Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

The corporate reputation sector saw some consolidation this week, as Signal AI, which bills itself as a global external intelligence company, acquired KELP Inc., Its founders – Dan Gaynor and Shann Biglione – have impressive backgrounds in PR and marketing. There just wasn’t enough news to merit a column in July, so I skipped a month.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 9, 2018

These marketers aren't afraid to take risks to make an impact. In this spotlight, we’ve featured Cathy McPhillips ( @cmcphillips ), Vice President of Marketing at Content Marketing Institute ( @CMIContent ). Q&A with VP of Marketing at CMI. Q: What are your day-to-day responsibilities as VP of Marketing at CMI?

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 22, 2017

At times, working in a marketing department can feel like being on trial. HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound Marketing annual report asked marketing teams about their top challenges. The primary reason I’ve seen inbound marketing programs get squashed is not lack of resources, lack of data or lack of success, but lack of buy-in.

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PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Artificial intelligence is accelerating change in the marketing industry, and your career: Consumers will demand greater personalization , while wanting to control their data and privacy. More Intelligent” Marketing Automation. I love traditional marketing automation. Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference (MAICON).

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

The point this comment gets after — I believe — is that businesses hold some aspects of marketing – PR, social media and content marketing – to a higher standard. Marketing automation can take it even further. This is because the digital skillset in large corporate businesses is abysmal. You can’t buy it.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It has made several new product announcements in the last 12 months or so, including integrations to Microsoft Office 365 , an enterprise search tool and analytics that strives to “correlate [employee] engagement to feedback trends and business performance.” Here are a few data points that drew my attention: Market size and scope : “$4.5

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 14, 2016

“The business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.” – Peter Drucker. Should marketing be a profit center? Worse, it’s not just dangerous to marketing, it risks the model and focus of the business. The kicker?

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Stuart Bruce

MAY 20, 2016

The GIFT report – produced by Brand Finance, CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) – is an annual study assessing the intangible assets of more than 57,000 companies in more than 160 jurisdictions around the world.

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Mindful Marketing

MAY 17, 2020

by David Hagenbuch , founder of Mindful Marketing & author of Honorable Influence You’ve heard the saying, “Misery loves company.” For instance, Peloton, maker of those expensive in-home ‘exer-cycles,’ has seen sales surge so much that it plans to reduce advertising spending by 50% over the next three months.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Businesses that engage corporate blogging with professionalism and process can boost visibility, grow a community, and ultimately, have a meaningful influence on sales. At another company, the blog was a touch point on a sales cycle for roughly one-third of enterprise deals with an average selling price in excess of seven digits.

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wiredPRworks

AUGUST 2, 2016

As technology, culture, media and marketing converge, it’s an intriguing time to be a marketer. If you’re wondering how other marketers feel about our industry right now, take a look at the Marketers’ Confidence Index. marketer’s optimism as expressed through their organizational spending and growth.

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MaccaPR

MAY 28, 2015

Yes, yes - of course, we’re talking truth in advertising, of all things, but consider: When consumers watch the film, ‘Avengers 2,’ they know that Robert Downey Jr can’t really fly. So what precisely is the understanding between advertisers and their consumers as to honesty? Source: Forbes ). Was the spot intentionally misleading?”

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 31, 2019

After working on Welcome to the Machine: A Primer on AI for Marketers (coming later this year), for almost a year now, I can offer you some quick insights that may help. In fact, I have seen brands like BMW parse their social advertising by zip code and optimize content and channel (Pinterest or Instagram or Twitter or Facebook).

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Each month we’ll hear from c-suite level communicators and marketers as they discuss challenges and opportunities facing companies in an ever-changing business climate. Previously, Chris ran product marketing and go-to-market strategy for Oracle’s Marketing Cloud business. Chris welcome to the Earned Media Rising podcast.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 13, 2016

But I am smart enough to realize that a company’s marketing, advertising and public relations efforts—my efforts—have a direct and attributable effect to the bottom line of my company. Fact: Every for-profit enterprise wants—and all they want—is profitable revenue growth. Handle your company’s email marketing efforts?

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2017

News outlets have been struggling for years to balance advertising, sponsored and editorial content. Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing , Innovation Nights and Innovation Women says that “the 2016 presidential elections turned the media on its ear and soaked up a lot of time and attention. It may be irreversible.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 2, 2015

He had just moved to Virginia from San Francisco to take the top marketing job at tech start-up. As a new CMO , he was in the hot seat to make something out of nothing, to put that start-up on the map and help it figure out how to win some customers and define a market. Corporate communicators get a gazillion emails.

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PR 20/20

MAY 12, 2016

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Marketing Performance Blueprint , and was also published on the HubSpot Agency Post. The marketing services industry is in a state of flux. SMBs need partners that can deliver fully integrated solutions and in essence function as outsourced inbound marketing teams.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

We are pleased to share the next post in a series of in-depth profiles of key international markets written by one of our PRGN partners. Faces and Markets of PRGN is a series of blog posts in 2024 that puts Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) member agencies and their markets in the spotlight.

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PRSay

JUNE 15, 2022

Indeed, we’ve entered a new era of expectations for corporate and organizational LGBTQ engagement. Corporate social responsibility that is inclusive of LGBTQ advocacy is no longer just a buzzword; it’s an obligation and an expectation. an NGLCC-certified LGBT Business Enterprise.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2018

Every two years, the New York-based Corporate Communication International ( CCI ), conducts an in-depth survey of senior PR and communications officers at Fortune 500 companies about the latest global PR trends. Communications professionals must act decisively to safeguard corporate reputation, and many worry that they may miss something.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 20, 2018

And that’s how G2Planet got started in creating technology platforms to manage marketing events. I had a chance to ask him to answer some questions about what he’s learned in event marketing over the years. 1) In the grand scheme of marketing priorities, where do you think event marketing should rank? Startup Marketing?

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PRSay

MARCH 11, 2019

“[This] is the year of power to the people,” says Valerie Di Maria, principal of the communications and marketing firm. ” For the10company, this influence is directly tied to today’s heightened scrutiny of corporations and C-suite politics. Brands are beginning to over-rely on data and measurement.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2019

I asked co-founder and COO Jered Martin about pricing for the new model and here’s what he said: “We are launching our pricing plans starting in September and will offer four tiers: free, beginner, professional, and enterprise. There is little doubt Cision is the dominant player in the market today.

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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. Here's how: 33 Content Marketing Promotion Ideas.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 5, 2014

There’s an old saying in advertising that half of the budget is wasted, but marketers don’t know which half. Today, there are enough analytical tools today to avoid wasting half of the marketing spend. Eight-five percent of marketers said the pressure to demonstrate business value had increased this year over the previous year.

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Flatiron Communications

MAY 2, 2017

Enterprising PR professionals — a phrase I hope is not an oxymoron — might take a page from Product Hunt by considering all the new apps and desktop tools available to them today. Between the CRM solutions from GMail, Mailchimp, Meltwater, and SalesForce, PR types have many choices for their email marketing software.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It’s worth pointing out despite making software for PR pros, enterprises like this are primarily technology companies and not typically PR experts. The free anti-virus company Avast suddenly shut down Jumpshot, a company that aggregated and sold anonymized web data to marketers. 2) Will the shuttering of Jumpshot affect PR tech?

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. Outdoor and transmit media typically tend to be advertising material (but not always). As these new channels and pathways continue to grow, they bring a whole new set of paradigms.

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