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 1) How long should a blog post be? Today the average blog post is 1151 words. hours to write.”.

Blogging 104

Blogging Survey B2B Analysis 104

MaccaPR

JANUARY 29, 2021

That was surely the case when our public relations agency hosted Joe Pulizzi, the Amazon best-selling author of “Killing Marketing,” “Content Inc.” ” and “Epic Content Marketing” and founder of the Content Marketing Institute, in our almost-monthly Sharper Angle webinar series.

Content Marketing 62

Content Marketing Marketing Energy Internal 62

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?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Strategy Marketing How To 120

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

If you’re looking for a short and easy answer to blogging questions, here you go: How long should a blog post be? How long should it take to write a blog post? How often should I publish blog posts? In corporate blogging and more broadly, in B2B content marketing , it’s not so simple.

B2B 60

B2B Blogging Data Survey 60

Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s how to ensure public relations continues to play a role in your marketing strategy: Amplify your message. While this shouldn’t be why you reach out for press coverage, it is definitely a nice bonus when a prominent site links to yours. Make your message a positive one and ensure that comes through in your writing.

Publicity 100

Publicity Marketing Pitching Google 100

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To be sure, America definitely has a problem trusting the media. Whether you call it content marketing , brand journalism or custom publishing, with trust in media falling while trust in business is growing, you can build credibility through content if you can follow these golden rules: 1. Write with journalistic ideals.

Government 141

Government Survey Ethics Media 141

PR 20/20

MARCH 12, 2019

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. No matter what content you write or what stories your brand tells, there’s a good chance a machine can help you do it better. What Is AI for Content Marketing?

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Company System Marketing 40

Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

Text at the click of a button There’s a great deal of excitement about the technology as it seemingly is able to mimic human creativity and generate and edit content incredibly quickly. It generated a plausible definition of public relations from the 600 or more in research literature on the click of a button.

Publicity 98

Publicity Wikipedia Marketing Training 98

Polaris

MAY 14, 2015

Rid Your Writing of These Annoying Grammar Mistakes. I’ve been working hard to eliminate the passive voice from my writing. My goal is to write more clearly and avoid overly complicated sentences. Then, I had to learn how to write more actively. 1: The Passive versus the Active Voice. It hasn’t been an easy thing to do.

Writing 100

Writing eBook Course Measurement 100

Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 17, 2015

If there’s one thing you take away from today’s post on content marketing, please let it be this: just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Content Marketing: a scenario. You’re super-excited too – content, new client, money… what’s not to love?

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Community Marketing Mobile 40

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

But here’s the thing: Marketing budgets are increasingly shifting to focus on content marketing and other efforts that can show a concrete return-on-investment. Owned media, aka content, is content you produce that lives on your website or blog. Shared Media. Shared media is also known as social media.

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Media Relations Newspapers Measurement Social Media 331

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I definitely think that it is. Include a link in an online news piece, though, or pay an influencer to promote your brand in their blog post and it gets a bit murkier. I definitely cautioned students in my university classes against using these types of sources as credible references in their papers/projects.

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Pitching Journalism Video Advertising 174

The Proactive Report

APRIL 27, 2018

SEO) His latest blog post is about the trend for searchers to find what they want right on the search results page (SERP) and not bother to click though to a website. And the study shows that mobile searchers definitely expect to find what they’re looking for when they search. PR and the Future of Search.

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SEO Mobile Engineering Google 100

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The top problem in content creation probably comes from the fact that too many B2B marketers haven’t had a single conversation with a customer Most B2B marketers (57%) say creating the right content for their audience is their top content creation challenge in content marketing. How do you fix this?

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing How To 182

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

ChatGPT seems to miss emerging themes if there isn’t a wide body of writing already on a topic. Overall, being successful in PR requires a variety of skills, including strong writing and communication skills, organizational skills, strategic thinking, adaptability, creativity, and media relations skills.”. But just 2% said “always.”.

Interviews 103

Interviews Publicity Technology Social Media 103

PR 20/20

JUNE 30, 2022

It provides a thorough overview of the why and how of utilizing Instagram to market products and services, while also linking out to countless subtopic pages like how to gain Instagram followers and tips for taking great photos with your smartphone. But isn’t a pillar page just a really long blog post?”. Improved SEO.

Engineering 80

Engineering SEO Instagram Writing 80

wiredPRworks

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2007, David mentioned my fledgling blog wiredPRworks in his book, “ The New Rules of Marketing and PR.”. In a stroke of marketing brilliance, David included over 160 bloggers/contributors in the first edition. When I found David’s work and read his first book, I knew I’d found the roadmap to the future of marketing and PR.

Marketing 118

Marketing Social Media Trends Instagram 118

PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Launching Reputation Shapers was most definitely a highlight for us – more on that below! With every crisis comes creativity, new thinking and differing outlooks on life, and so I wanted to share some of our best pieces of content. Communicating in a global crisis. Bring it on!

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Reputation Creativity Crisis Employee 133

Buzzstream

JANUARY 22, 2024

Matt Cutts’ infamous blog post advised “sticking a fork in it” because guest posting for links was done. Methodology After compiling our list based on the sites’ guest post lists, we also added our own sites by using Ahref’s Content Explorer. So, you’ll also need to judge the quality of the writing itself.

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Analysis SEO Guidelines Google 91

The Proactive Report

JUNE 17, 2018

91 percent of B2B brands and 86 percent of B2C brands use content as part of their marketing efforts. Source: Content Marketing Institute 2018) That’s a lot of content being dumped online every day. Why are these brands so content focused? They know that content powers the customer journey.

