Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2019

There were 62 posts published on this blog in 2019. In going through the reader analytics for the full year, these are the top 10 most-read posts on this blog about public relations (PR) and marketing. If you haven’t already, consider subscribing to these blog posts by email or RSS. 6) How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019?

Blogging 80

Blogging Publicity Marketing Survey 80

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This requires a combination of creative thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to develop and execute against plan. Today, the range is much broader, encompassing blog content, confessional-style social updates, and, of course, video. But any AI tool requires human oversight, and the cost of a mistake is very high.

Analytics 170

Analytics Tools Social Media Trends 170

MaccaPR

JANUARY 5, 2016

Just as every parent thinks their own sons and daughters are the best looking and most brilliant children on Planet Earth, too many companies and marketing agencies – our Minneapolis PR firm included – are convinced that their blogs could hardly be better. You posted full blog posts on the main blog index page. Ah, hubris.

Blogging 48

Blogging Creativity Agency Mobile 48

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. There are more blogs focused on personal development than any other topic, according to the survey.

Survey 60

Survey Blogging Corporate Analytics 60

Buzzstream

MARCH 7, 2024

Google Search Central blog just posted a new update titled “What web creators should know about our March 2024 core update and new spam policies” The post outlines several changes that could impact the future of link building, content creation, and upend strategies that many sites rely on. We can use this as our basis.

System 62

System Google Policies Guidelines 62

Barokas

MAY 31, 2019

Campaigns must be simultaneously creative, strategic and measurable. Our agency offers services and writing support around all of these, so you’ll see links to examples of our work included throughout the checklist. Web copy/newsletters : As the face of your brand, your website must be a priority. It’s a tall order.

Case Study 100

Case Study B2B Resources Web 100

Beyond PR

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

This blog post has been formatted to fit your screen. Whether you are viewing this blog post on a laptop, tablet or mobile phone, you expect it to appear properly and specifically formatted for your device. This is where the power of Responsive Web Design (RWD) comes in. All by way of RWD.

Web 40

Web Mobile SEO Technology 40

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I believe when people write predictions, they aren’t just saying what they think will happen but revealing a reflection of sorts. As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. The metaverse, Web 3.0, To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration.

Marketing 214

Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 214

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

based Internet marketing agency that caught our eye with its savvy pay-per-click advertising management, Web development and digital design services. You invest a lot of time in your ThinkSEM blog , chiefly written by your wife and co-owner Sarah Danks and PR staffer Kayla Hollatz – it’s a fun read. Well, I was sorely mistaken.

SEO 98

SEO Interviews Blogging Engineering 98

PR 20/20

JULY 12, 2016

A lot can be said about SEO for blogging, but maybe you’re just looking to brush up on the basics for your next post. Let’s get started so you can get blogging. Select keywords for your blog post. This is just the starting point, so feel free to get creative as you build your keyword ideas list. Spy on the competition.

SEO 40

SEO Blogging Web Writing 40

PRSay

JULY 6, 2020

For many years, offices with open floor plans helped generate creativity for PR professionals. But we can be just as creative during virtual meetings as we are when together in the same room. PR practitioners can meet potential new contacts and clients via web–based video-conference platforms such as Skype and Zoom.

Employee 187

Employee Skype Meeting Nonprofit 187

Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Writing press releases is hard, or at least writing good ones that stand out is. So why do you write like that? Don’t be afraid to get creative in your press release. People aren’t desperately scouring the Web looking for your news. I don’t understand why people write such snooze-inducing quotes for press releases.

Conference 120

Conference Writing Creativity Web 120

Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

ChatGPT and Playground are among the first artificial intelligence (AI) applications using a text-based web interface that uses the GPT-3 language model. 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.

Publicity 98

Publicity Wikipedia Marketing Training 98

Journalistics

JANUARY 3, 2016

As part of my effort to get the blog back on track in 2016, I spent the past month doing some quantitative and qualitative analysis to better understand how this happened. I’ve shared the results from this exercise in the first half of this post below (“Why I Was Not Blogging”). Why I Was NOT Blogging.

Blogging 64

Blogging Analytics Google Writing 64

Beyond PR

JULY 27, 2016

To promote a blog post, white paper, or other piece of marketing content, the entire press release must be reconsidered. Pay attention to these 12 things when writing a press release for your demand gen content. Audience: You’re not writing a content press release for journalists. for headline writing tips and examples.

Writing 40

Writing SEO Web Content Marketing 40

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It’s not just thinking about writing that I’ve been engaging in. It’s not just thinking about writing that I’ve been engaging in. Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. D’oh, you say. Preview before you publish. Image: U.S.

Blogging 86

Blogging Writing Facebook Twitter 86

Cision

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Myth #1: Journalists Will Write About Your Press Release Without Contacting You. Regardless of what press releases do for your ranking, they do give you a wider presence on the web. Images: yosuke muroya , Tony Fischer , muffinn ( Creative Commons ). Don’t be a fool; know that the following are nothing but hot air.

SEO 120

SEO Web Writing Tools 120

The Resolution Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

PRs practically own Pinterest and they are great mood boards to kick start creative ideas. Once added, whenever you see a creative idea you love, just click on the Pinterest logo when you find a page you want to save. This extension helps you make sure you spot any typos when writing on the web.

Pinterest 120

Pinterest Creativity Web Tools 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 3, 2017

Write more and write better. Good, error-free writing is under threat today. It seems the need for speed in writing and editing is taking its toll. One of the best ways to improve your writing is to create the ideal environment in which to write. We constantly find horrid examples committed by journalists.

