Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 24, 2022

Here is an inside look at five influential tech success stories from our flipbook of 47 Content Marketing Case Studies That’ll Inspire You to encourage your brand to make meaningful changes in the new year. . How HotPads Increased Blog Traffic By 4,000 Percent Through the Power of Original Content.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

Digital Marketing at LEWIS Pulse, you need to understand your audience’s unique needs and reach them in new and unexpected ways. In this interview, Michael shares his advice for brands looking to break through the noise, stand out and grab their audience’s attention. Employee storytelling. Paid media. Image via Michael Brito.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 22, 2021

(Disclosure: Marriott Bonvoy Traveler has been a Contently customer since its launch in 2014.). “We pivoted our storytelling to focus on armchair travel,” explained Robin Bennefield, Marriott International’s editorial director of Marriott creative and content marketing.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The reason for this, it turns out, is super simple: Most marketers don’t ever talk to their prospects and clients. The empathy marketing problem. According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2019 B2B Research report, just 42 percent of B2B marketers talk to clients as part of their research.

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Cision

APRIL 28, 2016

Ray Hennessey, chief innovation officer at JConnelly, says to create good content you need to first understand what your audience needs and wants. In this interview, Ray discusses what makes good storytelling, why audiences are ignoring brand content and how to provide authenticity in your communication with your audience.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Many businesses use a mix of email marketing, paid search, SEO, content marketing, and social media marketing to create prospects and turn them into customers. A well-designed strategic PR program influences active shoppers by inspiring them through storytelling. But it can also do much more.

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wiredPRworks

APRIL 20, 2022

New additions to the new rules of marketing and PR. Future trends in marketing and PR. How real-time marketing and PR works. Storytelling success stories. The one marketing lesson you need to learn from the Grateful Dead [hint: it’s free]. What We Talked About on Growing Social New. Facebook [link].

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Barokas

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Content marketing has taken on new life and meaning. Fundamentals like creative collaboration, grassroots ideas, great storytelling, smart planning, are as important today as they have ever been. If you have a CEO who can slam dunk every interview, good for you. Do you have a strong story and storytellers?

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wiredPRworks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Taught in a quick-start format, this masterclass is ideal for creative professionals who want to advance digital branding, content marketing and social media skills as they accelerate success. Direct Deploy: Engaging Content Marketing. Interview: craft a compelling and true-to-life storytelling narrative.

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wiredPRworks

APRIL 27, 2020

Marketers love storytelling. I’ve presented all kinds of storytelling programs, including digital marketing and storytelling. Yet, is storytelling the right way to build brands – and even tell stories? Is it time to update the marketing customer experience design approach?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 14, 2017

Game Theory: Content Marketing as an Infinite Game. Art or Science: Creative Marketing and PR. Creative Storytelling as the Soul of B2B Marketing [UML]. Moreover, the effectiveness is likely to diminish with every use as initial reactions devolve from curiosity or alarm – to indifference or even anger.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Sometimes, that means simple tweaks to make a generalization more specific, like when our digital publisher client wanted to share expertise on storytelling in healthcare marketing. We develop a content marketing strategy that encompasses: Expert commentary – weighing in on relevant news. Share and share alike.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Guitar Center’s YouTube channel beat out hundreds of leading brands, including Target, Four Seasons and General Electric, to snag the Project of the Year award at Content Marketing Institute’s 2014 Content Marketing Awards. The popular show features interviews and performances by famous—and not-so famous—artists.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

If you want to connect with your audience and stand out from competitors, you need to focus on your brand’s story, says Neil McAllister, media and content director at Blanc & Otus. In this interview, Neil discusses his background as a journalist, what it’s like working in the technology industry and the changing role of the media.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

We see infographics in content marketing survey results as well. The data puts infographics in the top five types of content created by B2B marketing shops. When marketers start mashing several data sets together in this fashion, it’s not only junk data, but could very well be misleading information. Talk to Us !

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ReimaginePR

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Why Video Marketing is Important. Video is an essential part of your content marketing strategy. Interviews – Host a conversation with an industry expert. Here are a few other resources to help you create your video marketing strategy: 5 Ways to Improve Your Brand Video Dialogue. Click Here.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2015

Co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel, Invisibilia interweaves narrative storytelling with scientific research that will ultimately make you see your own life differently.” In a podcast, you’re there… can stop midway through and say ‘I want to mention quickly blah blah blah’ and then I’m back to the interview.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 4, 2016

Marketers and other content creators are turning to mobile devices to film behind-the-scenes glimpses of their office, industry events and tradeshows, and spur-of-the-moment videos for social media. Set the Stage for Interviews. Avoid conducting interviews in front of a step-and-repeat or other wallpaper-like background.

