Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. It’s good news for contextual advertising companies, who have already started reaping the benefits of marketing’s ‘identity crisis.’ cookies) is in its twilight which puts diminishes marketing reach and targeting. Happy New Year!

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

That changed in 2018. To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. It’s worth putting a little paid spend to boost links to announcements, invitations and blog posts with targeted social media advertisements. 2) Think creatively: guerilla recruiting tactics.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Mika Stambaugh is an Emmy award winning journalist and dynamic entrepreneur known for her creative strategies in executing media and communication campaigns. AirPR: When business are launching a PR or content marketing campaign, what are the key elements they should focus on? “Nail the elevator pitch.”.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

Conducted in February 2018, the online survey solicited the thoughts and opinions of 5,500 JOTW newsletter subscribers, mainly consisting of senior in-house and corporate communications professionals across a variety of industries. The full 2018 JOTW Communications Survey can be viewed in its entirety here. Creative Commons CC0.

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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.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Creativity and risky marketing efforts don’t always find receptive purse strings in B2B, but it could well be the only thing left in “a sea of sameness.”. That sea of sameness is how the Cindy Klein Roche , the CMO for Cybereason, describe the competitive landscape in cybersecurity during an interview with the Marketing Smarts podcast.

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5W PR

JANUARY 8, 2019

Misconceptions about common marketing practices can lead to misuse or even complete abandonment of marketing tools. As we say our goodbyes to 2018, let’s also bid farewell to the myths that are incorrectly influencing our decisions. Content marketing is the new buzz marketing term – and for a reason.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

So, here are four more seemingly-ludicrous trends that will be quite normal activity by 2027, and how these trends can these be woven into your 2018 campaign. Uber came under fire after an employee blog went viral, detailing a culture of sexism. (Yes please. I want this now). Siri, it’s over. I’ve married Alexa.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

The 2018 State of the Media report by Cision is an annual survey of reporters that offers some insight. For example, citing the Edelman Trust Barometer, Digiday reported , “trust in traditional media has increased from 48 percent last year to 61 percent in 2018.”. PR should be taking a close look at the content that’s trending.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 17, 2018

91 percent of B2B brands and 86 percent of B2C brands use content as part of their marketing efforts. Source: Content Marketing Institute 2018) That’s a lot of content being dumped online every day. Why are these brands so content focused? They know that content powers the customer journey.

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Barokas

AUGUST 1, 2019

The challenge of implementing an effective content strategy, and then maintaining resources to consistently create, distribute, measure and repurpose content, often leads to de-prioritization of content projects.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 26, 2018

In a recent guest post on Mark Schaefer’s blog, the author tried to make the case for why more marketers should be budgeting for social analytics software. What would I do if I was running a social team in 2018? I’d over-index on hiring two kinds of people: Creative, problem-solvers and analytical people.

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Solo PR Pro

JANUARY 7, 2019

We hope that 2018 was a good year for you, both personally and professionally. Submit your brand or clients’ sites and blogs for inclusion in the Google News Publisher Center. Using Schema.org/speakable code to identify and mark audio snippets on your site or in contributed content (check out this WordPress plug-in to help).

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. Digital Sales & Marketing World.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Staying ahead of the game in a hyper-competitive market is vital to your company’s success. Your competitors are most likely already using influencers in their marketing strategy. You can also collaborate with them and request that the influencer mentions your brand on their blog or post one of your articles.

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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.”.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised?

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In 2018, he and his good friend Erik Requidan started The Minority Report Podcast to create a platform where people of color, women, and LGBTQ individuals in marketing could tell their stories and have candid conversations. What role has content marketing played for you at LiveIntent?

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised?

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 3, 2019

How will you make your marketing program even savvier in 2019? For a little inspiration, we pulled PR 20/20’s most-shared blog posts from 2018. We used Buzzsumo’s Content Analyzer to curate the top posts across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, as well as links from other websites.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

Similarly, and though we don’t use the terminology, big businesses hire panels of marketing agencies too – PR, creative, SEO, social, digital, advertising. The irony is, like many GCs, in-house communications and marketing people often grow up in an agency. But that’s a talent supply issue for a different blog post.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

1) Content marketers as librarians . “If That’s how Jimmy Daly begins his piece – 5 Content Marketing Power Laws – for Animalz a marketing agency and it had me hooked as a reader. They end up publishing way too much content in an attempt to maintain traffic. Does Blockchain Really Have Marketing Potential?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. Those companies that can take data, do a deep dive, and understand what the data tells them will see more success in achieving their goals from content than those who look at simple analytics.

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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.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

In time we plan to share the database in a Creative Commons format and develop a web app to interrogate the data. The 2018 report suggests that copywriting, campaign delivery, media relations, strategic planning and social media relations are among the most common PR activities.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 23, 2017

I was reminded of this recently as I flipped through a slide deck with 75 quotes from blog posts I’ve published over the last year or so. What started as a marketing experiment, has grown into a process that supports audience development. 20 Golden PR and Content Marketing Ideas that will Outlive 2017 from Frank Strong.

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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 Bob Geller | Fusion PR.

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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?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 23, 2018

Though he worked “in marketing” he had never taken a writing class. Even so, he was inspired to pursue writing and creative work in his efforts to persuade. While he later promoted to creative director, among other marketing leadership roles, he says an appearance in AdAge was his first big break.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here are the seven tasks to focus on before you start creating content. A few years ago, athenahealth debuted athenaInsight, its data-driven news publication, to make a serious investment in content marketing. In content chaos , the first mistake marketers make is leaning too heavily on intuition. Enter: Google.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

While the PR community has heard inklings of in-housing anecdotally – Richard Edelman recently cited it as a cause following disappointing earnings for the year ending 2018 – to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time we’ve seen this trend surface in a survey of the communications industry. content marketing (64%).

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And if you want to absorb marketing news and insight from industry leaders during your commute with a new podcast, we’ve got you covered with 12 of our team’s favorites. This Old Marketing. and Epic Content Marketing. Overview: First started in 2013, This Old Marketing is THE podcast for content marketers.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 23, 2019

By regularly communicating with marketing teams at 100 Renewal by Andersen locations across the country, she’s constantly working to identify and develop great story ideas to feed our earned media, public relations, influencer and content marketing strategies. Andi Pepin, creative producer-Target.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

When you map all of your content marketing to the funnel, things get trickier. Most content marketers, unlike sales reps, usually shy away from promotional ad copy that could scare their audience away. What is the content marketing sales funnel? They also know Contently gave that information to them.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

million for their content marketing budgets in 2019, per Contently research. This number includes content creation, distribution, technology, and talent. To help marketers be more efficient and effective, Contently created this new report that examines the state of financial services content marketing.

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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.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5 Video is the most popular content marketing format for 2015, ahead of case studies, blogs and infographics ( 2015 State of Digital Marketing , a report featuring insights from over 600 marketers from Web Marketing 123).

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