Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. Cision® asked hundreds of senior marketers and 81 percent agreed earned media is more effective than paid media. Blog Posts.

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Infographics Case Study Content Marketing Video 235

Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns. by Frank Strong.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Businesses that engage corporate blogging with professionalism and process can boost visibility, grow a community, and ultimately, have a meaningful influence on sales. For example, I once worked for a company that found visitors that engaged the blog were 50% more likely to make a purchase. 1) Measures of Visibility.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In this age of short attention spans, it may seem counter-intuitive to champion long-form content for PR and marketing. Although longer content like books, white papers, podcasts, eBooks, and video can take more time and effort than shorter bites, and it demands greater depth and creativity, it can prove very effective.

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Case Study SEO Film Video 178

Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Strategy B2C Marketing 120

Stern + Associates

MARCH 10, 2023

When developing your PR and business growth strategy, don’t overlook publications and events tied to industry and vertical markets. Correlate PR success to tangible business outcomes Traditional PR results – whether it’s in the form of a media placement or speaking invitation – can be a critical measure of a PR program’s success.

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Publicity Conference Leadership Measurement 98

Cision

JUNE 16, 2015

It frustrates me when people tell me their marketing or PR isn’t working. If you don’t know what you want to happen as a result of your marketing or PR, how can you get upset when it doesn’t happen? So What Do I Need to Measure? Modernize your PR measurement with our free tip sheet. Want more accurate PR measurement?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. Vocus eliminated the ad model and started to replace Shankman’s ads with white paper and webinar promos. A spokesperson later contacted this blog to say the disruption of service was limited to European customers – that no U.S.-based

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Reddit Software B2B Technology 174

Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As public relations professionals, we know that PR measurement is essential to the success of our campaigns, budgets and client relationships. We attend webinars, dabble with Google Analytics and follow the latest blogs to learn how to move from traditional to relevant measurement. PR Measurement is Not One Size Fits All.

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Presspage

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

An in-depth interview with your CEO on her vision and goals for 2017 is picked up by several blogs and is widely read by your target audience. Still, there are several ways to quantitatively measure the ROI of PR. Quantitatively measuring PR results. Number of downloads for offered white papers, videos, infographics etc.

Measurement 97

Measurement Comparison Advertising Advertising 97

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For B2B clients like those we represent, it can include the topics and suggested resources for bylined articles, blog posts, social media posts, digital video, and longer-form content like white papers, among other elements. Measure performance daily. In PR , a content calendar is a key part of any public relations plan.

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How To Social Media Product Launch Construction 259

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The data brands have collected from these interactions has allowed marketers to fine-tune their marketing tactics, and how they talk to their customers. 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.

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Cision

MAY 19, 2015

This post was inspired by our free “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR ” white paper. Not long ago, we had a blog post that described five outside-the-box content marketing ideas. Want even more content marketing tips? Measure everything, too. Native Advertising. Syndication.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Marketing Apparel Mobile 120

Deirdre Breakenridge

JUNE 12, 2018

He’ll review how to distill and disseminate the key points of your research including journal articles, abstracts, case studies, white papers, presentations, reports, or book chapters to external audiences. He’ll also share tips on how to maximize results, align outreach with organizational goals, and measure success.

Communications 150

Communications How To Case Study Community 150

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 6, 2021

We know the power that social media campaigns can wield – from amplifying earned media that PR generates to marketing products. The splashiest influencer marketing campaigns tend to be in beauty, fashion, and other lifestyle sectors, but don’t count it out for B2B PR. Influencer marketing creates trust.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This why a good content marketer can take a dense white paper, identify the most interesting parts , re-write it for the web, and then watch it get more traction than the first time around. Years ago, a marketing professor in my MBA program required students to use varied punctuation in writing assignments. Talk to Us !

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Writing Blogging Content Marketing Web 60

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

October is typically a time of year with special urgency for many in marketing. To that end, I’ve poured over two surveys and re-visited a third to see what the wisdom the marketing crowds had to say about 2020 marketing budgets. 16% on marketing analytics. 16% on marketing analytics. “As of revenue to 10.5%

Marketing 65

Marketing Survey Study B2B 65

Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Anne Carton is a small business consultant, digital marketing expert and blogger working with Designhill , the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace. 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.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Trends Marketing Storytelling 120

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? What’s the right channel to use? Focus on the content.

Content Marketing 150

Content Marketing Marketing How To Leadership 150

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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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

MarTech forever changed the way that marketers work, what they report as success and how they do their jobs. PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” Keep your content marketing separate and distinct. Don’t mash case studies, white papers, webinars, press releases and blog posts together. 57% are neutral about trust in NGOs. emphasis mine ].

