Barokas

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It doesn’t feel that long ago that I was a teenager of the 90s, imagining 2020 as a far-off futuristic existence. Content marketing has taken on new life and meaning. Any company looking to mark 2020 as a milestone year must be ready to bolster its goals with adequate resources. Does it include thought leadership?

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5W PR

APRIL 29, 2020

Good leadership – The person, or team, in charge should be decided upon as early as possible so that all the departments know who to communicate with and there is no confusion later on. ? Those include online advertising, personal selling, events, content marketing, sales promotions, offline advertising, sponsorships, etc.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

To that end, I’ve poured over two surveys and re-visited a third to see what the wisdom the marketing crowds had to say about 2020 marketing budgets. but most CMOs (61%) expect “their budgets to rebound in 2020” according to The CMO Spend Survey by Gartner. I suggest thinking about distributing existing content elsewhere.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

B2B thought leadership drives perceptions, trust and sales A survey of 3,000+ business executives by Edelman and LinkedIn connected B2B thought leadership to trust and sales. 89% of decision-makers say thought leadership “can be effective in enhancing their perceptions of an organization.”

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For example, a 2020 survey by Gallup and the Knight Foundation identified several troubling statistics like this one: “Nearly 3 in 4 Americans (74%) say news organizations they distrust are trying to persuade people to adopt a certain viewpoint, while 16% say they are trying to report the news accurately and fairly but are unable to do so.”.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The wealth of data we now have on customers (from product, finance, marketing, operation) enables forward-thinking customer success teams to have meaningful and timely conversations. The 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study found that 55% of SaaS companies put renewal ownership under the customer success teams. Happy New Year!

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

Three-quarters (75%) of PR said so this year, according to the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey. Internal sharing pulls double duty: When the next catastrophe hits, and the leadership takes out the budget hatchet , again, they don’t want to cut yours because they understand the outsized-value you deliver to the business.

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Garrett Public Relations

DECEMBER 3, 2020

2020 was anything but predictable. But what can we learn and apply to our digital marketing and communications strategies in 2021? I asked 21 influencers to share their thoughts on this question: What one piece of marketing advice would you offer […]. As we prepare to enter a new year, we all wonder what lies ahead.

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PRSay

MAY 4, 2020

While we covered much of the contents of our 2020 State of the Media Report, there were a few key takeaways for PR professionals. ( Sarah Parker is the head of content marketing at Cision. You can watch the full recording of the panel discussion here.). A high bar for anything related to COVID-19.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 12, 2021

“Investment banking is just glorified content marketing.” For many financial services companies, that meant not only switching their content strategy, but also adjusting their marketing compliance process to quickly address fast-changing challenges consumers were facing. Chen’s right.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 6, 2016

It’s expected to reach $20 billion by the year 2020. Breaking through with quality material will become more difficult as content marketing approaches a saturation point. To be shareable, content must be optimized, so fluency in SEO basics is a necessary skill. Thought leadership isn’t just for B2B brands.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

According to The Holmes Report, only 27% of agency leaders responding to the survey think the term “public relations” will clearly and adequately describe the work they do by the year 2020. Thought leadership is more important than ever. Thought leadership is relevant not just to B2B organizations, but to consumer product companies.

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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. The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Public relations statistics from 2020. Social media statistics from 2020.

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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. Read more: How Creative, Agile and Metrics can Sing in Marketing Harmony.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 28, 2021

According to Malissa Mackenzie, director of creative services at CarMax, the turning point was gaining support from the company’s senior leadership. Immediately, the leadership team bought in. “We pull in CarMax data to make sure that our Contently writers can incorporate a CarMax perspective into those topics specifically.”

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 29, 2020

Valin has been at the forefront of best practice in PR internationally on topics including AI, ethics, and leadership throughout his career. We also used the Martech 2020 database of tools labelled for PR, and other relevant tools from the 2019 list. Wordsmith does a similar job for content marketing.

