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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

Sword and the Script

There’s an opportunity for content marketing as audiences become fatigued with Coronavirus news and marketers reallocate live event funding One of the goals of content marketing is attracting an audience of likely buyers to your web properties and giving them a reason – and the means – to return regularly.

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Is Media Relations Getting Harder?

Sword and the Script

A third added, “The changing face of journalism has left many newsrooms bereft of veterans and reporters with historical knowledge.”. While I do think the economics of journalism has also played a starring role in this sector, there are a number of other contributing factors. 4 Big Media Trends that have Upended PR and Marketing.

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The Evolution of Earned Media: Navigating Change

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

And despite digital and legacy media outlets shuttering or laying off, there is a slew of independent, niche and grant-funded newsrooms starting up or getting help from organizations like Press Forward, Local Media Foundation, News/Media Alliance, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, the American Journalism Project and others.

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Triple 7s: The Best, Worst and Most Loved Blog Posts in 2017

Sword and the Script

Similarly, digital trends have forced marketing and PR to change how they do things. 7) How B2B Marketing Can Get More out of Trade Shows. 2) 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions [UML]. 3) Basic, Advanced and Bridge Building: Boldness in Content Marketing [UML]. Proceed with Caution.

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GigaOm Crash? Houston, We Have a Bigger Problem

Flack's Revenge

Colleagues and coworkers compared notes and shared info – my good friend Judy Gombita sent this exit interview of Matthew Ingram, from Columbia Journalism Review. Aren’t our clients and employers expecting the investment (which increasingly also covers social media and content marketing) to deliver business results?

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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]

Sword and the Script

The full report is a quick and easy read: The State of Journalism 2020 by Muck Rack b) Survey of 3,253 journalists by Cision Cision also has an annual survey of journalists, which they use to produce a report called the State of the Media (here are my notes from editions in 2019 , 2018 and 2017 ). Don’t dangle “exclusive” for a mediocre idea.

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How to Use Your Blog to Connect with Your Audience

ReimaginePR

You’re not writing for a college professor or a medical journal– you’re writing a blog for an audience who probably doesn’t know as much as you do about your topic and they’re coming to you for answers. You’re writing for the web, which means that it’s okay to be relaxed, conversational and even funny, if you can pull it off!

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