Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Bulk Blog Topic Generation. Suppose we wanted to blog about coffee, but were unsure what to write about?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Bulk Blog Topic Generation. Suppose we wanted to blog about coffee, but were unsure what to write about?

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Blogging Conference Content Marketing Writing 60

Stephen Waddington

MAY 2, 2018

Inbound PR is a new book about modernising marketing and public relations by Iliyana Stareva. Iliyana is a young woman who started her career working in public relations agencies in Germany and the UK before joining Hubspot in Dublin. I’m a long-time fan of Iliyana’s blog. Iliyana has used her blog to help develop her thinking.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Beginner's Guide to Blogging Series: Part 1: Blog Core Values. Part 10: Bulk Blog Topics Generation.

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5W PR

MARCH 27, 2023

UGC consists of any content on a brand or its products generated and shared by end-users. User generated content examples could range from product reviews , social media posts and videos to blog posts. This content is often seen as more credible to audiences than branded content, owing to its unmediated source.

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5W PR

APRIL 21, 2023

It can take the form of text, photos, videos, and other content shared online. What is User-Generated Content? User-generated content is created by consumers, not brands. It includes blog posts, photos, videos, reviews, and social media posts. Brands can engage with consumers through user-generated content.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 24, 2018

There’s are several industry organizations that field annual surveys about content marketing and they are gearing up. Last year, the data overwhelmingly found every business says they are doing content marketing. This year, I predict satisfaction with content marketing will slide and many won’t understand why.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Anyone who has managed a content marketing program understands high-quality, “evergreen” content can live for years, pushing up page rank and attracting traffic for a brand or business. Automation has changed intelligence gathering and data analysis, which often inform a PR program’s messaging and content.

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Tribe Builder Media

APRIL 9, 2019

Why is it that content marketing is touted as one of the best online marketing strategies for business exposure? OK, that’s great, but exactly how do you go about perfecting the art of content marketing ? Content marketing resources… lots and lots of resources —that’s how!

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In this spotlight, we’ve featured Cathy McPhillips ( @cmcphillips ), Vice President of Marketing at Content Marketing Institute ( @CMIContent ). This includes all PR, video, audience development, and social and community management that my team handles. Q: How would you describe your inbound approach with CMI?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions. Talk to Us !

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 31, 2019

Individual blogs are in decline but blogging remains an important form of social media for reputation and awareness. You need look no further than the marketing, media and PR community for evidence of the decline in the craft of personal blogging. I can’t remember the last time I saw a blog roll, can you?

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PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. More Intelligent” Marketing Automation. I love traditional marketing automation. But, the great irony of marketing automation is that it’s largely still manual.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

We will have a Twittersphere of bots talking to bots and thanking each other for being top engaged members of the community this week. That’s why the psychology of more is the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links (UML). If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: Is Content Marketing Better than Advertising?

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While we do ‘the traditional stuff’ very well indeed, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what you would expect from a specialist PR agency. So that involves lots of exciting things like online community building, social media listening, brand audits, online crisis management, content marketing and video seeding.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. There are more blogs focused on personal development than any other topic, according to the survey.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? The legal community, and more specifically the in-house effect on law firms bear insight.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 28, 2017

A simple way to do this is to request an interview for a corporate blog. The operative phrases here is interview for a blog post – not a media interview. It’s a classic example of why content marketing and public relations need each other. Is your PR agency bringing creative ideas to the table? Talk to Us!

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine. LinkedIn Pulse takes your ability to promote your company’s content to a new level by sharing your knowledge in highly targeted way s. 5) Reach a different type of audience than your company blog.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Social media existed back then, as did blogs. How many PR agencies consider SEO when they’re coming up with PR strategies for clients? How many PRs write blogs and truly understand how to optimise them for Search? There’s a hell of a lot more to writing and promoting a blog post than bunging in a few buzzwords.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. 2020: 30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020. Happy New Year!

