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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

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1) Fatigue over Coronavirus news For the last several weeks, PR and marketing professionals wondered if pitches and content about topics other than the pandemic would come off as tone-deaf. Both groups are: “…about equally like to allocate more budget to search advertising, SEO, and vertical website campaigns.”

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

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90% of comms pros surveyed say their work has changed some, and of those, 50% say communications work has changed significantly. That’s according to The 5th Annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey for 2022 , which polled 483 communications professionals – mostly in the US. in an open-ended follow-up question. Semi-controlled chaos.

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Is Media Relations Getting Harder?

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That’s according to a recent survey of communication professionals , which yours truly conducted in collaboration with Ned’s Job of the Week. The survey found more than half (51%) said media relations is getting harder. How B2B Marketing Can Get More out of Trade Shows. Pitch a story about how the world is ending.

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Study: Marketing Budgets Take Aim at Digital, Social and Mobile

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That’s according to a new survey of 288 senior marketing executives – the CMO Survey – conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the American Marketing Association and McKinsey & Co; Duke has run this survey twice a year since 2008. The survey found 69.9%

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Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script #29: Tom Pick of Webiquity

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Advertising was extremely expensive. As a marketer, I wrote articles for trade magazines and did a lot of direct mail. Event marketing , at gatherings like annual customer meetings and trade shows, was huge in the 90s. Year after year, in every survey, the top priority, challenge, and metric for success is leads.