Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Edit your media.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. Paid Media. Earned Media. Shared Media. Owned Media.

Media Relations 331

Media Relations Newspapers Measurement Social Media 331

Cision

MAY 16, 2016

The Institute for Public Relations recently released a white paper entitled Organizational Clarity: The Case for Workforce Alignment & Belief. Here are five key takeaways from IPR’s white paper about how to improve internal communications: 1. ” – IPR’s Organizational Clarity paper.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As public relations professionals, we know that PR measurement is essential to the success of our campaigns, budgets and client relationships. We attend webinars, dabble with Google Analytics and follow the latest blogs to learn how to move from traditional to relevant measurement. PR Measurement is Not One Size Fits All.

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Measurement Comparison Analytics Nonprofit 120

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

People have more faith in businesses than they do in NGOs, government or the media. That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” 51% are neutral about trust in trust media. Media distrust grows. Keep your content marketing separate and distinct.

Government 136

Government Survey Ethics Media 136

Cision

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Only 30 percent of B2B companies say their content marketing is effective. Jeni reassured attendees that success is possible if you identify your company’s strengths and limitations and tailor your overall marketing goals for each social media platform. Get our recent white paper today!

Nonprofit 120

Nonprofit Marketing B2B Crisis 120

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The first measure came from a business with a marketing automation system implemented. The second measure was largely a manual effort: going back through the deals closed at the end of the year and identifying which ones had downloaded gated for content featured on the blog. Components to Effectively Measure a B2B Blog.

B2B 67

B2B Measurement Blogging Community 67

Cision

OCTOBER 29, 2015

A r eport issued by PageFair (which produces tools to measure the impact of ad blocking and develops unobtrusive advertising) states that ad blocking use grew 41 percent in the last 12 months and that publishers lost an estimated $22 billion in 2015. Alternatives to advertising.

Trends 120

Trends Software Advertising Advertising 120

Cision

MARCH 30, 2015

” The Content Marketing Institute has a great list of different content curation sources if you are looking for source ideas. With so much great content available, how can you stand out? Get the tips you need with our white paper! A lot of people like to curate content using their social channels only.

Google 120

Google Measurement Content Marketing Engineering 120

Cision

JULY 7, 2015

Joining a social network is easy; staying with one is hard. Do you know how to measure success? Click here for our free white paper that shows several methods for measuring PR! Optimization works in conjunction with measurement. Why should your brand be on Pinterest? What will being there accomplish?

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Here’s the budget data gleaned from the report: Marketing budgets have grown 6.3% in the last 12 months; Senior marketers expect marketing budgets to grow 8.7% While the Gartner survey above provides marketing budgets as a percentage of revenue – this study provides a benchmark as a percentage of the overall budget.

Marketing 65

Marketing Survey Study B2B 65

Sword and the Script

APRIL 29, 2017

To that end, it’s really hard to sell more if you stop talking to your market. Instead of taking a hatchet to the budget, I’d suggest P&G re-allocate some of that ridiculous spend in display and programmatic ads into content marketing and PR. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML].

Marketing 67

Marketing Measurement Content Marketing Survey 67

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

We see infographics in content marketing survey results as well. The data puts infographics in the top five types of content created by B2B marketing shops. This trails traditional stables including case studies, videos and white papers. Typically, this is better used in newsletters, white papers and eBooks.

Infographics 68

Infographics Data Case Study Content Marketing 68

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.

Technology 167

Technology Publicity Software Pitching 167

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Analysis: B2B marketing must develop its market. While lead generation specialists don’t like to spend money they can’t attribute to sales – investments in content marketing , education, awareness, and branding are inherently linked to finding prospects and cost of conversion. These are the metrics B2B lead gen measure.

B2B 64

B2B Report Marketing Survey 64

Cision

AUGUST 19, 2015

Check out our “Video Streaming Best Practices for PR” white paper! Use them to measure audience interest and participation. When possible, encourage viewers to take a deeper dive into other content or to subscribe to the live stream channel or email newsletter. Want to become a streaming video pro?

Video 120

Video Education Mobile B2B 120

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). When it comes to tracking our work via measurement, key performance indicators (KPIs) or whatever other preferred nomenclature you prefer, things get a little muddy.

Survey 74

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

Cision

JULY 13, 2016

Attention spans have shortened, news cycles have sped up and many brands have come to believe that they must create more content to be seen. More content does not garner more attention; relevancy does. Struggling to get eyes on your content? Guesswork should not guide a content marketing strategy.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Infographics Employee Analysis 120

Cision

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Search engine optimization for content will become even more integral to media relations and PR and will emphasize metadata and schemas as much as the text and images. Want to make standout content? Click here for our free content marketing white paper! . As of 2013, 3 percent of the U.S.

