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How to Use Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Cision

When it comes to marketing, nothing beats people telling others about your brand. No advertising, no paid placement beats the simplicity of word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM). Think of all the places you’ve wasted money trying to market your brand. As a society, we’ve moved away from letting advertising dictate our desires.

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9 Content Marketing Trends That Will Rule The Roost In 2016

Cision

Anne Carton is a small business consultant, digital marketing expert and blogger working with Designhill , the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace. Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors.

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3 Rewards to Reap From Brand Journalism

Cision

Gone are the days of pushing your brand’s message to your audience through traditional advertising. Cision’s white paper, “ Brand Journalism: From Awareness to Lead Generation ,” offers insights on building a successful brand journalism program and a look at the brands that are already doing it well. Build Awareness.

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2020 Marketing Budget Planning: Here’s How Marketers Say Spending is Shaping Up

Sword and the Script

October is typically a time of year with special urgency for many in marketing. To that end, I’ve poured over two surveys and re-visited a third to see what the wisdom the marketing crowds had to say about 2020 marketing budgets. 16% on marketing analytics. 16% on marketing analytics. “As of revenue to 10.5%

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We Should Measure Content Marketing by Relationships

Sword and the Script

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns. by Frank Strong.

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What PR Can Do – And What It Can’t

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Brand marketers often look to public relations to accomplish a great deal of “heavy lifting” in terms of creating awareness. Augmenting a sales and marketing effort. A good PR campaign is informed by and reflects messaging from marketing efforts but should never supplant those efforts. Guaranteeing outcomes.

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Ad Blocking & PR: Trends & Opportunities

Cision

While ad blocking software has been around for years, concern about ad blocking has become one of the hottest topics in advertising and marketing this year, especially for mobile advertising. Some advertisers and website owners believe that ad blocking by consumers is at best freeloading and at worst, it’s theft.

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