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Government Survey Ethics Media 136

Sword and the Script

JUNE 13, 2017

The recent commentary on content marketing by Gartner Research may have given B2B tech marketers motivation to reconsider the concept. Every B2B tech marketer is familiar with the analyst firm because of the implication the four corners of one certain magical graphical quad chart can have on a short list of vendors.

Content Marketing 77

Content Marketing Marketing B2B Analytics 77

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Both in-house and agency marketing teams will be defending the year’s work, planning for 2016 and securing (or hopefully expanding!) Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. Have a great but technical white paper? This helps you measure how a campaign or individual piece of content performs.

Measurement 60

Measurement Data-Driven PR Analytics Data 60

Sword and the Script

APRIL 29, 2017

is reportedly aiming to shave $2 billion from its marketing budget over the next five years. Second, when you cut marketing, you convey to customers and competitors you’ve given up on growth. To that end, it’s really hard to sell more if you stop talking to your market. Marketing ROI: You Can’t Buy a Beer with an MQL [UML].

Marketing 67

Marketing Measurement Content Marketing Survey 67

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2017

That’s my take on some of the data from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B lead gen report. Analysis: B2B marketing must develop its market. A different study that Chief Marketer reported found B2B organizations are slow to follow up with leads. These are the metrics B2B lead gen measure. 25% say cost of new leads.

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B2B Report Marketing Survey 64

PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The proliferation of marketing channels, apps, mobile devices, social networks, and content has given consumers more choices and greater control while increasing complexity for marketers. We want to help simplify and optimize the marketing planning process for your business. Step 1: Complete a marketing assessment.

Marketing 52

Marketing Analytics eBook System 52

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for a publicly-traded company that developed and sold software to the PR market. Did you know?

Technology 167

Technology Publicity Software Pitching 167

MaccaPR

MARCH 2, 2017

Where can public relations and marketing pros like you learn the best and worst times and days of the week to post branded content to Facebook or Twitter? Buffer Blog – Produced by the social media firm Buffer, this blog is especially strong on advice for success with YouTube and Instagram. How to optimize video for search?

Blogging 48

Blogging Marketing YouTube Content Marketing 48

Cision

JUNE 23, 2015

That goes for press releases as well as social media, advertising, blogging, et cetera. Want to measure your PR’s value? Click here for a free white paper that shows how! That means your social media profiles should have recent updates, as should your blog. Increased Brand Awareness. Your Brand Looks Good.

Writing 120

Writing Social Media Tools Advertising 120

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

There’s an old saying in marketing that half of the advertising budget is wasted, we just don’t know which half. Despite the maturation of digital marketing and web analytics, this remains a challenge. It also merits pointing out, these are early measurements; perhaps the results improve with time. 2) Measuring and proving ROI.

B2B 66

B2B Marketing Advertising Advertising 66

Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In a recent AdAge profile , Laundry Service CEO Jason Stein describes the huge opportunity that influencers offer to marketers, communications professionals and brands: There is a major convergence between influencers, brands and publishers, and the ones who are really successful are all three of these things.”

Marketing 120

Marketing Groups Journalism Social Media 120

Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

And that gets to the core of the point here – this is about the psychology of more in marketing: more content , more followers, and more leads. As a result, marketing finds itself on the hamster wheel of more, without ever slowing to consider or stopping to analyze the impact. 3) Why I’m Killing the Marketing Qualified Lead.

Content Marketing 68

Content Marketing Social Media Marketing Media 68

Cision

JULY 8, 2015

To help financial institutions tap into consumers’ input and reactions about EMV technology, Cision aggregated tens of thousands of English-language social media posts from key forums, blogs and social networks between November 2014 and May 2015. catches up with international card payment security measures, many U.S. As the U.S.

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Retail Travel Mobile Technology 120

Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

You could develop a content marketing strategy , but that doesn’t mean that it will be a good strategy, or that it is related to the corporate goals in any meaningful way. What I want to do in this post is to identify 11 content marketing mistakes that you should avoid. Readers exit your blog in a matter of seconds.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Marketing Mobile YouTube 120

Beyond PR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. Cision® asked hundreds of senior marketers and 81 percent agreed earned media is more effective than paid media. Blog Posts.

Infographics 72

Infographics Case Study Video Survey 72

Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As new markets keep reaching out and needing PR representation, her team is ready to jump in. Even if your entry to the market isn’t the newest or doesn’t have the most bells and whistles, a compelling back story helps quite a bit. What are the most important PR and marketing tools for this kind of product? Simply: do they work?

Communications 253

Communications Data Local Survey 253