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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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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

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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Should you issue press releases to win at Google News?

Shift Communications

Let’s see how you might measure this change’s impact on your marketing communications and see if this change has in any way benefitted you. Set the date to 9/1/2014 to the present day and set up comparison to the previous period: Set up a segment to examine traffic from wire services.

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

Sword and the Script

The important point here is, it added to what Michael Porter called the “threat of new entrants” to the legal market. In 2014, I did a Porter’s Five Forces Analysis for the Legal Industry – that I think is still quite relevant. Enter the Big Four into Legal and Marketing. VC investment grew to $7.2 Image credit: Unsplash.

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