Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. Half of C-suite executives say they leverage thought leadership to make purchasing decisions in tough economic times. What is thought leadership? There are differences, however.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2017

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 findings included the following: Thought leadership earns attention. The findings included the following: Thought leadership earns attention.

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Onclusive

JUNE 23, 2022

This week, we’re continuing with our June blog series on Measuring Up To Marketing: How PR Fits Into The Mix. Our focus is shifting to making sure that communications objectives are aligned with marketing, as well as business, goals and discussing how PR teams can work with their marketing colleagues to achieve greater impact for the brand.

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Onclusive

JULY 13, 2021

Across the marketing funnel: NEO shows the business impact of each soundbite and key message across the entire marketing funnel. Real-time: NEO tracks soundbite performance in real time, allowing you to take advantage of search’s “fresh and relevant” content rule and ride the wave of the current trends that apply to your brand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 14, 2021

Here at Crenshaw, our client base of high-growth tech organizations have found that earned speaking opportunities and industry recognition build credibility and visibility for their brand. In many cases they support a path to a market leadership position. Support employer branding. Create a leadership positioning.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 24, 2022

Yes, data can be compelling, but smart B2B marketers know that storytelling is more powerful than a list of facts. Earned media builds brand credibility. The problem extends to marketing, but there’s some good news for PR. The problem extends to marketing, but there’s some good news for PR.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The world of marketing and PR evolves rapidly. Conferences and other gatherings of like-minded marketing professionals provide key learning opportunities, introductions to others who can help you hone your craft, and team-building experiences unlike any other. Digital Sales and Marketing World. Dates: Feb 25 – 26, 2020.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. Messaging & Positioning Having a clear brand established, along with representation of your values and mission statement, has never been more important.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many PR people aren’t familiar with Notified, but it is a significant business cast from brands you used to know. Symphony Technology Group acquired four of PR tech companies including Onclusive, PRgloo, and, later , Critical Mention – and folded them all under the Onclusive brand. PE lacks PR savvy.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 3, 2022

For our high-growth B2B tech and SaaS solution provider clients, conference speaking, exhibiting, and sponsoring represent crucial PR tactics for thought leadership visibility and business development. They can also build credibility and visibility for their brands by taking a booth. B2B Sales & Marketing Exchange (August, Boston).

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. Having a clear brand established, along with representation of your values and mission statement, has never been more important. Executive Thought Leadership. Messaging & Positioning.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Brands that emphasize employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) achieve business growth nearly 2x faster If you take care of your employees, they’ll take care of your customers, and everything else will fall in place. The study suggests this viewpoint was even higher among sales and marketing types.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Privacy laws spook marketers. The changes have marketers scrambling, which gives ad tech the opportunity to be Ellen Ripley, the hero of this horror story. Marketers need guidance, and these changes are the perfect way for ad tech companies to use thought leadership to assure brands that they are not alone.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 4, 2023

According to a study of 6000 consumers by Global-e online , a majority of both Millennial (54%) and Gen-Z (55%) shoppers say social media is their number one channel for discovering international brands, with Instagram leading as the preferred platform for purchase (62%), followed closely by TikTok.

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Onclusive

MAY 12, 2022

That’s why over a decade ago, Onclusive invented, trademarked, and launched PR Attribution to help PR pros connect earned and owned media content to behavioral outcomes –website visits and website actions that result in more customers, sales, and brand loyalists. Article sentiment toward the brand. What is PR Attribution ?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 2, 2022

In B2B PR , we’re always looking for ways to promote client stories, often through interviews with members of their senior leadership team. Podcasts are naturally part of that mix; they’re a great way to secure thought leadership opportunities, and they’re growing in popularity. In 2022, the number of monthly U.S. Do your research.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Thought leadership is one of those things many brands and leaders want–but very few do well. Clients come to agencies all the time with the goal of “thought leadership.” And that leads me to a recent report from Edelman + LinkedIn titled “The 2021 B2B Thought Leadership Impact Study.”

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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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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Studies show the average email marketing campaign has a 20% open rate and 2% CTR. Top metrics for marcom and PR vary The top metric for marketing communication (marcom) leaders is leads generated while the top metric for PR is stories placed. Sword and the Script is a boutique B2B marketing, PR and communications consultancy.

