Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

5) Marketers will slow down. The Internet moves at breakneck speed, but that doesn’t mean that we as marketers have to do the same. We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. 7) Larger investments in SDRs and product marketing.

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Cision

OCTOBER 29, 2015

While ad blocking software has been around for years, concern about ad blocking has become one of the hottest topics in advertising and marketing this year, especially for mobile advertising. Some advertisers and website owners believe that ad blocking by consumers is at best freeloading and at worst, it’s theft.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 11, 2024

Overflowing with buzzwords, B2B tech marketing content is far too often focused on the technical features and capabilities of the products. Don’t get me wrong—decision-makers and internal influencers, particularly technical buyers, do want to know about the functional aspects. What is happiness?

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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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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JANUARY 16, 2024

In a world saturated with information, where consumers are more discerning than ever, the role of authenticity in public relations and communications cannot be overstated. Honest communication builds credibility and trust , which goes a long way with everyone involved with your organization (both internally and externally).

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Cision

MAY 29, 2017

The internet has changed the way we discover and consume information. The focus was more on quality of content. Almost every brand is creating content to offer value for their audiences, which means it’s even more difficult for people to find the information they are looking for. Offer Users Quality Content.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Communications professionals are now responsible for producing videos and podcasts, hosting live stream events, playing photographer, designing graphics, learning the back end of websites and more to keep up with changes in the ways people consume information.”. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur.

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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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5W PR

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improving brand awareness and profitability boils down to integrating PR, marketing and other sales strategies to optimize a brand’s overall message. This is both important for consumer engagement as well as client relations. PR professionals are adept in creating a variety of content suitable for a wide range of audiences.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

They’re bombarded every day with content, advertisements and information. Digital Marketing at LEWIS Pulse, you need to understand your audience’s unique needs and reach them in new and unexpected ways. What’s the biggest lesson about marketing you’ve learned throughout your career? So how can you set your brand apart?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 It’s doing this through a partnership with an adtech company called Nativo, which as the brand name suggests, is a native advertising platform. Million and Eyes the U.S.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 9, 2017

Consumers need to keep their wits about them when they consume media; journalists and public relations practitioners need to work to ethical standards; and technology platforms also have a part to play in tackling the issue. Crowdsourced project aims to scrutinise political advertising. Here’s what you’ll learn. Student support.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Advertising and marketing people might have used to have control. In his interview with PRWeek Danny Rogers asked Martin if the danger was that the growth of social media meant that it would be adopted and subsumed by advertising agencies. Advertising can’t do that. Today people want truth and authenticity.

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5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

This is especially effective for consumer technology products. Internal Communications: Ensures effective communication within the company, keeping employees informed about company developments and fostering a positive internal culture. It’s important to have a plan in place before a crisis might arise.

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Technology Product Launch Crisis Management Case Study 78

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Combining SEO and content marketing will increase your online presence, as the reach is much greater from higher rankings. A strong digital PR campaign will involve engaging content and messaging that will get readers interested. Integrating other areas of online marketing for greater brand messaging.

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Buzzstream

MAY 16, 2024

And yet, according to uSERP’s State of Backlinks for SEO report , guest posting is the third most popular link-building method behind content marketing and digital PR. Some simply buy links on large guest posting directories, and others pitch quality content to get published on an external site. I mentioned this in Step 1.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 15, 2016

Yes, that’s where more and more consumers sate their media appetites these days. One would be hard-pressed to find a media event (or rather, an “activation”) today that did not employ one or more social media “influencers” as part of its marketing mix for driving branded buzz. owned”) content that look and feel like editorial (vs.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. We leverage our weekly marketing and product marketing newsletters as the main vehicles to distribute the content.

