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Content Marketing During a Downturn: Here’s What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong

Contently - Strategy

As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. Data shows that proactive marketing “ pays off ” during recessions—for brands across industries, including the likes of Toyota, Amazon, Coca-Cola, etc. Focus on big ideas and big rocks.

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Why are many social media marketers still working from the 2015 playbook?

Communications Conversations

Let’s look at four big shifts that have been happening in 2020 so far, and how I would argue most social media marketers have reacted: Shift #1: Customers don’t want ‘storytelling’–they want exceptional customer service. ” An entire industry has evolved around the concept!

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Be All In Or Get All Out With Content Marketing

Beyond PR

If you’re only partially committed to creating and distributing content, Content Marketing Institute founder Joe Pulizzi would rather you do no content marketing at all. This may not have been the message Content Marketing World attendees were expecting to hear during Joe’s welcome address.

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40+ Blogs Marketers Should Be Following

PR 20/20

O ur daily mantra as inbound marketers: stay focused, and be passionate. Hence our obsession with keeping tabs on industry blogs and finding those articles and authors that impact our own ways of thinking. If like us, you’re always looking for new marketing resources, you’ve landed on the right blog post. Sorry if we missed you!

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The Top PR Trends For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Like nearly any other marketing or strategic discipline, public relations has changed in recent years. The Global Communications Report, a comprehensive worldwide survey of more than 1,000 senior PR executives worldwide, reveals that the global PR industry is predicted to grow from its current estimated size of $14 billion to $19.3

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20 of the Coolest Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

PR 20/20

The South by Southwest Conference & Festivals “celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries.” Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Experiential storytelling. Tech industry. The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”.

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McKinsey: 5 Factors Driving a New Golden Age of Marketing

Sword and the Script

In more recent years, marketing has spent some $2 billion on word-of-mouth, $10 billion on PR, $60 billion in TV ads and about $160 billion on direct marketing according to industry studies (while we are counting, we waste 2 billion hours in meetings each year). McKinsey floats it’s concept in the construct of paradox.