MaccaPR

MARCH 18, 2015

Remember when public relations required you to persuade gatekeepers – news editors, TV and radio producers and reporters – to carry your company or client''s content to their audiences? Brian Enderlein , Digital Media, Interactive Marketing & Analytics, 3M. Maura Ryan , Digital Content Marketing Manager, Ameriprise Financial.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Despite its poignancy in the 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” the phrase “If you build it, he will come” is actually a terrible piece of advice for a PR pro or content marketer. This used to come in the form of commercials on network TV or ads in local papers, but now it’s Facebook ads or YouTube ads.

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Pitching Strategy Film Advertising 118

Critical Mention

JUNE 10, 2020

For instance, before reaching out with a story idea, PR professionals should understand the preferred platform and target audience of the journalist or influencer they are pitching, to enhance the chances of a placement or mention. Before sending a story pitch, introduce yourself and your organization or client to provide some context.

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Media Pitching Trends Resources 104

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 7, 2020

YouTube has also announced its plans for its version of a short-form video platform called Shorts. Just like TikTok, platforms like Facebook and YouTube are providing 15-second videos that users can share with their followers. Here are four PR trends to consider for 2021: 1. Short-Form Videos. Social Awareness. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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Trends YouTube Tourism Video 105

Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

The company caught my eye when it said it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze a reporter’s pitching preferences. The idea is helping PR understand how reporters prefer to be pitched and improve your chances of coverage. Vetted is like a blend of HARO and ProNet, but it doesn’t allow pitching.

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Software Pitching Measurement Enterprise 89

MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We’ll never forget the panic in the PR world as tens of thousands of journalists (aka our PR pitch targets) at newspapers, TV stations and magazines were laid off. But, as that great marketing communicator Bob Dylan sang, “things have changed.”. What’s a marketer to do? “To Its title: “Trust Me, PR Is Dead.”. Why do I know that?

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Content Marketing Marketing Advertising Advertising 48

Cision

JUNE 2, 2017

The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. On Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all those other social networks. See how they market online. How do they drive traffic, create engaging content, make content get shared, and capture leads?

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How To Real Estate Web Case Study 198

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Each December public relations agencies spend time crafting pitches and byline articles capturing clients’ takeaways for their particular industry. The research continues to reinforce that video is king and smart marketers will continue to find innovative ways to incorporate it into their programming. 2017 PR Takeaways.

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YouTube Training Video Survey 136

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Power social influencers — Power social influencers are niche famous individuals with a meaningful following on Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat or whatever platform. Other organizations’ content marketing — They have an audience and they need to keep serving them fresh, useful content. As long as they can reach people.

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How To Media Nonprofit Newspapers 153

Cision

DECEMBER 14, 2017

You’re trying to pitch a story about an innovative new product aimed at financial services companies. Besides traditional media, you just have to take a quick scan of Instagram, Snapchat or even YouTube to find everyday people using “influencer” to describe themselves in their bios. You stumble across a blogger and think, “Maybe. “.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 27, 2015

It’s one thing to pitch an eBook, but it’s a well-executed marketing initiative to exemplify the very concepts described in the eBook during the process of pitching it. Valuing Content Changes the Context. Click here for screen shot of the clever content marketing details ). Content Marketing *is* PR.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

In marketing, it’s become the CMO playbook. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML]. 1) The Market for Marketing Talent Tightens. Although just 12% of marketers are planning to hire this year, most are at least not planning to make additional cuts. See these related posts: .

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Marketing Employee Survey Social Media 72

Landis PR

MARCH 20, 2023

They also plan to spend more time on YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, indicating the growing importance of these platforms for media outreach. Journalists plan to spend more time on YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok This finding highlights the growing importance of video content and social media platforms for media outreach.

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Journalism Newspapers YouTube LinkedIn 52

Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 11, 2018

2016 : The growth in the use of social influencers as trusted “third-parties” to create awareness and action (“ Content Marketing is So Last Year” ). The quality of the pitch itself has degraded over the last few years. It’s not just the 6:1 ratio of PR people to journalists that has led to these abysmally low engagement rates.

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Pitching Journalism Tools Agency 43

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 5, 2016

The volume of PR and marketing predictions reached an apex as we rounded the corner on a New Year and into 2016. It’s helpful to have metrics that tell you what content did well in the past – but not as helpful as analytics that forecast what will do well in the future. “We Related Content Worth Checking Out. by Frank Strong.

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Banking Marketing Wireless Advertising 60

Buzzstream

MAY 16, 2024

And yet, according to uSERP’s State of Backlinks for SEO report , guest posting is the third most popular link-building method behind content marketing and digital PR. Some simply buy links on large guest posting directories, and others pitch quality content to get published on an external site.

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Blogging Google SEO Writing 62

Cision

MAY 4, 2015

We’re excited to realize the next step in our ongoing mission to innovate the content marketing, social and PR spaces with the release of two new products: the Cision PR Edition and Cision Social Edition. Monitor conversations across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Glassdoor, Yelp and more.

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Social Media Analytics Enterprise Content Marketing 120

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 9, 2019

You can do so by producing valuable content that doesn’t sound like an actual sales pitch. . Nevertheless, social media marketing success is possible so long as you persist brand growth and engagement through consistency, patience and relevancy. Priscilla is the marketing coordinator for Critical Mention.

