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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. 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. Why accuracy in content marketing is important.

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Monday Roundup: Moving Forward

Waxing UnLyrical

Bryce uses the examples of Weight Watchers, SiriusXM, and Encyclopedia Britannica to illustrate why sacrificing some revenue by offering a free product to compete with services such as FitBit, Pandora, and Wikipedia can contribute to companies moving forward rather than behind. The New Rules Of Content Marketing.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. In what could be deemed an intersection in time and the beginning of a period of transition in PR – the rise of content marketing and the fall of press releases – UBM would acquire the Content Marketing Institute for $17.6

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PR Interviews: Michael White Lansons

Norton's Notes

I provide strategic digital and social media advice on behalf of corporate, media and political communication clients. So many organisations have experienced negative consequences of trusting SEO agencies to manage content marketing for them, only for them to be penalised by Google. Without a doubt it’s online reputation.

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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

On the Internet today, everything is marketing and paid — except perhaps for Wikipedia and a few remaining journalists not hiding behind paywalls. How Marketing Kicked Our PR Ass. Today, SEO (like SEM) is considered a form of marketing instead of earned and owned communication. We had a window. And we missed it.

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The PR Industry Needs More Than Just Better PR

Doctor Spin

On the Internet today, everything is marketing, and everything is paid—except perhaps for Wikipedia and a few remaining journalists not hiding behind paywalls. Why Marketing Over Communications? Today, SEO is beside SEM considered a form of marketing instead of a form of earned and owned communication. We had a window.

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Your Favorite MaccaPR Blog Posts: Ellen's Oscar Selfie, Death of PR Spin and Online Content Secrets

MaccaPR

Since MaccaPR first launched in late 2012, we''ve averaged a new blog post nearly every week for our loyal chief marketing and PR officer, corporate communication directors and marketing professional subscribers. If you aren''t already, please become a MaccaPR subscriber today (form is at the top of the page).