Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

“We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media . Happy New Year!

Marketing 214

Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 214

Prohibition

AUGUST 25, 2023

The importance of digital marketing in retail success Digital marketing plays a vital role in the success of retail businesses. With the majority of consumers now relying on the internet for product research and purchasing decisions, having a strong online presence is essential.

Retail 62

Retail Marketing Analytics Social Media 62

Cision

APRIL 7, 2015

Content marketing is a crucial piece of content strategies. As technology becomes ever-present, content strategies should include video, podcasts, games, comics, events and more. Social media, e-newsletters, articles on owned websites and blogs make up the four most used content marketing tactics.

B2C 120

B2C Content Marketing B2B Mobile 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 21, 2018

Like many companies, PR firms need to ensure that our content marketing and other campaigns are compliant with the new regs. Internally, data can inform our PR strategy and make our branded content better and more engaging. Quality data has made better PR monitoring and measurement possible.

Trends 157

Trends Privacy Data Reputation 157

The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The Ability to Measure Sets Paid and Editorial Apart On paper, the glaring difference between paid and editorial PR is that one is paid, which means that placement is guaranteed. However, Jerrid claims the less obvious difference (and a major advantage) of paid media is the ability to measure it. Advertising is also learning from PR.

Advertising 120

Advertising Advertising Measurement Storytelling 120

Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Marketing Land. TopRank Marketing Blog.

Marketing 0

Marketing Mobile Nonprofit Engineering 0

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 13, 2016

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ~ Peter Drucker. But I am smart enough to realize that a company’s marketing, advertising and public relations efforts—my efforts—have a direct and attributable effect to the bottom line of my company. THAT you can measure against. Find a way to measure engagement instead.

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Measurement Advertising Advertising Enterprise 40

Contently - Strategy

JULY 22, 2021

(Disclosure: Marriott Bonvoy Traveler has been a Contently customer since its launch in 2014.). “We pivoted our storytelling to focus on armchair travel,” explained Robin Bennefield, Marriott International’s editorial director of Marriott creative and content marketing.

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Travel Hotels Storytelling Content Marketing 58

PRSay

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Enter earned media management — the system we use to think about, track and measure earned media at Cision. The key is determining not only who your target audience finds influential, but also how much of that content they’re actually consuming. Step 3: Measure. You need to know your audience, inside and out.

Media 80

Media Storytelling System Technology 80

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

Today’s PR programs are less about selling and more about telling… stories that engage prospects or customers, and visual storytelling is hotter than ever. If true, it bodes very well for PR, which specialized in the powerful but maddeningly hard-to-measure mentions. Everything is measurable and measured.

Trends 124

Trends SEO Leadership Print 124

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Many businesses use a mix of email marketing, paid search, SEO, content marketing, and social media marketing to create prospects and turn them into customers. But it never really caught on, because the market was cluttered, and there were distribution issues. Myth: Today’s PR is influencer marketing.

B2C 120

B2C Product Launch SEO Storytelling 120

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The statistics selected can be grouped are heavily weighted along the following topics: Statistics about – or for – the CMO ; Statistics about digital and B2B marketing ; Statistics about PR or media relations ; and. Statistics about content marketing. 13) Storytelling the hottest trend in PR in 2018. Most (59%) of U.S.-based

Survey 103

Survey Marketing B2B Content Marketing 103

PR in High Definition

APRIL 25, 2022

Positive content is more viral. Brandon Stanton, the creator of the viral storytelling account Humans of New York, emphasises when writing his personal profiles that he does not describe people in adjectives, but rather describes actions of their life. Positivity engages audiences, and shines your reputation.

Wikipedia 62

Wikipedia Viral Reputation Internal 62

MaccaPR

JUNE 1, 2016

This format is the result of an intersection of news and content marketing, a completely unprecedented space in the media landscape in which online users are perusing articles, sending snaps and sharing memes that often are riddled with brand messaging. See more details of the case study here.

Brand 48

Brand Branding Storytelling Healthcare 48

Barokas

DECEMBER 19, 2019

“Communications teams have come a long way in their ability to surface and leverage data that demonstrates the value of media relations, content marketing, social media and influencer outreach. PR will increasingly become a critical driver in helping brands foster and maintain transparency.

Marketing 78

Marketing Employee Trends Study 78

Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

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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Employee Print Writing Survey 147

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The reason for this, it turns out, is super simple: Most marketers don’t ever talk to their prospects and clients. The empathy marketing problem. According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2019 B2B Research report, just 42 percent of B2B marketers talk to clients as part of their research.

Marketing 82

Marketing How To B2B Exercises 82

Solo PR Pro

JANUARY 7, 2019

In our Solo PR circles, we often discuss starting with the measurable goal and working backward to develop the campaign to get us there. Our fellow Solo PR Pro Lisa Gerber of Big Leap Creative taught us how to set up a measurable campaign using our smarts and free data from Google Analytics. Content Marketing.

