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.

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Cision

JANUARY 29, 2016

Your content marketing efforts won’t impact the bottom line if your brand doesn’t provide value to your target audience. They need to revamp their approach to content marketing. Content marketing takes time, hard work and flexibility. So what should brands do? Also, be patient. 1,000 words?

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 11, 2018

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. Marketers always have the same question when it comes to artificial intelligence: “How do I get started with AI?”. Production: Creating intelligent content.

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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. In recognition of that influence, some of the biggest CPG brands in the world put cartoon characters on cereal boxes and pay retailers to stock these on shelves below the average adult’s waist height.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 27, 2021

But their secret sauce was content. They started the MintLife blog before the app even launched, offering straightforward advice to young professionals who wanted guidance on everything from taxes to credit scores. Companies with retail banking divisions invested in educational resources centers.

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Cision

MAY 26, 2017

Many companies are going out of their ways to affiliate themselves with established charities or prevalent issues to help their marketing efforts. This concept is called cause marketing. Cause marketing starts with proper affiliation. A big part of cause marketing is knowing how to appeal to the demographic.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2016

That day, I became a lead and one that converted the old fashioned way: retail foot traffic. Content, Local Search and Leads. Relevant content of high quality, that provides the answer for which people are searching, like the sort Mr. Robert’s creates for his blog. He gets most of his leads from one source: Google.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Nowadays, consumers are constantly bombarded with advertisements and marketing collateral, creating a congested market. For online retailers, cutting through the noise and engaging with their target audiences is becoming increasingly challenging. This is where influencer marketing plays a pivotal role in the industry.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2017

This is my motivation for blogging but it doesn’t suit everyone. It puts public relations on a collision course with marketing disciplines. Organisations themselves are become influencers by creating their own media such as apps, blogs and websites. Increasingly influencers demand a fee for working with an organisation or brand.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In today’s society, maintaining a social media presence is paramount to the success of your business, and remaining indifferent to the use of social media in setting marketing objectives is sure to curb growth. Facebook : Facebook is the premier social media network, particularly for retail businesses. Use Photos. Post, and Post Often.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Staying on top of your game is a must when it comes to content marketing. Having various marketing strategies across multiple platforms can be hard to keep on top of – so having the right tools at your disposal can be a game-changer. Get in touch today to find out how we could help you.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 7, 2020

When you’re working in a larger organization that has dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of employees, you can develop a brilliant content marketing strategy that will absolutely delight your customers. But, if you fail to make an internal case for your content, your plan will never get the buy-in or budget it needs to succeed.

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Beyond PR

MAY 1, 2017

What I want to do in this post is take a look at a few available tools that may help to improve your Facebook Live content. Is There a Compelling Reason for Your Content to be Live? The first question that every PR, content and marketing professional should vet is whether there is a compelling reason for them to publish a live video.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As marketers, we use SEO tactics to ensure our client’s rank highly in the search results but soon, software programmes like the Google Spiders will be outdated and we’ll be planning our campaigns around more intelligent programmes, like virtual assistants. Your bum will never look big if your bot is your stylist.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 9, 2021

But other times share values falling sharply, lawsuits, contaminated or dangerous goods, investigations, or even a new, slightly controversial, marketing tactic you couldn’t wait to try may be enough to damage a brands reputation and enter a real crisis period. Has your management or leadership team had to get involved?

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 25, 2016

You’re not going to get anywhere today if you don’t have a credible, unique story,” says Ken Wincko, SVP of Marketing at Cision and PR Newswire, in Branding for Growth: A C-Level Strategy. Your content needs to provide value to the reader—be it fresh insight, entertainment or problem solving.”.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 14, 2015

At the same time, we have many good reasons to rejoice as the practice of content marketing envelopes our industry. For example, The Times recently published a piece that questioned the harsh employment practices of the world’s largest retailer. The Flack Content Marketing JOurnalism Media PR social media'

