PR in High Definition

APRIL 30, 2024

As I write this, my Word Document doesn’t even recognise the word, giving it a firm underscore in red. But, like every different flavour of technology, it did not just spawn out of thin air and its roots go back a long way. But today, we’re in the midst of a revolution – albeit a quiet one – of technology catered solely to women.

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Critical Mention

JUNE 19, 2019

Did you know that over 60% of businesses don’t have a documented content marketing strategy according to CMI and MarketingProfs? We have 10 steps on how to create your next content marketing plan: What exactly is content marketing? Before you start your marketing plan, you want to establish your company’s goals and KPIs.

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Content Marketing How To Marketing B2B 128

Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 24, 2022

Here is an inside look at five influential tech success stories from our flipbook of 47 Content Marketing Case Studies That’ll Inspire You to encourage your brand to make meaningful changes in the new year. . How Document Analytics Optimized the Length, Quality, and Cadence of Microsoft’s Downloadable Assets.

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By Brianne Murphy Miller Note: This is a reposted blog by Public Relations Global Network. For the original blog, please visit here. This is a living document, so don’t forget to update prodigiously. Use the technology we all have access to. Setting things up correctly at the start is key. Have a tip to add to my list?

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on NHS comms documents the scale of the challenge faced by professional NHS communicators since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic in early 2020. COVID-19 has driven the adoption of technology. Paul Dunn and Sarah Rose document how Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust created its own manufacturing facility.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 8, 2019

Now, marketing and sales are supposed to collaborate and complement each other like Holmes and Watson. Marketing builds awareness (Watson even blogs in the BBC reboot) and gathers intel, then sales takes over to close the case. Some marketers create a lot of great content but don’t always communicate that to sellers.

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Content Marketing Marketing Case Study Education 111

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“We expect global spending on marketing automation tools to surpass $25 billion by 2023,” according to Forrester. You can still leverage most of these strategies with any marketing automation platform. Keep reading for 10 strategies that build a successful foundation for marketing automation success.

Strategy 72

Strategy Marketing Data Software 72

Critical Mention

MAY 10, 2019

With the rise of AI in marketing in recent years, data-driven decision making has become an integral part of marketing’s fabric. This rule of thumb applies to all of your platforms–from your website and direct email campaigns to your blogs and social media channels. Speak to, not at your audience. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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Marketing eBook Case Study Measurement 75

Flack's Revenge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So why have a blog with “revenge” in the name if I can’t get me some? Or at least blog a strongly worded rebuttal. She wanted my thoughts, and is probably sorry that she asked, because I chided her and gave reading assignments from my blog (like this post and this one ). Is the Press Release Truly Dead?

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Writing Pitching Report Industry 177

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 20, 2018

As the landscape stands today, I tend to be more bullish on augmented reality (AR) than virtual reality (VR) in B2B marketing. That fits more readily into the modern marketing and sales dynamic, which is still highly dependent on conversations and relationships. Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Video.

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Critical Mention

MAY 10, 2019

With the rise of AI in marketing in recent years, data-driven decision making has become an integral part of marketing’s fabric. This rule of thumb applies to all of your platforms–from your website and direct email campaigns to your blogs and social media channels. Speak to, not at your audience. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

Marketing 68

Marketing eBook Case Study Measurement 68

Critical Mention

MAY 10, 2019

With the rise of AI in marketing in recent years, data-driven decision making has become an integral part of marketing’s fabric. This rule of thumb applies to all of your platforms–from your website and direct email campaigns to your blogs and social media channels. Speak to, not at your audience. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

Marketing 60

Marketing eBook Case Study Measurement 60

Wadds Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

PRstack: AI tools for marketing, media, and public relations features insights from 20 practitioners and vendors on the latest AI technologies and tools and their practical application to help public relations practitioners work smarter and more effectively. Writing a book about a fast-moving area of technology has challenges.

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Onclusive is a marketing analytics company revolutionizing the communications industry with data science. We have developed the first technology platform for measuring and optimizing the true ROI of Communications and PR efforts. Capture and synthesize market intelligence from buyers, users, competitors . Position Scope.

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Marketing Case Study Software Analytics 46

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising. The In-House Effects on Law Firms.

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Agency Trends Marketing Survey 95

Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When you invite internal and external subject matter experts to contribute to your content marketing program, it’s important to have guidelines for them to follow. Contributors can use the guide to navigate to their ultimate destination — successful publication on your blog, earned media coverage and online visibility.

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How To Guidelines Content Marketing Video 177

Sword and the Script

JUNE 27, 2017

What does it take to implement content marketing effectively in a B2B organization? It’s not an easy question to answer broadly because: a) every team has its own dynamics; b) every organization has constraints and limitations, and c) every vertical market has its own unique characteristics. Documented strategy. Consistency.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing Leadership 69

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 5, 2021

For the last couple years, I’ve been curating news from the PR technology community into a monthly summary I call the PR Tech Sum. The If my exchange conversion math is right, the company raised about $400 million and had a market capitalization of roughly $1.4 5) Articles, blog posts and content picks. Welcome to 2021!

