Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form. Headlines about “guides” and “how-to” rank in second and thirds spots. I first spotted the data about the content length on MarketingProfs.

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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. What sort of sales content helps close deals?

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Stern + Associates

AUGUST 3, 2017

A robust content marketing strategy involves a mix of valuable content: articles, blogs, case studies, infographics, podcasts, webinars, videos. This content is considered “valuable” because it has been carefully crafted.

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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. I reached out to that person and started mentioning one of his case studies in an article I wrote. Mission accomplished!

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When we talk about content marketing ROI, we often ignore one of the biggest opportunities in front of us: sales enablement. As I wrote about in this Ask a Content Strategist column , content marketers have a tendency to stop thinking about ROI after lead generation. The Hidden ROI of Content Marketing Platforms.

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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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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI.

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Stern + Associates

JUNE 8, 2017

The fundamental concept of a content marketing strategy is to create and distribute various forms of content related to your business, products or services, written and designed to attract potential. The post How to Create Valuable Content for Your Content Marketing Strategy appeared first on Stern Strategy Group.

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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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Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

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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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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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Beyond PR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While more marketers than ever are embracing content marketing, a much smaller number of them are seeing tangible results — research shows that just 17 percent of content marketers report their content marketing efforts as much more successful. The study concluded that more content is better.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. Before we called it content marketing, we called it marketing communications.

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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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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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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 30, 2024

A subscribed audience is what distinguishes content marketing from marketing. Subscribers are what makes content marketing different The problem that this survey revealed is one of the reasons why subscribers are so important. A subscribed audience is what distinguishes content marketing from marketing.

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Cision

JANUARY 9, 2018

Just create and distribute content to organically reach new audiences. Your success, however, is dependent on the first two steps: the content you create and how you distribute it. Here are eight types of content and examples of how to promote them to not only boost your organic presence but to drive demand and engagement.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

A tech PR firm recently published a study that showed promising effects media relations can have on the sales cycle for B2B marketing organizations. The study suggests “momentum” releases were the highest performing, followed by partnerships, new hires, products and award announcements. 1) Earned media is sales enablement.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 8, 2017

If there’s ever been a time to learn how to build your own audience for your company…it’s now. This is why content marketing is the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML]. 1) Marketing content vs. content marketing. 3) Content metrics and KPIs. Talk to Us!

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It may go without saying that content marketing is one of the most discussed topics among public relations professional and marketers this year, a practice which centers on really great, high-quality content. Here at MaccaPR, we've blogged about content marketing a number of times (e.g."

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 3, 2022

“Representing some of the largest and fastest-growing solution providers in account-based marketing and demand generation, B2BSMX provides attendees the opportunity to meet with experts to tackle challenges such as how to optimize revenue operations and fine tune their go-to-market strategies to adjust to new realities.”.

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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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Cision

JUNE 2, 2017

The Inside Story on How to Spy on Competitors (& Innovators). If you want to see who are seen as the best both by data and peer review, then typing a search term, such as “Top Content Marketers,” will be revealing. Find out how they drive traffic and get online attention. How did Movoto do it?

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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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Communications Conversations

MARCH 25, 2020

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). It has a short video explaining how to make the masks. It all just seems kinda forced. It hits all the right notes.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 11, 2020

It’s amazing how fast our world can change, but there is a growing body of knowledge for how to market in troubling times. As I look out across my peers in B2B marketing , for many of us, this is our third trip to recession rodeo – after the dot-com bust and financial crisis of 2008. What sort of studies?

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication hosts a global summit where thought leaders speak, prestigious PR awards are presented, and you can hear case-study experience from visionary companies and businesses like yours. Content Marketing World. Arthur Page Society Annual Conference.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Everyone is doing content marketing these days. In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. You can also think about these in stages of content marketing maturity, though I’d caution, you never done with any given stage. Analyze, but experiment.

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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

In fact, we surveyed 200+ marketers using our AI Score for Marketers assessment tool, about how valuable it would be to use AI technology to intelligently automate more than 60 common AI use cases in marketing. Content marketing activities dominated the list of highest-rated use cases for AI in marketing.

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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. Website Content/Content Marketing. Influencers can come in many forms including bloggers, social media influencers, or vloggers.

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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. Of course, it wasn’t.

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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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