Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

And while holiday content opens up earned media and revenue opportunities, planning all of those PR and marketing campaigns can be overwhelming. To compete with big name brands, you need to get creative. However, you don’t necessarily need to break the bank. Target your content distribution.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 12, 2018

When it comes to building brands most experts will likely start with the tactics: Develop a mission statement or messages, create a logo, use PR, advertise and leverage social media. To be clear, these are all important components of the brand building process. Let’s wind this back to branding. Guest Post by Simon Erskine Locke.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I’ve been following along online all week to see what brands are up to. I wrote about this fabulous piece of content marketing yesterday. Bank – #NiceOff campaign on Twitter. How does a bank activate its brand during the biggest sporting week of the year? Bank (@usbank) January 30, 2018.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 22, 2019

When asked to recall your favorite online content, you probably don’t think about stuff made by banks. Unless, of course, your job is to make content for a bank. That’s not a knock on finance content at all, by the way. That’s why the brand’s med school calculator is such an incredible tool.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Here, Disney sets a great example for PR pros and marketers: Content is the key to everything you do. Disney was able to launch their streaming service with a huge bank of ready-made content. That’s why, at MediaSource , we put our content team at the center of our plans.

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wiredPRworks

JUNE 5, 2018

The at-a-glance reference book covers digital marketing insights in eight specializations: Search Engine Optimization, Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, PR, Email Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, and Affiliate Marketing. . Digital Marketers Sound Off Highlights.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 5, 2024

Flashier B2C brands often muscle their way to the center of the marketing stage, showing off products and services that people love shopping for. But finance content doesn’t have to be far from the excitement—after all, it takes budgeting know-how to afford those pricey shoes.

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Wildfire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Public relations plays a pivotal role in helping businesses and brands achieve commercial success, so it’s important that we separate the facts from the fiction, and instil faith back into an industry that has a history stretching back hundreds of years. PR myth #2: I only need PR when it goes wrong.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Agile is one of those phrases everyone in marketing seems to be talking about, but with very different ideas about what precisely constitutes “agile.”. This isn’t unusual for a profession where both creativity and data are important. 1) What is Agile Marketing Again? The Struggle is Real in B2B Content Marketing [UML].

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 11, 2024

However, this explosion of resources presents a mounting challenge for financial services companies that have relied on tried-and-true content marketing playbooks for years. So, what should content marketing for financial services look like in 2024? fixed income, equities, investment banking, etc.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 18, 2024

Content related to mortgages, insurance, and financial planning has a way of becoming predictable over time—unless you get a little creative. In this roundup, we’re diving into the top five financial content marketing case studies that have successfully transformed even the most complex topics into unexpectedly captivating content.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

To enhance empathy and connection with their teams and clients, organizations will foster employee brand ambassadors, highlight origin stories, show behind-the-scenes videos, and encourage user-generated content. Expanded brand collaboration “Partnership Paradise: 2024 will be the year of brand partnerships.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 17, 2024

When it comes to content marketing for financial institutions, legal compliance presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities. The intricate financial services landscape is characterized by stringent regulations, constantly evolving market dynamics, and a discerning audience.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

be the year that some SaaS vendor figures out how to manage and market B2B influencer marketing at scale. There are several platforms out there to simplify and manage B2C influencer marketing, such as Paladin, Heepsy, HypeAuditor, and InBeat. But B2B influencer marketing works completely differently.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 11, 2016

It requires a high level of resilience, creativity and organization. I think this is one of the reasons it can be comfortable for public relations professionals to seek out, and focus on, more controllable forms of marketing like blogging, marketing automation and social media. Media relations can be tough.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

3) Brands blur the lines between company and friend. We’re used to seeing communications and interactions with brands that are personalized. Similar to the algorithms which drive many of our online purchases, brands will begin to communicate with their customers as if they have personal connections with them.

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Rock the Status Quo

JUNE 18, 2015

What kills trust, when it comes to content marketing or even social media? If someone reading, watching or listening to your content can’t figure out how it applies to them, or what the target audience even is – how will they trust that you know what you are doing? Inconsistent brand clarity.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 4, 2021

It can be challenging for companies to keep up with what customers are saying about them online, but it’s even more challenging when negative sentiment is directed at you or your brand! A single mistake online could ruin your brand’s reputation and cost you a lot of business; why take the chance? Effective Returns.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a wide umbrella, spanning everything from consumer banking, investment banking, credit cards, fintech, insurance, and more. million for their content marketing budgets in 2019, per Contently research. This number includes content creation, distribution, technology, and talent. Key Findings.

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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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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.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This year, more than 20 professionals – real people that do real marketing and PR work every day – responded and with high-quality ideas that I found to be invigorating and thought-provoking. 8) Creativity over productivity. 9) Brands across the aisle. “I Customers will gravitate to a brand with like-minded values or politics.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 2, 2016

I also believe working through military policies and regulations helps me understand and anticipate the compliance and regulatory requirements of the banking, legal and healthcare industries. I think most of the discussion on content marketing comes down to a couple things. So, what’s my definition of content marketing?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Marketing be nimble. Rather than having year-long editorial calendars for opportunities and content, marketing and communications professionals are will have to work in a much more agile, phased approach: creating evergreen content per quarter and making room for ‘rapid-response’ type communications based on what 2021 might throw at us.

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