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ReimaginePR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Let’s talk about why an ebook is an essential element for your content marketing strategy, and how to create and promote one for maximum effect. This same advice applies to being interviewed on videos and podcasts. And perceptually, it has more weight than a regular blog post. Click Here. You send plenty of emails.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The PRTech ecosystem only included a small swarm of companies when we first started AirPR, and now it spans more than 80 , including things like corporate newsroom publishing platforms (Pressvine), visual storytelling tools (Canva), and measurement and analytics tools (what we do).

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Later this week, that legend will take the stage as Content Marketing World’s closing keynote speaker, a fitting choice for this year’s theme Content Strikes Back. As a huge fan of Hamill, I can’t wait for the content inspiration he’ll unleash during his keynote. Look beyond your content universe.

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MaccaPR

JUNE 1, 2016

This format is the result of an intersection of news and content marketing, a completely unprecedented space in the media landscape in which online users are perusing articles, sending snaps and sharing memes that often are riddled with brand messaging. See more details of the case study here.

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Critical Mention

JUNE 24, 2018

We had the opportunity to interview Deirdre Breakenridge , a renowned PR influencer. With everything in real-time, for example, look at how we’re using streaming video in our storytelling. Since I’m a professor and a storyteller who publishes frequently, Grammarly is also crucial.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

she said recently in an interview conducted by email. See these related interviews: The Blurry Edges of PR; Off Script #11: Kevin Hartman of LTPR. Off Script #7: Lou Hoffman on PR and Storytelling. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: 11 Simple Ways for PR to Score Content Marketing Points.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend. ” ~ Morgan McLintic , CEO, Firebrand Communications 6.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

A popular email newsletter is the holy grail for content marketers. When you send content straight to your reader’s inbox, you bypass Google’s search algorithm and the changing whims of social media platforms. Curate your content into segments for specific audiences.

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Critical Mention

MARCH 1, 2018

Whether you’re preparing for a presentation, a speech, a job interview or any occasion when you have to speak in front of others, a little preparation is in order. Storytelling is an effective approach to many communication challenges. Takeaway: Do your homework. Review your material.

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PR 20/20

APRIL 12, 2016

To gain the most stretch out of top assets, always be thinking about ways to repurpose content. Break a long-form piece into a blog series, or break an in-depth interview into more digestible sound bites and quotes to pepper throughout collateral. For partner platforms like SnapChat, brands have full-feature storytelling capabilities.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience. A successful tech PR strategy focuses on targeting the right media outlets, using engaging content, and creating relationships with key influencers in the industry.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Measuring genuine ROI and a marketing campaign’s long-term contribution to revenue takes time, and marketers need to slow down to do it.”. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn. 6) Relationships with people who have the ear of your target market. “It’s Tom Pick | Webbiquity LLC.

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The answers resoundingly revolved around a single strategy: creating unique, differentiated content. Here is what they told us: “Your brand will no longer be defined by a logo or cute creative ad, but by your thought leadership: Content Marketing and the way we experience that content is the key to your brand identity.”.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

My friend, Lou Hoffman calls it the “F word” in storytelling – failure. 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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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Though it can be tempting to make a flashy video that runs through all the benefits and features of your product or service, our customers tend to see better results when they focus on the elements of good storytelling. But the point of investing in content marketing is to hold attention, right? Let them guide the narrative.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Last summer, Washington Post Pulitzer-prize-winning columnist Steven Pearlstein lamented about the “ sorry state of corporate media relations ” after a major company declined to produce an executive for an interview for what he described as an easy story. 1) Storytelling, analytics and thought leadership are the top PR tactics and trends.

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Cision

JULY 6, 2016

In this interview, Sheila discusses why brands need to clearly define their communication strategies, the importance of keeping your content fresh and why your audience is attracted to good writing and storytelling. What are you most excited for in your new role as content manager at Steinreich Communications Group?

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

If you want to hear personal interviews with the songwriters behind Top 40 greatest hits, dive deep on the music of movies , or re-watch The Office alongside two of the show’s stars, there’s a podcast for that. This Old Marketing. and Epic Content Marketing. Based on the title of this post, you know how: Podcasts.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 27, 2023

Make it easy for journalists to reach out for further information or interviews, and always respond immediately to such requests. This should probably go unsaid by now, but many journalists and readers access news content on their smartphones or tablets. Mobile-friendly Formatting : Optimize your press release for mobile devices.

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