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Why Your Content Strategy is Failing And How to Fix it

Beyond PR

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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Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys

Sword and the Script

Advertising is a distant third. At the bottom of the list: oral communications and presentation time and meeting management, and technical aptitude, such as coding and SEO. Content marketing and media relations need each other. Blogs, including independent and corporate blogs, can be credible.

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Back to the future of PR at FutureComm15

Stuart Bruce

Last week I spent two fantastic days with Mynewsdesk at its FutureComms15 conference and then the following day at a content marketing master class with the Content Marketing Institute’s Robert Rose. Advertising makes stories up and shares them.” The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

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? 2) Be proactive in delivering value.

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Qualify Hard; Close Easy: Leads in Unscripted Marketing Links

Sword and the Script

Relevant content of high quality, that provides the answer for which people are searching, like the sort Mr. Robert’s creates for his blog. As a small business owner, Mr. Roberts told me he’s tried local newspaper ads and local television ads to drive leads to his business – but nothing works like the internet.

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Taking a Newsroom Approach to Content Marketing

Journalistics

Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. Before we called it content marketing, we called it marketing communications.

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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. c) More companies create their own content and channels to reach audiences instead of traditional media channels. A reset on advertising spend.

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