Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Put more succinctly, your customers know your content before they know your business.

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Cision

APRIL 7, 2015

Content marketing is a crucial piece of content strategies. As technology becomes ever-present, content strategies should include video, podcasts, games, comics, events and more. Social media, e-newsletters, articles on owned websites and blogs make up the four most used content marketing tactics.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

But here’s the thing: Marketing budgets are increasingly shifting to focus on content marketing and other efforts that can show a concrete return-on-investment. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing. What is an Integrated PESO Model? Paid Media. Earned Media.

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Cision

APRIL 4, 2016

For me, Berger’s research is far more actionable and thoughtful than 99 percent of the stuff that’s been written about viral content, so I wanted to find out who else is researching virality and what we can learn from their insight. So a good first impression of your content may cause self-perpetuation of sharing behavior.

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Cision

APRIL 7, 2015

If content marketing is about connecting with consumers and driving engagement, video is a tactic that must be employed. Native advertising shows similar growth for many of the same reasons. Native ads, like sponsored content at “The Onion” or BuzzFeed, don’t disrupt the viewing experience. It shows no signs of slowing.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As marketers, PR professionals, and advertisers begin to wind down the year (save for those in retail who are firing on all cylinders right now), one of the top things you’ll focus on in 2014 is reviewing the numbers. Are they part and parcel of your content marketing strategy? Can this be repeated?

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The Proactive Report

JULY 4, 2014

So yes, Facebook has once again tweaked their News Feed algorithm and your organic content is reaching fewer fans. In 2012 Facebook said content would reach, on average, 16% of fans. Early in 2014 studies showed that it had dropped dramatically. If your content is being seen by only 2 or 3% of your fans, what’s the point? “The

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Shift Communications

MARCH 10, 2015

August 2013 : Facebook announces that it will feature more high-quality content, at the expense of content that isn’t as popular or well-liked. January 2014 : Pure text status updates from brand Pages will be seen less frequently in users’ News Feeds, in favor of more updates from friends. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The term started taking off in 2014 when one of our investors, Bryan Stolle, wrote about it in VentureBeat. Is it all one in the same now that marketing and PR are more interwoven? How has the space changed since then? It’s become accepted terminology for PR-focused, tech-enabled companies since. SFM: Yes, exactly.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

For example, an academic research project, that was written in 2012 and updated in 2014, about the microlending market studied: “…how traditional and social earned media affect sales and each other…Traditional earned media has a per-event effect on sales that is much larger than the corresponding per-event effects of social earned media.”.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

He also addressed the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Its signature event is the Global Cardboard Challenge, held in 2013 and 2014 on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the 2012 flash mob. Content Marketing' Forbe s and Fast Company both wrote about Caine’s determination and creativity. “The

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2016

PR monitoring and oversight of social and customer relations channels is more important than ever, as B2B companies have learned to incorporate real-time marketing into their programming, according to Econsultancy. B2B content will become more customized. Savvy content marketers have always written with specific audiences in mind.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 14, 2014

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.”

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 7, 2020

That’s part of the reason that advertising spend on online video is up 114% since 2014. . Just like TikTok, platforms like Facebook and YouTube are providing 15-second videos that users can share with their followers.

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Critical Mention

DECEMBER 2, 2018

To keep you in the know, we have 10 of the best SEO techniques to make your 2019 marketing strategy epic. Optimize your content. Effectively optimizing your content for search engines using a keyword strategy is a critical part of your content marketing strategy. Share other bloggers’ content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 14, 2014

In this guest post for Jay Baer ‘s Convince and Convert, Greg Hickman explores why major brands and SMB’s can benefit from this affordable marketing strategy. 12 B2B Content Marketing Examples and Case Studies for 2014. Why: How are B2B brands achieving results with content marketing?

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Cision

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Bernie Borges is executive producer of Social Business Engine , CEO of Find and Convert , an IBM Futurist , a Dell Social Influencer and frequent speaker at marketing conferences and private events. Native advertising is one of the most controversial and least understood concepts in contemporary marketing.

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Shift Communications

JULY 31, 2015

LinkedIn, the dark horse of social networks, has consistently been a slow-but-steady growth play in the past, from revenue to marketing options. For marketers, one of the interesting remarks was that standard display advertising was declining in effectiveness on LinkedIn properties. What should you be doing on LinkedIn?

