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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

Sword and the Script

There’s an opportunity for content marketing as audiences become fatigued with Coronavirus news and marketers reallocate live event funding One of the goals of content marketing is attracting an audience of likely buyers to your web properties and giving them a reason – and the means – to return regularly.

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It Will Take a Global Village

Flatiron Communications

Over two weeks, they descended on the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Conference (aka COP 27) to ratchet up the sense of urgency needed to save the planet, equitably for all of its inhabitants. I was there with an influential client in the U.S. Peter at COP 27.

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

Sword and the Script

c) Survey of reporters by Innowire Advisory Innowire Advisory , a small PR firm based in San Diego, surveyed reporters for a piece in The Next Web (TNW). The full report is fairly dense and covers a lot of ground including trust in news, media bias, and the top challenges facing journalists: 2020 Global State of the Media Report by Cision.

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Seeing Around Corners: 30 Marketing and PR Predictions for 2021

Sword and the Script

From broadcast news to press conferences, the pandemic has forced all organizations to consider other ways to connect with stakeholders. This will be similar to what happened to mainstream media when the web and digital really took off. First-party data: trade knowledge for trust. Predictions posts around the web.

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20 Webinar Statistics, Benchmarks and Best Practices to Improve Your Virtual Events

Sword and the Script

Despite growing optimism, it would still take a giant leap of faith for any B2B marketer to sign a contract for a live event, tradeshow or conference right now. Overall, its customers conducted more than 250,000 web-based events. Most events of a marketing nature will remain virtual for the foreseeable future. Attendance has improved.

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What Taylor Swift Can Teach You About Social Media Marketing

MaccaPR

And, back in 2012, Swift pre-released her ‘Red’ single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” via a Google+ hangout with fans and a live Web chat, which launched a full two months before the CD dropped at retail.

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B2B Sales Cycles Get Longer and Involve More Decision Makers

Sword and the Script

32% “industry events/trade shows/conferences,”. 31% “business or industry publications/trade media,”. 27% “web searches,”. 11% “local or national professional trade associations.”. The survey found respondents look for information in the following places: 44% “past experience with a vendor,”.

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