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The New PR: The Intersection of Positioning and Content Marketing

Onclusive

To be successful in the New PR is to identify the intersection of positioning and content marketing. The branding agency goes off and comes back with something really creative, but it is disconnected from your customers, your board and your employees. Building the Narrative & Content Marketing.

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Conquer Today’s Top B2B Content Marketing Challenges

Shift Communications

This week I was reminded of a post I wrote back in March on jumpstarting your B2B content. MarketingProfs’ latest B2B Content Marketing 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends report. The report provides some great insight into how B2B marketers are thinking about content and where they’re stuck. The reminder?

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What Does It Take to Implement Content Marketing Effectively in B2B?

Sword and the Script

What does it take to implement content marketing effectively in a B2B organization? It’s not an easy question to answer broadly because: a) every team has its own dynamics; b) every organization has constraints and limitations, and c) every vertical market has its own unique characteristics. Documented strategy.

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News planning, tools and workflow to build an editorial calendar

Stephen Waddington

It’s an important process document for a PR team that sets priorities between different announcements and ensures there are no clashes. The calendar is typically a working document managed by the PR team and its agencies and shared with the board or senior leadership team and operational areas of the organisation.

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

Sword and the Script

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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How to Create an Editorial Calendar That Drives Results

Contently - Strategy

That said, how do you transcend from a messy spreadsheet or sticky notes on a bulletin board to a comprehensive content marketing engine? Ensure consistency: One of the biggest keys to content marketing success is a consistent posting schedule—it helps your audience stay engaged.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

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? I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

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