Writing 149

Writing Education Pinterest Creativity 149

Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

As it is on the occasional Saturday, I ferret out three important links from the web, wrap them in insight, and present them here for your perusal. Atlanta-based ARPR compiled a combination of web analytics and survey data – from 115 tech sales professionals – to produce the report. If you want blogs, you don’t want press releases.

Study 138

Study Media Relations Media Measurement 138

Stephen Waddington

JULY 14, 2019

My wife edits almost every word published on my blog. It’s a critical part of the creative process. As I write this I can hear his exasperation at my lack of English language education. The web app simplifies writing and improves its comprehension. Finally it simplifies the structure of your writing.

Construction 83

Construction Policies Print Software 83

Journalistics

JANUARY 3, 2016

As part of my effort to get the blog back on track in 2016, I spent the past month doing some quantitative and qualitative analysis to better understand how this happened. I’ve shared the results from this exercise in the first half of this post below (“Why I Was Not Blogging”). Why I Was NOT Blogging.

Blogging 40

Blogging Analytics Google Writing 40

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

For all those still complaining about search and social, now a decade beyond the advent of the so-called Web 2.0, It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. Also, see these related posts: How to Generate Media Referenceable B2B Customers with a Blog.

Survey 101

Survey Report Media B2B 101

Norton's Notes

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, before that I was discussing the digital landscape with a potential employee, and they expressed their thoughts to me that blogging was now dead. This struck me as a bold statement, they were younger than me and although I know blogging is not in its 2000s hey day – I still felt it was a powerful tool in the right hands.

Blogging 28

Blogging Marketing Web Twitter 28

NewsWhip

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

People love a creative promotion. Starting with the coverage on Jeff Bezos stepping down, worker union debates, and movie releases, but the majority of the top stories were centered on Amazon’s decision to suspend Parler, a social network favored by extremists, from Amazon Web Services. The top publishers writing about brands.

Brand 88

Brand Branding Healthcare Report 88

Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Driving traffic to the web site. I blogged about it earlier this year. Find that exec, work with them, and encourage them to tell their story for why they volunteer via LinkedIn Publishing (tip: You will probably have to ghost write the post for them). Good story. Great, model employee. All good things.

Corporate 60

Corporate Creativity Employee Instagram 60

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Advertising agencies created ads for multiple outlets, public relations handled media inquiries and proactively sought after coverage, marketing agencies did a variety of things, but generally focused on brand identity and creative attention-garnering activities. Of course, there’s plenty more each did, but you get the gist. 4) SnapChat.

Tools 150

Tools Agency Instagram Groups 150

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 9, 2017

Owned media – apps and web sites enable any organisation to create its own media and become a publisher. Planning, creativity and measurement lies at the heart of campaigns. Creativity – in the shift to new forms of media it’s easy to forget the importance of creativity as a means of public relations engagement.

Publicity 111

Publicity Survey Measurement Community 111

Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Ann primarily writes about social media and growth hack strategies, SEO and e-commerce. 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. Image: 10ch ( Creative Commons ). User-Generated Content

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Trends Marketing Storytelling 120

Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Through this collaboration I learned of Stone Temple’s very creative use of video. I had to learn more, and asked Mark if he’d entertain some questions for the blog. Eric Enge and I are the main performers/presenters, and I also write the scripts and handle social promotion. He agreed; see the Q and A below.

Video 153

Video B2B Film Marketing 153

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics.

Financial 98

Financial Conference Agency Resources 98

Buzzstream

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Being in the forefront of all conversations with clients, I quickly realized that simply writing down notes, searching for conversations buried in emails and chasing people for deliverables would be risky if I didn’t have a more structured system. Which were the last design updates we asked the creative team? from SEO to Web Dev).

Software 151

Software How To SEO System 151

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Some of this advice was good five years ago, and some of it is just terrible nonsense that spams up the web with repetitive muck. In that case, if you send out one email promoting your content – a new blog post for example – 70% of your subscribers didn’t open it. Read more: How To Promote Your Blog With 107 Content Promotion Tactics.

Content Marketing 110

Content Marketing Pitching Social Media Internal 110

Presspage

JULY 25, 2018

Write a snappy subject line for your email, says Elise Copps of Hamilton Health Sciences. Write snappily Use active voice, not passive. Include meaningful boilerplate The simplest points sometimes need restating: Write the boilerplate description of your company as if for somebody who has never heard of your business.

Wikipedia 103

Wikipedia Writing Video Report 103

ZudePR

JANUARY 21, 2016

You’re an SME struggling with web marketing. But the overriding one – and the one that concerns me here in this blog post – is the amount I have read. I’d even started a running blog to practice. These authors were blogging all the latest information. You Should Read This If. You want to learn.

Digg 104

Digg SEO System Reddit 104

Buzzstream

JUNE 16, 2021

Sometimes we’re seeking to replicate the success of others in a pretty abstract way – we see other people’s successful campaigns on Twitter, LinkedIn, industry blogs and so on, and feel the pressure to replicate the results that others have achieved. Actually, they don’t spend a lot of time writing up studies at all.

Digital PR 160

Digital PR Film Instagram Writing 160

5W PR

MAY 21, 2018

Integration Leads to more Creativity. It can involve emailing prospects with newsletters, writing content and publishing it on a blog, or even connecting with customers over social media. It’s the job of a PR professional to predict and understand the latest trends in a range of different industries.

Strategy 68

Strategy Marketing SEO Web 68