Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for a publicly-traded company that developed and sold software to the PR market. Did you know?

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Technology Publicity Software Pitching 170

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For marketers, this means one thing: jumping onto the video marketing bandwagon is no longer a nice-to-have strategy– it’s mandatory. But, as the internet is flooded with this type of content, how do you stand a chance to stand out? Among all those video marketing strategies, public relations (PR) remains an underrated one.

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Video Publicity Marketing Analytics 89

Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. You’ll also get the webinar on-demand.).

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Healthcare Content Marketing Industry Trends 136

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. What is public relations?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form. This analysis was part of a larger study that SEMrush published titled the Global State of Content Marketing Report 2019.

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Content Marketing Study Analysis Marketing 78

Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 26, 2023

The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. The same C-level decision makers that leverage it in their decision-making processes are difficult to impress— only 17% of them rate the content they read as “very good” or “excellent.”

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Leadership Content Marketing Healthcare Google 145

Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Today, we’re talking about the advantages of reposting an article that runs on your blog or digital publication in its entirety on another platform—like Medium, LinkedIn, or even email. You just paste your writing, add whatever images you like, slap on some tags, and presto. Or almost always, at least.

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 9, 2016

Editor's note: This post was originally published by Content Marketing Institute and has been edited for comprehensiveness. After months of planning, research, writing, and design, your new B2B research report is set to launch. But there’s more you can do to help your content marketing plan surpass your expectations for success.

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Content Marketing eBook Publicity Marketing 40

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. You’ll also get the webinar on-demand.).

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Healthcare Content Marketing Industry Trends 59

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve noticed it posted a dozen different times on LinkedIn – and each time it seems to get further apart from the truth. That post was published in June 2015 according to the dateline posted at the time of this writing. The result is, more than a year later, the masses are simply taking that graphic and re-posting it to LinkedIn.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2024

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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Leadership B2B Study Survey 131

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

If only we had the perfect formula for content success… Oh wait…Content sharing and analysis heavyweights LinkedIn and BuzzSumo have just delivered it! Step forward one of the most useful papers you’ll read this year ‘The DNA behind the world’s most successful content’. All publicity is good publicity or is it?

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Tools Publicity Measurement SEO 136

wiredPRworks

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

On March 10 and 11, I'll be teaching an immersive two-day digital marketing, LinkedIn training and social selling skills workshop. Digital Marketing, LinkedIn Training and Social Selling Workshop in Chicago. LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook accounts, basic working knowledge of social media. CLASS DESCRIPTION.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 16, 2023

Below is a guide to Ready North's favorite blogs and publications. The Ready North RSS: Must-Reads for Marketers. For Content Marketing, we like…. Content Marketing Institute blog ( @CMIContent ): Insight from top names in our industry. Disclaimer: We love other blogs, too. Sorry if we missed you!

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 23, 2017

A Guest Post By Maris Callahan, Director of Public Relations for Donuts Inc. A good public relations professional will counsel their client to have a blog or content hub as a way to showcase thought leadership, earned media placements, company news, and announcements, and engage with fans and followers. Commit to a Schedule.

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Blogging Case Study Social Media Instagram 282

PR Fuel

MARCH 22, 2022

Nearly 80% of marketers are adding press releases to their content marketing strategies. If you neglect to consider your target audience, you won’t choose the right publications. Publications want to share press releases that appeal to their readers. Read each publication’s submission guidelines twice.

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How To Guidelines Writing Pitching 101

Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Priscilla is the marketing coordinator for Critical Mention. Early on in her career, she developed a passion for marketing, writing and anything within the communication field. The post Public Relations Holiday-Checklist appeared first on Critical Mention - Media Monitoring.

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Publicity Employee Analysis Radio 74

Landis PR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Note: This is a reposted blog by our Public Relations Global Network Partner, Katie Casciato – Roopco. Photo courtesy of Pixabay Over the past year, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world of marketing by storm as it has emerged as a powerful, rapidly evolving tool for automating content creation and other marketing-related tasks.

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Marketing Content Marketing Storytelling B2B 59

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I review a lot of marketing studies and surveys – and write about the one I think will be helpful for readers. It’s something of a readout on the year in PR and marketing. How long does it take to write the average blog post? Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML].

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Marketing Publicity Survey Study 78

PRSay

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Update your LinkedIn profile and résumé. Continue to update your LinkedIn profile too; it’s the main destination for talent managers to scout for open positions. For example, look up examples of white papers online and write and share your own on LinkedIn, or try your hand at writing a blog post on Medium.