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PRSay

MARCH 7, 2024

The Barbie brand is a paradoxical symbol of imagination, comfort, sexism, objectification, feminism and conflicted cultural influence that has entranced and challenged children and adults alike for generations. Fashion and retail media included stories about brand partnerships such as Ruggable, Zara and Crocs.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Employer branding is your reputation and image as a place to work. Both directly shape how the public, as well as investors and customers, view the brand. Traditionally the employer story was a slightly adapted version of the company brand story. Proof of Brand Values. Here is why and how to best navigate the year ahead.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 25, 2021

Brands earn customer trust in business by protecting their data, offering a reasonable value, focusing on the quality of their product or service and delivering good customer experiences. Trust in business is a currency that brands can’t live without. The research company polled 15,000 consumers across 15 markets, including the U.S.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

If the B2B community feels overwhelmed by the volume of content, then B2B marketing might feel overwhelmed by the volume of content marketing studies. However, marketers, especially B2B marketers are beginning to realize that, in an economy of trust, not all currencies are equal. Additional reading: .

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 17, 2020

As the COVID-19 outbreak began last month, I noticed there seemed to be two kinds of brands. But, the point is these seven brands adapted and changed quickly to their new environments and they acted decisively and knowing full-well they were taking a bit of a gamble. It’s been fascinating to watch. Makes sense, right?

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PRSay

AUGUST 25, 2020

Brands that do not include us and are not engaging with the LGBTQ community are starting to [be scrutinized] for why they are not being diverse and inclusive,” said panelist Rich Ferraro, chief communications officer for GLAAD, a non-governmental media-monitoring organization that fights the defamation of LGBTQ people.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2019

As the graphic nearby shows, there’s greater consensus around “differentiating the brand from the competition” while the rest of the answers trail off into the low double digits or less. To that end, the survey did find that 90% of respondents believed PR would be at least somewhat more integrated with marketing in the next five years.

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Technology Study Communications Survey 126

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity , LLC.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Good public relations can be an essential way for a brand to stand out from the pack, especially in the B2B/ technology sector. 6 PR tactics to differentiate your brand. A company can set itself apart by speaking in a distinct brand voice. We’ve found success in mini-conferences we call thought leadership panels.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 20, 2021

To help PR/marketing execs succeed in earning awards, here are a few fundamentals and insider tips to know. Product awards confer invaluable third-party endorsements because they feature a real-world case study of the solution’s use in the field. Let’s use a variation on journalism’s 5Ws to share insights. Who should I enter?

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5W PR

AUGUST 22, 2019

Alise Edgcomb, Vice President, met with dozens of brands and experts on site to assess the state of the industry, particularly as it relates to beauty, wellness and personal care. . The #1 question asked of brands on site was, “How are you different? From a conventional skin care product, and from a competing CBD skin care product?”

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. When a brand is behind a story, there’s bias involved. Fact-checking for my content marketing stories is just as essential as it is for my editorial work,” said Anna Dimond , a journalist, content creator, and producer.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 20, 2020

The term “brand journalism” is a bit of a lightning rod term in the social media marketing business. ” And, over the years, there have certainly been a fair share of corporate failures when it comes to brand journalism. But, for the most part, brand journalism wins have been tough to come by.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

B2B marketing should take a little slice of the display ad budget and invest in media relations, genuine content marketing (not marketing content) and paid distribution of related assets from both . For example, a study – data analysis from one adtech company puts the CTR rate of LinkedIn ads at.67%. billion by 2024.”.

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Onclusive

MAY 12, 2022

That’s why over a decade ago, Onclusive invented, trademarked, and launched PR Attribution to help PR pros connect earned and owned media content to behavioral outcomes –website visits and website actions that result in more customers, sales, and brand loyalists.

Consumer 195

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 3, 2021

But with many companies doing business internationally it’s smart to look outside our own media market for openings. PR pros and comms teams should consider developments in relevant international regions as a way to expand thought leadership for company executives. Content, content, content.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. A subset of corporate communications work, developing, documenting, and disseminating overarching corporate messaging is key to building a strong brand with a consistent message.

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PRSay

JULY 6, 2021

The secret lies in your employer brand. Developing your employer brand. When your employer brand is built strategically, it’s deeply attractive to the type of person who will thrive inside your culture and help propel your company forward. Your corporate brand. Your corporate brand: The value employees help to deliver.

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