Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Marketing be nimble. Rather than having year-long editorial calendars for opportunities and content, marketing and communications professionals are will have to work in a much more agile, phased approach: creating evergreen content per quarter and making room for ‘rapid-response’ type communications based on what 2021 might throw at us.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“The early adopters have been educating the market in the last few years about the successes that can be had with integrating own, earned and paid media. Firms that stick to being mere providers of media relations will continue to lose market share.” 5) Marketers will slow down.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

From the mobile video explosion to emerging social platforms, 2016 has brought many content-related developments that affect the public relations industry and the work PR people do every day. Here are five content predictions for 2017 that all PR people should be aware of. Content will be automated.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

If you want to connect with your audience and stand out from competitors, you need to focus on your brand’s story, says Neil McAllister, media and content director at Blanc & Otus. In this interview, Neil discusses his background as a journalist, what it’s like working in the technology industry and the changing role of the media.

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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. Strong visuals will be one way to make an impact.”. – Rachael Wolensky | ALM Media. More content marketers will get frequency right.

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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.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 16, 2019

Communications professions placed press releases near the bottom of a long list of priorities for the next 12 months, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey , a collaborative effort between Ned’s Job-of-the-Week and Sword and the Script Media. In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

A new report published by the CIPR examines how much of what we do in public relations is threatened by technology. These findings are from a new report called Humans still needed: An analysis of skills and tools in public relations , published today by the CIPR’s #AIinPR panel. It’s an important piece of work.

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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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Journalistics

JANUARY 24, 2016

This posts was the first step in my journey to blog more in 2016. In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). Some might call me old-fashioned when it comes to media relations.

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Blogging Strategy How To Writing 69

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.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

In the course of putting together the monthly PR technology summary ( PR Tech Sum ), I’ve realized that no news site has compiled a complete list of all the acquisitions around Cision. The suite was the weaving together of tools Vocus had acquired into a product aimed at the small business market. 1) February 18, 2014: Enter GTCR .

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ISEBOX

MARCH 18, 2016

Enter public relations automation tools. This first installment of a three-part series on automating PR tasks gives you a glimpse into some the top technologies to help you organize tasks, communications and content. An Enterprise version is slated for release in early 2016. Content creation is just the beginning.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 5, 2016

This PR agency will focus on the business-to-business (B2B) marketplace and provide professional services in public relations, content marketing and social media. We are practicing what we preach because this content marketing trend is not a fad. A Stage Set Early in Career.

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Blogging Content Marketing B2B Social Media 60

Journalistics

JANUARY 24, 2016

This posts was the first step in my journey to blog more in 2016. In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). Some might call me old-fashioned when it comes to media relations.

Blogging 40

Blogging Strategy How To Writing 40

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Sahana (@hellosahana) September 8, 2016. Richard Bagnall (@richardbagnall) September 8, 2016. Richard Bagnall (@richardbagnall) September 8, 2016. Richard Bagnall (@richardbagnall) September 8, 2016. Angela Sinickas (@sinickasa) September 8, 2016. Katie Delahaye Paine (@queenofmetrics) September 8, 2016. .

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ZudePR

JULY 20, 2016

I’m a 43-year-old traditional-media-relations-guy-turned-digital-PR. When I’m not doing a good job for clients, I write about digital PR/marketing for publications including Social Media Examiner , SEMRush , PR Daily , PR Moment , MuckRack , and Business2Community. But the thing is, in 2016, geography shouldn’t limit you.

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Digital PR SEO Small Business Blogging 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Webinars have long been a staple of B2B marketing. For example, ON24 , which provides technology for hosting webinars, says these online presentations are a top lead generation tactic. But only 7% of marketers say they do “great” webinars. Jeff Perkins (@jeffperkins8) December 7, 2016.

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