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Cision

APRIL 24, 2015

The term “content marketing” casts a wide net when it comes to ways to promote and publicize a brand or organization. It can include social media, tip sheets, and emails, as well as paid promotions like native advertising and promoted posts on social platforms.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 28, 2020

Content marketing is about the audience. The same dynamic applies to content marketing too. >>> Looking for a consulting partner with the content chops to build a sound strategy and execute? The Content Marketing Shortcut: M&A There is a short cut: buy the audience through an M&A transaction.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your organization creates content or partners with existing content creators, these are the trends that are shaping your communication future. Cisco forecasts that by 2019, video will make up 80 percent of all consumer Internet traffic, up from 64 percent in 2014. Growth in traffic, volume and influence.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2016

When doing my due diligence for this post, I came across a transcript of the #PRprochat that happened in July 2014. Shonali Burke (@shonali) July 10, 2014. Source: Nielsen Global Trust in Advertising Survey. One of the biggest selling points of digital/social marketing is that it can be measured. The key is measurement.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The advertising-free, invitation-only social network Ello, like the sparkly, new social channels that came before it, not only has the power to transform your business, but also to distract you from your other channels, social media strategies and overall digital marketing. social media network, Ello, which I’ll share below.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. Enter the Big Four into Legal and Marketing. Who do you see advertising on those pages?

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 22, 2024

Then, in 2014, Google warned about the potential harm of guest posting if its main purpose was solely link building. However, some sites may be open to guest posts even if they don’t advertise. One practice sits squarely in Google’s gray area: guest posting sites. Look for the same quality signals listed above.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Paid media and advertising statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Search marketing and SEO statistics. Content Marketing Statistics. 2) Content marketing supports lead nurturing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend. Finally, 2024 also brings another U.S.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. Those companies that can take data, do a deep dive, and understand what the data tells them will see more success in achieving their goals from content than those who look at simple analytics.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

1) February 18, 2014: Enter GTCR . 2) April 7, 2014: Vocus. 2a) June 2, 2014: Vocus + Cision. 2b) September 8, 2014: Outmarket. Cision spins off Outmarket , which had previously been the Vocus marketing Suite. 3) September 15, 2014: Visible Technologies. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In fact, you must publish content in order for it to be indexed and returned in response to search. That’s the gist of a piece Michael Brenner wrote for the Content Marketing Institute last week titled The Best Reason to Do Content Marketing? b) Integrated marketing. b) Integrated marketing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

5) Marketers will slow down. The Internet moves at breakneck speed, but that doesn’t mean that we as marketers have to do the same. We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. 7) Larger investments in SDRs and product marketing.

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Flatiron Communications

MAY 20, 2015

The last iteration of the PR Quiz was created in early 2014, and a quick re-visit shows just how quickly time has passed, i.e., many questions were, well, tired. Q1) The Financial Times recently announced that it would not charge its advertisers by the number of reader views or clicks. An “ad stack” __. 500,000 viewers.

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Cision

AUGUST 31, 2015

Despite the advertised novelty of these apps, Meerkat and Periscope are simply the latest iteration of live-streaming video apps. Monetization means little to a publisher or end-user right now, so we have to have another way to measure how effective a live-streaming video service would be for you to propagate content to your audience.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 7, 2015

My point is that they (still) have killer content, yet the behavior of their audience has changed. in July 2014: 61 comments. For example, take these two posts by Mark Schaefer , indisputably an A-lister. Does blogging still matter? How to get off your ass and start blogging , August 2015: 5 comments.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And if you want to absorb marketing news and insight from industry leaders during your commute with a new podcast, we’ve got you covered with 12 of our team’s favorites. This Old Marketing. and Epic Content Marketing. Overview: First started in 2013, This Old Marketing is THE podcast for content marketers.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 6, 2015

From brand strategies and social media tips to content marketing and the death of PR spin, below are the top 10 MaccaPR posts of 2014 based on the most total views and social media engagement. Top 10 MaccaPR Blog Posts of 2014. #1. Is it website or Web site? Maccabee Public Relations. Round-Up'

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