Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. Another interesting number in the earning presentation is the total addressable market (TAM). TrueScope raised $6.2

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, says Propel, which provides PR software. Studies show the average email marketing campaign has a 20% open rate and 2% CTR. If this sounds interesting, consider reading my in-depth briefing on their platform : Propel is a viable alternative for all-in-one PR software. Is that good? What exactly is that?

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5W PR

AUGUST 10, 2020

Analytics software firm SAS partnered with Futurum Research in May 2019 to survey more than 4,000 consumers, tech professionals, and marketers. These findings validate and strengthen studies during the pandemic that an increasing number of consumers depend on digital devices. Wearable Devices. Smart Assistants.

Consumer 97

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Agility PR Solutions

JULY 31, 2022

New research from personalized CX software firm Redpoint Global reveals growing customer frustrations with receiving mistargeted information from brands. Currently, 70 percent of consumers reported receiving mistargeted information at least once a month and 24 percent say they receive mistargeted […].

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5W PR

APRIL 23, 2020

The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 will end eventually and when it does, some consumer habits will likely change. What’s known is that the longer the crisis, the bigger the imprint on the consumer. Consumers have also been watching brands that were popular with them before-COVID-19. Others may not.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The following is a post from Cision’s new Chief Marketing Officer, Chris Lynch. I hopped the proverbial fence from journalist to vendor to work in marketing. In the process, I became a software product nerd. Ok, so those were the personal reasons I came to lead Cision’s marketing team.

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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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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 23, 2020

That’s probably because I started my career at consumer marketing PR agencies and enjoyed the work immensely for many years. For many firms, consumer work typically offered lower margins, and the PR budget was at the end of the brand food chain, but the glamor factor made up for that, or so we thought. B2B PR boosts SEO.

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Agility PR Solutions

JUNE 2, 2021

As Generation Z’s consumer power accelerates—and this is happening swiftly—communicators are increasingly challenged to figure out what strategies work best for reaching this socially-conscious group of digital natives. The post How brands use actionable data and CX insights to market to Gen Z appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Are you dissatisfied with the results of your marketing campaigns? Are you uncertain where to focus your marketing efforts to get the biggest bang for your buck? Customer personas, also called marketing personas or buyer personas, are fictional representations of your ideal customers. Tax software is a “grudge” purchase.

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Agility PR Solutions

JANUARY 5, 2021

The post The 5th ‘P’ of marketing: Brands must protect us from fake products, misleading content appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. The post The 5th ‘P’ of marketing: Brands must protect us from fake products, misleading content appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Video is now the main way people consume content online. Much of that video content is pure entertainment , but consumers are itching for branded videos. In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Livestreams can take on many forms.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 10, 2021

It even appealed to me as a reader and consumer of news – but not to me as a customer. Disruption in B2B marketing messages. Many B2B software companies fall into the same trap. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: Priorities of B2B Marketing: Owned, Shared, Earned, Paid – in that Order. Image credit: Unsplash.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

Talkwalker hired a new CEO and new CMO in late 2022 and appears to have done a round of layoffs in sales and marketing, according to multiple social media updates I’ve observed. In April, it acquired Klear , an Israeli influencer marketing platform for $17.8 million in November of 2021.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you spend a lot of time in these systems, a little thing like clicking around becomes tedious and time-consuming. The media contacts section works completely differently than any other solution that I’ve seen on the market. The parent company, West, has rebranded as Intrado and before formally introduced Notified to the US market.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

AUGUST 29, 2023

Regrettably, advertising and marketing seem to remain a notable instance of this disparity. In advertising and marketing, however, this rich mixture has historically been depicted through the lens of Caucasian individuals. Brand marketing is a key arena where the call for inclusivity has grown louder and more resonant than ever before.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 187

Mindful Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As rapidly advancing technology helps blur lines between fact and fiction, does marketing have any obligation to stand for truth? As a user of graphic design software since the mid-90s, I know these techniques firsthand. Here are three ways marketing should fight falsity: 1. Check out Mindful Marketing Ads and Vote your Mind!

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Marketing LinkedIn Technology Comparison 77

Cision

MAY 12, 2017

As marketing communicators, we are on the verge of having all the data we could ever want. Christi Eubanks, managing vice president at Gartner , recently shared her organization’s model for total marketing measurement at the Gartner Digital Marketing Conference held in San Diego between May 10 – 12.

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Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 2018: Do you know where your marketing campaigns are focused? Facebook has gained a reputation for being a marketing shortcut of sorts; its ads have an average click-through rate of.9 It’s also known for helping increase consumers’ engagement with brands, given Facebook’s 183 million daily users.