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B2C Study Exercises Sports 157

Sword and the Script

APRIL 14, 2020

Apply “Deep thinking and intellectual rigor” Deep thinking – isn’t that the definition of thought leadership. For example, if you run a survey, chances are a dedicated blog post can be created around almost every question. Keep in mind reusing content doesn’t mean regurgitate – add value with every new use. What does that mean?

Leadership 191

Leadership B2B Marketing Study 191

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 8, 2019

This where someone with real PR experience can really help because it brings together three programs B2B shops typically already have in place – PR, content marketing and social media – to support a reference program. 1) Soft interviews on your company blog. This relations part of public relations.

B2B 75

B2B Media eBook Interviews 75

ReimaginePR

MAY 9, 2016

When they spot something that doesn’t add up, they’ll just pick up and leave—which is definitely not something you can afford. After a quick search , the simplest definition for our purposes is the quality of being genuine. You could be hesitant about writing your personal bio or publishing an engaging blog post each week, for example.

Writing 120

Writing Storytelling Branding Brand 120

Cision

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

You’ve probably noticed that blogs and content pieces rarely read like The New York Times or Wall Street Journal. The difference isn’t always a matter of substance; style is a reason that we are attracted to and continue to engage with content pieces. You know what bold is. Unordered List.

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How To Tools SEO System 308

Shift Communications

MARCH 28, 2018

Recently I was invited to give a presentation to the PR class at the Nova Scotia Community college on the different aspects of blogging—from personal blogs as a way to practice your craft, to professional blogs to grow your profile, to blogs as an integral part of a solid content strategy. Here it goes!

Marketing 68

Marketing Sports Blogging Writing 68

Polaris

DECEMBER 18, 2014

‘Tis the season when brands release heart-warming Christmas videos and marketing bloggers write about the best holiday gift ideas , new year’s resolutions and marketing trends for 2015. In addition, many are predicting the marketing developments we witnessed in 2014 will continue: 1. Wishful thinking? I hope not.

Trends 135

Trends Marketing Pinterest Social Media 135

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What role has content marketing played for you at LiveIntent? It’s huge for us and plays a key role in our marketing strategy. It’s a lot of what we do on the marketing side. We leverage our weekly marketing and product marketing newsletters as the main vehicles to distribute the content.

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Branding Brand Marketing Facebook 118

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

She has never published a blog post, or an article for a leading association of business communicators , or given a formal presentation. Recently, KPS Digital, a marketing organization in the UK, named me to a list of the Top 100 Influencers in Content Marketing. Does your agency eat, breath and sleep content marketing?

Marketing 60

Marketing Study Survey Content Marketing 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2016

For example, if you ask 10 different people to define marketing or PR, there’s a good chance you’ll get 10 different answers. Definitions of marketing usually include some aspect of understanding needs, creating a customer or defining a market. 1) What is Agile Marketing Again? Here’s how it works.

Marketing 60

Marketing B2B Content Marketing Training 60

Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

Consider your audience – you know them better than anyone else – and write quality announcements about the things your company does that matter to them. In recent years, the trend has been for website templates that blend news, press releases, blogs and resources together. If you want blogs, you don’t want press releases.

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Study Media Relations Media Measurement 142

Cision

JANUARY 18, 2016

million posts per week) and other content platforms LinkedIn is still pretty small. So, in this post I want to explore five best practices that can help communication professionals and content marketers optimize their content for LinkedIn. Use proper blog structure. Use web links to cite sources for your content.

LinkedIn 84

LinkedIn Mobile Leadership Course 84

Polaris

MAY 19, 2015

While it sounds simple, high converting landing page design is definitely not as straightforward as it seems. There’s definitely a science (and a bit of an art) to designing high converting landing pages. As you write, spend some time thinking about and answering the question: what’s in it for them? 1: Think Before You Start.

eBook 100

eBook Newspapers Writing Print 100

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

3 statistics from the newest B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report shows the “subscribed audience” is missing from most content marketing efforts. I had a chance to be a judge for the annual content marketing awards hosted by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) this year.

Content Marketing 124

Content Marketing B2B Marketing eBook 124

Critical Mention

JUNE 24, 2018

The exact definition of fake news is tough to define: false stories, satirical sites, social media memes and even illegitimate media coverage can be uncovered as phony. According to Fred Garcia, head of Logos Consulting Group, companies need to write their responses in advance. He terms it “the golden hour of crisis response.”

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Crisis Guidelines Social Media Reputation 94

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Content marketing is essential for any business in the modern age – it’s creating valuable and relevant resources that customers consume and use, in order to sway them towards then using your products and services. Are you receiving the full benefits which content marketing can offer? Guest Post by Aimee Laurence.

Content Marketing 8

Content Marketing Marketing Twitter Social Media 8

Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Which blogs? Mark Schaefer’s blog is one of the better independent blogs covering the social/digital world–but only when Mark posts. Well… Read every month: Content Strategist. Also read, if you have time: The Content Marketing Institute . Sign up for the e-newsletter: V3b blog.

Marketing 60

Marketing Case Study Blogging Content Marketing 60

Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Is your organization seeking to monitor and access social posts about your brand or promote mentions in blogs or news publications? There’s no doubt that earned content is a force within the digital media world. It definitely resonates with today’s online users. Priscilla is the marketing coordinator for Critical Mention.

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Strategy Media Analytics Radio 75