Beyond PR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In this article, we will discuss the four key elements to write a press release that converts: The news announcement. So write your release with your audience in mind. In the age of Content, search engine results pages (SERPs) are inundated with potential links for users to click on. Multimedia attachments. High-quality links.

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 14, 2017

In this article, we will discuss the 4 key elements to writing high-quality press release content: The news announcement. So write your release with your audience in mind. In the age of Content, search engine results pages (SERPs) are inundated with potential links for users to click on. Multimedia attachments.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 16, 2016

Here are three data intensive and thought-provoking pieces on B2B content marketing. 1) B2B Marketers Struggle with Effective Content Marketing. Content marketing continues to grow as a trend. Also see: B2B Solved the Biggest Content Marketing Challenge Yesterday .

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2016

As almost 200,000 folks get ready for their annual excursion to Las Vegas for CES (Consumer Electronics Show) , those of us who toil in B2B tech public relations will be looking for 2017 trends to better take advantage of industry moves and stake out positions for clients. B2B content will become more customized.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020. The survey found, “The top three areas live event budgets will be reallocated to are content creation (43%): hosted webinars (40%); and search marketing (33%).”. Social media statistics from 2020.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Measuring genuine ROI and a marketing campaign’s long-term contribution to revenue takes time, and marketers need to slow down to do it.”. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn. 6) Relationships with people who have the ear of your target market. “It’s 16: Ted Seward.

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Cision

JUNE 5, 2017

The way it surfaces similar products to one a consumer is already viewing inspires them to look outside of their original purchasing scope. Content marketers are all too familiar with the traditional marketing funnel: awareness, consideration, conversion, loyalty and advocacy. Write good, creative content.

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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. There will be a glut of AI-generated content as well.

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Ah, the “boring press release” — we’ve all read them, and most of us are guilty of writing one. That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. Journalists and consumers crave videos. A client of ours, censhare, knows this and wanted to break out of their existing marketing silos.

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PR 20/20

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The analyst firm says: “Business content, such as shareholder reports, legal documents, market reports, press releases, articles and white papers, are all candidates for automated writing tools.”. Will artificial intelligence automate content creation? Related: The Marketer’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence Terminology.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 26, 2018

A 2016 study by Edison Research found avid listeners spend four hours and 10 minutes every week listening to an average of five different podcasts. That figure is up 86% from 2016, when the study found that podcast advertising captured $169 million in revenue. 3) Marketing Smarts . 8) Growth Marketing Toolbox.

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Cision

MAY 2, 2016

” – Emily Bell, writing for CJR. adults use mobile to consume news. Of course this is disproportionate younger adults, which means that mobile content consumption is increasing as well. What this media consumption shift caused is a shift in how publishers view content marketing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This year, more than 20 professionals – real people that do real marketing and PR work every day – responded and with high-quality ideas that I found to be invigorating and thought-provoking. Consumers trust others of similar ilk. Sticking to the three S’s will be vital in 2019 since people are consuming so much information.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Consider three news items that suggest how marketers are spurning traditional paid advertising and instead, re-embracing the back-and-forth engagement of public relations and its cousin, content marketing. million - had become the last successful, worst-polling candidates in the 2016 race. Quality content at no cost.

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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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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. But, a number of stats and reports lately (not to mention consumer behavior trends in general) have got me thinking: We may be well past the tipping point.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

This was flat with the $91,000 median originally reported in 2017 and the $92,125 originally reported in 2016. That so few are paying attention to this means it’s a real opportunity for an entrepreneurial CMO with bona fide content marketing chops. 5) Did Outbrain Try to Pitch Content Marketing at Cannes?

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ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Plus, since the agreement took seven years of negotiations with big corporations, Hollywood lobbyists, and very few democratic representatives, there are more critics than supporters, including both 2016 presidential candidates. Criminal sanctions are now on the table for file sharing fair use data and other consumer-owned digital property.