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Landis PR

JULY 31, 2023

Now, more than a half century since the birth of artificial intelligence, mass interest and adoption of the technology has accelerated in recent months, thanks to publicly available software like ChatGPT and Character.ai. The post Is AI a threat or benefit to marketers and communicators?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2023

PR and communications professional Elana brings her background in handling national and global consumer and B2B tech brands to the team as an account executive. Before Adweek, she served as a media technology analyst at Digitas North America.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

At last week’s The New PR Conference hosted by AirPR Software in San Francisco, discussion swirled around ‘New PR’ and an evolution of public relations, including PR’s place in the greater marketing mix. The marketing discipline will need to be recentered around communications, which is not where it has been in the past.”.

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Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The overwhelming majority of consumers (80 percent) are more likely to shop with brands that show they understand their needs by sending relevant, personalized offers this holiday season, reveals new consumer research from CX software firm Redpoint Global. consumers found that 78 percent of consumers […].

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Brand Branding Software Survey 155

Shift Communications

AUGUST 2, 2022

The wrong phrasing can have direct consequences on a business, from consumer boycotts to undermining DEI initiatives to attracting quality talent. Sexist terminology such as “male and female” connectors or phrases such as “manhours” to describe the work that went into a project Ableist adjectives like “disabled” software features.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 19, 2017

Marketers, advertisers, and public relations professionals are ill-informed and ill-equipped to manage the largest change in data and privacy in the last 20 years: GDPR. or you use software that does this on your behalf (Google Analytics, marketing automation, sales CRM), GDPR applies to you. What is GDPR? You’d be wrong….

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dozens of marketing and PR professionals express aspirations for 2020 along with educated guesses about the future . I’ve grouped all predictions this year into categories, which is an effort to make it easier to read: Marketing predictions. Marketing predictions. Efficient marketing execution and measurement.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s a digital marketing academy to support marketing professions in developing an integrated communications strategy from scratch. Do you think COVID-19 will have a long-term impact on marketing services? Where I believe COVID will have a longer term impact will be in consumer behaviours.

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Marketing Training Pinterest Creativity 78

Onclusive

AUGUST 28, 2019

Marketers have been talking about paid, owned and earned media channels for over a decade now. Yet these three channels are almost always spoken about and operate as independent functions within the marketing department. 90% of consumers say they rely on editorial reviews and press coverage to make purchase decisions (Nielsen).

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Cision

MAY 30, 2017

When Erin Pepper began her job as head of marketing and guest relations at Le Pain Quotidien, a chain of 200+ bakery cafes, she announced to the management team a controversial plan: “I want to triple the number of complaints we get from customers,” she proclaimed. Intermediate: Dedicated Customer Service and Reviews Software.

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Agility PR Solutions

AUGUST 9, 2020

As brands and businesses continue to navigate the landscape created by the COVID crisis, it’s becoming increasingly clear that digital marketing and PR are crucial to connecting with consumers in a more digital-reliant world.

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5W PR

JANUARY 12, 2024

Creative Ideas to Generate Leads for Your B2B Business In the realm of B2B marketing, the challenge often lies in finding creative and effective ways to generate leads. Unlike B2C (business-to-consumer) marketing, where the focus is on individual consumers, B2B marketing strategies target businesses and organizations.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 18, 2023

A study including behavioral data and a poll of 38,000 B2B professionals finds the more B2B content your “audience consumes, the more likely they are to be closing in on a purchase decision.” B2B content and buyer intent are two of the hottest topics in B2B marketing – and a new study offers some details as to how these are linked.

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Cision

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Nobody can deny that market share is a crucial metric for business success. When we marketers ignore it, we confuse shifts in industry demand with the results of our own actions. Still, market share obsession can also afflict us with a kind of tunnel vision. Leverage the “Underdog Effect”.

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Marketing Skype Customer Service Brand 180

Mindful Marketing

JULY 30, 2022

Clark had good reason to resent receiving a product subscription, but how should consumers feel about more companies moving to subscription models? And, the list keeps getting longer, as even more organizations find opportunities to automatically tap their consumers’ wallets for things like clothing (e.g., Harry’s ).

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Mindful Marketing

JULY 4, 2020

by Dr. Sonja Martin Poole , associate professor of marketing, University of San Francisco Our nation is clearly in crisis. While conquering COVID-19 lies mainly in the hands of certain medical researchers and pharmaceutical companies, overcoming racism depends on everyone and everything, including marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Public relations and content marketing are powerful when they work together, particularly for B2B PR programs designed to educate prospective customers and push them down the funnel to a point of purchase. But when they work in concert, PR and content marketing are a 1+1+3 situation. Never discount earned media.

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