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The Pros Weigh In: The Best Books for the Marketer on Your List

Polaris

For my money, there’s no better way to acknowledge the marketer in your life this holiday season than with a book. For help in deciding what books to put on my holiday list, I asked a dozen marketing pros to weigh in with their recommendations. Most useful offline reference resource: Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi.

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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. However, these all stem from the usual suspects for marketing case studies (i.e.

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Five Critical Points of Blogging & Image Law Every PR Pro Must Know

Rock the Status Quo

Agencies, PR and marketing professionals, bloggers and anyone doing social media (who doesn’t?) She can be an agency or marketing departments best friend. For works in the public domain, I highly recommend printing or saving a screen capture of those rights. Right where it counts! What am I talking about?

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“A Lightbulb Moment”: Inside the Content Program That Helped Marriott Weather the Pandemic

Contently - Strategy

Communication about safety protocols and points flexibility was crucial, but the brand’s marketing team also knew that their audience wanted more than memos. Disclosure: Marriott Bonvoy Traveler has been a Contently customer since its launch in 2014.). Today, Traveler spans 87 local editions across the globe.

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The Top PR Trends For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Like nearly any other marketing or strategic discipline, public relations has changed in recent years. Google quietly filed a patent in 2014 that many in the search business feel presages an actual formula for tracking implied links. But even without a universal formula for measuring brand mentions, PR is catching up to marketing.

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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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What’s New In B2B Tech PR For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

In 2017 CX will evolve further, as B2B tech players adopt consumer market strategies to offer a more personalized experience for customers that is rooted in a deep understanding of individual needs. We’ve seen how powerful real-time marketing is for consumer brands that are active on social channels.

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