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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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Cision

JANUARY 18, 2016

When you’re planning your content strategy in 2016, one tactic that most likely will come up is to publish long form content to LinkedIn. More than any other social network, most people believe there is an opportunity to establish professional thought leadership on LinkedIn through content.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 17, 2018

I read ebooks, and the majority of online consumers enjoy them as well. Interestingly, between 2010 – 2016, the sales of ebooks in the U.S. That being that case, it makes sense to give your popular posts a new life — since they have been consumed and enjoyed by your audience. peaked in 2013, at 242 million units sold.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

“Can we automate content creation using artificial intelligence? More specifically, can we use machines to write blog posts at scale?”. These are the questions we sought to answer in spring 2015 when I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale at my content marketing agency, PR 20/20. Back to Top.

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Cision

MAY 23, 2016

A lot of writing and speaking tips recommend avoiding “jargony” words, but we probably aren’t as adept at understanding the words that we use that people don’t understand, or that are possibly too broad to infer the meaning that we intend to convey. In 2016, the No. In the 1980s, the No.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2016

Humans are visual creatures; consider the following: The ability to process images is embedded in our fight or flight instincts; Cavemen drew pictures not words on walls; Kids learn to draw long before they learn to write; and. Top 5 Challenges Facing B2B Marketers in 2016. Also see: 3 Free PR Photo Hacks.

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Beyond PR

JANUARY 20, 2017

It took a while for advertisers to realize that consumers weren’t responding to them, and finally — finally! Because consumers are now controlling the conversation, advertorials are dead. So if you’ve been using them in your marketing strategy, it’s time to let that go in favor of more effective branded content.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. In that rush of adrenaline to immediately promote your new e-book or video ASAP, content marketers risk the opportunity to be creative with promotion.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 30, 2016

As marketers, we are forever pressed for creative, performance-driven ideas. In the era of fast-paced, connected consumers, we must constantly evolve to prove our marketing success. In a recent blog post , Paul Roetzer articulates the challenge: “There have never been more choices for marketers. Inbound Marketing Kit.

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PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Artificial intelligence is accelerating change in the marketing industry, and your career: Consumers will demand greater personalization , while wanting to control their data and privacy. But, the great irony of marketing automation is that it’s largely still manual. Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 11, 2018

Snapchat launched the idea of Stories, but Instagram’s decision to create a similar feature in 2016 has proven highly successful. The functionality has proven so popular, in fact, that Facebook (which owns Instagram) brought Stories to its own platform last year, making this a form of creating content that’s increasingly pervasive. “Our

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 19, 2016

While I don’t think it’s “the future of content marketing” (as HubSpot has ambitiously christened it), it’s worth a read. Of course, you could question the validity of a global sample of online consumers with no respondents from India when, according to Internet Live Stats, it has almost 1.5

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Prohibition

APRIL 17, 2017

So that involves lots of exciting things like online community building, social media listening, brand audits, online crisis management, content marketing and video seeding. Demonstrate/develop excellent writing skills. Demonstrate/develop excellent writing skills. Drafting and editing press releases and articles.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Ah, the “boring press release” — we’ve all read them, and most of us are guilty of writing one. That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. Journalists and consumers crave videos. A client of ours, censhare, knows this and wanted to break out of their existing marketing silos.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2017

The result is that the lines between opinion and news are becoming more and more blurred, and consumers of news are confused about which news outlets and stories to believe. Hopefully, we’ll see a shift to more thoughtful, long-form, investigative writing in 2017.” Ian Bruce, VP corporate marketing at MongoDB says “Journalism is dying.

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Stuart Bruce

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Virtual reality was a popular prediction for what’s going to be big in 2016. I think it’s a virtual reality itself as 2016 isn’t going to be the breakthrough year of mass adoption, but it is still something that PR professionals need to understand and be ready for.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

My thanks to Canadian practitioner Jean Valin for leading this research project and writing the report on behalf of the CIPR #AIinPR panel. We’ll adapt as we have with social media, content marketing, influencer marketing and PESO. Today it’s much reduced like local media itself, reflecting changing consumer habits.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

I'm writing a blog post on how the best communicators "go deep" and get stuff done. New habits were formed and reading Cal Newport's book Deep Work: Rules for Focused (sic) Success in a Distracted World (2016) crystallised my thinking. my day is somewhat at the mercy of the marketing industry. Here's the email.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 1, 2021

You just paste your writing, add whatever images you like, slap on some tags, and presto. Depending on your industry or niche, LinkedIn can be the ideal place to repost your blog content. Assuming you have admin privileges, you can hit “Write article” and you’ll be asked which page you want to publish a story from.

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