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Guest Post: How to Sell #Content #Marketing to Your Bosses

Deirdre Breakenridge

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? Focus on the content. Guest Post PR 2.0

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4 Gifts Managing Your Own PR Provides

Cision

Often, employees or business owners can manage both public relations and marketing, since they’re so intertwined. Use the money you save on other aspects of your marketing, like social media ads or hiring a content marketing writer. Your resume just got filled out with even more marketable skills.

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3 Tips For A Home Run Pitch

PR Breakfast Club

So let’s assume you have a great story to share, and have crafted a great pitch to get it out the door. Media list building and research is the foundation for which your pitch will either thrive or crumble like a shaky tower of Jenga. Now it’s time to pitch. Now… how do you make the media care?

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Why Every Business Owner Needs to Know a Little Something about SEO

Polaris

If you don’t, your company could be burned, as mine was when Google’s Penguin update came along in 2012. We won some of those pitches, but still relied primarily on referrals from satisfied customers for most new business. Content Marketing' That ignorance was a mistake.

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Brands Be the Content Customers Want…Not Next to It [UML]

Sword and the Script

In an age of ad blocking, brands have to transition away from solely sponsoring or being associated with the content their customers or prospects want or need. Instead, brands have to also produce the desired content. 1) The Parallel between Product Placement and Content Marketing. It’s well worth a read as well.

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The evolution of mainstream media and the need for every company to become a media company

Presspage

Here’s a scary stat I read in Wired magazine regarding national election reporting: In November 2012, it took four employees at the Washington Post, 25 hours to compile and post a fraction of the election results. Jeff : “Bet on the ones that create content robot reporters will eat, then re-publish.”

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Look up, don’t look down. Think ‘reputation in the round’

PR in High Definition

A decade after that conversation, during an address at Cambridge University in 2012, Stephen Hawking said, “look up at the stars not down at your feet. I wish I’d known that in 2002 but it was still a useful learning in 2012. Ever since then I have made a conscious effort to look up and look around for inspiration. Be curious.