Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

We don’t need to sell you on the benefits of content marketing. When compared with other forms of marketing, content marketing has the potential to form a meaningful and long-lasting relationship with your customer or prospect. So, how do you get it right when it comes to content marketing?

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What happens when you place all of the world’s top content marketers in one place? In its fifth year, Content Marketing World brings over 3,500 people from over 50 countries together and covers topics ranging from tools and technology to optimization to the future of content marketing. Ann Handley: Be Bold.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Anne Carton is a small business consultant, digital marketing expert and blogger working with Designhill , the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace. Ann primarily writes about social media and growth hack strategies, SEO and e-commerce. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016? Episodic Content .

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 28, 2021

New Content! That’s what many social media marketers are thinking about as we start 2021. And, as you think about new content ideas, you need to think about visuals as much as text (even more so, really). And, what better place to turn than one of the biggest repositories of visuals on the planet: Shutterstock.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When I started as an editorial intern at Contently, the first thing I realized was that I had a lot to learn about content marketing. In college, I majored in mass communication with a media studies concentration. I searched through Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and Indeed for traditional internships at media companies.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

And while it’s easy to mark your products down 40% in an effort to attract Black Friday traffic, it’s more difficult to remember to include your content marketing efforts in your holiday marketing strategy. Here’s an example of content you could do across channels beyond a Black Friday Sale announcement. Plan Ahead.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

Content marketing boils down to one simple question: what story is your brand telling? According to CMI’s 2015 Benchmark Report , 55 percent of B2B marketers plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next 12 months—essentially, pouring more money into telling their brands’ stories.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

to the UK market, we’ve been supporting them with a series of retained activity including influencer , paid and organic social media campaigns, as well as stand out creative and video content. As part of our ongoing work to showcase C4 Energy, the fastest-growing drink brand in U.S,

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

With the so-called ‘collapse’ of major digital news outlets like Vice Media and BuzzFeed and the much-hyped decline of traditional news, then earned media no longer matters. Securing earned media is still the highest priority for most public relations professionals. Wait, what is earned media?

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Cision

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Which strategic positioning direction should clients pursue, what kind of media material should be featured and how important it is to create relevant and eye-catching messaging content are integral to each and every digital communications effort. The thinking solidly supports the fact that dated brands don’t compete.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 1926, psychologist Graham Wallas outlined the basic creative process, which has been the overall framework for understanding and fostering creativity for almost a century. The Wallas process has four general stages: Preparation : loading up your mind to be creative. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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Cision

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Content marketing has the power to turn your brand into a driving force in your industry, but with so much competition in the marketplace, how can you ensure that your content makes an impact? What other challenges do you see brands facing in terms of content? Q: How has content marketing changed in recent years?

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Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

But with the power and reach of social media, snatching up prospects halfway around the world seems like a piece of cake…that is, if a brand is listening carefully to what their competitors are saying to their audiences. Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. Following is a list of 15 content marketing metrics that you should measure: 1.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 25, 2020

So much of social media marketing, and marketing in general, for that fact, seems like it’s almost in the background right now. Until, that is, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, came up with the best piece of content marketing I’ve seen yet during the COVID-19 crisis. It all just seems kinda forced.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Bringing you another round-up of the latest social media updates, as AI continues to infiltrate, check it out below. Instagram’s AI stickers Instagram have introduced new tools for content creators to streamline reel editing, including dreamy ‘undo’ and ‘redo’ buttons to rectify small errors.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 1926, psychologist Graham Wallas outlined the basic creative process, which has been the overall framework for understanding and fostering creativity for almost a century. The Wallas process has four general stages: Preparation : loading up your mind to be creative. Inspiration/Insight : the process of generating ideas.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Constraint breeds creativity. Writing on the Ignite Social Media blog, Bruna Camargo gave the vehicle manufacturer good grades for its response, “Instead of issuing some lame press release about how they’re sorry their guy couldn’t be more eloquent, they embraced it, rolled with it, and are now about to bank on it. A while back, Inc.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 3, 2018