Trends 120

Trends Mobile Web System 120

5W PR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this article, 5W PR CEO Ronn Torossian and others share tips on how executives can use a blog and other social media avenues to spark conversations and conversions, establishing themselves as a leader within their industry. Content marketing is not a novel phenomenon and has been used as a marketing tool by PR executives for years.

Content Marketing 148

Content Marketing Marketing Measurement Data 148

Beyond PR

JUNE 14, 2016

New marketing technology, measurement platforms and other advances have greatly expanded the sources that marketers can sift through for nuggets of information. Conversely, insights from that same brand’s content marketing program can help its customer training team.

How To 40

How To Marketing Training Product Launch 40

Cision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer – A tool developed by the Advanced Marketing Institute that evaluates the language in a headline primarily by its emotional appeal to the reader. Email subscribers are high-barrier-to-entry contacts that you’ve migrated from social media or have otherwise incentivized.

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Tools How To SEO Writing 120

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Such traditional marketing examples – the influence of young people on consumer sales – demonstrates that influence in the sense of marketing is highly contextual and therefore difficult to universally define. Recently, KPS Digital, a marketing organization in the UK, named me to a list of the Top 100 Influencers in Content Marketing.

Marketing 60

Marketing Study Survey Content Marketing 60

Beyond PR

MAY 24, 2016

A major part of the content marketing role is optimizing and getting traffic to your blog posts, white papers, press releases, articles, videos, and other assets that drive leads into the sales funnel. When you create great content for a targeted audience, you need to make sure that audience can find it.

SEO 75

SEO Engineering Blogging Content Marketing 75

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

Going through, in real time, the amount of material available through social media would have been impossible not long ago. I suspect many of the award winners wouldn’t hold up if their effectiveness was tested and measured. 4) What is your assessment of this trend toward content marketing ? “In

Journalism 61

Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

Beyond PR

JULY 27, 2016

Communications is one of those disciplines that touches pretty much all aspects of a business: thought-leadership, branding, media relations, reputation management, earned media, social media, content marketing, lead generation and so much more. Check out Do Your Headlines Measure Up?

Writing 40

Writing SEO Web Content Marketing 40

Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

As Cision’s social media manager, I use top 50 and top 100 lists for three purposes: To follow individuals who will help me stay in the loop when new trends and statistics emerge within my industry. For content generation and syndication. Every year, Cision creates a list of the top 50 social media influencers on Twitter.

Social Media 120

Social Media Twitter Media Nonprofit 120

Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Strategy B2C Marketing 120

Onclusive

MARCH 21, 2018

Earned media had traditionally been the responsibility of public relations, while paid and owned media had been part of the marketing mandate. In the meantime, the rise of shared or social media complicated things further. Was it a function of PR? Its own function? The new continuous storytelling cycle.

Storytelling 281

Storytelling Media Infographics Advertising 281

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Read more: The Average Cost of a B2B Content Asset is $2,791 [Data Analysis]. Twitter is still a journalist’s favorite social media site. A survey of 2,500 journalists finds Twitter is still their favorite social media network. Read more: The 6 Top B2B Content Formats Buyers Find Most Valuable.

B2B 114

B2B Marketing Survey Software 114

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Everyone is doing content marketing these days. In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. You can also think about these in stages of content marketing maturity, though I’d caution, you never done with any given stage. Analyze, but experiment.

Engineering 62

Engineering Content Marketing Marketing Analytics 62

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In today’s hi-tech, fast-moving, cluttered digital world, content marketing is one of the most practical, effective and useful marketing strategies to date. It’s an essential aspect of today’s digital marketing landscape. So what does content marketing mean? White papers.

Content Marketing 93

Content Marketing Marketing Infographics Consumer 93

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 6, 2015

If content marketing was a self-evaluated college class, marketers would give themselves a “C.” That’s my sense after reading the new B2B Content Marketing 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America report. The annual report is a joint effort between MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Survey B2B Marketing 60

MaccaPR

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It may go without saying that content marketing is one of the most discussed topics among public relations professional and marketers this year, a practice which centers on really great, high-quality content. Here at MaccaPR, we've blogged about content marketing a number of times (e.g."

Content Marketing 48

Content Marketing How To Marketing Infographics 48

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A survey by Spiceworks Ziff Davis found B2B tech marketing prospects say they consume 11 or more piece of vendor content Pieces of content. There are unpolished phrases the marketing community kicks around to describe the outsized role content marketing has in the sales cycle. Consumption. It works too.

B2B 111

B2B Consumer Marketing Survey 111

Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2019

It’s a bit like that with gated content. Marketers tend to be for it or against it – and passion may sometimes cloud new perspective. The Case Supporting Gated Content. Here are the key arguments for gating content. Gates provide marketing justification. You want to build your email marketing list.

B2B 118

B2B Mobile Content Marketing SEO 118

Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Specifically, the survey found storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership topped the list of more than 20 tactics or trends related to PR in terms of importance. 67% said thought leadership.

Survey 71

Survey Trends Communications Storytelling 71