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Survey Analysis: Competition in B2B Content Marketing Heats Up

Sword and the Script

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. Measuring ROI is hard.

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New Rules That Every PR Person Should Know

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

billion in 2014. Breaking through with quality material will become more difficult as content marketing approaches a saturation point. As PR measurement guru Katie Paine puts it, “The people brands are trying to reach simply will ignore everything most companies spew.”. PR today is about SEO.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

“We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. 2020: 30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020.

Marketing 215
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The Top PR Trends For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

That may be changing in the near future, particularly as content marketing has reached a saturation point.The Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi predicts a resurgence of print content led by brands and points to Airbnb, which recently launched a print magazine with Hearst. PR and SEO are joined.

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How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan

Shift Communications

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. Suppose you’re trying to formulate a 2015 SEO strategy. Can this be repeated?

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150+ Guest Posting Sites That Will Actually Build Traffic (Analysis)

Buzzstream

In the early days of Google, guest posting was seen as a legitimate SEO strategy, and Google didn’t publicly penalize it. Then, in 2014, Google warned about the potential harm of guest posting if its main purpose was solely link building. For example: “write for us” AND “SEO” if I wanted the SEO industry.

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How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019? [And Other Key Blogging Statistics You Should Know]

Sword and the Script

Writers that report success with blogging share the following characteristics: They are more likely to write longer or more in-depth content; They tend to spend six or more hours writing a post; They are 2.5 They always use analytics to measure performance. In 2014, ‘several per week’ was the most popular answer.

Blogging 107