Solo PR Pro

MAY 2, 2018

On May 1, 2018 we weighed in with opinions and insight on the following topics of interest: How much of your PR practice is devoted to content marketing? What are the biggest challenges you face in content marketing? What changes do you foresee in content marketing?

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Marketing Leadership Corporate 40

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

Corporate communications and PR can be a lonely business of sorts. As communicators, we are sometimes holed up in self-imposed exile creating content for others to deliver on ever-shrinking budgets. Guest Post by Scott Kaminski. Or are we? Let’s hit it. Let’s Talk Money. Anything is Easy if You Try Hard Enough. A Final Question.

Survey 74

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogs…blogs were everywhere. We started a blog for our employer, a startup in the IT operations space. Some of the newer and smaller startups that had been blogging for a while ran circles around us.

Blogging 73

Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 73

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

This blog published about 60 new posts in 2018. And so here’s the annual look at the most read, least read, and posts I recommend reading, that were published on Sword and the Script in 2018. The 7 Most Read Posts in 2018. Here are the posts readers read the most in 2018 – as measured by readers clicks.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Survey B2B Google 60

Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. content marketing (64%). click on images for higher resolution graphic). white papers (36%).

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Survey Media Relations Corporate Communications 103

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

This sort of thing happens every day and on a massive scale and we can see it in the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer , which says this year will be a “battle for truth.”. In reviewing the study, I think it has implications for business in public relations and content marketing. For Heaven’s sake, don’t buy Bitcoin.

Content Marketing 70

Content Marketing Marketing Journalism Financial 70

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This will contribute to even more noise, and it will make high-quality corporate content both more appreciated and harder to find.”. David Berkowitz , Founder, Serial Marketers. I also believe savvy content marketers are going to pay more attention to distribution – the who and how of content consumption.”.

Marketing 196

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 196

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. I recently saw new research showing that brand purpose is even more important to B2B buyers than to B2C customers, which is surprising but probably makes sense given the longer selling cycle and relationship to corporate reputation.

Marketing 215

Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 215

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But, this is a blog about PR, communications and media relations, so enough about the plot summary. Eric Lebowitz joined Critical Mention in 2018 as its Director of Marketing. A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics.

Media 162

Media Fashion Television Radio 162

Presspage

APRIL 6, 2018

As advertising and other marketing become less effective, content marketing is exploding. During this event, a panel of experts will discuss trends and effectiveness in corporate publishing strategies. Come Tuesday April 17, 2018 at 6.15pm in the heart of North Beach San Francisco for an informal Media Salon.

Company 92

Company Media Web Advertising 92

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

Survey 178

Survey Marketing B2B Study 178

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Drilldown to see marketing’s direct and indirect contribution to the sales pipeline; and. Make your team members track everything that matters within your marketing department – blog views, cost per lead, conversion rates at every stage, webinar attendance rate, paid search efficiency… and report their own KPIs up to you.

Marketing 174

Marketing Employee Content Marketing Training 174

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

1) The average blog post is 1,236 words. How long is the average blog post? How long does it take to write the average blog post? Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]. 2) The average content marketing budget is $185,000.

Marketing 78

Marketing Publicity Survey Study 78

Onclusive

DECEMBER 17, 2018

San Francisco, December 18, 2018 – AirPR ( www.airpr.com ), the data science company for communication and public relations, today announced the closing of its Series C financing of 8 million dollars. Andy Cunningham , Board of Directors at AirPR and former Head of Corporate Communication at Apple.

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Analytics Data Big Data Technology 150

Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

In an interview on this blog in 2021 , Propel Co-Founder and CEO Zach Cutler said as a former PR agency owner, he couldn’t find software that met his agency’s growth needs. Meltwater offers 50 suggested metrics to measure your content marketing. That’s when he started building a product in-house. “So,

Software 89

Software Pitching Measurement Enterprise 89

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2019

Digital marketing spend tallied up at around $629 billion in the US in 2018. This year it’s on track to outpace the investment in analog marketing channels for the first time. Branded media, defined in this report as blogs, social media and video weren’t far behind with 27%. How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019?