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to Content Marketing Institute Research Director Lisa Beets ( @LisaBeets ), “Nearly all top-performing B2B content marketers—90%—put their audience’s informational needs ahead of their company’s sales/promotional message.”. Today, more B2B marketers than ever rely on a content marketing approach.

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Content Marketing B2B Trends Marketing 81

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It’s also a good idea to consider data visualizations as a supporting document for some awards to substantiate the numbers. For B2B technology companies, publications like The Drum , Digiday, Campaign, Forbes, and Ad Age all put on annual award programs. Choose awards wisely. That’s not as challenging as one might assume.

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Case Study B2B Conference Industry 136

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

But this notion can easily become a slippery slope, however, given the long list of well-documented cognitive biases that exist in human psychology. It has less of an impact in my focus areas of B2B technology – but it’s not zero. Moreover, today, bias has seeped into the algorithms so central to technology.

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Survey Communications Media Engineering 98

Presspage

JUNE 23, 2021

From our experience working with hundreds of PR and Corporate Communications teams around the globe, most of these issues can be traced back to workflow, in this blog post we will talk about four of the most common ones we've noticed, regardless of industry, geography, or department size. Communication is no easy job to handle.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 4, 2020

As such many of the PR tech vendors have brought features to the market for this purpose. Many of the PR technology vendors I track for the monthly PR Tech Sum put a greater emphasis on earned media than media relations in their messaging. Below is the summary of news from the world of the PR technology vendors.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Artificial intelligence is forecast to have trillions of dollars in annual impact, yet most marketers still struggle to understand what AI is and how to pilot it in their organizations. As a marketing agency, we realized our business and our clients were going to be affected by AI, as would the marketing industry.

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Cision

JANUARY 9, 2017

Many people have written books of aggregated blog posts (most notably Steve Levitt and Steven Dubner of the Freakonomics blog), many communications and marketing professionals simply have some higher concept ideas that work better in long form and that people would read better as a book.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2020

Some of them haven’t picked up a marketing book (let along comms) in 20 or more years. Too many businesses (especially in the technology community) look the same , sound the same, and talk the same; it’s a sea of sameness. New platforms, news sites, and blogs – along with links, images, videos, and optimizations, oh, it’s endless.

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Survey Measurement System Education 140

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

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. Comment: Content marketers should borrow this hint from reporters in their own work. A majority (78%) of U.S.-based

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 19, 2022

by David Hagenbuch - professor of Marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing We used to only have to worry about the feelings of people. More specifically, are people increasingly allowing machines to come between them and other people, and what roles should marketers play?

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Comparison Technology Google Engineering 65

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most predictive analytics software and systems are based on open-source libraries and technologies. Choosing data well comes from great data governance, including documentation of what’s in our data, how we acquired it, and how we prepared it. Listen to this blog post: [link]. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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The Proactive Report

MAY 12, 2017

Marketing and PR are two important components of growing a business. As marketing and branding expert Al Ries said, “PR starts the fire, marketing fans the flames.” 64% of marketers identify developing a comprehensive content strategy as a top challenge.( Witness Fuhu – they were number one on the Inc.

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Knowledge Base SEO Strategy Digital PR 113

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s up to proactive marketers to stay on top of emerging trends and best practices— or risk falling behind. What better way to come together with fellow marketing individuals than during industry conferences? Determine what will be the most valuable information for you and your team, and your marketing goals and strategy.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

For many who work in specialized niches, like B2B technology or high-end interior design, thought leadership is highly desirable, helping to improve a brand’s reputation and even its bottom line. Be sure to document everything. Here are some essentials worth considering when looking to maximize a thought leadership program.

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Leadership Product Launch B2B Software 149

5W PR

JANUARY 26, 2021

The old Chinese proverb says, “The tongue can paint what the eyes can’t see,” speaks volumes for what some experts are proclaiming as the next big tool for marketers – brand voice. Conduct an audit of current marketing and communications. Document Everything. Why should it Matter? 45% said so. Let’s get started!

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Tools Product Launch Guidelines Customer Service 88

Sword and the Script

MAY 12, 2020

Better organize your announcements and media contacts, make the “news” easy to find and stick to business etiquette; pro PR tips About a year ago I started writing a monthly summary of PR technology news. Many websites mix news, content and marketing. Names and bylines on blogs. It’s been an eye-opening experience.

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Company Survey Pitching Report 101

Barokas

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Chanlogic aggregates data on sales, inventory, marketing and more across all channels to provide accurate profitability reports to brands. is launching to provide a marketplace where solo and small firms can access research and documents, and sell their own documents in the marketplace. Esq.Me (New York, NY).

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Construction Case Study Mobile Meeting 111

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It will be remembered primarily by marketing and PR professionals. The passenger couldn’t produce the necessary medical documentation for her claim, and the airline had her taken off the flight. Khosrowshahi’s blog post detailing the situation and the fixes planned represents a good first step in managing the situation.

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Crisis Management Crisis Airlines Viral 149

PR 20/20

AUGUST 17, 2017

The marketing team is consistently blogging, distributing content across their social networks, and producing high-quality premium content pieces monthly. I t’s the universal marketing performance struggle. In fall 2015 we introduced Marketing Growth Hackathons as a planning model to do just that. So what should they do?

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Marketing eBook Case Study Comparison 49