Sword and the Script

AUGUST 15, 2017

Recently, I received notice from the publisher of a local business journal that the “People on the Move” section is up for sale. The one-time crowdsourced feature for new hire announcements or appointments in a local market will cost $250. Don’t miss these related posts: The Shocking Beef about Feeding the Content Monster.

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

If you work in PR, marketing or communications and use a media intelligence platform, you might be familiar with the “good enough for now” syndrome. Maybe you are using a media monitoring platform that isn’t delivering on the promises you were made when you bought it, but does the bare minimum you need to get your job done. .

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Presspage

APRIL 12, 2018

How has the media landscape changed? In this digital age, many, many brands are still using press releases to connect their stories to media outlets. Some just use press releases as website content. Fewer reporters are employed by fewer media outlets with far more fragmentation in the audience space than ever.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 30, 2019

Like any technology investment, making a decision about which media monitoring or earned media measurement tool is right for your business can be challenging. When you are monitoring important media coverage—whether it’s a PR crisis or an especially impactful brand story—getting results quickly is absolutely critical.

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Critical Mention

JULY 16, 2019

As the cost of paid advertising across various digital and broadcast channels increases, brands are increasingly focused on earned media as a way to build awareness and generate revenue. Top tier media intelligence solutions provide publicity value as a KPI, which approximate the monetary value of a media story. Publicity Value.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 30, 2019

Uncertainty in the Earned Media and Media Monitoring Landscape: What It Means For You. If you work in public relations or marketing—or in the business world generally—you have likely heard about several major developments in the media monitoring marketplace.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Surveys show earned media is still the most credible; exec appreciation and collaboration with PR improved during the Coronavirus Regular readers know these pages are filled with surveys and statistics. Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ).

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: Are we over-relying on media relations in PR? I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. Content partnerships with major media outlets are taking off.

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Barokas

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Content marketing has taken on new life and meaning. Social media and influencer relations are taking a growing share of marcom budgets. Digital and interactive media have largely displaced print. Video is now an integral part of marketing for all businesses. What media placements will truly move the needle?

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

As Cision’s social media manager, I use top 50 and top 100 lists for three purposes: To follow individuals who will help me stay in the loop when new trends and statistics emerge within my industry. For content generation and syndication. Every year, Cision creates a list of the top 50 social media influencers on Twitter.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

But then, last month, TrueScope, which provides media monitoring , raised a $6 million Series A round. Propel is an all-in-one PR platform with media contacts, email distribution and monitoring. Instead, experts can sign up, go through a validation process fielded by Vetted, and then wait for media to contact them for interviews.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

Welcome to The #AskGaryVee show, where I answer your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Tools, tips and tactics on everything marketing and social media related. Social Media Zoom Factor. SocialZoomFactor is a podcast created for business and marketing leaders. 2) Jeff Bullas.

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Critical Mention

DECEMBER 3, 2019

One way they’ve done so is by limiting their content to the public through the use of media paywalls. Media Paywalls: Locked licensed news content that is only accessible through purchase or paid subscriptions. Having said that, Journalists and PR professionals now have a harder time accessing earned media coverage.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Most useful offline reference resource: Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi. Joe Pulizzi, the godfather of content marketing, wrote this book in 2014. It’s an instant classic that helps us achieve improved results while marketing less by doing “epic content marketing.” 2 Kathi Kruse.

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Cision

JUNE 14, 2016

Though it is no longer a comprehensive media monitoring tool, Google Alerts still can provide topical content alerts based upon search criteria that you set. For instance, I have Google Alerts for many of the major social media platforms and the word “new.” Newspapers and Their Derivatives.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. Graphic used with permission from The Marketing Companion, a podcast with a co-host employed by Edison Research; see link nearby. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 5, 2018

She is nationally known as one of the foremost speakers in the country on all things social media. In the PR business for over 25 years, Bill Stoller helps his clients get their voices heard on social media. Today, she shares her knowledge on the influencer marketing landscape on Twitter. Bill Stoller. publicityguru. Steveology.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

The digital and content revolution has empowered customers to seize control of their path to purchase, forcing brands to retire their sledgehammer marketing tactics. Today, brands must attract customers with high-quality content, impacting their target audience through an array of online channels. But is it really that easy?

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Strategy How To B2C Content Marketing 67

MaccaPR

MAY 3, 2019

Until recently, our getting a Maccabee PR client interviewed on a podcast was seen as a peripheral “nice to have,” built upon “must-have” interviews with traditional media such as "USA Today" or the "Wall Street Journal." The podcast is eminently shareable on social media channels.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 28, 2018

Years ago, contributed articles were a badge of honor since there was a limited number of opportunities in a printed world. Web publishing changed all that, and it gradually contributions grew into a bit of a free-for-all as publications built out networks of contributors to feed the insatiable content beast. That may be changing.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. They have previously offered re-targeting based on earned media audiences, which is rather novel.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

Freelance journalism is harder today than it was years ago. Yet, Erik’s perspective isn’t only limited to journalism. He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. Going through, in real time, the amount of material available through social media would have been impossible not long ago.

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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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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 2, 2016

My degree and early work was in broadcast journalism. 3) In a recent conversation we had on Twitter , you noted digital media is blurring the lines between earned and paid media. I think most of the discussion on content marketing comes down to a couple things. So, what’s my definition of content marketing?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 20, 2018

Live events are not only the most widely used enterprise content marketing channel, they are also viewed as the single most effective B2B marketing tactic. 2) How has event marketing evolved or changed over the course of your career? First, event marketing has become a whole lot smarter. Startup Marketing?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Started in 2005 as “The Wall Street Journal this Morning,” and nearly shuttered amid a reorganization in 2014, the show got a second life with an acquisition by Compass Media Networks. This program does for podcasts, what native ads have done for online print. PNR: This Old Marketing. (~60 30 minute daily program).

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is something the media world is starting to recognise. Attending a recent digital journalism conference, news rewired, showcasing the latest IoT inventions for the media world, we came across PrinterThing. PR and marketing are no different.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

No matter what you’ve heard about all that sexy social media stuff, you still need to know how to write in PR. Ideally, you majored in Journalism (or English) – or your PR or Communications program had a heavy concentration of writing-related courses. Third, Social Media Experience. First, Writing Skills. Focus on the results.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. The suite was the weaving together of tools Vocus had acquired into a product aimed at the small business market. Cision would sell iContact to J2 Global in 2019.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

In the marketing world, professionals tend to glom onto useful marketing buzzwords as a shared language, and those terms can actually prove useful to professionals in adjacent industries. As the marketing and media industries continue to look more and more alike, their lexicons overlap too.

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