Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Digital marketing success is fueled by creating great content and building a targeted audience, but there’s a third piece missing from that equation—ignition. It comes from the transmission of content.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 2, 2015

Here are top five takeaways from last week''s Social Media Marketing World ( #SMMW15 ) conference: 1. Every piece of your content needs a visual. Without a doubt, the top trend I heard reiterated time and time again at SMMW15 was that every piece of content your brand or company generates needs some sort of visual.

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Journalistics

APRIL 17, 2013

When I first started talking about earned, owned, and paid (and no, I was far from the first to start talking about it), I would describe the owned channel as brands owning the media channel and would use the example of Nike being its own ESPN. Brands as media – silly marketer. The other half got it.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Avid podcast listeners consume an average of five a week – listening for four hours and 10 minutes (chart nearby used with permission by The Marketing Companion ). Not only is this a significant amount of time – but it’s quality time and so marketing has joined the crowd. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 27, 2018

A few weeks ago, I noticed Alyssa Greve , director of content marketing at Cambria, touting a new Cambria blog on LinkedIn. For example, we were seeing great traffic from platforms like Pinterest, but many times the user bounced once they got to a page on our site. What are your initial goals with the blog?

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 19, 2018

Social Media: Marketing Strategies for Rapid Growth Using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube. In this book, Williams targets social media strategies for the modern marketer for businesses and brands of all sizes. Brand Media Strategy: Integrated Communications Planning in the Digital Era.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 18, 2014

‘Tis the season when brands release heart-warming Christmas videos and marketing bloggers write about the best holiday gift ideas , new year’s resolutions and marketing trends for 2015. In addition, many are predicting the marketing developments we witnessed in 2014 will continue: 1.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 2, 2023

If you aim to increase your subscriber base, publishing quality content (and more of it) is the first step toward understanding what resonates and what doesn’t. You might be able to design a campaign or change your content marketing strategy by the end of this year, but what do you do if you need subscribers by the end of the month?

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

"When I first started our agency, I relied solely on PPC and SEO to market ThinkSEM, because I didn’t think blogs, social media or content marketing would do anything for us! The moral of the story for marketers: SEO, PPC, social media – it’s all tied together. Well, I was sorely mistaken.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Search marketing and SEO statistics. Content Marketing Statistics. 2) Content marketing supports lead nurturing. 3) Quality matters in content marketing.

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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. Consumers not only follow these channels, but so do the reporters and analysts on whom corporate communicators have so heavily relied to amplify their stories.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 12, 2014

It’s easy to get the connection between content marketing and business-to-business brands. The link between content marketing and consumer brands, on the other hand, is not as obvious. The link between content marketing and consumer brands, on the other hand, is not as obvious.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If you aim to increase your subscriber base, publishing quality content (and more of it) is the first step toward understanding what resonates and what doesn’t. You might be able to design a campaign or change your content marketing strategy by the end of this year, but what do you do if you need subscribers by the end of the month?

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Perhaps they don’t have an internal brand ambassador program of any kind ( a what? ), and they are terrified at the very THOUGHT of giving employees online freedom and autonomy. Consider ways to expand editorial placements with personal branding campaigns for c-suite leadership and your subject matter experts !

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The Stalwart Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

A few months ago, our agency learned that more of our clients and prospects were in need of greater content marketing assistance. While we’ve always been a PR and Marketing agency, the majority of our work has primarily been focused on media relations. However, things are changing and that is no longer the case.

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The Proactive Report

AUGUST 5, 2016

According to the 2013 State of the Media report from Pew Research Center, shrinking newsroom staff has opened the door for news content from nonprofits and brands to be included in news reporting: “With fewer specialized beats your press release has never been more important. People engage with brands they feel they can trust.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. In that rush of adrenaline to immediately promote your new e-book or video ASAP, content marketers risk the opportunity to be creative with promotion.

