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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. How do you use the data to make changes in your business and marketing that are meaningful in 2015?

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Is Content Marketing Better than Advertising?

Sword and the Script

billion in ad spend waste in 2015, according to a new report.”. billion in ad spend waste in 2015, according to a new report.”. As a result, the refrain “content marketing is better than advertising” is bounced around the marketing echo chamber. Pay-per-click advertising? Is it better than sponsored social posts?

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Landing Page, SEO and Blog Secrets: An Interview with Clint Danks of ThinkSEM

MaccaPR

If the world of SEO, inbound marketing, optimized content and landing pages thrills you as a marketer, then the following interview with Clint Danks is going to be your cup of Lipton. based Internet marketing agency that caught our eye with its savvy pay-per-click advertising management, Web development and digital design services.

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State of Social Media Q4 2015: Half of Facebook Users Go Mobile Only

Shift Communications

The largest social network in the world – practically a planet unto itself – released its Q4 and 2015 calendar earnings. Let’s see how Facebook closed out 2015. Consider how much money, time, and effort you’ve invested over the years in SEO to “reach page 1” in Google’s search results.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

It’s good news for contextual advertising companies, who have already started reaping the benefits of marketing’s ‘identity crisis.’ It will boost tactics like contextual advertising, email marketing, and social commerce and could even usher in a new era of creative marketing and PR strategies. Fast-vertising.

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How to Use Multimedia For Better PR Campaigns

Cision

From online articles to advertisements to blogs to social media posts — numerous mediums are competing for your audience’s attention. A 2015 study by PR Newswire found that less than half (42 percent) of all press releases included multimedia elements, and of the top 100 most successful releases, 68 included multimedia assets.

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Top 100 Sites for Marketers

Cision

However, all this change gives us little time for researching the best sites for the latest news in marketing, PR and SEO. The calculation takes into account a number of data points, such as social shares, SEO data and page rankings. Advertising Age Online. Seo by the Sea. Advertising Week. Adweek Online.