Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This piece originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelance Creative. When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. “What separates excellent content marketing from the mediocre, in part, is care and attention to detail.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

1) Content marketers as librarians . “If That’s how Jimmy Daly begins his piece – 5 Content Marketing Power Laws – for Animalz a marketing agency and it had me hooked as a reader. They end up publishing way too much content in an attempt to maintain traffic. Does Blockchain Really Have Marketing Potential?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

According to a Marketwired survey in November 2015, PR and marketing professionals plan to increase their content marketing programs by 64% in 2016. According to the same survey, 79% of these professionals have a content marketing plan in place. On Tuesday, February 16th, at 8:30 p.m. … Read more.

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Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

We don’t need to sell you on the benefits of content marketing. When compared with other forms of marketing, content marketing has the potential to form a meaningful and long-lasting relationship with your customer or prospect. So, how do you get it right when it comes to content marketing?

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 23, 2018

B2B organizations that find content marketing effective are committed to these programs. These organizations have a content marketing plan in writing. Those are among the top-level findings from an annual survey of content marketers by the Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

And while it’s easy to mark your products down 40% in an effort to attract Black Friday traffic, it’s more difficult to remember to include your content marketing efforts in your holiday marketing strategy. Here’s an example of content you could do across channels beyond a Black Friday Sale announcement. Plan Ahead.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

People now look for and essentially demand content that gets them involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience. Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 10, 2018

With the explosion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, an increased focus from the C-suite on business- and metrics-driven KPIs, and a new trend toward Growth PR , PR & content marketing measurement is changing – radically and rapidly. I want marketers to think more creatively and broadly about what to measure.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 16, 2023

Hence our obsession with keeping tabs on industry blogs and finding those articles and authors that impact our own ways of thinking. If like us, you’re always looking for new marketing resources, you’ve landed on the right blog post. Below is a guide to Ready North's favorite blogs and publications.

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 21, 2014

Content marketing is on my mind quite a bit this week, for a variety of reasons, so we’ll use that as our topic. A second client tasked me with building a list of recommended next steps to move their content marketing forward, AND I’ve been working on my own 2015 content marketing strategy for Rock The Status Quo.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When I started as an editorial intern at Contently, the first thing I realized was that I had a lot to learn about content marketing. Like many people entering the job market, I wanted to write and edit, and I was interested in exploring different ways to make a living with those skills.

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Cision

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Content marketing has the power to turn your brand into a driving force in your industry, but with so much competition in the marketplace, how can you ensure that your content makes an impact? Suddenly you’ve built a foundation of expertise—through content—that is hard to beat. Can they download a larger piece of content?

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 1926, psychologist Graham Wallas outlined the basic creative process, which has been the overall framework for understanding and fostering creativity for almost a century. The Wallas process has four general stages: Preparation : loading up your mind to be creative. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 25, 2020

That’s why a lot of these creative content marketing opportunities we’ve seen the last week just seem to fall flat (see Chipotle’s attempt to use Zoom in a creative way, for example). The blog post had 150+ comments last time I checked (when was the last time ANY blog post had 150+ comments?!?!?!),

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Cision

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Content Marketing Institute stresses you pare down your requirements when deciding what to measure. These content marketing experts strongly advise against tracking too many metrics. Give them freedom to create content that makes people actually stop and ignore everything else on the Internet.

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Cision

JULY 21, 2015

While each component of your marketing strategy (email, PR, social media, blogs) should bring you results, it’s often better when two or more components work together. Take blogging and social media. You can write knock-’em-dead content, but without a push from other places, your blog may see little to no traffic on its own.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed. This Internet media company has been making waves for almost a decade, focusing on churning out content that spreads. Images: opensource.com , woodleywonderworks ( Creative Commons ).

