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Does content marketing even have to link to your product anymore?

Communications Conversations

I’ve always been somewhat of a skeptic when it comes to Coca-Cola’s brand journalism initiative: Coke Journey, which launched back in 2012. I get the brand journalism thing when you’re a company that’s built on thought leadership–GE and GE Reports comes to mind. So, why are they writing about it?

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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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The Pros Weigh In: The Best Books for the Marketer on Your List

Polaris

Most useful offline reference resource: Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi. Joe Pulizzi, the godfather of content marketing, wrote this book in 2014. It’s an instant classic that helps us achieve improved results while marketing less by doing “epic content marketing.” 2 Kathi Kruse.

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Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

Consider your audience – you know them better than anyone else – and write quality announcements about the things your company does that matter to them. Full report: The Effects of Traditional and Social Earned Media on Sales: A Study of a Microlending Marketplace (2012) published in the Journal of Marketing Research by Andrew T.

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How to Create an Editorial Strategy for Your Blog – Part One

Journalistics

In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). These posts represent the types of things you might not want to write about again. Which posts received the most negative comments?

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How to Create an Editorial Strategy for Your Blog – Part One

Journalistics

In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). These posts represent the types of things you might not want to write about again. Which posts received the most negative comments?

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. Vocus had, in years prior, acquired brands including PRWeb for $28 million in 2006, Help a Reporter Out, aka HARO, for an undisclosed sum in 2010 , and iContact, for $169 million in 2012.