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Content Marketing Lessons Learned From Our Best Performing Blog Posts

Polaris

It’s definitely a useful exercise to discover what’s working (and what isn’t). 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.

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One Prediction Each for PR, Content Marketing and Social Media  

Sword and the Script

There’s more than one way to look at the annual cycle of prediction posts that surface on the web, as the final days of another calendar year wane. Some see them as fun and a break from the usual content routine. Predictions are a license for liberty in mental exercise. PR is the Best Kept Secret in Effective Content Marketing.

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Why Some B2B Tech Companies Fail at Marketing [guest post]

Sword and the Script

Your audience should always be at the center of all of your marketing strategies and tactics. The buyer personas exercise helps you get into the minds of your buyers and understand their background, challenges, motivations and objections. Optimize your web pages to ensure that your audience can easily find you.

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6 Tips to Become a Pinterest PR Pro

Cision

They’re seeking the latest exercises and health tips for a summer-ready body. Lucy Hitz , content marketing producer at Simply Measured, says, “Creating place boards for your business is similar to building up your visual content on Pinterest. Use the strategy with evergreen content, too.

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7 Media Statistics from an Annual Survey of Reporters that Gives PR a Glimpse of their Mindset

Sword and the Script

For all those still complaining about search and social, now a decade beyond the advent of the so-called Web 2.0, It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. Comment: Content marketers should borrow this hint from reporters in their own work.

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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]

Sword and the Script

This stuff isn’t hard, and while I’m not a reporter, an exercise like this is a glimpse into their world. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links [UML]. c) Survey of reporters by Innowire Advisory Innowire Advisory , a small PR firm based in San Diego, surveyed reporters for a piece in The Next Web (TNW).

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3 Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers B2B Marketing can Borrow [Study]

Sword and the Script

That’s according to the results of a survey of 1,377 bloggers conducted by Orbit Media a web design agency. These habits are applicable to corporate blogging where a blog is a central platform in a content marketing strategy. The 4 Engines You Need to Pull Off Content Marketing Successfully.

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