Contently - Strategy

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. The good news is that if you’re willing to invest the effort, the result will yield a powerful tool in your content toolbox. What Is a Buyer Persona?

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Survey Data Interviews Reddit 135

Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

If you already have a list of vetted keywords from your marketing team to work from, skip ahead to step two. If not, complete the following exercise: Write down all of the questions you are asked in new business—aka sales—meetings. You don’t need it for this exercise.). There is a five-step process to use to ensure success.

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Exercises Google Writing Blogging 198

The Proactive Report

JUNE 17, 2018

91 percent of B2B brands and 86 percent of B2C brands use content as part of their marketing efforts. Source: Content Marketing Institute 2018) That’s a lot of content being dumped online every day. Why are these brands so content focused? They know that content powers the customer journey.

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B2C Study Exercises Sports 157

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. 10 Fundamentals for Successful B2B Media Interviews. based reporters said, “ensuring content is 100 percent accurate is the most important” in their organization. 4) Emphasis on professional journalism.

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Cision

JULY 29, 2015

Kerry O’Shea Gorgone , host of MarketingProfs’ Marketing Smarts podcast , recently sat down with us to answer a few questions on how to build a podcasting strategy and give us a glimpse at what she’ll cover at her Cision webinar. Q: Why is podcasting valuable for brands’ marketing strategies? Is it strictly content marketing?

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Interviews Comparison Video Exercises 120

Prohibition

MARCH 27, 2020

Podcasts are relatively new when it comes to content creation, with celebrities and social media influencers generally filling this space with genres of content including story-telling, celebrity interviews, advice pieces and debate shows. Because of this, they are often much more accessible.

Leadership 62

Leadership Exercises Trends YouTube 62

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 6, 2017

One exercise is to probe any innovative or provocative point of view, ideas that advance an industry or flip some previously held notions, or offer predictions for the future. We develop a content marketing strategy that encompasses: Expert commentary – weighing in on relevant news. Or it can be a complete overhaul.

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Leadership Trade Shows Healthcare Education 149

Cision

AUGUST 16, 2016

In this interview, Erik discusses moving from one media world to the next. While Burns360 is an agency that is embracing new PR concepts like digital and content marketing, its belief that journalism is essential to PR has never wavered. It’s no longer enough to simply do a TV interview or post a blog on your website.

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Television Pitching Journalism Interviews 120

Sword and the Script

APRIL 16, 2019

The exercise of getting a release through reviews and approvals can take longer than does the process of writing one. I may also consider an Off Script Q&A interview , but probably no more than a couple per year. In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms. Arik Hanson].

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Survey Technology Corporate Financial 72

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. His experience sitting on both sides of the table, and a conceivably comparable pressure for clicks, has given him a balanced and long-term perspective on business communications and marketing. 2) What hasn’t changed in marketing ? .

Journalism 61

Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

The market for tools in PR is exploding. A crowdsourced exercise by the #AIinPR panel over the past few months has characterised more than 120 tools. The exercise was highly subjective – hence so is the analysis and interpretation of the data. I sought him out to lead this initiative when we set up the panel earlier this year.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2017

He’s my guest for this latest edition of the Off Script series of interviews. This can be especially challenging for more junior marketing professionals who start in the in-house environment and don’t have access to the skill sets and minds for inspiration as they would in an agency. How would you characterize the difference in roles?

Agency 60

Agency Corporate Interviews eBook 60

Sword and the Script

JUNE 26, 2018

While that’s not nearly as large as other segments of marketing spend (TV advertising is ~$70 billion ), podcasts continue to grow, slowly but steadily. In turn, this has opened what is perhaps the final market for attention: my hypothesis is that podcasts are different because the listening audience truly pays attention.

Marketing 86

Marketing B2B Interviews Content Marketing 86

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

For many, media relations is just an exercise in exporting a spreadsheet of contacts and hitting the send button. 3) Augment media relations with content marketing. As I wrote for an IABC feature in Communication World , my epiphany with content came years ago, when a pitch I thought was timely and relevant fell on deaf ears.

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Survey Media Relations Media Ethics 377

Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

In fact, as all savvy marketers know, more than “what” you sell, “how” you sell creates a bigger emotional, and thus bankable, impact. But generally speaking, it is a content research tool that allows marketers to put themselves in the shoes (and the mindset) of different segments of customers. This is where businesses falter.

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How To Tools Exercises Viral 120

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 14, 2017

It sometimes strikes people as a nebulous and becomes equated with PR or marketing snake oil. Messaging ought to be an exhausting mental exercise – and one that needs refreshing from time-to-time. If you get the message wrong, then the investment in marketing or communications could prove wasteful in the future.

B2B 60

B2B Pitching Survey Study 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Webinars have long been a staple of B2B marketing. Arguably, the time, effort and budget that goes into producing high-quality webinars makes leveraging this existing investment an imperative in modern digital marketing. Below are 12 ideas on precisely how to drive better results from your B2B marketing webinars.

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B2B Infographics Interviews eBook 60

Buzzstream

APRIL 10, 2019

Many content marketers view “promotion” as a phase that begins once content goes live. If you are gathering data first-hand through surveys, interviews or proprietary data analysis you’ll want to alot at least a few weeks to get everything ironed out. To keep up to date with her current goings-on, head over to Briggsby.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Steve has long been a believer “content marketing” even before the phrase gained the popularity it has today. The content marketing hype-cycle helped alert those asleep at the wheel that this was a requirement for doing business in an information (Google) age. I joined as vice president of marketing.

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Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

And you are not just competing against other PR teams for budgets, but also against advertising, digital, and marketing. Jim Hawker, Threepipe Digital Marketing and PR – #FuturePRoofing a Public Relations agency or a Communications team. Raf recently also got interviewed about this in the Wag The Dog Podcast.

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