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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). He also serves as Guest Editor for Shonali Burke’s WUL blog. The newsletter is available online at www.nedsjotw.com. Connect with him on Twitter.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

The irony is, like many GCs, in-house communications and marketing people often grow up in an agency. But that’s a talent supply issue for a different blog post. For me, I only do B2B, primarily technology, and I look at marketing, particularly content marketing through PR lenses. Big PR agencies do the same thing.

Agency 92
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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

A high profile blog was “tipped off” to the feigned outrage and the rest of the media then picked up on it and duly reported the incident as controversy. 3) Augment media relations with content marketing. I took that pitch, transformed it into a blog post which in turn, took off once it was published.

Survey 377
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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

Let me explain: Table of Contents. After the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001, the Internet slowed down. Today, SEO (like SEM) is considered a form of marketing instead of earned and owned communication. And the list goes on: There’s inbound marketing , not inbound communications. But we’ve already messed up.

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. As readers that read this blog regularly know, this one reason why I believe (true) content marketing has role to play in media relations. content marketing (64%).

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How to Spy on Your Competition and Steal Their Secrets

Beyond PR

If you want to see who are seen as the best both by data and peer review, then typing a search term, such as “Top Content Marketers,” will be revealing. Also take a tour of their websites and blogs. Once you have their URLs, it’s time to tour their blogs, websites, and marketing tactics. Do they have a blog?

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The 5Ps of Marketing Artificial Intelligence

PR 20/20

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. Can we automate content creation using artificial intelligence? More specifically, can we use machines to write blog posts at scale?”. The 5Ps of Marketing AI.