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Study Survey B2B Advertising 61

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 20, 2018

As screenshot nearby shows, (photo credit: Kaon blog ), it creates “a magical pop-up AR appearance at trade shows that people can activate and walk around.” It is easy to see how this could be used as a visual tool in sales or marketing meetings anywhere rather than just a trade show booth. Why is this relevant to B2B marketing ?

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Case Study B2B Study Marketing 100

Onclusive

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AirPR, the data science and technology company that invented PR Attribution and Power of Voice , is hosting the 2018 Growth PR Conference on October 30th at San Francisco’s Bluxome Street Winery. To be successful in the the world of Growth PR is to identify the intersection of positioning and content marketing.

Brand 75

Brand Branding Conference Technology 75

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 How can they do that?

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 105

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. 5) Alignment of marketing and customer success. “I 19) Movie franchise approach to content marketing outpaces the newsroom model.

Social Media 96

Social Media Marketing Media Creativity 96

Sword and the Script

JUNE 12, 2018

11 Simple Ways for PR to Score Content Marketing Points. There’s good reason to be wary about using humor in marketing. When he started in 2011, the infographic included just 150 or logos, but the number has grown exponentially (see graphic nearby), to where in 2018, the graphic included 6,829 vendors. Talk to Us !

Creativity 61

Creativity Infographics B2B Corporate 61

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. You have to keep in mind, big corporations can have hundreds of law firms on what they call a “panel.”

Agency 97

Agency Trends Marketing Survey 97

Communications Conversations

JULY 23, 2019

But, you just can’t have an event recognizing the best of our industry and completely exclude the people in corporate, non-profit and solo settings. who work for corporations or non-profits or are solo practitioners that I believe deserve the spotlight (some nominated by me; others nominated by friends).

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Transportation Social Media Corporate Agency 122

Communications Conversations

JULY 19, 2018

At 3M, I was one member of a pretty big corporate team of social & digital marketing specialists whose services span many divisions across just about every industry you can name. I left that behind for an opportunity to build a modern marketing center at Toro, more-or-less from the ground up. That’s content marketing.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2B Content Marketing 60

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

By this, I mean a frequently updated blog. It’s true that the more you blog, the more clients you get. This is because all clients – corporations and consumers – will check your site to see if you can show a depth of experience. Further, an encyclopedic blog will mean that your attorneys rank high in online searches.

Marketing 62

Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

This isn’t uncommon in the corporate world. While the rate has been trending down since 2010, it’s still largely been an employer’s market since the housing market popped a couple years before then. That changed in 2018. One of the more creative ideas I’ve seen could have been a page from the guerilla marketing book.

Resources 78

Resources Creativity Publicity Local 78

Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Writing on the company’s blog , Lindsey Woodward , who leads the client support team said, “Whether jumping on a call to assist in creating an internal newsletter or report for your boss or setting up new employees on the Meltwater platform, we want our clients to have personal and open communication with Meltwater.”.

Trends 60

Trends Media Report Technology 60

Sword and the Script

MAY 1, 2018

There are nearly 7,000 martech vendors across 48 categories in the 2018 Marketing Technology Landscape which means 1,500 have been added since last year. Competition has advantages in buyer choice and market validation. Trust is both a flywheel in marketing and key point of differentiation.

B2B 62

B2B Marketing Survey Study 62

Communications Conversations

JULY 10, 2018

Flat-out ability to influence others in our market (or, in a position to influence others in the market). Paul social media power broker list of 2018! Kevin Hunt, Manager-Corporate Content & Channels, General Mills. Holly Spaeth, Director-Digital Marketing, Polaris. Why is he a power broker?

Social Media 24

Social Media Media SMB Tourism 24

Contently - Strategy

APRIL 24, 2019

This is an excerpt from The Content Marketer’s Playbook: Grow Your Content Program. Brands are creating more content than ever before. According to CMI’s 2019 benchmark report , a majority of both B2B and B2C marketers increased content creation budgets from 2018. Update your workflow.

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Content Marketing Infographics Insurance Insurance 111