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wiredPRworks

APRIL 20, 2022

When I found David’s work and read his first book, I knew I’d found the roadmap to the future of marketing and PR. Thanks to David for writing the book, including me in the first one – such an honor!, and taking the time to talk about the new new rules of marketing and PR on Growing Social Now. Facebook [link].

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Marketing Social Media Trends Instagram 118

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 10, 2017

A Guest Post by Maris Callahan, Director of Public Relations, Donuts Inc. Not to mention all the conferences and travel you can write off! Sure, most PR pros have thousands of LinkedIn connections. Maris Callahan is the director of public relations for Donuts Inc. You can find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Travel Technology Conference LinkedIn 281

Flatiron Communications

MARCH 25, 2015

I also contribute to Forbes.com and have created a “publication” on Medium.com, the new publishing platform (“platisher”) started by Blogger (and Twitter) founder Evan Williams. A senior editor I know at LinkedIn recently urged me to consider writing for that fast-growing publishing platform.

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Content Marketing Marketing Enterprise YouTube 28

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 18, 2018

If you look at all the publications to which she contributes, you can easily see why. Though she says writing has always been part of her career, her “first ‘real’ PR job landed me out in the Bay Area working for a tech company.” What I see is how social media and content marketing have grown up out of PR functions.

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Publicity Storytelling Pitching Nonprofit 62

Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 19, 2012

Apps and sites like News.me , Flipboard , Wavii and even LinkedIn serve up more focused collections of news stories. Over time, newsrooms gather a ton of content. It requires more than hiring an ex-journalist, a search engine expert or a "digital native" to help you write stories, mix up Google juice or do Facebook, respectively.

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Content Marketing Marketing Journalism Consumer 66

Cision

MAY 2, 2016

” – Emily Bell, writing for CJR. What this media consumption shift caused is a shift in how publishers view content marketing. Termed “distributed content” ( a term coined by BuzzFeed ), this is a strategy of content distribution that no longer relies on native websites to host and distribute content.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2018

“ Content is fire. Social media is gasoline, ” according to writer Jay Baer, and most in public relations would agree. The trick is how to create content that is “fire” and will fire up audiences about your brand. We look at an eight-point plan that will help any team create, produce and promote meaningful content.

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Strategy Guidelines Content Marketing Small Business 159

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Public relations statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020. The survey found, “The top three areas live event budgets will be reallocated to are content creation (43%): hosted webinars (40%); and search marketing (33%).”.

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Survey Marketing B2B Study 178

Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 17, 2015

If there’s one thing you take away from today’s post on content marketing, please let it be this: just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Content Marketing: a scenario. You’re super-excited too – content, new client, money… what’s not to love?

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Content Marketing Community Marketing Mobile 40

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As Kendall leaves the press conference, he asks his bumbling cousin Greg to begin monitoring the media and general public for reaction to his statement about his father. He is left trying to write down individual tweets, which is both humorous and pathetic.

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Media Fashion Television Radio 162

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“The Internet moves at breakneck speed, but that doesn’t mean that we as marketers have to do the same. We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn.

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Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 101

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the past 12 months or so, I’ve easily reviewed and written about more than 20 such PR surveys from the PR sector (there many more about marketing). Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten. These lay out a pretty good picture of the PR landscape.

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PR Conversations

JULY 3, 2014

This passage had me thinking about the field of PR—not an obvious connection, because most of our colleagues, friends and the general public do not perceive us to be wallflowers. As personally fulfilling as it can be, mindless distraction is a definite issue and potential barrier to better work and results in public relations.

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Publicity Radio Social Media Content Marketing 87

PR Fuel

MAY 27, 2021

Nearly 80% of content marketers incorporate press releases into their content marketing strategies. It’s not enough to learn how to write a press release, though. After all, you’ll want to choose a publication that can help you reach potential customers! Create a List of News Outlets.

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Guidelines SEO Social Media Engineering 87

The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Fast forward seven years, and I wish I – and the rest of the public relations industry – had taken more of an interest in the evolution of search marketing. To be fair, search engine optimisation in those days required a fair bit of technical skill and was a completely different discipline to public relations.

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SEO Engineering Content Marketing Agency 120

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

At the time of this writing, the rate is currently 3.8%. While the rate has been trending down since 2010, it’s still largely been an employer’s market since the housing market popped a couple years before then. Put together a training package, open to the public, around the skill set your business is seeking to hire.

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Resources Creativity Publicity Local 78

Cision

MARCH 13, 2017

Public Relations has always been an important contributor to any company’s branding and marketing efforts. Further, the industry is largely controlled by Omnicom, IPG, WPP and Publicis group, which together account for around 34% of overall PR market at present. You can easily find active communicators on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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SEO Social Media Tools Google 229