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B2B Marketing Underestimates Effects of Thought Leadership on Sales, Study Finds

Sword and the Script

Marketing may be underestimating the impact of thought leadership on sales, according to a comprehensive study published in June 2017 by Edelman and LinkedIn. The study concluded thought leadership “attracts invitations to bid (RFPs), earns buyer preference by building trust, directly contributes to wins, and can even impact pricing.”.

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B2B Customers Want Thought Leadership

Sword and the Script

Thought leadership is usually associated with top-of-the-funnel as far as marketing outcomes are concerned, but there’s evidence to suggest it meets the needs of existing customers. Studies have shown that somewhere around one-fifth of companies identify related metrics such as customer retention as a content marketing objective.

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Why Strong PR Is Essential in Real Estate

Victorious PR

PR efforts such as media outreach, thought leadership content, and case studies can help position a real estate company as an industry leader and a trustworthy partner for homebuyers and sellers. Crisis Management Despite the best efforts of a real estate company, sometimes negative situations arise.

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Integrated Communications: Definitive Guide and Strategy [IMC in 2020]

5W PR

It’s due to integrated marketing communications that the consumers can have a seamless experience with the organization. Each of the different marketing aspects of a brand are unified so that the communications strategies delivered by the brand are consistent across all of its marketing channels.

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

Prohibition

Brands and businesses know how important it is to protect their reputation. In the midst of a crisis, reputations that have been so hard to build can be easily destroyed and the effects can be hard to undo. It doesn’t take much to provoke a crisis, sometimes just a simple mistake on social media can be enough.

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#FuturePRoof guide tackles influencer marketing governance for public relations

Stephen Waddington

Brands can suffer the effect of negative influencers just as much as from positive ones. Other outcomes include brand awareness, crisis communications, employee advocacy, and social change. Who owns influencer marketing within brands? The discussion about who owns influencer marketing is futile.

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Triple 7s: The Best, Worst and Most Loved Blog Posts in 2017

Sword and the Script

One of my first pieces that got real traffic was a crisis case study from my former employer, which coincidentally was about dealing with a negative blogger. Then it got picked up by a crisis communications specialist who asked to run it in his newsletter. 2) 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions [UML].