Critical Mention

JUNE 19, 2019

Did you know that over 60% of businesses don’t have a documented content marketing strategy according to CMI and MarketingProfs? Without a plan, you risk all of your content efforts going to waste. We have 10 steps on how to create your next content marketing plan: What exactly is content marketing?

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Prowly

MAY 22, 2020

It’s an essential element that supports your marketing efforts and offers the best approach to build a strong subscriber base – which is critical for any business success. In fact, 81% of leaders and 87% of visionaries place content at the center of their […].

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The good news is there’s no need for marketers to pivot careers just yet. With content marketing, brands can deliver personalized and relevant customer experiences that not only nurture them through the funnel but also provide value, build trust, and foster lasting connections.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 18, 2024

It’s also an extremely effective example of brand storytelling, as it was produced not by a gritty independent film studio but by the financial services platform Square. That’s a noble aim, but how can a piece of content that is not directly about a brand be one of the best examples of brand storytelling ?

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The best email newsletters are like holy grails for content marketers. When you send content straight to your reader’s inbox, you bypass Google’s search algorithm and the changing whims of social media platforms. Robinhood Snacks , for example, delivers a daily bite-sized, three-minute dose of financial news.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks. MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute published their 10 th Annual B2B Marketing report with benchmarks, budgets and trends.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 31, 2018

To be successful in the New PR is to identify the intersection of positioning and content marketing. For example, if you are a product-oriented company there are two ways that you can go: you can position around value, or you can position around features. Building the Narrative & Content Marketing.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 11, 2022

Here’s how investing in content can help you overcome today’s biggest challenges and position your company to succeed long term. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. Paid ads and content marketing have inverse reputations. You’ve got to hook them and drive them to action.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The title: The top 10 laziest phrases in social content marketing. Because there’s only one phrase that can be labeled “the laziest” in social content marketing–and I’m not sure it’s close! The content machine is now in overdrive. I see it used almost daily. Think about it.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 31, 2020

Buyers were taking in content before talking to sales even before the Coronavirus hit; now is a great time to double down on content marketing Today is the last day of the first quarter of 2020. When I think about that statistic in today’s context – this is another moment for true content marketing.

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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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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 27, 2019

Content marketing could quite possibly be the most misunderstood concept in marketing today. Most confuse content marketing as synonymous with content, which is a solid way to make sure your content marketing program underperforms, or worse, fails. So, what is content marketing?

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Cision

JANUARY 25, 2016

Last year, 90 percent of B2C marketers used content marketing, but only 34 percent felt they were successful. And while 69 percent are creating more content than years past, few are being heard. They can afford to ignore us,” says Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute. Find The Sweet Spot.

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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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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Most of these come from registering for one-off gated content like white papers and webinars – these assets are expensive to create and promote. And I have a massive library of SEO and content marketing material.”.

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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

MAY 19, 2015

This post was inspired by our free “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR ” white paper. Not long ago, we had a blog post that described five outside-the-box content marketing ideas. Want even more content marketing tips? Obviously, that wasn’t a comprehensive or exhaustive list. Syndication.

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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: Black Friday. Content: 50 Gift Ideas Under $25. Holiday promotions abound. Plan Ahead.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 21, 2014

This week I was reminded of a post I wrote back in March on jumpstarting your B2B content. MarketingProfs’ latest B2B Content Marketing 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends report. The report provides some great insight into how B2B marketers are thinking about content and where they’re stuck. The reminder?

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 9, 2019

Content marketing takes time and effort. By working together with other guest bloggers on content creation and helping each other get mentioned, we’re building useful, long-term relationships. These articles often prove to be less generic, consist of more detail and have more actionable/relatable examples. Form a bond.

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ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

They say the only thing constant is change, and that’s certainly true in the world of content marketing. Every month, or so it seems, there’s a new must-do-or-you’re-toast trend in content marketing. So, how do you keep up, or better yet keep ahead, with your content marketing strategy?

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 17, 2019

Growing your content marketing program across the org is just as much about efficiency as it is about expansion. Producing more content without clear goals or objectives isn’t an accomplishment. By 2018, RBC had 22 teams creating content on the Contently platform. Click here to read the entire e-book.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking earned media is essential for PR pros, communications experts and marketers because it can help them to amplify brand awareness and build strategies for the future. Here are four examples of earned media that have had a huge impact on different industries and movements this year. Hamilton, Twitter Watch Party.

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Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Entertain, don’t sell.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

People now look for and essentially demand content that gets them involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience. Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 19, 2020

It ensures that healthcare content is rooted in specifics that marketing teams may not be able to come up with on their own. For example, Fleetwood-Beresford also written for medical supply company Fittleworth about the connection between loneliness and Ulcerative Colitis.

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ReimaginePR

JULY 11, 2016

You may assume that creating a similar content marketing strategy will be too complicated for your business to handle. After all, when you try to create content, it probably seems to take forever as you fall further down the never-ending rabbit hole of ideas, tasks, and social media updates. content marketing strategy.

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Cision

MAY 5, 2015

Don’t share that message with the same, old content marketing tactics. To “spice up” your B2B content creation , consider these five tips: 1. It determines the shape that other content marketing pieces take. Choose content channels. Base content channels on those answers. Try something new.

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Cision

JULY 10, 2017

Feedback is huge when it comes to developing a successful content marketing strategy. Here, we identify five sources that can prove invaluable to you in crafting your content. Who better to listen to in order to develop more targeted content than the people that you are developing content for? Here’s an example.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 10, 2019

We’ve listed five highly effective CTA examples that will inspire your own! One of its best examples is their “Prepare for Launch” pop-up which encourages visitors to subscribe for an email campaign. Another excellent example of a CTA is Spotify’s website. MailChimp is great at creating effective CTAs.

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Solo PR Pro

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We have heard the drumbeat of the importance of content marketing for years. Long before it was labeled “content marketing,” communications pros were utilizing the tactic in client work. Content Marketing is a valuable tool in the communications arsenal. How does content marketing fit into that plan?

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PR Fuel

MAY 12, 2019

In this day and age, many people still consider PR and content marketing to be mutually exclusive. While content marketers create quality material to inform readers while also branding that company in a certain way and with a certain voice, traditional PR generally aims to get stories and other material to the “news.”.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2018

You cannot run content marketing like a campaign. You can, however, run campaigns inside a content marketing program. Campaigns are how every marketer is trained to think. There is nothing wrong with any of this, but is not content marketing. If this sounds like semantics, it is not.

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Polaris

JANUARY 2, 2015

Hopefully we learn a few content marketing lessons by reviewing the past year, then use that information to develop even more effective editorial calendars in 2015. Content Marketing Lesson #1: Make it useful and timely. Content Marketing Lesson #2: Showcase stellar examples.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 10, 2016

As a result, the refrain “content marketing is better than advertising” is bounced around the marketing echo chamber. Though a seasoned PR professional, I am also a serious advocate of content marketing. There’s a large body of work on these pages dedicated to content marketing. balance scales.”

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 5, 2018

Now the European Union (EU) says marketing must get permission. To get permission, marketing must put together programs people want. This is a core competency of PR and content marketing pros who are adept at earning , rather than buying, attention. 4) I’m coming to realize that GDPR really isn’t complicated.

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