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How to Create a Content Marketing Plan

Critical Mention

Did you know that over 60% of businesses don’t have a documented content marketing strategy according to CMI and MarketingProfs? Without a plan, you risk all of your content efforts going to waste. We have 10 steps on how to create your next content marketing plan: What exactly is content marketing?

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Dispelling 6 Myths PR Sometimes has about Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

Some time ago I pitched a reporter, who was looking for sources, on social media for a client. She did review it and ended up writing about it too. A survey I teamed up with Ned Lundquist to conduct of PR pros last year found 51% said media relations was getting harder. Myth 3: You can’t pitch reporters with content.

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10 Knock-Their-Socks-Off Press Release Headline Writing Tips

Cision

We polled PR and brand experts to get 10 amazing tips you can use to improve your press release headlines. Write as if it Were a Front Page Article. James, marketing director at The Curtis Group , takes that idea one step further. This is a great strategy to appeal to journalists who you want to write about your news.

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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]

Sword and the Script

Of all the media relations insights the best one is this: be relevant. The vast majority of media relations hinges on relevancy. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links [UML]. These three studies polled 3,000 journalists and their answers all center on relevance. Give our services a try.

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Media Relations Shrinks as a Public Relations Service; Cliff Notes to 3 Industry Reports

Sword and the Script

Studies find media relations isn’t the top PR service anymore; PR weakness on technical skills; execs are key to shaping corporate social positions Several interesting reports on the PR industry were published earlier in 2020 but got lost in the blur that unfolded since. Newer services should not replace media relations but augment it.

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This is How the Sorry State of Media Relations Ends

Sword and the Script

The Sorry State of Media Relations. Mr. Pearlstein is a long-time reporter and editor turned professor says he was looking to write about “well-run company.” Then the story hinge swings like this: “Such is the sorry state of corporate media relations these days. Media Relations Ends; Content Marketing Begins.

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Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

1) Earned media is sales enablement. A tech PR firm recently published a study that showed promising effects media relations can have on the sales cycle for B2B marketing organizations. Funding is a form of validation and acquisitions signal a strategy – those things impact the market. Be smart about it.

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