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Prohibition

APRIL 17, 2017

While we do ‘the traditional stuff’ very well indeed, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what you would expect from a PR agency. So that involves lots of exciting things like online community building, social media listening, brand audits, online crisis management, content marketing and video seeding.

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Agency Crisis Management Fashion Social Media 48

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Blogs are like opinions — nowadays, it seems like everyone has one. So, say you have a blog, but you want to take it to the next level and turn it into something profitable. Steps to take after this will be covered in an upcoming content series! 1) Offer reliably awesome content. Got friends in PR or marketing?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 26, 2019

Any public relations agency today needs nearly instant resources — from details on media preferences to data that informs our pitches and programs. There’s only so much time to spend on routine work like monitoring and measuring, yet these tasks are extremely important to any ongoing PR agency-client relationship.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Creating good content is just half the content marketing equation. The other half is content distribution. First, for many marketers, so much effort is poured into the creation that distribution becomes an afterthought. What’s the open rate in email marketing? 4) Pitch your content for a roundup.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

The PR community needs the competition. In an interview on this blog in 2021 , Propel Co-Founder and CEO Zach Cutler said as a former PR agency owner, he couldn’t find software that met his agency’s growth needs. Meltwater offers 50 suggested metrics to measure your content marketing. That sounds promising.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. Build a Better Agency Summit.

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5W PR

AUGUST 19, 2019

Instead, in order to make the most impact, digital PR uses online strategies such as search engine optimization, influencer outreach, content marketing, and social media. Digital PR agencies, then, now combine the best of traditional PR with a focus on emerging trends in content marketing and social media marketing- and more.

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5W PR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In a world where people (especially Millennials and Gen Z consumers) don’t necessarily trust traditional advertising, public relations experts are using content marketing, social media and event and web-based strategies to power marketing for small businesses by putting people at the center of their brands.

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5W PR

JULY 2, 2018

The easiest way for any company to make the most of their PR campaigns this year is with a content marketing strategy. While starting a regular video strategy or blog might seem like hard work at first, publishing articles is a great way to get the attention of both customers, and media representatives. Be a Dedicated Publisher.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some of the studies are surveys I’ve helped field, like the annual JOTW survey , however, most are by contributors or organizations from around the community. Over the past 12 months or so, I’ve easily reviewed and written about more than 20 such PR surveys from the PR sector (there many more about marketing). Give our services a try.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

In recent years, the trend has been for website templates that blend news, press releases, blogs and resources together. When you want to see press releases for the record, you don’t want blogs. If you want blogs, you don’t want press releases. Additional reading: PR Measurement: A Pulse Check on How Communicators Show Value.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

So, I started tracking the community and publishing three different writing series on PR technology ( PR Tech Sums , PR Tech Briefing s, and Product Reviews ). This blog is just a cover story for an incredible marketing and PR agency serving B2B tech. Did you know? Check out our services.].

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Rock the Status Quo

MAY 4, 2015

Why do I write about backlink pitches in a PR blog? Because journalists complain about the quality of a pitch and attribute it to lazy PR pros when it isn’t actually coming from a PR professional ( not that we don’t screw up, too ), and PR pros scorn pitches on their client blogs mentioning money or compensation.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

What if what we know in marketing is holding us back? When I left comms agency work for PR technology I felt I had to unlearn many of the techniques I’d built up over 13 years. Why Owned Media is Key to an Effective PR Plan We know that content is important in PR now but can we explain why? It’s free, why not give it a go now?

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Online communities have formed the core of the internet since the technology’s inception. In today’s society, maintaining a social media presence is paramount to the success of your business, and remaining indifferent to the use of social media in setting marketing objectives is sure to curb growth. Use Photos.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

To that end, I do think B2B organizations should be investing moderately in Facebook ads, with one caveat: These should be done as an effort to augment a content marketing approach, rather than solely for lead generation. If people on Facebook engage your content, Facebook will show it to more people.

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