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. To help all the new and aspiring content marketing interns out there, I decided to create this syllabus.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

If the B2B community feels overwhelmed by the volume of content, then B2B marketing might feel overwhelmed by the volume of content marketing studies. The trends suggest to me that content is still very much a form of currency bartered in exchange for attention. 25% know my company’s products or service.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The world of marketing and PR evolves rapidly. Conferences and other gatherings of like-minded marketing professionals provide key learning opportunities, introductions to others who can help you hone your craft, and team-building experiences unlike any other. Digital Sales and Marketing World. Dates: Feb 25 – 26, 2020.

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Onclusive

JUNE 23, 2022

This week, we’re continuing with our June blog series on Measuring Up To Marketing: How PR Fits Into The Mix. How can marketing and PR jointly contribute to business goals? How can marketing and PR jointly contribute to business goals? Align with marketing strategies and dashboards.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 12, 2018

“Content marketing just doesn’t work,” they said. I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. After hundreds of meetings and workshops this year, I feel confident that content marketing is about to take a big leap—thanks to a few key factors.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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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. Track how people use the site. Get our free white paper to see how!

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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? Your Prospects.

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Inbound PR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Content Marketing Institute released a new study into content marketing services for agencies. The research looked into: How many agencies have embraced content marketing as a service offering? How long have they been offering content marketing services?

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Buzzstream

MARCH 3, 2020

To really bring the podcasting trend into perspective, a recent study from Statista found that, in 2006, only 22% of consumers knew what a podcast was, but by 2019 over 64% of consumers were aware of podcasting. Hopefully by now I’ve convinced you that podcast guesting is a strategy you should be incorporating into your content marketing mix.

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Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Content intelligence company, Chartbeat analyzed deep-user behavior across two billion website visits and discovered that 55 percent of internet users spend fewer than 15 seconds actively on a page. To make an impact, content needs to shine. Create more visual content. For marketing professionals — multimedia is a must have.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity , LLC.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 11, 2020

You can’t control the constraints imposed by the Coronavirus, but you can make a case to keep your marketing budget It’s a challenging time to be a marketer. It’s amazing how fast our world can change, but there is a growing body of knowledge for how to market in troubling times. What sort of studies?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 3, 2022

B2B Sales & Marketing Exchange (August, Boston). B2B media outlet Demand Gen Report produces this and the winter B2B Marketing Exchange events annually. Session content revolves around demand-gen, ABM, sales enablement, content strategy, and more. Content Marketing World & Expo (September, Cleveland).

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Prohibition

JANUARY 4, 2023

Digital PR is a great tactic for driving traffic and brand awareness, which can be matched across your offline and online marketing campaigns. Influencer marketing. Social media marketing. Website Content/Content Marketing. ranking components.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 10, 2016

Studies like this are boiled down to oversimplified conclusions cast in a headline. 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. Native ads?

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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. 27% said they don’t know how.

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2016

The answer really depends on the maturity of the industry that you target — the real question is how do you find them and when you do, what will keep their attention? According to a 2013 study by ThinkGoogle , the average consumer consults 12 sources before making a purchasing decision. Never question authority. The Networking Model.

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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. That’s why a lot of these creative content marketing opportunities we’ve seen the last week just seem to fall flat (see Chipotle’s attempt to use Zoom in a creative way, for example).

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When you invite internal and external subject matter experts to contribute to your content marketing program, it’s important to have guidelines for them to follow. The less time you need to spend editing content and following up with contributors, the more time you have for strategy and optimization. increase brand awareness.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Users of HubSpot’s CRM platform (specifically its Sales and Marketing Hubs) see a 74% increase in deal-close rate after just 12 months. Integrating comprehensive business data into your marketing strategy can also give your company a competitive edge at every stage of your sales funnel.

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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. That’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links [UML]. The study suggests announcements about financial transactions like funding or acquisitions didn’t convert.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In fact, studies show that it’s overwhelmingly in a brand’s best interest to keep setting customers up for success. So much marketing advice looks at how to get new customers. The second marketing funnel. However, the traditional marketing funnel has one major shortcoming: It usually ends at the purchase. “Two

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

If B2B marketing isn’t careful with how these are sourced and created, then interest could plateau or decline. These are fundamental building blocks of effective marketing. And so buyer personas are the theme of this week’s Unscripted Marketing links (UML). Market Research Mistake: Falling in Love with an Idea.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML] – an occasional Saturday roundup of three vetted links grouped around a theme and offered for your consideration. This week we challenging three marketing assumptions. 1) Marketing assumption: more leads are better. Who doesn’t want more leads?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 18, 2023

A study including behavioral data and a poll of 38,000 B2B professionals finds the more B2B content your “audience consumes, the more likely they are to be closing in on a purchase decision.” B2B content and buyer intent are two of the hottest topics in B2B marketing – and a new study offers some details as to how these are linked.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 12, 2019

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. No matter what content you write or what stories your brand tells, there’s a good chance a machine can help you do it better. And the technology increasingly exists to do so.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The top problem in content creation probably comes from the fact that too many B2B marketers haven’t had a single conversation with a customer Most B2B marketers (57%) say creating the right content for their audience is their top content creation challenge in content marketing.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2016

In the PR and marketing industry, we can witness kaizen being practiced more and more often. As we explore in the white paper Defining the Metrics that Will Demonstrate ROI , new tools have made it easier to measure the precise impact of our efforts and optimize content creation and promotion. Content optimization.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Seth Godin would argue that content marketing is the “ only marketing left.” Michael Brenner said , “It is the hottest trend in marketing because it is the biggest gap between what buyers want and brands produce.”. So why might CMOs still undervalue the potential impact of content efforts? Don’t believe me?

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 14, 2016

“SEO is no longer just about 200 ranking factors," according to Gianluca Fiorelli , SEO and web marketing consultant. How do we, as content marketers, focus on making our websites these undeniable sources for answers? First, we need to understand how Google operates in 2016, and where Google is headed.

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wiredPRworks

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2007, David mentioned my fledgling blog wiredPRworks in his book, “ The New Rules of Marketing and PR.”. In a stroke of marketing brilliance, David included over 160 bloggers/contributors in the first edition. When I found David’s work and read his first book, I knew I’d found the roadmap to the future of marketing and PR.

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Beyond PR

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? Your Prospects.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 18, 2016

It’s up to brand managers and marketers to pinpoint what makes that identity unique and play to those strengths. Depending on your brand’s expertise, planning content around the holidays and other seasonal events can be a great way to newsjack topics that naturally align with your vision. Every brand has an identity.

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Onclusive

JUNE 17, 2020

These are just a few of the reasons that owned media has become a cornerstone of the modern marketing mix. According to Nielsen, owned media channels are among the most trusted marketing formats. Savvy brands are focusing on owned media and content marketing. A recent study from Backlink.io

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The study polled 33,000 respondents in 28 countries. According to the Edelman study, 75% of respondents globally trust their employer. Keep your content marketing separate and distinct. Don’t mash case studies, white papers, webinars, press releases and blog posts together. Similarly, 72% of U.S.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The series, which debuted over a decade ago, was one of the first majorly successful examples of video content marketing. Media and marketing experts have been anointing video as the trend of the year for over a decade. Media and marketing experts have been anointing video as the trend of the year for over a decade.

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