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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

Sword and the Script

There’s an opportunity for content marketing as audiences become fatigued with Coronavirus news and marketers reallocate live event funding One of the goals of content marketing is attracting an audience of likely buyers to your web properties and giving them a reason – and the means – to return regularly.

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Are Trade Shows still a Good Place for PR Launches?

Sword and the Script

That’s the number of pre-trade show pitches one blogger told me he had received in a side bar conversation last week. For the most part, he runs his blog like a traditional news site, clearly has good industry contacts and always winds up involved in a couple of sessions. The PR pitch deluge inevitably follows.

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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]

Sword and the Script

I’d do a considerable amount of blogging. Occasionally, I’ll use the service Help a Reporter Out (HARO) to field responses for a blog post. 2) Volume of PR pitches received. 3) Best medium for PR pitches. 93% of journalists want pitches by emails; 69% do not want phone calls; this has been fairly constant for years now.

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The Evolution of Earned Media: Navigating Change

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

However, media pitching and media relations to secure earned media still dominate the industry. User-generated content/word-of-mouth recommendations. Product roundups by other content creators. Product reviews on platforms like YouTube, social media platforms, or blogs. Unpaid search engine traffic.

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Is Media Relations Getting Harder?

Sword and the Script

4 Big Media Trends that have Upended PR and Marketing. How B2B Marketing Can Get More out of Trade Shows. How to Generate Media Referenceable B2B Customers with a Blog. It’s always been dirty little secret in PR (and editorial) that advertisers get better coverage in the trade publications. The alternative?

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

Sword and the Script

The addition of marketing, analysis, trade show consultation, managing professional organizational memberships and everything else has made every day a whirlwind of tasks, to-do lists and semi-controlled chaos.”. Jack of all trades. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur.

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The “Ides of March” Are Here – Beware These Common PR Pitfalls

Critical Mention

For example, one of the things we learn early on in media relations is how far ahead some publications plan their editorial content. Better start pitching EARLY, say in July. Is your brand exhibiting at the industry’s biggest trade show? Have you factored in content marketing? It’s easy to avoid doing this.