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Constraint breeds creativity. Writing on the Ignite Social Media blog, Bruna Camargo gave the vehicle manufacturer good grades for its response, “Instead of issuing some lame press release about how they’re sorry their guy couldn’t be more eloquent, they embraced it, rolled with it, and are now about to bank on it. A while back, Inc.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 1926, psychologist Graham Wallas outlined the basic creative process, which has been the overall framework for understanding and fostering creativity for almost a century. The Wallas process has four general stages: Preparation : loading up your mind to be creative. Inspiration/Insight : the process of generating ideas.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Binge blogging, that is. You can read about my motivations and goals in my first post in the series— Binge Blogging: 30 Posts in 30 Days. I fully anticipate my blogging spree will help my business, though it’s too soon to assess the benefits. But when it comes our own blog, it’s been a different story.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Writers that report success with blogging share the following characteristics: They are more likely to write longer or more in-depth content; They tend to spend six or more hours writing a post; They are 2.5 It’s important for readers to keep in mind my world view is heavily filtered from the perspective of B2B marketing and PR.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. 50% say improved distribution.

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Cision

AUGUST 5, 2015

Sometimes writing fabulous blog posts on your business blog isn’t enough to drive the traffic you really want. One of my favorite content marketing strategies is guest blogging. When you write a guest blog post, you get it published on another well-established blog that caters to your target market.

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Prohibition

JUNE 25, 2018

But this is actually a pretty useful list of different things we’re using right now to try and maximise engagement as part of our content marketing strategies. This is basically a fail safe list of handy tools to use when you have the inevitable marketeers mind block and you need to make good content. Business blog baby.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 23, 2017

I was reminded of this recently as I flipped through a slide deck with 75 quotes from blog posts I’ve published over the last year or so. What started as a marketing experiment, has grown into a process that supports audience development. 20 Golden PR and Content Marketing Ideas that will Outlive 2017 from Frank Strong.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 20, 2017

A new survey of 2,400 B2B marketers suggests content marketing is the top priority this year – and by a wide margin. According to Marketing Charts , 37% of the respondents cited content marketing as the most important initiative. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML].

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Rock the Status Quo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And… at work, when you use a photograph of Angelina Jolie in a blog post on breast cancer. (It She can be an agency or marketing departments best friend. Be sure to check out her blog and grab a copy of her $3.99 book, The Legal Side of Blogging: How Not To Get Sued, Fired, Arrested or Killed.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 24, 2019

While we certainly encourage PR and communications pros to follow our insightful Critical Mention blog , we also want to share a few of our other favorite PR blogs. PR Daily is a news site that delivers news, advice, and opinions on the public relations, marketing, social media, and media worlds. Share Tweet Share.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Although visuals are important, the aesthetics of the text itself can influence how many people consume content and how long they spend engaged with it. This why a good content marketer can take a dense white paper, identify the most interesting parts , re-write it for the web, and then watch it get more traction than the first time around.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 16, 2016

In this case, market research has consistently demonstrated people favor recommendations from peers over brands. So while content marketing is the new branding , it’s becoming more evident that PR is the best kept secret in content marketing. No easier opportunity exists than in repurposing content.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 8, 2017

This is why content marketing is the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML]. The UML is a weekly roundup of just three articles or blog posts that I’ve vetted, analyzed, added commentary and recommend for further reading. 1) Marketing content vs. content marketing. Talk to Us!

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Cision

APRIL 24, 2015

The term “content marketing” casts a wide net when it comes to ways to promote and publicize a brand or organization. However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy. However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Research shows more than half of all B2B content goes unused. This means the burden of creating more content, at least in part, could be solved with a little creative effort. The key to repurposing in content marketing is to add value along the way. Make it better with every iteration.

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ISEBOX

MARCH 14, 2016

The Rise of Videos, Images and Content in Media Relations. These days, we hardly notice how much we are surrounded by multimedia content. Social media, email blasts, blogs, traditional media (duh, obviously). Producing great content is always easier said than done. Videos, photos, infographics, charts…they are everywhere.

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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.

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The Stalwart Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

A few months ago, our agency learned that more of our clients and prospects were in need of greater content marketing assistance. While we’ve always been a PR and Marketing agency, the majority of our work has primarily been focused on media relations. However, things are changing and that is no longer the case.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 3, 2019

How will you make your marketing program even savvier in 2019? For a little inspiration, we pulled PR 20/20’s most-shared blog posts from 2018. We used Buzzsumo’s Content Analyzer to curate the top posts across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, as well as links from other websites. Marketing Experts Agree, You Should Be.

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