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Social Media Marketing Media Instagram 75

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

4) 3 Cases Studies of Augmented Reality in B2B Marketing [UML]. I’m hard-pressed to see applications in marketing or PR for virtual reality because it walls off the real world with a physical barrier like a headset or goggles. It augments reality in a way that has practical use cases in marketing. 4) Build or Buy an Audience?

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Survey B2B Google 60

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Either way, using tools and technologies to aid your marketing strategy has never been more impactful than in the age of AI. I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Either way, using tools and technologies to aid your marketing strategy has never been more impactful than in the age of AI. I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Rock the Status Quo

JUNE 30, 2015

If you do anything in the digital space – PR, content marketing, search engine optimization, social media – the one thing that matters most is experience. It can take you from coordinator to senior level, from jack-of-all-trades to an in-demand content marketer, or from charging $20 per hour to charging $200 per hour.

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Critical Mention

DECEMBER 20, 2019

PR and marketing professionals have the opportunity to expand their organization’s brand reach by leveraging earned media coverage. Earned media is significant for businesses because it is unpaid content that is published by journalists, influencers, reviewers and organizations who have valuable thoughts and opinions about your brand.

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How To Brand Branding Media 103

Presspage

AUGUST 7, 2018

It combines content marketing strategy, brand journalism, and public relations efforts to consistently tell the story of the brand through imagery and content across multiple platforms. It’s the eight-second elevator pitch employees rattle off at professional networking events.

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Case Study Storytelling Study Social Media 97

PR Fuel

MARCH 17, 2020

Most people focus on three main areas when trying to promote their business: advertising, content marketing , and public relations. A Long-Term Strategy: Content Marketing. Content marketing isn’t a new idea. Your goal with content marketing is not to sell directly to your audience.

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Publicity Small Business Advertising Advertising 63

prTini

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The Sticky Note: A Stupid Simple-Approach to Better Content Marketing Brainstorms. Mashable’s Branded Content Editor Talks Pitching. Infographic: The Ideal Length of Everything Online, From Tweets to YouTube Videos. What You Should Learn From Rejected Pitches. When It Comes to Pitching, Share the Wealth.

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Case Study Infographics YouTube Pitching 44

Sword and the Script

MAY 3, 2016

An analysis of 12,000 webinars (mostly B2B) facilitated through the BrightTALK platform provides marketers with exceptional insight into webinar benchmarks: Webinar length. Those are all respectable objectives, but webinars can also help B2B marketers solve their biggest content marketing challenge : producing engaging content.

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B2B Content Marketing Web Blogging 60

Solo PR Pro

MARCH 13, 2018

Video marketing. If the thought of slogging over a blog post makes cringe with anxiety, video marketing is another alternative. Create a video post, start your own series on YouTube, or Facebook live, or do a combination of these. If you like video marketing, you can always upgrade your production as you grow.

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Leadership Case Study Video YouTube 62

Beyond PR

JUNE 2, 2017

The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. On Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all those other social networks. See how they market online. How do they drive traffic, create engaging content, make content get shared, and capture leads?

Real Estate 57

Real Estate How To Web Case Study 57

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Webinars have long been a staple of B2B marketing. Arguably, the time, effort and budget that goes into producing high-quality webinars makes leveraging this existing investment an imperative in modern digital marketing. Below are 12 ideas on precisely how to drive better results from your B2B marketing webinars.

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B2B Infographics Interviews eBook 60

Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

However, face-to-face networking can open the door to opportunities like business collaborations and affiliate marketing. Once you’ve garnered some earned media by pitching journalists or catching an influencer’s eye, repurpose your earned media coverage by promoting earned mentions. Until next time! Critical Mention. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Success in the PR world translates to knowing how to deliver captivating media pitches, interactive campaigns, detailed press releases and more. Quickly expand your audience by joining professional public relations and marketing associations: PRSA | Public Relations Society of America . American Marketing Association.

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Radio Television Social Media Sports 92

Sword and the Script

MAY 23, 2017

The intersection these two marketing functions is powerful: when both on the same page – literally and figuratively – it can significantly amplify results. As such, I’ve written this review from the perspective of its usefulness to a PR and for those that may not be search marketing experts. 1) Web alerts and client mentions.

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SEO Tools Engineering Web 65

Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 14, 2015

Even so, as someone who has made a career and still plies the “earned media” trade for a range of clients, I get the heebie-jeebies when a prominent journalist from a highly sought-after business news site quips during a recent Publicity Club of New York luncheon that he “hasn’t written a story pitched by a PR person in years.”

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Media Journalism Social Media Mobile 28

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

How often do you step back from your work as a marketer to judge whether you’re truly doing your absolute best? Because what do we normally do when we need better results as content marketers? Our biggest issue is how we make decisions in our work as content marketers. I think we’d all encounter a gap.

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Marketing Google Newspapers Print 111

Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for. If you know how to use image editing software, this is an incredibly relevant skill for public relations and content marketing today. Ideally, with agencies or larger organizations.

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Pinterest Writing Interviews Social Media 52

ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

Entrepreneurs, CEOs, authors, Professors, bloggers, PRs, SEOs, digital marketers, speakers. She is a social media, SEO, Internet marketing and blogging consultant. my day is somewhat at the mercy of the marketing industry. He's also a world-leading web strategist, content marketer, author, and speaker.

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Writing Social Media SEO Blogging 114