Cision

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

What I want to do in this post is make a five-point argument that email is one of the most important communications channels in 2016. Sixty-three percent of email to B2B professionals is deleted before it is read , yet it still is the most effective way to reach this audience. Email open rate and click-through remain high.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Content Marketing World or as others may know it, #CMWorld , is an incredible event for marketers, journalists and techies from across the globe to gather and share niche content knowledge. How to Use Content to Maximize the B2B Buying Process. Long Form Content for the Win at REI. Not to worry.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

If you’re not using Facebook ads because you don’t think they work in B2B marketing , then you are among thin ranks. Several surveys reviewed by eMarketer suggest social media advertising continues to advance – and Facebook is often voted the most effective paid platform – even for B2B. req.) – by Regalix found.

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Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

As consumers gravitate towards multimedia content — multimedia is also the driving force behind the content the media publishes. Furthermore, a 2016 interview with the Associated Press revealed most major news outlets will not run a text-only story. Visual Content Impacts Your Performance. Better understand efficacy.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

My B2B clients are more open to sponsored content. Another trend that grew in ’21 is authentic, purpose-driven marketing. The content they produce must be neutral, helpful and authoritative in nature – like that which PR has mastered for contributed articles for ages. 2016: One Bold Content Marketing Prediction for 2016.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Content marketing has drastically altered the consumer-to-brand connection—from in-your-face advertising to a mutually beneficial relationship. But, as we approach 2016, we’ve hit a crossroads. According to the newly released CMI 2016 B2B Content Marketing Research Report , 88% of organizations use content marketing.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The important lesson here is that context matters in content marketing. To that end, the average citizen isn’t going to fact check or even apply critical thinking to the content they share. To that end, the average citizen isn’t going to fact check or even apply critical thinking to the content they share.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In corporate blogging and more broadly, in B2B content marketing , it’s not so simple. The firm says it surveyed 1,055 bloggers and published the report late in 2016. That study was produced by a different company – the Portland-based ConvertKit which provides email marketing designed for bloggers.

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Cision

JANUARY 19, 2016

ET, Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute, will discuss how to attract a loyal audience and impact the bottom line with content. A: I started in B2B publishing, which I think was the best possible place to start. Q: What inspired you to start the Content Marketing Institute?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The statistics selected can be grouped are heavily weighted along the following topics: Statistics about – or for – the CMO ; Statistics about digital and B2B marketing ; Statistics about PR or media relations ; and. Statistics about content marketing. 2) The marketing budget as a percentage of revenue.

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The Proactive Report

JULY 23, 2017

A new report from BrightEdge reveals that although marketers at B2C and B2B Fortune 500 brands recognize the AI, voice and hyper-local revolution is here, most are not yet planning to adapt their marketing strategies to these new ideas. IMPROVE YOUR CONTENT STRATEGY. DemandGen Report – 2016 Content Preferences Survey ).

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Sword and the Script

MAY 1, 2018

billion in funding in 2016; Legaltech. Good business leaders, let alone good marketers, know that differentiation in word and deed is important, but so too is trust and transparency. A new study by TrustRadius underscores the importance of trust in B2B marketing. 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions [UML].

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 8, 2016

The PR professional “every reason to be increasingly confident,” according to the 2016 PRWeek Salary Survey , from which that median salary figure stems. PR is the Best Kept Secret in Effective Content Marketing. PR an Employee Market. Both vertical markets have a heavy emphasis on B2B and usually complex products.

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 31, 2016

Content marketing is all grown up. With 88% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers saying their organization uses it, the art and science of content marketing have exploded over the past few years. “Content marketing is sometimes ineffective because people don’t realize what it’s intended to do.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We’ve found that LinkedIn and Twitter are the most effective promotion platform for our audience of B2B marketers, but you can utilize a similar strategy on Facebook or Pinterest. It all depends on where your target audience is the most active and engaged with your brand.

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2016

As a content marketer, you spend tremendous time and money to create content – be it brand awareness, thought leadership or lead generation pieces. Instead, we must now actively push our content out to our intended audience. Instead, we must now actively push our content out to our intended audience.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2016

What follows below are the top 10 articles I shared on Twitter – out of 3,306 posts in 2016 – which provides something of a snapshot of the marketing trends over the year. AMA: Gartner’s CMO spend survey shows marketing budgets on the rise in 2017. Contently: Why Cisco is hiring over 200 content marketers.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Effective B2B content marketing programs have a documented strategy, build a subscription audience and use metrics to inform decisions What separates successful B2B content marketing programs from those that underperform? For example, here’s a post on the page four findings from 2016.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2016

This week covers budget forecasts, planning considerations and the line item for influencer marketing. 1) B2B to Invest 12.3% of Revenue in Marketing. Businesses will increase investments in marketing for the third year in a row according to the Gartner CMO Spend Survey for 2016- 2017. We are great at both!

