The Proactive Report

JANUARY 5, 2016

Content marketing as part of Digital PR has been the buzz phrase of choice for the past couple of years. Almost every company, BtoC and BtoB, has jumped on the content bandwagon. However, only 37% of BtoB firms regard their content strategy as effective. Is the Content Marketing honeymoon over? Not at all.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 21, 2014

This week I was reminded of a post I wrote back in March on jumpstarting your B2B content. MarketingProfs’ latest B2B Content Marketing 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends report. The report provides some great insight into how B2B marketers are thinking about content and where they’re stuck. The reminder?

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When I started as an editorial intern at Contently, the first thing I realized was that I had a lot to learn about content marketing. Like many people entering the job market, I wanted to write and edit, and I was interested in exploring different ways to make a living with those skills.

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Cision

MAY 25, 2015

If you’re a PR professional in the year 2015, you are probably well aware of a little tactic known as content marketing. for a while now in the communication world, but the PR industry is finally starting to realize that creating and owning content to tell a story is a great complement to more traditional methods.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Content marketing is all the rage, and for good reason: it works. With 70% of internet users saying they’d prefer to learn through content rather than ads , content marketing makes perfect sense. Still, there’s a lot more that goes into content marketing than simply writing a blog about a new product.

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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? Entertain, don’t sell.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

People now look for and essentially demand content that gets them involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience. Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors. Episodic Content

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Cision

MAY 5, 2015

Don’t share that message with the same, old content marketing tactics. To “spice up” your B2B content creation , consider these five tips: 1. It determines the shape that other content marketing pieces take. Choose content channels. Base content channels on those answers. Twitter is following suit.

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Cision

JULY 10, 2017

Feedback is huge when it comes to developing a successful content marketing strategy. Here, we identify five sources that can prove invaluable to you in crafting your content. Who better to listen to in order to develop more targeted content than the people that you are developing content for? Your Prospects.

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Cision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week Twitter announced that they will discontinue share counts in their API. What this means to you is that you will no longer see the number of times that people have shared your content on Twitter. The reason for this is pretty straightforward: Twitter shares are typically the easiest content shares to earn.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed. This Internet media company has been making waves for almost a decade, focusing on churning out content that spreads. This company succeeds by evolving with the digital world as it changes, not as an afterthought.

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PR Fuel

MAY 12, 2019

In this day and age, many people still consider PR and content marketing to be mutually exclusive. While content marketers create quality material to inform readers while also branding that company in a certain way and with a certain voice, traditional PR generally aims to get stories and other material to the “news.”.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to Content Marketing Institute Research Director Lisa Beets ( @LisaBeets ), “Nearly all top-performing B2B content marketers—90%—put their audience’s informational needs ahead of their company’s sales/promotional message.”. Today, more B2B marketers than ever rely on a content marketing approach.

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Polaris

JANUARY 2, 2015

A quick check of my Twitter feed on Tuesday morning told me it’s that time of year: the end of December when bloggers write about their most popular posts from the last year. Hopefully we learn a few content marketing lessons by reviewing the past year, then use that information to develop even more effective editorial calendars in 2015.

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Content Marketing Blogging Marketing B2C 100

Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

There’s a new gimmick in the effort to gain Twitter followers that goes like this: perform searches for keywords and hashtags on topics of interest and then go about “liking” as many of these posts as possible in the hopes that some people will follow you back. Why then, does marketing need more white papers, landing pages and registrations?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.

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Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 18, 2015

Content marketing surveys consistently demonstrate the biggest barrier facing marketer is feeding the content monster. A graphic from the paper detailing the assets is presented below and the complete white paper – The Blueprint of a Modern Marketing Campaign – is worth a read. Solves for content distribution.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing eBook 60

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. If your content can’t be indexed and found online, you’re wasting time and money. Use keywords.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 5, 2018

And what better place to make those connections than on Twitter? Connect with her to learn more about #journchat , Twitter’s first industry chat, moderated by Sarah, which sets the trend for professional chats on Twitter. Today, she shares her knowledge on the influencer marketing landscape on Twitter. westlevyPR.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Twitter, on the other hand, provides no such feature, although the analytics Twitter provides do offer some insight. In fact, those analytics are a principle influence on the three articles I recommend each week for the Unscripted Marketing links roundup. Contently: Why Cisco is hiring over 200 content marketers.

