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Frederik Vincx

Lead product design and marketing. The challenge Back in 2009, in an increasingly fragmented media landscape, brands needed more effective ways to share their stories. Role As a co-founder, my role was broad, mostly focussed on the creative aspects. Highlights Bootstrapped to 7 figures annual recurring revenue.

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PR and Content Marketing Insights from the Edelman Trust Barometer

Sword and the Script

In reviewing the study, I think it has implications for business in public relations and content marketing. You can and should run content marketing like a publisher. Features and benefits look good on a creative brief, but people still want to do business with other people they know, like and trust. Talk to Us !

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In Content Marketing, Marketers Might be Losing Their Way

Sword and the Script

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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Build or Buy an Audience? This Startup Just Bought a Media Publication

Sword and the Script

In the last 10 years or so, content marketing has emerged as a way for businesses to build an audience of their own. When done properly , it becomes its own channel and powerful addition to the marketing mix. There’s a lot of noise in the market and publishing useful and relent content of uniformly high quality is hard work.

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5 Proven Ways PR can Develop Client Media References in B2B Organizations

Sword and the Script

Marketing also has purse strings that can be creatively – and ethically – spent to appease a specific rep with the right reference. You certainly need the sales leadership on board with a reference program, but marketing has to drive it, or it will fade away. 1) Soft interviews on your company blog.

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How AI May Impact PR Pros

Waxing UnLyrical

AI is not inherently creative, nor is it good at crafting messages. What I like about this trend is – if well embraced – it relieves the communicator of burdensome tactical data analytics and instead allows them to focus on strategy and creative outreach. He started and sold social media boutique Livingston Communications (2009).

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Highlights from the State of Blogging in 2017 Survey

Sword and the Script

Google hasn’t updated the Blogger platform to maintain parity with modern content management systems. This blog was originally penned on Blogger beginning in 2009 and migrated to WordPress in 2012. A Simple Measure of Marketing Many Businesses Miss. Content Marketing: Don’t Make Home Improvements to Rental Property.

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