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Journalistics

MARCH 24, 2015

What’s a digital content strategy? Is a digital content strategy something you need for social media? Content marketing? Influence marketing? Your digital content strategy should be an all-encompassing strategy that defines how you approach communications across all your digital channels.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With so much content getting produced, it’s easier than ever to find relevant blogs and bloggers open to sharing your content. However, in the ten years I’ve been doing blogger outreach in various industries, I’ve found one common theme: blog outreach can be time-consuming for the underprepared.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With so much content getting produced, it’s easier than ever to find relevant blogs and bloggers open to sharing your content. However, in the ten years I’ve been doing blogger outreach in various industries, I’ve found one common theme: blog outreach can be time-consuming for the underprepared.

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Tools Blogging Pitching Google 71

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With so much content getting produced, it’s easier than ever to find relevant blogs and bloggers open to sharing your content. However, in the ten years I’ve been doing blogger outreach in various industries, I’ve found one common theme: blog outreach can be time-consuming for the underprepared.

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Just the way organic food is good for our health, organic traffic is the best for your brand. They associate with your brand by reading your content because they feel your products or services can bring a positive change to their lives. As the audience grows to trust your brand, the chances members of it will convert grow.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 17, 2018

This chart from Curata explains it better: Let me show you exactly how to repurpose your written content into an ebook, a video, a podcast, among many other formats. I read ebooks, and the majority of online consumers enjoy them as well. Design Custom Visual Content to Share on Pinterest.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Generating and distributing your brand’s vital news is an important part of how you stay relevant in the minds of the media and your wider customer base. The most important aspect to remember when crafting your news announcement is that it is not just about you or your brand. Why is the news important to your reader?

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 14, 2017

Generating and distributing your brand’s vital news is an important part of how you stay relevant in the minds of the media and your wider customer base. In this article, we will discuss the 4 key elements to writing high-quality press release content: The news announcement. Why is the news important to your reader? Why only one?

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PR 20/20

MARCH 7, 2017

According to a 2016 study by Content Marketing Institute , B2C marketers ranked the following as top content priorities: 73% indicate that they want to create more engaging content. 55% want to create more visual content. 44% say that better repurposing content is a must. Helps build brand trust.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 30, 2016

As marketers, we are forever pressed for creative, performance-driven ideas. In the era of fast-paced, connected consumers, we must constantly evolve to prove our marketing success. In a recent blog post , Paul Roetzer articulates the challenge: “There have never been more choices for marketers. You know the drill.

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 23, 2012

All of the newsrooms represent brands with big investments in owned media and media relations. To the brand''s credit, its newsroom is well-organized and uses visuals to help tell stories. It offers visitors a feature story and related content, including video and photo content -- all armed with sharing tools.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

You need to be able to demonstrate you are proficient in using these tools because clients and organizations are looking for employees who can help manage their brand voices across these channels. With this set of skills, it’s more important that you understand how to use the tools than the content you’ve shared here.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

SocialZoomFactor is a podcast created for business and marketing leaders. If you want to learn how to integrate social media, content marketing, the latest technology and more, you won’t be disappointed in Pam’s podcasts, which she delivers each weekday. AskPat is a brand new, DAILY podcast. Content Inc.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

He's also a world-leading web strategist, content marketer, author, and speaker. You get distracted by a tweet or email, and the next thing you know you’re knee-deep in Reddit, Pinterest, Medium or YouTube with only a hazy recollection of what you were doing before you went down the rabbit hole. An all round nice guy.

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MaccaPR

JULY 23, 2014

Though there''s disagreement on the accuracy of that specific number, we can all agree that telling your brand''s story through photos, gifs and videos can be much more engaging than plain text. In fact, social channels with a laser-focus on visual content are exploding. Stay "on brand." Leverage Pinterest. Watch it: 4.

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Rock the Status Quo

JANUARY 12, 2016

With my book launch coming up WAY too fast and not enough time in the day to put marketing plans in place the way I’d like to, I’ve decided to revisit how I repurpose content. I don’t do it enough, and I know it’s far less time consuming to adapt what I already have than it is to create new.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 15, 2016

Nonetheless, an admittedly unscientific look at who or what really moves the needle nowadays will likely reveal that those carefully crafted pieces of branded content contributed to Huffington Post, sponsored on Buzzfeed, or promoted on Twitter are often too ephemeral to make a meaningful (and measurable) impact on public awareness and behavior.

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