% are neutral about trust in NGOs.

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Government Survey Ethics Media 138

Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

If you already have a list of vetted keywords from your marketing team to work from, skip ahead to step two. If not, complete the following exercise: Write down all of the questions you are asked in new business—aka sales—meetings. Write down all of the questions your customer service department is asked.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

As a writer, digital marketing pioneer and WSJ bestselling author, Ann Handley hardly needs an introduction. In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community.

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Interviews Content Marketing Writing Journalism 60

Beyond PR

JULY 27, 2016

Communications is one of those disciplines that touches pretty much all aspects of a business: thought-leadership, branding, media relations, reputation management, earned media, social media, content marketing, lead generation and so much more. Pay attention to these 12 things when writing a press release for your demand gen content.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Tip of the month: “Take someone in finance to lunch and learn how you make money ” This is just one of the amazing tips from the Queen of metrics Katie Paine in this interview on PR News. She always explains clearly how to demonstrate organisational impact from your PR work. Could just one metric measure PR?

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 7, 2015

If you’ve bought into that, then how do you find smarter ways to measure authoritative content? So when the nature of authoritative content is changing so dramatically, how you measure the success of your content has to change as well. So how do you now measure the validity of this content?

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