MaccaPR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As the fall leaves change and a bit of Minnesota snow starts to appear, with it comes the next year of planning for corporate marketing, agency and communications professionals. As you begin your 2020 marketing planning and budgeting, consider these four tips: 1. Round 2: Updated forecast means updated marketing budget.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. Marketers always have the same question when it comes to artificial intelligence: “How do I get started with AI?”. But there are a lot of vendors out there.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

It’s hard to measure but there’s negative consequences for not doing it.”. The point this comment gets after — I believe — is that businesses hold some aspects of marketing – PR, social media and content marketing – to a higher standard. Marketing automation can take it even further.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These habits are applicable to corporate blogging where a blog is a central platform in a content marketing strategy. Don’t miss these related posts: B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success. The 4 Engines You Need to Pull Off Content Marketing Successfully. 2) How long should a blog post be?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 20, 2018

As the landscape stands today, I tend to be more bullish on augmented reality (AR) than virtual reality (VR) in B2B marketing. That fits more readily into the modern marketing and sales dynamic, which is still highly dependent on conversations and relationships. Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Video.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

In its funding announcement, the company says it can also “measure ROI from earned media including traffic, form submissions, purchases and other conversions.” In addition, it will soon “enable journalists and influencers to discover sources, manage their stories, and measure reach and sentiment of their published work.”.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 30, 2020

While a problem solver can be productive in almost any organizational structure, communicators often find themselves reporting up through marketing channels. Most respondents with communications or PR responsibilities report to the head of marketing (41%) according to the 3 rd annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 13, 2016

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ~ Peter Drucker. But I am smart enough to realize that a company’s marketing, advertising and public relations efforts—my efforts—have a direct and attributable effect to the bottom line of my company. Fact: Every for-profit enterprise wants—and all they want—is profitable revenue growth.

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Presspage

JUNE 23, 2021

From our experience working with hundreds of PR and Corporate Communications teams around the globe, most of these issues can be traced back to workflow, in this blog post we will talk about four of the most common ones we've noticed, regardless of industry, geography, or department size. Metrics: New contacts added (measured monthly).

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

PR measurement has long been the Achilles heel of the industry. Measuring behavior is harder. Sometimes you can use UTM tags to measure an incremental online action attributable to PR, but truly measuring behavior change (sales, votes, donations) is very difficult. Firmographics are like demographics about businesses.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 21, 2020

In the agency market there are opportunities that have been created by COVID-19. Work without boundaries Any market that previously relied on geographic proximity has been disrupted by COVID-19. Regional agencies have access to global markets and talented freelancers are building virtual teams to tackle projects.

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Crisis Agency Enterprise Local 78

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

The corporate reputation sector saw some consolidation this week, as Signal AI, which bills itself as a global external intelligence company, acquired KELP Inc., Its founders – Dan Gaynor and Shann Biglione – have impressive backgrounds in PR and marketing. There just wasn’t enough news to merit a column in July, so I skipped a month.

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Publicity Survey Enterprise Pitching 85

PR 20/20

AUGUST 22, 2017

At times, working in a marketing department can feel like being on trial. HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound Marketing annual report asked marketing teams about their top challenges. The primary reason I’ve seen inbound marketing programs get squashed is not lack of resources, lack of data or lack of success, but lack of buy-in.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 14, 2020

She talks about key issues she helps her organization communication, transitioning from a corporate role to work with an association and how she deals with the challenges we all face in PR and comms – like proving value. It’s not always as cut and dry as say, gathering leads and tracking them through to conversion like marketing.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 31, 2019

Copyright law will challenge monitoring market, landing pages and newsrooms, AI and jobs, this week’s Comms School, exploring half-baked ideas, and a research powerhouse. Campaign landing page and web newsroom tools Access to the corporate website is a battleground in large enterprise organisations. I’ve signed u ??

