Sword and the Script

JUNE 13, 2017

The recent commentary on content marketing by Gartner Research may have given B2B tech marketers motivation to reconsider the concept. Every B2B tech marketer is familiar with the analyst firm because of the implication the four corners of one certain magical graphical quad chart can have on a short list of vendors.

Content Marketing 78

Content Marketing Marketing B2B Analytics 78

Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 13, 2019

A Guest Post by Albane Flamant, Marketing Manager – US, Talkwalker. Once upon a time, brands and agencies relied on human analysts to identify brand mentions and extract insights on their campaigns. The first reflex of brands and agencies was to turn to human analysts to manually sort through the data and correct sentiment.

Training 399

Training Video Analysis Data 399

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.

Content Marketing 63

Content Marketing B2B Marketing Exercises 63

Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

Perhaps there’s a better way to nurture or otherwise engage the chap who registered to downloaded a white paper than three ( and often more) touches by sales within 24 hours. Maybe that person just wanted the content and there’s no chance he or she will ever make a purchase. And maybe there isn’t.

Content Marketing 69

Content Marketing Social Media Marketing Media 69

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. And long-form content. Think ebooks, white papers and even blog posts. Use keywords.

Content Marketing 49

Content Marketing Marketing Brand Branding 49

Victorious PR

MARCH 30, 2023

By working with a top PR agency, entrepreneurs can leverage various strategies to raise brand awareness, generate positive publicity, focus on authority building, and foster lasting relationships with their target audience. Having the best PR company is like having your own personal branding company.

Brand 52

Brand Branding Reputation Crisis Management 52

Victorious PR

MARCH 30, 2023

By working with a top PR agency, entrepreneurs can leverage various strategies to raise brand awareness, generate positive publicity, focus on authority building, and foster lasting relationships with their target audience. Having the best PR company is like having your own personal branding company.

Publicity 52

Publicity Brand Branding Reputation 52

5W PR

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This may include print media, digital platforms, websites or social media pages, as well as all the content on those channels. Other effective forms of owned media could include white papers, presentations, e-Books or other forms of brand-controlled content.

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Media Print Advertising Advertising 103

Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

Learn top tactics with Cision’s free white paper! Several reports over the last three to five years validate that brands have a hard time creating relevant content, more specifically the “right content, at the right time, in the right channel and to the right customer.”. How can they overcome it? Paid media.

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Employee Storytelling Content Marketing Leadership 120

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

We see infographics in content marketing survey results as well. The data puts infographics in the top five types of content created by B2B marketing shops. This trails traditional stables including case studies, videos and white papers. Typically, this is better used in newsletters, white papers and eBooks.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

16% on marketing analytics. The full report shows some nuance between agency and in-house respondents (graphic and summary by Marketing Charts here and here ). 3 Recommendations for B2B Marketing Budgets. I suggest thinking about distributing existing content elsewhere. 66% said newspapers.

Marketing 65

Marketing Survey Study B2B 65

5W PR

JUNE 27, 2022

The companies in the industry can create studies, white papers, and surveys to present to the public and more helpful information that other businesses can benefit from. Companies in the ad tech industry can leverage their content marketing efforts and pair them with thought leadership to market their solutions.

Company 88

Company Strategy Publicity Advertising 88

5W PR

APRIL 28, 2022

The content may generate leads, but the team should be well-prepared to follow up on them. Focus on Content Marketing. Content marketing is crucial in getting leads to the sales stage. By providing the audience with consistent and credible content, a business builds its brand and legitimacy.

Marketing 88

Marketing Government Guidelines Education 88

Cision

MAY 20, 2015

In 2014, the use of video content among B2Bs jumped 8 percent , meaning nearly three in five businesses have integrated video into their content marketing strategy. Video content creation is a powerful way to connect, engage and inspire audiences. Why wouldn’t they? Want to go beyond video?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

This blog is just a cover story for an incredible marketing and PR agency serving B2B tech. If you work for a big agency or even a large corporate communications shop, you can designate one person as a relationship owner so that pitches are filtered through that person. Marketing attribution for earned media.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 22, 2022

Create bottom-of-the-funnel content. Hear me out: I know content marketing is often used to push top-of-funnel awareness. So it only makes sense to spread your content marketing efforts to support prospective customers in other stages of the acquisition cycle. But that’s not the only way to use it.

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SEO Strategy Brand Branding 118

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Analysis: B2B marketing must develop its market. While lead generation specialists don’t like to spend money they can’t attribute to sales – investments in content marketing , education, awareness, and branding are inherently linked to finding prospects and cost of conversion. 44% say content marketing.

B2B 64

B2B Report Marketing Survey 64

Sword and the Script

APRIL 29, 2017

To that end, it’s really hard to sell more if you stop talking to your market. Instead of taking a hatchet to the budget, I’d suggest P&G re-allocate some of that ridiculous spend in display and programmatic ads into content marketing and PR. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML].

Marketing 68

Marketing Measurement Content Marketing Survey 68

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

That sea of sameness is how the Cindy Klein Roche , the CMO for Cybereason, describe the competitive landscape in cybersecurity during an interview with the Marketing Smarts podcast. From white papers to the trade press, the entire community is fixated on the next exploit, hack or breach. execute them? Give our services a try.

