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3 Comparative Metrics if Organic Search is Your Raison D’etre for Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

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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Apple vs. Chevron Revenue? It’s Content Marketing out of Context

Sword and the Script

I looked at the footnotes of the Broadview post and saw my clue: despite the reference to 2015 in the headline and dateline, the revenue comparison was based on 2014 data. Indeed, by the end of the fiscal year in 2014, Apple posted revenues of $182 billion and Chevron posted revenue of $200 billion.

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

Sword and the Script

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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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

“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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The Rise of Multimedia Content

ISEBOX

Not news: Marketers have moved beyond the written word and blog post in our campaigns. Text was once sufficient to reach your target audience by appealing to their needs and interests, but they’ve become more sophisticated in filtering marketing messages. Need proof that multimedia is on the rise in content marketing?

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4 Steps That Will Help You Sell Content Marketing to Your Boss

Contently - Strategy

When you’re working in a larger organization that has dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of employees, you can develop a brilliant content marketing strategy that will absolutely delight your customers. But, if you fail to make an internal case for your content, your plan will never get the buy-in or budget it needs to succeed.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

The irony is, like many GCs, in-house communications and marketing people often grow up in an agency. But that’s a talent supply issue for a different blog post. The important point here is, it added to what Michael Porter called the “threat of new entrants” to the legal market. Enter the Big Four into Legal and Marketing.

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