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Guest Post: How to Sell #Content #Marketing to Your Bosses

Deirdre Breakenridge

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? Set the agenda. Play to their ego. Guest Post PR 2.0

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The 5 Stages of Content Marketing Grief

Sword and the Script

The recent commentary on content marketing by Gartner Research may have given B2B tech marketers motivation to reconsider the concept. Every B2B tech marketer is familiar with the analyst firm because of the implication the four corners of one certain magical graphical quad chart can have on a short list of vendors.

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7 Reasons Your B2B Content Marketing Program Fails to Deliver that You Probably Haven’t Heard Before

Sword and the Script

There’s are several industry organizations that field annual surveys about content marketing and they are gearing up. Last year, the data overwhelmingly found every business says they are doing content marketing. This year, I predict satisfaction with content marketing will slide and many won’t understand why.

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How PR Supports “Thought Leaders”

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Thought leadership is a common term in most B2B public relations programs. We examine these questions on behalf of clients and have a blueprint of sorts for developing and supporting thought leadership in a company executive or expert. But what does it really mean, and which qualities make a successful thought leader?

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Trust: Business Tops Media and Government in Ethics and Competence, Finds Survey

Sword and the Script

Whether you call it content marketing , brand journalism or custom publishing, with trust in media falling while trust in business is growing, you can build credibility through content if you can follow these golden rules: 1. Keep your content marketing separate and distinct. Invest in quality content.

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5 Tips for Generating Fresh Content Ideas

Cision

As communication professionals in the business of content creation , we want to make sure we are consistently coming up with thought leadership pieces that will be helpful for our audiences. But it can be hard to generate innovative content ideas when deadlines loom daily. are always a useful way to generate content.

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Can Sponsored Content Work For PR?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For anyone who works in public relations, content still reigns supreme. An effective content marketing calendar will complement a PR campaign to help differentiate a brand and generate business growth.