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.

Technology 167

Technology Publicity Software Pitching 167

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Salesforce positioned itself as the antidote to software as it brought predictable pricing and short-circuited premise software implementations. It used to be we had three choices: Rent a medium with advertising; Earn coverage in a medium by being useful; or. Earn word-of-mouth with guerrilla marketing. Talk to Us !

Software 97

Software Comparison Measurement Content Marketing 97

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.

Interviews 98

Interviews Publicity Technology Social Media 98

Flack's Revenge

MARCH 8, 2018

Their Spike and Analytics solutions provide a wealth of data that can shed light on social media buzz and content performance. But after seeing demos, and even playing around the software, it was unclear exactly how to put Newswhip to work to support media relations. This idea makes sense. Who sees it, shares, likes, comments?

Data 159

Data Media Software Viral 159

Sword and the Script

APRIL 11, 2020

As I look out across my peers in B2B marketing , for many of us, this is our third trip to recession rodeo – after the dot-com bust and financial crisis of 2008. We have more studies, more data and more experience both in designing and measuring marketing and marketing in a downturn. Try our services.

Study 92

Study Marketing Survey SEO 92

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 11, 2018

HubSpot develops cloud-based, inbound marketing software that allows businesses to transform the way that they market online. BrightEdge is a global leader in SEO and content performance marketing that blends search intent discovery, optimized content creation, and performance measurement into one integrated solution.

Tools 71

Tools Marketing Enterprise Software 71

Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

The authentic content consumers are actually interested in is barely seeing the light of day, meaning she and her company are losing out on the free research and development that comes from customer feedback. Owned media, like content marketing, may be more of a long-term game, but that doesn’t mean the game isn’t worth playing.

Facebook 0

Facebook Marketing Journalism Creativity 0

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. If you’re a marketer, surely you thought ‘yes, please’ to at least two of those categories. Content Marketing World Conference and Expo. Tech industry.

Conference 97

Conference Marketing Case Study Content Marketing 97

Sword and the Script

MAY 13, 2017

Program effectiveness depends on so many variables such as the context , content, cost, industry, reach, return, trust and the more subjective attributes of quality and value. Isn’t that sort of like buying an advertisement with an ego? 3) Measuring an influencer marketing program. Give our services a try. Talk to Us!

Strategy 75

Strategy Marketing Measurement B2B 75

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The measure of “best” in this case is unique page views. 3) The Future of Marketing Looks More like Public Relations. 4) B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success. 5) Finding Leads: 6 Takes from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B Lead Gen Report. 6) 4 Big Media Trends that have Upended PR and Marketing.

Blogging 72

Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 72

Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

According to research by Boston Consulting Group, one ultraloyal customer who shares content can generate eight times his or her own consumption through their advocacy. The key idea here is that the economic value of content marketing does not come from content. It comes from the transmission of content.

Marketing 239

Marketing Television Handbook Web 239

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.

Software 118

Software Case Study Advertising Advertising 118

PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Is your organization missing key pieces of the marketing tech stack that could impact performance? For example, online chat software is ideal for engaging with site visitors, answering questions, and capturing leads. Have we created a content marketing editorial calendar that defines our strategy on content production and publishing?

Marketing 52

Marketing Technology Internal International 52

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. Who do you see advertising on those pages? No need for the army of associates.

Agency 92

Agency Trends Marketing Survey 92

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Against that backdrop, I’ve organized this year’s prediction roundup into the following categories: Predictions that have little or nothing to do with AI; Predictions that express caution about AI; Predictions that are enthusiastic about AI; Predictions from PR software executives; and One prediction from ChatGPT.

Writing 190

Writing Communications Marketing B2B 190

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.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing B2B Marketing eBook 120

PR 20/20

JULY 6, 2020

Inbound Marketing : Learn inbound marketing techniques that range from content creation to social promotion to converting and nurturing leads and beyond. By the end of this certification course, you’ll be well on your way to building your inbound marketing strategy.

Training 72

Training How To Course Software 72

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Where will marketing invest that budget? The survey showed the top three categories in 2016 marketing spend were web, digital commerce and digital advertising. of revenue will be allocated to marketing budgets to drive growth in 2017. Influencer Relations: Magic Middle vs. the A-List. We are great at both!

Marketing 60

Marketing Survey B2B Study 60

Cision

APRIL 6, 2015

Don’t use listens to measure success. “The (podcasting) format really lends itself to advertisers. This doesn’t mean that you have to sell your audience anything, but you can leverage the same tactics that a sponsor might use to attribute referrals to measure the effectiveness of your podcasts.

