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Finding The Content Marketing Sweet Spot

Cision

Last year, 90 percent of B2C marketers used content marketing, but only 34 percent felt they were successful. And while 69 percent are creating more content than years past, few are being heard. Why aren’t consumers paying attention? One day Andy bought a few chickens at a local farmer’s market.

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

Sword and the Script

Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions.

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3 Factors That Shape Your Brand Journalism Strategy

Cision

So where do consumers place their trust? Unlike content marketing , brand journalism places people front and center, rather than the products that affect those people. It divided its content into regional or metropolitan editions. Is your brand local to one DMA? That’s where brand journalism comes into play.

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“A Lightbulb Moment”: Inside the Content Program That Helped Marriott Weather the Pandemic

Contently - Strategy

Today, Traveler spans 87 local editions across the globe. Disclosure: Marriott Bonvoy Traveler has been a Contently customer since its launch in 2014.). Robin Bennefield, Marriott International’s editorial director of Marriott creative and content marketing. ” Local travel for a global audience.

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The Present & Future Tech Trends PRs Should Prepare For

Cision

For example, the ongoing globalization of the Internet and expansion to more rural audiences is already emerged for organizations with international operations, but barely emerging and not very important for a restaurant that does only local business. Content optimization for the mobile and semantic web. Want to make standout content?

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Borrowing Trust: The Surprising New Marketing Role of Citizen Influencers

Cision

According to research by Boston Consulting Group, one ultraloyal customer who shares content can generate eight times his or her own consumption through their advocacy. The key idea here is that the economic value of content marketing does not come from content. It comes from the transmission of content.

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What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living

Sword and the Script

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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