Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Specifically, the survey found storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership topped the list of more than 20 tactics or trends related to PR in terms of importance. 67% said thought leadership.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Some 70% reported video has a greater impact “over other content formats such as infographics, e-books and white papers” in raising awareness of a business problem. 97% of respondents said video content and communication were useful after making a purchase. Email subscribers are essential for content marketing success .

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

What the PR team does integrates into elements beyond the traditional marketing umbrella it used to sit under. You can work with organizations of different sizes from startups to nonprofits to agencies to large corporations. Creativity matters . There are more ways than ever to be creative in PR. via GIPHY. via GIPHY.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 3, 2019

The 80/20 Rule: Why You Need to Spend More Time on Content Amplification. At our agency, we live by the 80/20 rule when it comes to content: spend 80% of your time on promotion and 20% on creation. This post includes nine quick ways to amplify your existing content. 4 Tips to Unleash Your Inner Content Creative Genius.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The Role of PR in the Coming Content Marketing Collapse. As the New Year came and went, content marketing strategies were ramped up by businesses and brands all over the place. Amidst this barrage of content, Mark Schaefer published a blog on Content Shock. Marketing Analyst. Tori Sabourin.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We exist to educate, inspire and celebrate forward-thinking communicators and brands through expert insight, job leads, agency directory, digital tools, courses and annual Bespoke Communication Awards program. Our take on HubSpot: HubSpot delivers wonderful content, infographics and templates to help guide your marketing techniques.

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

How to Balance Ethics and Reality in #Influencer #Marketing [link] pic.twitter.com/BWn4QG8m0s. — Co-Founder of Status Creative, a leader in social media engagement. 68% Of Marketers Want To Know How To Create Better Visual Content [link]. Content marketing influencer, social media marketing strategist & speaker.

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Taral Patel is PR Executive at PRmention , a digital PR agency for startups. Dove did a great job reaching their target audience through innovative and creative videos. Their campaign was highly successful, although the content hardly mentioned Dove in the videos. Create a strong content marketing plan.

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Buzzstream

MAY 19, 2022

I worked at a content marketing agency, Siege Media , for six years, and with every successful and failed campaign, I learned a new lesson. And each time, I came away more prepared and excited for the next piece of content. Other keywords need a creative eye to find a way to insert proprietary data to make it pitchable.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. Comprehensive Reporting: Buzzstream also creates helpful reports per project, agency, or company-wide metrics.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. Comprehensive Reporting: Buzzstream also creates helpful reports per project, agency, or company-wide metrics.

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Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

In fact, as all savvy marketers know, more than “what” you sell, “how” you sell creates a bigger emotional, and thus bankable, impact. There is really no excuse to stick with lackluster content that rubs people the wrong way or leaves them disinterested. 3 Content Marketing Wins with Buyer Personas.

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Buzzstream

MAY 9, 2018

I should point out that this data covers the breadth of BuzzStream customers, which includes agencies and independent companies across a wide range of industries. SEO Content Marketers – A mixed bag, but shows that still the majority of value is derived from the initial outreach campaign.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

I really like that Nadya Khoja emphasizes relationships rather than pitching in her piece How to Build Relationships With Visual Content Marketing , which she wrote for Mention , a media monitoring service. You can absolutely build relationships with content, and content marketing absolutely plays a role in media relations.

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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.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2015 focused on same-day content promotion, Game of Thrones, and expanding your skill set. Let’s take a look: How To Use Google Analytics for Same-Day Content Promotion. Marketing Analyst. Will a blog post go viral? Is a tweet less or more likely to work? Angie Goldman.

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Analytics Viral Social Media Google 60

ISEBOX

MARCH 18, 2016

This affordable platform created specifically for agencies keeps everyone on the same page with scheduling meetings, timelines and milestones. The upgrade to Advanced Project Management is $10, and the Full In-House version for creative teams is $15. Function Fox : Collaboration is key to project management.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 19, 2015

However, breaking into an agency or in-house PR department directly from college is more difficult than ever. Our Minneapolis PR agency reviews every application that crosses our transom, whether or not we have an opening. What PR agencies look for in resumes – that’s another post for another time… coming soon.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For far too long, brand communicators and marketers have been pushed to create, create, create – be it press releases, blog posts, videos, infographics, etc. Once a brand published a new piece of content, it was time to create more content. You guessed it: More content. And after that?

