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5 Smart PR & Marketing Trends for 2024

The Proactive Report

The trick to getting good content from an AI service is to learn how to write excellent prompts. Give it an identity to write from, a tone of voice to use, and enough context about the topic so that you get a great response back. Always edit and put your own voice on a piece that’s created by AI. Never use it straight from AI.

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How to Write SEO-Driven Content That Customers (And Search Engines) Love

Contently - Strategy

But the problem (probably) isn’t the writing. We write this content to cast a broad net over hundreds or even thousands of people, knowing that only a small fraction of those we lure in are even in the market to buy what we sell. In other words, we are writing content to capture attention from the wrong eyeballs.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. The answers are starting to feel repetitive and formulaic.

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Survey: Most B2B Marketing Writers Aren’t in Direct Contact with Customers

Sword and the Script

I’ll even take that a step further: if you aren’t in direct contact with customers in writing content, you are probably just making it all up. They don’t want to spend a chip furnishing customer interviews for marketing content because they’d rather save those chips to close a deal. You’ll learn a lot that will inform your writing.

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Meet the Media: Dennis Scimeca, Technology Editor at IndustryWeek

Bianchi Biz Blog

I write for the C-suite and technology leaders in the manufacturing industry about technologies and their practical benefits. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and data analytics stories roll across my desk often, and I think these may be the most important technologies available to manufacturers today.

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How to Leverage Your HARO Earned Media Placements

Cision

You’ve submitted your pitch, completed an interview with the reporter, and they’ve just sent you a link to the completed story. If you have Google Analytics, adding UTM tracking code to the link so that you can see leads and goal completions on your website. . Maintain a relationship with the reporter.

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7 takeaways from a study on B2B thought leadership; why it works or doesn’t

Sword and the Script

The 2024 version is out so I spent some time perusing the report to write about it here. Any marketer who’s had a request for a 20-minute phone interview with an internal subject matter expert that goes unanswered knows exactly what this finding is saying. So, marketing winds up writing content without talking to a customer !