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5 Powerful Owned Media Strategies (Part 2 of 2)

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Seek internal experts. Creating valuable content is never easy, and doing so at scale is even more difficult. You likely have great staff who can help write content, it’s worth your while to try to enlist those experts at your company for their subject matter expertise. Amplify your message. Measure and improve.

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Trust and the Unlikely Reinvention of Advertising [UML]

Sword and the Script

Use PR to build a brand and advertising to defend it. The point of that philosophy used to be that, while you can build a brand with advertising, it’s very expensive. But marketing is anything but stagnant. More recently, fake news has laid the groundwork for a new-found trust in advertising. 1) In advertising, we trust.

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7 Reasons Your B2B Content Marketing Program Fails to Deliver that You Probably Haven’t Heard Before

Sword and the Script

There’s are several industry organizations that field annual surveys about content marketing and they are gearing up. Last year, the data overwhelmingly found every business says they are doing content marketing. This year, I predict satisfaction with content marketing will slide and many won’t understand why.

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PR Agency Search: Priorities in a PR Expanded World

Deirdre Breakenridge

Almost four in 10 respondents to a survey of corporate communications, marketing and industry leaders for CommunicationsMatch’s new PR and Communications Agency Search Report said they were looking to hire new agencies in 2017. Lowest ranked were digital and traditional advertising. With 5,000 U.S.

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

Sword and the Script

Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions.

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Media Relations Keeps Getting Harder; Here are 6 Dynamic Techniques to Adapt

Sword and the Script

Many of the open-ended comments from the survey point to underlying causes such as the rise of social media and self-publishing, disruption of the advertising-heavy business model in news, subsequent cuts to editorial staff, growth among the ranks of PR, and the deluge of pitches reporters receive. Send it around internally.

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AirPR Raises $8 Million Series C Financing – Bolsters Platform With the Release of Author Intelligence™ Solution

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The financing will fuel investment in engineering, data science and product development and accelerate the expansion of the company’s international footprint. The PR and communication function, on the whole, has been losing ground relative to the advances in marketing technology.

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