B2B 65

B2B Creativity Film Trade Shows 65

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If the world of SEO, inbound marketing, optimized content and landing pages thrills you as a marketer, then the following interview with Clint Danks is going to be your cup of Lipton. How did the ThinkSEM agency come to focus on search engine marketing and landing pages? Well, I was sorely mistaken.

SEO 98

SEO Interviews Blogging Engineering 98

Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

I often get asked about how to measure PR and what should be expected from PR in the form of results, especially when we meet with startups or brands who have been burned by a PR agency due to poor communication and reporting. Learn how with Cision’s free white paper! Imagine even bringing this conversation up first!

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

If they’re not currently engaged with an agency, most communicators have either had an agency relationship in their past or can look forward to having one in the future. When it comes to hiring an outside agency, 54% said they brought an agency on board when they needed an extra set of hands. The Latest & Greatest.

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Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Such traditional marketing examples – the influence of young people on consumer sales – demonstrates that influence in the sense of marketing is highly contextual and therefore difficult to universally define. Recently, KPS Digital, a marketing organization in the UK, named me to a list of the Top 100 Influencers in Content Marketing.

Marketing 60

Marketing Study Survey Content Marketing 60

5W PR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Content marketing is not a novel phenomenon and has been used as a marketing tool by PR executives for years. Following is a guide which will eliminate the disconnected messages, bewildering tones, and general chaos of PR marketing content produced by a business. . Creating Content.

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Content Marketing Marketing Measurement Data 148

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

Agencies know it, but they’re pushed to lower costs by CMOs that want to pretend cheaper is always possible and desirable. So, the agencies (as they’ve admitted to me) will blend some percentage of absolute crap sites into their digital target mixes to lower the official budget. And yet, there are problems. In one sense, it’s not new.

Journalism 61

Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

Beyond PR

AUGUST 2, 2016

The source is the party making the announcement or issuing content. In the case of a press release handled by a public relations, marketing or investor relations agency on a company’s behalf, the source will be the firm’s client. They need to know its source. Does every headline need source attribution? . Not necessarily.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. Before we called it content marketing, we called it marketing communications.

Content Marketing 52

Content Marketing Marketing Analytics Resources 52

Cision

APRIL 13, 2015

Content marketing can be challenging for health care communicators, especially at the local level — hospitals, clinics, and medical practices. So how do you do health care content marketing? So how do you do health care content marketing? Want to rise above the content clutter?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Communications Crisis Communications Marketing 120

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 20, 2014

If you need an acid test for compelling content, show it to a literate child at bedtime. Offer to read them a white paper or press release, listen to a webinar, show them an infographic. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Advertising Content Marketing Marketing Press Release Public Relations'

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Content Marketing Marketing Storytelling B2B 167

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Data analysis of millions of articles and surveys thousands of bloggers find long-form content outperforms short form. A long time ago an agency owner called me into her office. Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. We needed to get the client some coverage.

Content Marketing 78

Content Marketing Study Analysis Marketing 78

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Everyone is doing content marketing these days. In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. You can also think about these in stages of content marketing maturity, though I’d caution, you never done with any given stage. Analyze, but experiment.

Engineering 62

Engineering Content Marketing Marketing Analytics 62

5W PR

MAY 17, 2022

When companies combine their public relations and content marketing efforts, they can look at repurposing some of the old content they’ve published. Generally, public relations teams have been focused on creating written content for businesses. Top Examples of PR and Content Marketing Lead Generation.

Strategy 88

Strategy Content Marketing Employee Google 88

Polaris

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Who: Sarah is a UK-based blogger, content marketer, speaker and mom. I especially like Sarah’s idea for tracking traffic stats and leads for every single piece of content you produce. Who: WebpageFX is a Pennsylvania-based SEO and digital marketing agency. 3: Content Marketing Institute. Brilliant!

Content Marketing 154

Content Marketing Blogging Marketing B2C 154

Sword and the Script

MAY 30, 2017

The technology analyst firm Gartner recently weighed in on the difference between “content marketing” and “marketing content.”. Marketing content, according to Gartner, is “All content assets created by marketing teams.”. If one source doesn’t provide utility in content, another will.

Content Marketing 90

Content Marketing Marketing Enterprise Infographics 90

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Read more: The Average Cost of a B2B Content Asset is $2,791 [Data Analysis]. The survey listed 16 possible formats and here’s how the most valuable format stacked up: 43% said research or survey reports; 40% said case studies; 40% said webinars; 37% said B2B media and news; 34% said white papers; and. 34% said ebooks.

B2B 117

B2B Marketing Survey Software 117

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In today’s hi-tech, fast-moving, cluttered digital world, content marketing is one of the most practical, effective and useful marketing strategies to date. It’s an essential aspect of today’s digital marketing landscape. So what does content marketing mean? White papers.

Content Marketing 93

Content Marketing Marketing Infographics Consumer 93

Sword and the Script

APRIL 4, 2017

The channels that produce the most leads for B2B marketers are as follows: Email: 62%. Content marketing: 51%. That brings us to content marketing and the adjacent reference to lead generation in this study, which I think can be confusing. In part, this is why content marketing has become so important.

B2B 63

B2B Study Marketing Survey 63