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Defining Thought Leadership in a Business Blog

Ishmael's Corner

As our communication campaigns increasingly address SEO and particularly organic search, thought leadership becomes even more important. Such dot-connecting points to blogging as one of the best platforms for thought leadership. I was reminded of this point recently in pursuing an award competition for blogs.

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Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

Sword and the Script

The top metrics for marketing communications leaders: 46% lead generation; 45% web traffic; 45% social media engagement; 35% conversion rate; 33% sales; 30% brand share of voice; 24% followers/social media; 18% ad impressions/ reach; and 11% SEO rankings. Sword and the Script is a boutique B2B marketing, PR and communications consultancy.

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What I Learned From NOT Blogging

Journalistics

As part of my effort to get the blog back on track in 2016, I spent the past month doing some quantitative and qualitative analysis to better understand how this happened. I’ve shared the results from this exercise in the first half of this post below (“Why I Was Not Blogging”). Why I Was NOT Blogging.

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29 Advanced Digital Newsletters That Help You Learn

ZudePR

You want to learn more about digital marketing and SEO. But the overriding one – and the one that concerns me here in this blog post – is the amount I have read. I’d even started a running blog to practice. Content marketing had been mushrooming and seemed to explode as 2013 turned into 2014. Truthfully.

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Hey, Everyone Enjoys a Pat on the Back

Ishmael's Corner

There are times when it’s just not possible to say what you want to say in a headline and also optimize that headline for SEO. The Bulldog Digital Awards recently named my blog as “Best Blog for PR Agency/Consultancy” with the gold designation. Part of the blog’s growth has come from stockpiling posts over the years.

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What I Learned From NOT Blogging

Journalistics

As part of my effort to get the blog back on track in 2016, I spent the past month doing some quantitative and qualitative analysis to better understand how this happened. I’ve shared the results from this exercise in the first half of this post below (“Why I Was Not Blogging”). Why I Was NOT Blogging.

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Remakes & Remixes: Replicating Successful Digital PR Campaigns

Buzzstream

Sometimes we’re seeking to replicate the success of others in a pretty abstract way – we see other people’s successful campaigns on Twitter, LinkedIn, industry blogs and so on, and feel the pressure to replicate the results that others have achieved. Actually, they don’t spend a lot of time writing up studies at all.