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Solo PR Pro

JANUARY 11, 2021

We are the original content marketers – digital, print and visual. Unfortunately, it took shut-downs, and seismic shifts of 2020 for many in the C-suite recognize the critical value of consistent communications to internal and external audiences. Optimistically, I look to a bright future for strategic communicators.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

So, here’s my take at the 22 most influential people in our industry in 2020: Decision-makers. Kristina was doing content strategy before it was even a thing (at least, in the modern-day content marketing sense). In 2020, while most of us work virtually, that’s changed a bit. She’s talented.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

PR 20/20 ultimately built the Institute’s readership by applying a proprietary content approach to the HubSpot platform—what we call the Cognitive Content Hub. The Cognitive Content Hub is an in-depth, strategic framework that marries human and artificial intelligence to grow businesses through content marketing.

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It’s proven: Technology increases internal efficiencies, helps eliminate mundane, manual tasks and makes the marketing process more automated. To make any marketing campaign successful, you must understand the goals, pain points, influencers, and preferences of each target buyer persona your company is targeting.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

” What’s been interesting is that we’ve already had more downloads and plays in 2020 than we had all of 2019. What role has content marketing played for you at LiveIntent? It’s huge for us and plays a key role in our marketing strategy. It’s a lot of what we do on the marketing side.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

If there’s one thing every content marketer loves, it’s the grind. I was high on the grind myself recently, fresh out of Uberflip’s stellar Conex conference and sitting in Cleveland for Content Marketing World , typing so fast my laptop was (almost) billowing smoke. You know the feeling.

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wiredPRworks

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Can You See 2020? Look ahead into 2020. About Barbara Rozgonyi: Inspirational Speaker and Marketing Leadership Consultant. Online marketing and PR expert, Barbara Rozgonyi, is a wealth of information, brilliant ideas, and resources for small and large companies alike.” Barbara Rozgonyi. wiredPRworks.

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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

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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Reputation Us

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Content Considerations Rather than shamelessly pitching goods and services with ordinary sales copy, be sure to present facts, statistics and stories with your content marketing that enhance consumer knowledge. More than 91 percent of businesses use content marketing, according to the Semrush State of Content Marketing report.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2020

72% of communications professionals say partisan politics makes their job harder, according to third annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020 The majority of professional communicators say partisan politics has complicated communications for brands and businesses. Keep an eye on their webinar announcement for registration details.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Most participants hold leadership titles and are “directly responsible for making purchase decisions of $10,000 or more.”. For example, a 2020 study by the Demand Gen Report 68% of respondents said the B2B sales cycle has increased compared to a year ago. Not content marketing. B2B sales cycles are getting longer.

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Cision

APRIL 27, 2017

Communicators need to learn a new language: One of the biggest themes was addressing the elephant in the room: earned media (PR/communications/media relations) budgets do not get as much money allocated to them as owned media or paid media (internal content or advertising) do – despite the fact consumers trust earned media the most.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Indeed, his name has been removed from the company’s leadership webpage and Brandon Crawley is now listed as the interim CEO. Cision has cycled through most of its leadership team under the current equity holders. years, having joined in September of 2020. Mr. Clark hasn’t been with the company for only about 1.5

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

This is a fast-moving area of the market where tools can help deliver smarter insights and more effective work. Leadership and differentiation: How can you use tools for competitive advantage? Organisations such as Edelman and BOLDT have turned their tool stack into a competitive marketing advantage.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 26, 2018

The study projects that by 2020, podcast revenue will top $650 million.”. While that’s not nearly as large as other segments of marketing spend (TV advertising is ~$70 billion ), podcasts continue to grow, slowly but steadily. Don’t miss these related posts: The 4 Engines You Need to Pull Off Content Marketing Successfully.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]. 2) The average content marketing budget is $185,000. The most successful content marketers invested more, with an average of $272,000, while the least successful content marketers spent less at $109,000.

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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. Calls for GDPR style American laws to codify privacy as a human right will increase, culminating in American laws in 2020.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dozens of marketing and PR professionals express aspirations for 2020 along with educated guesses about the future . Marketing be nimble. Predictability is dead – 2020 killed it. This creates renewed opportunities for marketers who communicate via podcasts. Marketing PSTD. Susan Kostal | Stet.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Content marketing expert, Kristina Halvorson tweeted this a couple weeks ago. Kristina Halvorson (@halvorson) September 19, 2020. What our country desperately wants and needs at this moment is stable, reasoned leadership. In fact, I’ve been analyzing Biden’s social media strategy for a while now.

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