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Konnect Agency

OCTOBER 30, 2019

An abundance of research suggests that as the wealth of information available to consumers increases, our communal attention spans will continue to decrease. No matter the industry, marketing has become increasingly complex! Traditional and digital marketing. Here’s what you should know.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Influencer Marketing. While consumer trust in advertisements and even in traditional media sources continues to decline, Twitter says we now trust influencers as much as our friends. Download it now and learn how to revitalize your brand blog, engage prospects and nurture them into customers through compelling content.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 22, 2019

That experience, he says, taught him “an appreciation for both the software development side of things as well as for digital marketing and advertising.” He is Greg Kihlström and his latest book is The Agile Brand: Creating authentic relationships between companies and consumers. 1) Why did you write your book?

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So, how can teams pinpoint what went wrong and redirect marketing energy? As Paul Roetzer ( @paulroetzer ) states in Chapter 8 of The Marketing Performance Blueprint : “Every marketing plan should start with an honest internal marketing assessment. Define goals for blogging and overall content production.

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The Awards Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Many corporations view applying for industry awards as a bit too self-promotional, a waste of critical advertising budget, and far too time-consuming. Just finding the right awards to apply to is itself time-consuming, but there are ways to shortlist the right awards to apply to. Why enter an award program?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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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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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Outside of the office, consumers use their holiday free-time to look at ways to enhance their personal and work lives in the new year. Building internal connections to cultivate a collaborative community strengthens your organization as a whole. Oftentimes, offices are less occupied when the holidays are around the corner.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 1, 2018

But is that because reach and potential reach are inherently useful metrics, or is it instead because those were the metrics that — in the pre-internet days — could reasonably be calculated with a hard copy of Bacon’s, and some intern labor? But today, consumers don’t think and move in packs any longer. Did they read more?

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Media Measurement Enterprise Television 73

Prohibition

APRIL 13, 2023

Use Video Content in Podcasts Podcasts are an increasingly popular method for brands to showcase their client portfolio and deliver deeper layers of insight about their industry via spoken word. Create Blog Posts From Video Content Blog posts are an excellent way to drive traffic to your website and improve your SEO ranking.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Steve has long been a believer “content marketing” even before the phrase gained the popularity it has today. The content marketing hype-cycle helped alert those asleep at the wheel that this was a requirement for doing business in an information (Google) age. What is a necessity, fate, or some other factors?

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PR 20/20

JULY 25, 2017

So we thought it would be helpful to outline the biggest use cases for AI in marketing that we’re seeing right now. This isn’t a comprehensive list of what AI can do, but it is a guide to what we think marketers ought to be doing with AI. Internal reports are a pain. Improve Content Marketing. Boost Ad Performance.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 20, 2023

The power of partnering with influencers Influencers extend far beyond traditional advertising, as their followers actively seek their recommendations and trust their opinions. UGC is content that another party (who has no affiliation to your brand or business) creates.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Avid podcast listeners consume an average of five a week – listening for four hours and 10 minutes (chart nearby used with permission by The Marketing Companion ). Not only is this a significant amount of time – but it’s quality time and so marketing has joined the crowd. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search.

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Beyond PR

MAY 30, 2017

The internet has changed the way we discover and consume information. The focus was more on quality of content. Almost every brand is creating content to offer value for their audiences, which means it’s even more difficult for people to find the information they are looking for. Offer Users Quality Content.

How To 40

How To Engineering Content Marketing Advertising 40

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Why should it matter to a chief marketing officer that her advertising and public relations agency teams are all white, blonde and marinated in the same suburban, upper middle class culture? percent of ad, PR and marketing managers are African-American? Should we care that barely 4.5 I would never let my kids do that.”

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Action PR

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

With constant stimuli around us – busy schedules, 24/7 digital contact, political turmoil, environmental crises and world disasters – people feel an overwhelming need to revert internally to look after themselves, make themselves feel better and look better. trillion worldwide. trillion worldwide. But Barbie is just a toy. Not at all.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

SocialZoomFactor is a podcast created for business and marketing leaders. If you want to learn how to integrate social media, content marketing, the latest technology and more, you won’t be disappointed in Pam’s podcasts, which she delivers each weekday. to rock your social media and content marketing.

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