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Resources Analytics Measurement Infographics 40

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5 Video is the most popular content marketing format for 2015, ahead of case studies, blogs and infographics ( 2015 State of Digital Marketing , a report featuring insights from over 600 marketers from Web Marketing 123).

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 10, 2015

If you have no images at all, get creative. Certain images, such as infographics, are “allowed” to have a lot more information packed into them than other images. Marketing Coordinator. . Best of all, Canva’s blur option allows for an entire spectrum of blurring. Use their headshot from their company bio. Savannah Whitman.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Luckett says marketers should stop focusing on outdated tactics - such as banner ads - and instead look at what attracts a non-cognitive response, such as infographics, videos or art. Marketers and PR pros should make sure our content induces the right emotions and resonates with our target audience.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]. 2) The average content marketing budget is $185,000. The most successful content marketers invested more, with an average of $272,000, while the least successful content marketers spent less at $109,000.

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Marketing Publicity Survey Study 78

The Hoffman Agency

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In particular, I was intrigued by the China team’s creative cartoon infographics that tell interesting B2B tech stories. Coincidentally, about two weeks after my presentation, Jason Cao, our general manager of Hoffman China visited the U.S. Moreover, I found the strong business momentum of the China team motivating.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 18, 2015

In this brave new world, marketers are creating their own content – infographics, podcasts, webinars, YouTube videos and more – that are distributed for free via their digital channels. Brian Enderlein , Digital Media, Interactive Marketing & Analytics, 3M. Content enhances and supports our brands.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 12, 2018

I recall an agency staffer running around the PR firm making sure everyone knew how to prevent it from happening. It’s a good reminder, that it’s not the press release distribution service that results in an effective story, but rather it’s the content and context. 11 Simple Ways for PR to Score Content Marketing Points.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 24, 2019

This is an excerpt from The Content Marketer’s Playbook: Grow Your Content Program. Brands are creating more content than ever before. According to CMI’s 2019 benchmark report , a majority of both B2B and B2C marketers increased content creation budgets from 2018. Get key stakeholders on board.

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Content Marketing Infographics Insurance Insurance 88

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Josh Rose, Chief Creative Officer, Weber Shandwick. Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Officer, Content Marketing Institute. However, the visuals have to be creative and well-designed and executed. The new PR content model is being referred to as PESO – Paid, Earned, Owned and Shared.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

In marketing, it’s become the CMO playbook. The last CMO was a train wreck and therefore a) we need fire an agency; b) initiate a restructuring; and c) launch a re-branding. But a continued tight labor market is making it increasingly difficult for employers to recruit qualified talent.” Some agencies are vendors.

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Marketing Employee Survey Social Media 70

Shift Communications

MARCH 18, 2015

Content marketing remains the hottest topic of discussion among marketers and communicators. Even accounting for things like content shock , marketers continue to place a premium on content creation. Follow a 70/30 Rule – 70% of content curated, 30% branded. Be everywhere with your content.

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Content Marketing Marketing Infographics Mobile 60

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2016

From native advertising to content marketing , the dynamic web is about the blurry and blurring lines in marketing. Lines blurred to the extent that marketing looks more like PR. More importantly, the dynamic web is fluid: What was true in digital marketing yesterday, is not necessarily true today.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 15, 2016

We also were led to believe that the creation of a compelling piece of content (text, images, infographics, video) stood a chance of going viral. Now that CGM has morphed in name to UGC (user generated content), marketers want a guarantee — in the form of a ready-made audience — to drive awareness and action.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Even today, a Google search on the words “Death of Public Relations” generates 108,000,000 results - including giddy articles titled “The Many Deaths of Public Relations,” “The Death of PR Agencies,” and “Corporate PR Is Dead.” But, as that great marketing communicator Bob Dylan sang, “things have changed.”. What’s a marketer to do? “To

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