Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In a recent post , I suggested leveraging Nielsen’s research in order to create data-driven marketing and communications plans. That’s the front-end work every successful campaign entails, but the data cycle doesn’t end there. This is the challenge my friends at AirPR are solving, one data dashboard at a time. What is it?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for a publicly-traded company that developed and sold software to the PR market.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Nearly 80% of the 1,279 bloggers in the 7 th annual Orbit Media blogger survey say blogging drives some marketing results – and 25% say it draws “strong marketing results.” >>> Looking for a consulting partner with the content chops to build a sound strategy and execute?

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B2B Study Blogging Marketing 155

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.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The data brands have collected from these interactions has allowed marketers to fine-tune their marketing tactics, and how they talk to their customers. But here’s the thing: Marketing budgets are increasingly shifting to focus on content marketing and other efforts that can show a concrete return-on-investment.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 24, 2018

Get on the same page as marketing. The communications goals should align with or complement those of marketing, advertising, and sales – but they don’t have to be the same. For example, direct-marketing will nearly always have an impact on demand generation, while PR affects brand visibility and reputation.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 11, 2018

2016 : The growth in the use of social influencers as trusted “third-parties” to create awareness and action (“ Content Marketing is So Last Year” ). The quality of the pitch itself has degraded over the last few years. Need I mention NOT to pitch a local TV news outlet a story on the day a mass shooting occurs in its hometown?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 20, 2021

While your content marketing strategy is your primary lead nurturing strategy, it doesn’t do you much good unless it’s easy to find. Paid advertising. There are many digital advertising options available that meet your budget and your goals; however, it requires some experimenting. Build awareness and extend reach.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Each December public relations agencies spend time crafting pitches and byline articles capturing clients’ takeaways for their particular industry. Data continues to drive coverage. Not that we needed any more evidence, but the hunger for hard data and statistics hasn’t waned. 2017 PR Takeaways.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Provide value to your readers and keep the sales pitches to a minimum. Google Analytics can provide demographic and location data about your site visitors. Use this information to cater your posts and content to your audience. By using paid advertising, you can target a specific audience to boost readership and gain followers.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

The report didn’t break out numbers for the remaining challenges of “fake news, blurred lines between editorial and advertising, and issues around freedom of the press.”. It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. 4) Emphasis on professional journalism.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Site Optimization : There is a lot more to this now than just keyword research and writing good content. In addition to editorial “blog” content and social media content, consider developing content on the maddafella.com domain. It must be unassailable, and completely white-hat instead of attempting to trick Google.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I have to use Teams, Wrike, Kapost, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Data Studio, Sharepoint, Salesforce, Oktopost and Slack to communicate with clients and teams. I have colleagues who also layer on Trello and other content management systems as well. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? Annoyed and overwhelmed, consumers are fed up with intrusive advertising and sales tactics.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Advertising is a distant third. It could be a way to cut through the clutter since reporters are deluged with pitches. Keep in mind, the story you are pitching has to actually be worthy of an exclusive. Content marketing and media relations need each other. Don’t dangle “exclusive” for a mediocre idea.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’ve added a new set of “comparison” terms into the mix to help develop data into insights that can help develop your ideas. What if what we know in marketing is holding us back? Your guide to keyword research Search tools, insight and data can be confusing. We have access to a lot of data! Is there is a link?

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Beyond PR

MAY 4, 2016

The sales pitch and advertisements ruled the day. To understand your buyer’s journey in a way that’s truly productive, the sales pitch must be replaced with conversations backed by data and research. However, today’s customers are researching their options, eliminating potential vendors, and making decisions on their own.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

3 statistics from the newest B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report shows the “subscribed audience” is missing from most content marketing efforts. I had a chance to be a judge for the annual content marketing awards hosted by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) this year.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Both PR and marketing are concerned with promoting an organization or individual, but they go about it in different ways. Marketing is focused on promoting a product or service in order to sell it. Marketing efforts often involve paid advertising, and the goal is to reach as many people as possible in order to increase sales.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

16% on marketing analytics. “As As organic reach on social platforms plummets to zero, and confidence in influencer marketing is challenged, paid media presents more pros than cons for CMOs,” according to Gartner analyst Ewan McIntyre. The biannual survey queried 341 senior marketers about an array of topics including budget.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Podcasts have been on a winning streak for some time now, as data from Edison Research suggests. 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 ). 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search. Help Humanize Marketing?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 25, 2016

Whether in sales or marketing the moments we have to capture and hold the attention of a customer are short at best. It is just seven seconds on a cold call for sales or perhaps a phone pitch for PR. SEOs have just 60 characters for a headline – and it’s about the same for email marketers and their subject lines. Send us a link!

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Indeed, the pendulum seems to have swung that way according to survey data reviewed by Marketing Charts: B2B Marketers Shift Priorities From Generating Leads to Converting Them. What happens when people come to the realization these are pay-to-play pitches? They will be upset and lose trust, right?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Chat systems have certainly seen adoption rate grow to the extent some see them as a way to replace gated content. To me this just moves the data collection around a little bit on the website, but one place I have seen this work pretty well is the connection to customer service. 4) Details on the Cision-TrendKite Acquisition.

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Trends Media Report Technology 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A great data divide. Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. I also believe savvy content marketers are going to pay more attention to distribution – the who and how of content consumption.”.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

First, I think data provides a wide canvas of the happenings in the industry. It’s good to know where and how other marketers are finding success. Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Paid media and advertising statistics. Content Marketing Statistics.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

Like the famous Rolls Royce advertisement: ‘At 60 miles per hour the loudest sound was the ticking of the electric clock.’ On the flip side, technology and the ability to analyze data on big scales has opened new possibilities. 4) What is your assessment of this trend toward content marketing ? “In

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Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 62

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

The Struggle is Real in B2B Content Marketing [UML]. Marketing ROI: You Can’t Buy a Beer with an MQL [UML]. Beyond PR 101: 3 Truly Unique Pitching Tips [UML]. Working with the Advertising Machines . To have a clear conversation with me Richard the consumer – you would have to process huge amounts of data.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Everyone is doing content marketing these days. In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. You can also think about these in stages of content marketing maturity, though I’d caution, you never done with any given stage. Rent-to-own strategy.

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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. ” ~ Morgan McLintic , CEO, Firebrand Communications 6.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

2) Marketing analytics enable better efficiency. “In Data and analytics capabilities will mature to allow companies to predict the best possible experience and communication touchpoints throughout the entire customer journey. 5) Marketers will slow down. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In fact, you must publish content in order for it to be indexed and returned in response to search. That’s the gist of a piece Michael Brenner wrote for the Content Marketing Institute last week titled The Best Reason to Do Content Marketing? b) Integrated marketing. b) Integrated marketing.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. Some journalists love to get pitched great stories. But they are so bombarded with irrelevant stories and weak pitches that they don’t put their email addresses front and center. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that.

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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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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In recent market estimates, digital online and ad spending is expected to grow at approximately 11% per year through 2021. 1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR?

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Where the Fishermen Ain't

OCTOBER 25, 2013

For example, think about the many ways pitches —certainly a core feature in PR’s OS—have been examined in public and, when maladroit, mercilessly criticized. If PR inspires people to build something that does to PR what TiVo was supposed to do to television advertising , we''ll know (perhaps too late) that we failed.” Not necessarily.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. This information helps digital PR teams understand the media landscape and craft targeted pitches or campaigns.

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