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PR and Content Marketing Insights from the Edelman Trust Barometer

Sword and the Script

It had a name that sounded like a daily newspaper – the “Herald” or “Courier” or something like that – but the “about us” section was telling. In reviewing the study, I think it has implications for business in public relations and content marketing. You can and should run content marketing like a publisher.

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Media Relations Keeps Getting Harder; Here are 6 Dynamic Techniques to Adapt

Sword and the Script

Many of the open-ended comments from the survey point to underlying causes such as the rise of social media and self-publishing, disruption of the advertising-heavy business model in news, subsequent cuts to editorial staff, growth among the ranks of PR, and the deluge of pitches reporters receive. That’s what content marketing is all about.

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Message in a Bottleneck: How to Reach Your Fragmented Audience

PRSay

Keep in mind that more people are watching “ episodic video content ” when you factor in all the streaming and cable options we have now. The same thing has happened with newspapers. Content marketers and social media managers are experiencing the same fragmentation of audiences. And network TV news.

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Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys

Sword and the Script

B2B thought leadership drives perceptions, trust and sales A survey of 3,000+ business executives by Edelman and LinkedIn connected B2B thought leadership to trust and sales. 89% of decision-makers say thought leadership “can be effective in enhancing their perceptions of an organization.”

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Lin Pophal on the Evolving Role and Field of PR

Flack's Revenge

I’ve known Lin Pophal for years through her work as a writer for eContent , HR Executive , and others; have pitched her client stories and my own thought leadership topics (I’m in her eContent story on content curation tools ). ” Run an ad in a newspaper and it needs to be labeled as an ad.

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10 Knock-Their-Socks-Off Press Release Headline Writing Tips

Cision

Envision your press release on the front page of a newspaper to determine if it’s newsworthy or not. James, marketing director at The Curtis Group , takes that idea one step further. She says writing your headlines as they’d look in a newspaper article can “show the reporter the article through his/her readers’ eyes.”

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Writing Inspiration Roundup: Our Top Writing Posts of 2015

Marketwired

Whether you’re writing last-minute seasonal blog content or already gearing up for a new year of media pitching (and if you are, we applaud you), a little inspiration can go a long way around now. Fifty years later the newspaper industry adopted the word to refer to “a unit of writing that can be used over and over without change.”

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