Engineering 120

Engineering Tools Examples YouTube 120

Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

At the beginning of every new month, I take a look back and the news and notes stemming from the software developers that make tools for PR pros. As I’ve pointed out over and over, this has, in part, contributed the need for PR to get serious about *true* content marketing. Here we go…. g) Do Execs Know What PR Is?

Trends 60

Trends Media Report Technology 60

Sword and the Script

MAY 8, 2018

However, the platforms have changed as organic distribution has all but eroded in support of platform advertising models. If spending is indeed this high, I hope marketers are investing equally in strategic purposes and long-term programs such as audience building and subscribers to your content marketing platform.

Survey 62

Survey B2B Marketing Mobile 62

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. Analyze, but experiment.

Engineering 62

Engineering Content Marketing Marketing Analytics 62

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.

Content Marketing 79

Content Marketing Marketing Comparison Measurement 79

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.

Marketing 187

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 187

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” ). Have young PR pros grown overly reliant on automated media list-building software, skipping the vital reporter research before they hit the send button? they produce.

Pitching 43

Pitching Journalism Tools Agency 43

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

A subsidiary of the private equity firm GTCR subsidiary, called Blue Canyon , makes a public offer of 775 million in Swedish Krona (SEK) to for a majority stake in Cision, a provider of PR software and services such as, media monitoring, media list building, distribution and analysis. Now imagine that world, but in software.

Technology 12

Technology Software Company Marketing 12

Onclusive

MARCH 21, 2018

Today, advertising, corporate content, and social content is often separated,” Owyang wrote, “but tomorrow, we expect these circles to converge and overlap, with little or no separation.”.

Storytelling 281

Storytelling Media Infographics Advertising 281

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Unlike online advertising or organic search, where you know what content people clicked and what they did on your site afterward, traffic from PR activities is much harder to identify and track. Hopefully, this guide has shown you how to demonstrate the success of your PR campaigns without having to buy yet another piece of software.

Measurement 69

Measurement Analytics Google Advertising 69

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A survey by Spiceworks Ziff Davis found B2B tech marketing prospects say they consume 11 or more piece of vendor content Pieces of content. There are unpolished phrases the marketing community kicks around to describe the outsized role content marketing has in the sales cycle. Consumption. Try our services.

B2B 111

B2B Consumer Marketing Survey 111

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Content marketing isn’t just a constant stream of advertisements. But using the wrong tools can cripple smaller content marketing teams. Doing that with a dozen core pieces of software is a lot easier than managing 30. Analyzing the wrong data.

Content Marketing 103

Content Marketing Print Analysis Data 103

Cision

MAY 4, 2015

We’re excited to realize the next step in our ongoing mission to innovate the content marketing, social and PR spaces with the release of two new products: the Cision PR Edition and Cision Social Edition. Extend content’s lifespan with social amplification, sponsored placements and direct engagement capabilities. cision.com.

Social Media 120

Social Media Analytics Enterprise Content Marketing 120

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.

Case Study 101

Case Study Marketing Study Content Marketing 101

Cision

APRIL 18, 2016

E-Commerce/Advertising Improvements – Changes that give businesses opportunities to spend more money on Facebook as an advertising and eCommerce platform. Analytics Improvements – Changes that give communication pros and marketers better information on Facebook interactions and customer segments.

Facebook 0

Facebook Mobile Analytics Advertising 0

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. Pricing: Varies Alternatives: Muck Rack is a comprehensive PR software for building media relations and amplifying your PR efforts.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

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. Pricing: Varies Alternatives: Muck Rack is a comprehensive PR software for building media relations and amplifying your PR efforts.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Shift Communications

AUGUST 12, 2015

The four key takeaways for me were: PR is getting it re: measurement. Almost every presenter at one point in their talks mentioned the need for content to be mobile-friendly and that visuals (video, images, infographics) absolutely needed to be in your content development toolkit. The power of visuals and mobile.

Mobile 60

Mobile Strategy SEO YouTube 60

Beyond PR

MARCH 17, 2016

Budget-friendly tip: Social media advertising can be as affordable or expensive as you make it. Content Marketing. Content marketing can be a cost-effective and high-impact tactic to strengthen your online presence and generate new leads. It will also help you avoid overpaying your software vendor for storage fees.

Marketing 40

Marketing Small Business Web Nonprofit 40