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

In an age of ad blocking, brands have to transition away from solely sponsoring or being associated with the content their customers or prospects want or need. Instead, brands have to also produce the desired content. 1) The Parallel between Product Placement and Content Marketing. It’s well worth a read as well.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend. It’s like trying to lay down pipe before you even dug a ditch.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 5, 2016

of respondents rated mobile marketing’s contribution to their company’s performance as high (top-2 box), while the largest share (40.2%) said it doesn’t contribute at all to their performance. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Blog: B2B Beat: CMOs Invest in Social But Do They Measure Its Impact? Marketing spend is 8.4%

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Yet descriptions of agile, which I have seen instituted as a very precise software development process (see graphic below), are all over the map in marketing. In fact, one of the sources included below cites The State of Agile Marketing in 2016 , which concludes as much. The report identifies seven barriers to agile marketing.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 11, 2017

While there are certainly some advantages to early adoption, in a broad sense, B2B marketers all have access to the same general set of tools. The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]. 2) Is your brand investing in the right content? Brands like Warner Bros.

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The Resolution Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

PR planning for 2016? This trends tool will help build out your campaign content & influencer insight in seconds. 20 content marketing experts explore online developments that could see more marketers than ever turn to editorial content next year. What is Inbound & why should PR pros care?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 10, 2018

Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other. I leave you with a final thought stemming from this analysis : In 2016 Cision acquired PR Newswire for $841 million – which I estimate is somewhere between 5x and 8x annual revenue. What is the value in that? If you are wondering, I don’t think there is very much.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

62% of respondents said their KPIs are driven by the historical performance of the company, 42% said it’s based on the marketing budget, and 31% establish KPIs based on competitive metrics. Just 12% are optimizing their content for voice search, even though Google reported in 2016 that 20% of searches are made by a voice interface.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 20, 2016

Social Media Examiner’s Michael Stelzner, during which he identified top trends impacting social media in 2016. Note: Statistics mentioned below come from the Social Media Examiner 2016 survey of 5,100 social media marketers. Sixty-seven percent of marketers will increase their Facebook marketing efforts in 2016.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

At some point summer came and went, flying by just as fast as Usain Bolt crossed the finish line during the 2016 Summer Olympics. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and fall and winter’s other holidays will be here sooner than you know it, bringing with them plenty of inspiration for engaging content.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 16, 2016

Imagine managing an investment portfolio or a 401k this way…you’d miss the compounding returns and so too does the business when the marketing budget swings wildly in either direction. Measuring Marketing Returns. I often think marketing ROI is a bit of a paradox – both harder and easier at the same time. .

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Sword and the Script

JULY 30, 2016

——————————————————————– 2) Top B2B PR Challenges and How to Solve Them. The drawback is that visibility has become a commodity , which is why the content marketing trend is so important to PR.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Later this week, that legend will take the stage as Content Marketing World’s closing keynote speaker, a fitting choice for this year’s theme Content Strikes Back. As a huge fan of Hamill, I can’t wait for the content inspiration he’ll unleash during his keynote. Look beyond your content universe.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

be the year that some SaaS vendor figures out how to manage and market B2B influencer marketing at scale. There are several platforms out there to simplify and manage B2C influencer marketing, such as Paladin, Heepsy, HypeAuditor, and InBeat. But B2B influencer marketing works completely differently.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 5, 2016

Maybe I had gotten a bit *too* focused on our millennial audience in 2016. Fortunately the rise of content marketing has blurred the divisions even further and I believe will help people who work at agencies be less siloed in their thinking and work. And what are your top three series of all time?

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Beyond PR

JUNE 21, 2016

As we head into the second half of 2016, video’s role in PR and marketing continues to heat up. Video is the language we communicate in today,” says Larry Cardarelli, Vice President, Production at MultiVu and moderator of tomorrow’s PR Newswire webinar Video Creation and Strategy for Modern Content Marketers.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Search marketing and SEO statistics. Content Marketing Statistics. 2) Content marketing supports lead nurturing. B2B Lead Generation ). B2B Lead Generation ).

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Don’t miss these related posts: Marketing vs. Machine: Are the Bots Coming for Your Job? Marketing: Investment, Cost or Profit Center? In Content Marketing, Marketers Might be Losing Their Way. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: Proof of B2B Marketing Value Does Not Start with the Competition.

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