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 10, 2015

If you’re curious about content marketing, a quick Google search will serve up no shortage of information on trends, best practices, benefits for B2B and B2C companies and what it all means as 2016 approaches. [By Lisa Davis]. We’re curious, too.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 17, 2017

Twitter has long been a marketing favorite, but its growth prospects have been questioned. In a recent discussion on Inbound.org, Sean Kirby noted, “Twitter has become over-automated.”. In a recent discussion on Inbound.org, Sean Kirby noted, “Twitter has become over-automated.”. The Future of Marketing and PR with AI.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 3, 2020

If you consider yourself a subject matter expert, there are three main reasons why you should be incorporating podcast guesting into your content marketing mix, along with some considerations for once you get started with this strategy. You’ll extend your reach to highly engaged audiences . Conclusion.

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Content Marketing Pitching How To Marketing 86

PReview: A Blog by NewsVoir

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. With 336 million monthly active users, Twitter is one of the most effective ways to highlight your business in people’s eyes. Twitter helps a lot in finding potential customers for your business. Usage of […].

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Beyond PR

JULY 10, 2017

Feedback is huge when it comes to developing a successful content marketing strategy. Here, we identify five sources that can prove invaluable to you in crafting your content. Who better to listen to in order to develop more targeted content than the people that you are developing content for? Your Prospects.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In this spotlight, we’ve featured Cathy McPhillips ( @cmcphillips ), Vice President of Marketing at Content Marketing Institute ( @CMIContent ). I oversee this, and also focus on strategy, paid advertising and event marketing. I oversee this, and also focus on strategy, paid advertising and event marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Ah… content marketing. “Let’s do some content marketing!” When content marketing lets you down. This is a classic case of being let down by content marketing. When Content Marketing Lets You Down is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

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Content Marketing Marketing LinkedIn Facebook 40

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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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Twitter released its Q4 results, and the bird’s flown into rough skies. per user: With numbers like that, why would we say that Twitter’s numbers are in trouble? Twitter’s slowed growth in user acquisition is something CEO Dick Costolo attributed partly to trolling and bullying. What’s in store for Twitter?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Put more succinctly, your customers know your content before they know your business.

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5W PR

MARCH 26, 2024

New-age media With platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter on the rise, companies have fresh, exciting avenues to communicate. Content marketing Complement the PR efforts with a strong content marketing strategy.

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Polaris

MARCH 31, 2015

If you’re a busy CMO wondering who to follow on Twitter, you’ll find a few suggestions in a recent study released by Leadtail and Neustar. So who should CMOs follow on Twitter? The study examined the people most influential with CMOs on Twitter, including who is retweeted and who is mentioned the most. 5: @levie | Aaron Levie.

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Onclusive

JUNE 24, 2020

That being said, the most impactful way to boost your content is through paid media activation, where your blog post or contributed article becomes the advertisement itself. Using native advertising platforms like Twitter, Taboola and others, you can deliver your content to its intended audience, at exactly the right time, and at scale.

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 9, 2016

As a content marketer, I’m always on the lookout for whatever edge will improve my content’s reach. But with so many other brands also using content marketing, the task can seem Sisyphean at times. And the benefits go beyond building awareness for your content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 24, 2015

But it struck me that the Batman franchise offers some great takeaways for content marketing. What can other comic franchises teach us about content marketing? Words and Pictures – the Batman and Robin of Content Marketing is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. Image: Do-Hyun Kim via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 3, 2016

There are times when product managers and content marketers don’t see eye to eye. As Alexa and I talked, I was reminded of my own struggles with project prioritization and communicating the value of content. Focus groups, surveys, and ethnographic research are all common tactics for marketers. The answer: Together.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine. SAP Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Becher particularly excels at both educating and entertaining content marketing pieces on LinkedIn.

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