Trends 45

Trends Google Crisis Management Data 45

Contently - Strategy

JULY 28, 2021

After the team ran a small experiment with a few pieces of content, they were able to make a data-driven case for how content could drive valuable search traffic while also helping consumers make smarter decisions. Millions of people read CarMax’s content each month—with 75 percent of its traffic coming from search.

SEO 103

SEO Automotive YouTube Video 103

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). Regardless of the organization or industry you serve, corporate communications and PR can be a time-consuming, workday-busting affair with little or no set schedule.

Survey 74

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience. A successful tech PR strategy focuses on targeting the right media outlets, using engaging content, and creating relationships with key influencers in the industry. neon lights.

Strategy 62

Strategy Brand Branding Technology 62

Cision

APRIL 6, 2015

Christopher Penn and John Wall’s Marketing Over Coffee clocks in at around 20 minutes per episode. Science Friday podcasts 8-10 minute segments as evidenced by the embedded podcast: People have a limited amount of time to consume podcast content. Plan podcast content. Don’t use listens to measure success.

Engineering 120

Engineering Tools Examples YouTube 120

PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Some roles to consider on your marketing dream team : Content writer. Graphic designer / visual storyteller. To make any marketing campaign successful, you must understand the goals, pain points, influencers, and preferences of each target buyer persona your company is targeting. Measurable. Data analyst.

Marketing 52

Marketing Technology Internal International 52

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JULY 11, 2023

By partnering with dadfluencers, companies can tap into a unique demographic and leverage their authenticity to connect with consumers. Public relations and marketing communications professionals should actively explore opportunities to forge connections between their brands and dadfluencers.

Brand 55

Brand Branding Instagram Community 55

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

There’s no written playbook for navigating the PR challenges likely to arise, and smart marketers and comms pros will trust their judgment and past experiences in guiding strategy and providing counsel. Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow.

Writing 190

Writing Communications Marketing B2B 190

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

be the year that some SaaS vendor figures out how to manage and market B2B influencer marketing at scale. There are several platforms out there to simplify and manage B2C influencer marketing, such as Paladin, Heepsy, HypeAuditor, and InBeat. But B2B influencer marketing works completely differently. “I

Marketing 187

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 187

Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Strategy B2C Marketing 120

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020. The survey found, “The top three areas live event budgets will be reallocated to are content creation (43%): hosted webinars (40%); and search marketing (33%).”. Source: PR Measurement ).

Survey 174

Survey Marketing B2B Study 174

Beyond PR

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Over the years, I learned about marketing tactics that I implemented to augment my PR efforts. I learned about social media, about search engine optimization, about email marketing, about remarketing, about lead generation and funnels and demand generation and content marketing and events and graphic design.

Communications 40

Communications Tools Analytics Television 40

Sword and the Script

JULY 16, 2016

If you peruse enough surveys covering the challenges of marketing , you begin to see that three common themes among the findings: budget, ROI and production. There is never enough budget, the pressure and time necessary to measure ROI is ever more pressing and yet production is expected to rise. Marketing Budget Predictability.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing B2B Marketing Trends 60

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 9, 2024

Crafting stories that resonate One key aspect of merging PR with digital strategies is the art of storytelling. Brands are no longer faceless entities; they’re storytellers vying for the audience’s attention amidst a sea of content. Here’s where PR shines, crafting narratives that not only inform but also entertain and engage.

Social Media 92

Social Media Marketing Media Storytelling 92

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“The Internet moves at breakneck speed, but that doesn’t mean that we as marketers have to do the same. We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn.

Marketing 99

Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 99

Beyond PR

JUNE 21, 2016

Across paid, earned, social, and owned channels, it’s not only becoming easier to distribute video, but also measure and prove its value. Because of this, video adoption will continue to rise not just with audiences, but also marketers. “Your video consumers are moving fast,” says Larry. Story, Then Format.

Content Marketing 73

Content Marketing Video Trends Marketing 73

Onclusive

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For marketers, this makes brand awareness a huge challenge: How do we stand out above the noise? Marketers and communicators are now competing for consumer attention amid Facebook posts, Buzzfeed memes, blog posts, articles, texts and more. That’s participation marketing.”. Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Marketing.

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Brand Branding eBook Leadership 246

Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2020

Answered: unsure , brands should take a stand) Interestingly, the results mirror a 2018 survey that asked consumers if they wanted brands to take a stand on politics. >>> One respondent defined storytelling as “Developing a narrative arc with strong, relatable characters who live their values and make a difference.”

Survey 117

Survey Measurement Public Affairs Storytelling 117

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Research and surveys are the most valuable content in B2B. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of B2B buyers say they consume three or more pieces of content before engaging a salesperson, according to a survey by Demand Gen Report. Effective storytelling improves valuations. PR measurement. PR measurement.

B2B 114

B2B Marketing Survey Software 114

Cision

APRIL 27, 2017

Communicators need to learn a new language: One of the biggest themes was addressing the elephant in the room: earned media (PR/communications/media relations) budgets do not get as much money allocated to them as owned media or paid media (internal content or advertising) do – despite the fact consumers trust earned media the most.

Data 264

Data Leadership Tools Advertising 264