Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Benchmarks give us a sense of how well we are resourced and what sort of results others in industry are providing. Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 16, 2024

The term “influencer” has become synonymous with consumer brands, lifestyle trends, and social media aesthetics. When most people think about influencer marketing, they usually picture interactions between businesses and consumers.

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Critical Mention

MARCH 17, 2022

Influencer marketing is increasingly prevalent in marketing strategies across the globe now that social networks like Instagram and Twitter continue to rise in popularity. The key to influencer marketing is to find influencers that align with your brand and its message. Set New Industry Trends. Increase Sales.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Legal technology (legal tech) is a vertical market in which I specialize from a marketing and PR perspective. market alone. As such, there’s venture funding going to startups, tons of M&A by the larger players, which are typically part of holding companies, and currently a very frothy market for private equity activity.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 31, 2018

At the New PR Conference hosted by AirPR Software in San Francisco, discussion swirled around ‘New PR’ and an evolution of public relations, including PR’s place in the greater marketing mix. To be successful in the New PR is to identify the intersection of positioning and content marketing. So how do you do positioning?

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Polaris

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs recently released their latest joint study on the use of content in the marketing mix: B2C Content Marketing, 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America. Email marketing clearly deserves to be near the top of the list.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 15, 2021

According to a recent study by LinkedIn, “digital marketing jobs” were among the top 15 most in-demand jobs in the U.S. But, we also know the labels “digital marketing” and “social media marketing'” are pretty broad. Almost the same thing for “social media marketer.”

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5W PR

MARCH 27, 2023

Beauty brands are leveraging the power of User-Generated Content (UGC) as a strategic marketing tool. Driven by influencer culture and social media, beauty companies have adopted UGC to build a brand image and engage with customers. What is User-Generated Content?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2024

Much of the content B2B marketing produces overpromises and underdelivers – and that happens when we consider company needs before customers “Caring, when it comes to marketing, is respecting one’s time,” says Gary Vaynerchuk. “I Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media.

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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

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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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the past few years, video marketing has become a dominant tool for captivating audiences and expanding brand awareness. Public relations (PR) can be one of the solutions available for marketers and business owners to support their video marketing campaigns. We’ll delve more in-depth into PR and marketing.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 28, 2021

New Content! That’s what many social media marketers are thinking about as we start 2021. And, as you think about new content ideas, you need to think about visuals as much as text (even more so, really). Or, a face paint portrait of the exec leader who was recently recognized for a big industry award?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

58% spending more time researching products before making purchasing decisions; social media has become increasingly important in B2B marketing The consumerization of business technology is probably one of the biggest driving forces in the development of B2B software. Using people’s names in marketing email (i.e.

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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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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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Prohibition

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As always, we’ve been keeping our eye out for some exciting and stand-out social media and PR campaigns. We thought this was a really exciting move in the fashion industry, and apparently so did everyone else – with Coperni’s ‘The making of a dress’ video receiving 365k likes on Instagram. Let’s take a look! Brilliant campaign!

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Anne Carton is a small business consultant, digital marketing expert and blogger working with Designhill , the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace. Ann primarily writes about social media and growth hack strategies, SEO and e-commerce. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016? Episodic Content .

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Communications Conversations

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s become one of the most prevalent questions in the social media industry. I’ve been doing social media audits for midsized and large companies for years. First, very few marketing or comms teams have the capacity (or endurance) to post 300+ times per month across these four channels.

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Cision

MAY 25, 2015

If you’re a PR professional in the year 2015, you are probably well aware of a little tactic known as content marketing. for a while now in the communication world, but the PR industry is finally starting to realize that creating and owning content to tell a story is a great complement to more traditional methods.

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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. Attendees of New York Fashion Week share photos across social media. Want even more content marketing tips?

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

All content marketers run into problems every now and then. At his recent presentation at Content Marketing World , marketing technology expert Ian Cleary shared how the right tools can help solve your biggest content marketing problems. Not enough people are seeing your content.

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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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Garrett Public Relations

AUGUST 16, 2019

Content marketing fanatics from all over the world will be converging on Cleveland in a few weeks for this year’s Content Marketing World conference, Sept. A review of the sessions and speaker lineup shows once again the care that goes into planning such a packed agenda. The program is so strong, in fact, you […].

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Critical Mention

APRIL 5, 2019

Without great content, you lessen your chance of generating leads and conversions. Simply put, content marketing is an effective way to generate and nurture leads, as well as keep your brand relevant in today’s digital world. What is content marketing? Research the types of content marketing that sell.

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5W PR

AUGUST 21, 2023

The jewelry industry is competitive, with many brands trying to attract consumers. One way to do this is through impactful jewelry marketing. Defining the brand identity Defining the brand identity is crucial before implementing marketing tactics. Emphasizing unique design Design is crucial in the jewelry industry.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 3, 2022

One of my duties as manager of Conferences, Awards, and Employer Branding is to provide guidance on which of the numerous B2B industry conferences are most relevant and worthwhile for a client’s particular PR needs. B2B Sales & Marketing Exchange (August, Boston). HubSpot INBOUND (September, Boston/Hybrid).

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Some time ago I pitched a reporter, who was looking for sources, on social media for a client. A survey I teamed up with Ned Lundquist to conduct of PR pros last year found 51% said media relations was getting harder. Myth 2: Content marketing doesn’t yield credibility. You can build relationships with content too.

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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.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

But with the power and reach of social media, snatching up prospects halfway around the world seems like a piece of cake…that is, if a brand is listening carefully to what their competitors are saying to their audiences. Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Today I share Deborah Weinstein’s answers to questions about the challenges confronting social media marketing and digital communications. It is the latest in my series of interviews with industry experts (see this post , which sets the stage). Are the social media waters still safe for marketing?

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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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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. Following is a list of 15 content marketing metrics that you should measure: 1.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 17, 2019

Aesop wasn’t a marketer. Most of his lessons concern life in general, but some apply neatly to business and marketing. Marketers care about growth. They want bigger budgets, more content, another hire, better results. If anything, it’ll give executives a reason to doubt your entire content program.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Are you looking to interact with your social media audience, post trending content that’ll boost social engagement and practice top social strategies that’ll increase brand awareness? . Practice Social Media Brand-Consistency. Create a Social Media Posting Schedule.

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Communications Conversations

JUNE 18, 2020

But, it’s also changed how social media marketing is working–in quite a big way. However, even with these big changes in the first half of 2020, many social media marketers seem to still be working from the 2015 social media playbook. Shift #3: Social ad spend (should be) shifting.

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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. Online advocates can also offer feedback on everything from products and services to marketing messaging. Many advocates have developed sizable followings on social media.

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