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Norton's Notes

MAY 13, 2015

Over the next few months I will be interviewing practitioners from the world of public relations and digital marketing from across the globe, people I respect and look up to. Hanson from Minnesota who is the principal of a marketing and communications consultancy called ACH Communications. 1030: Draft social content for a client.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2015

Content marketing is the new branding. Content marketing *is* PR. Content marketing is the new buyer’s journey. But for the vast majority of marketers, especially in large organizations, content marketing is still a new concept, it’s still seeping into the culture. Almost passé.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2018

And, bringing an earned-media sensibility to the effort increases the credibility for some content that is overly commercial, badly targeted, or stuffed with obvious keywords. Best Practices For PR Content. All good content marketing initiatives begin by getting everyone on the team in agreement with campaign goals.

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Cision

MARCH 13, 2017

Public Relations has always been an important contributor to any company’s branding and marketing efforts. Further, the industry is largely controlled by Omnicom, IPG, WPP and Publicis group, which together account for around 34% of overall PR market at present. can all be labeled as PR activity.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

This idea reminds me of a clothing retailer, who years ago put up controversial billboards and then an employee intentionally – and surreptitiously – defaced them. A high profile blog was “tipped off” to the feigned outrage and the rest of the media then picked up on it and duly reported the incident as controversy.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 19, 2015

Roger is a lifelong content marketer and frequent contributor to the Content Marketing Institute Blog. He learned content marketing in the take-no-prisoners world of retail advertising. He then wrote several bestselling marketing and design books. Following is a guest post by Roger C.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I’ve read and blogged about previous reports produced by the UMASS Center for Marketing Research for several years now. Blogs as a tool of corporate influence is flat to declining. . It’s a very difficult perception to overcome because a blog is really, or ought to be, a news site. Retailers lead, the regulated follow.

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Cision

JANUARY 10, 2018

So, what goals does your marketing team have in the coming year? Here are three awesome branding resolutions all marketing teams should consider in preparing themselves for 2018 and beyond. The concept of niche expertise marketing is a great way to establish your brand’s credibility as an authority in your industry.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A few years ago, athenahealth debuted athenaInsight, its data-driven news publication, to make a serious investment in content marketing. According to executive director of content and communications John Fox, the marketing team made a choice to adjust the brand’s point of view as they prepped for the launch. “At

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This year’s sold-out Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit in downtown Minneapolis brought together 1,400 of our state’s brightest marketers, technologists and entrepreneurs to hear about new strategies to disrupt the status quo. Here’s a look inside some of the most memorable ideas that I walked away with.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 20, 2018

From January 1, 2017 until April 26, 2018, our editorial team has earned over 700 links to our websites and content that our bloggers told us about. For the purposes of this blog post I examined the incoming links to the 6 top sites. This type of content also does an awesome job of earning links naturally over time.

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

I spent the first six years of my marketing agency career chasing hourly quotas instead of results. The idea was centered on making services tangible with clearly defined costs, features and benefits, almost like buying a product off a retail shelf or signing up for a software service.

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Cision

JANUARY 11, 2017

According to research from the Content Marketing Institute , 70 percent of B2B marketers plan to create more content in 2017 compared to 2016. However, the same study revealed that only a measly 17 percent of content marketers report their content marketing efforts as much more successful.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Not surprisingly, our agency’s launch of the 4,590-pound, Guinness World Record-breaking “World’s Largest Rubberband Ball” in downtown Chicago for OfficeMax stores – which generated 422 TV segments in 127 markets –was a wild ride and a landmark experiential campaign for our agency. So was a publicity stunt for Kemps, when we carved then-Gov.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Online video marketing stats abound! Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5 Statistics like these are pervasive and underscore an undeniable truth: Videos continue to be part of the regular mix in marketing strategies. To autoplay or NOT to autoplay.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Influencer marketing has taken the world of social media by storm. Almost every brand now has a dedicated section within their marketing strategy for influencers and it’s not surprising why. Em is an award-winning influencer whose feed contains a mixture of fashion, travel and beauty content. Kelsey (kelseyinlondon).

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