On the flip side, here’s of the Outbrain pitch to prospective advertisers: “Many of our largest partners are news and media publishers such as CNN, US Weekly, Fast Company, Mashable, WSJ, and The Guardian, but we also work with lots of more niche sites, including sports, entertainment, finance, health, and technology. Give our services a try.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 15, 2021

As someone who looks at Indeed, LinkedIn and other online job portals every week for my Friday e-newsletter, I am seeing FAR more digital marketing and comms jobs than just about anything else in the creative industry. Almost the same thing for “social media marketer.” Content marketing manager.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Research shows more than half of all B2B content goes unused. This means the burden of creating more content, at least in part, could be solved with a little creative effort. The key to repurposing in content marketing is to add value along the way. Many B2B agencies are good at content.

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Polaris

JANUARY 17, 2015

He approached Chipotle CEO Steve Ells with the idea to entertain customers and expose them to creative people. Not as any kind of marketing tool. The series attracted a torrent of media and customer attention–mostly positive. Content marketing lessons for smaller brands. Content Marketing'

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 11, 2021

An edcal is a content roadmap that ensures a steady flow of media coverage, even absent major news announcements. It’s like an unsung hero of the public relations world — not flashy or creative, but vital to a robust media placement schedule. It’s the worst-kept secret in most PR firms. . Measure Performance.

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As always, we’ve been keeping our eye out for some exciting and stand-out social media and PR campaigns. The movie features entities that have an unsettling smile, causing harm to those who see it, so the marketing team behind the movie hired actors to stare into the camera at the games while donning their creepiest smiles.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Yet that’s the central responsibility of the creative marketer – to convert the uninteresting into something interesting. The vast majority of B2B content centers on features, functions and benefits. Don’t miss these related posts: Scale Content Marketing: Employees are the Secret. 3) Creativity is the Soul of CMO.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. 50% say improved distribution.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

Writing is the heart of content marketing, and I also think it’s our liver, lungs and central nervous system.” “Content is a filter that can qualify your audience better.” Want more content marketing insights from Ann Handley? The world isn’t changed by content that is sort of creative.”

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Search Engines, Social Media and Journalism. The institutions it looks at are as follows: government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), business and media. One of the most significant findings from the study was that media is now the least trusted institution. You can and should run content marketing like a publisher.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. There’s a clear benefit for the employer, but what’s the benefit to talent in a market that’s 96% employed? Additional considerations include, catering, hire a photographer, sharing photos on social media in real time.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The recently released Cision 2017 Global Social Journalism Study takes a deep dive into how journalists approach and use social media. The Cision Global Social Journalism Study has a lot of insightful, actionable data about how journalists use social media and their perceptions of social tools. Publishing Content.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 18, 2015

Content marketing surveys consistently demonstrate the biggest barrier facing marketer is feeding the content monster. In one example , the company says it made “122 separate content assets from one eBook.” These range from blog posts to videos, and from webinars to social media updates.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 20, 2016

In other words, we spend lots of time mapping what content is needed, for what persona, at what stage – and then wind up sending more emails offering discounts. It’s been a trend in content marketing too. B2B marketers seem to think that buying content by the pound and then throwing it at Google is the path to scale.

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Critical Mention

JULY 13, 2021

NEW YORK — Critical Mention — the leading all-in-one earned media monitoring and intelligence platform — has released Instagram tracking as part of its Earned Media Suite. The new release adds to the platform’s already robust Social Media Monitoring offering, which also includes Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. 1) Earned media is sales enablement. A tech PR firm recently published a study that showed promising effects media relations can have on the sales cycle for B2B marketing organizations.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Engage with the blogger on social media first, personalize your outreach, read and follow any requirements, and provide high-quality content. But again, with the deluge of content being produced every day, being remarkable will be a baseline requirement. Scott Kaminski , Senior Marketing Manager, Häfele America Co. .

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. Ask questions on social media. Share the right content on the right social media network.

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