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 9, 2018

These marketers aren't afraid to take risks to make an impact. In this spotlight, we’ve featured Cathy McPhillips ( @cmcphillips ), Vice President of Marketing at Content Marketing Institute ( @CMIContent ). Q&A with VP of Marketing at CMI. Q: What are your day-to-day responsibilities as VP of Marketing at CMI?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 3, 2020

It’s too much, too fast and too convenient for enterprises motivated by profit. to push real-time, actionable alerts to market-moving news as it breaks. Let’s say you’re a software company with dozens of competitors in each of your markets globally. Out of respect, yesterday, I did not publish. My instinct?

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Product Launch Survey Banking Pharmaceuticals 95

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

They always use analytics to measure performance. It’s important for readers to keep in mind my world view is heavily filtered from the perspective of B2B marketing and PR. There are a whole bunch of marketers that are convinced short content is best. 1) How long should a blog post be? miles – they worked up to it over time.

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Blogging Survey B2B Analysis 106

Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

However, the ones I’m most proud of are those not based on an announcement or press release and instead are enterprise stories that have perhaps started with a tiny hunch or tip or general curiosity into a person or topic. I’m not, nor is any reporter, the marketing arm of Company XYZ. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Transportation Meeting Report Media 91

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 28, 2020

Notified calls these functions – listen, connect, publish amplify and measure. Measure is the dashboard and analytics. The media contacts section works completely differently than any other solution that I’ve seen on the market. The company will put together enterprise packaging and pricing options for larger buyers.

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prTini

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Who owns corporate social responsibility? While this varies from company to company, I think a brand has to be really careful if its community outreach lives within the marketing department. But, if a business is going to invest dollars into cause marketing, how do they demonstrate impact? Is it the CMO? Does it fall on HR?

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Community Marketing Retail Measurement 28

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 31, 2019

After working on Welcome to the Machine: A Primer on AI for Marketers (coming later this year), for almost a year now, I can offer you some quick insights that may help. Newer AI tools deployed by influencer marketing firms are taking engagement measurement a step further. Or worse, that AI will end civilization?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 189

wiredPRworks

AUGUST 2, 2016

As technology, culture, media and marketing converge, it’s an intriguing time to be a marketer. If you’re wondering how other marketers feel about our industry right now, take a look at the Marketers’ Confidence Index. marketer’s optimism as expressed through their organizational spending and growth.

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Leadership Survey Enterprise Conference 40

Prohibition

AUGUST 4, 2021

Your reputation as a brand reflects the level of trust your target market has in you. It can also improve the quality of leads generated by marketing campaigns or prevent negative publicity from impacting your company’s bottom line. Social Media Marketing (SMM). Social Media Marketing/Management involves: Social listening.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Each month we’ll hear from c-suite level communicators and marketers as they discuss challenges and opportunities facing companies in an ever-changing business climate. Previously, Chris ran product marketing and go-to-market strategy for Oracle’s Marketing Cloud business. Chris welcome to the Earned Media Rising podcast.

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Media Storytelling Technology Data 202

PR 20/20

MAY 12, 2016

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Marketing Performance Blueprint , and was also published on the HubSpot Agency Post. The marketing services industry is in a state of flux. SMBs need partners that can deliver fully integrated solutions and in essence function as outsourced inbound marketing teams.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Some of the important things you can do with the newsroom include: Schedule the time you want a press release to be published; Embed social content or multimedia; Auto-post the announcement on your social channels when it is published; Integrate Google Analytics for measurement. You can also edit things easily. 3) Prezly distribution.

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Pitching Analytics Enterprise System 63

Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2019

Onclusive is developing new ways to measure PR including attribution. These included a knowledge management-style enterprise search tool called “Assistant,” and “Channel Management.”. Marketing technology company 4C has acquired a stake in TV media monitoring company, iQ Media. Learn more: press release , blog post. all 210 U.S.

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Industry Media Technology Employee 86

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Zander Steele – Director of Enterprise Sales at HyperScience , a company that transforms insurance document processing with machine learning. Daren Moreira – Partner at Eversheds Sutherland , advises clients on regulatory compliance, insurance and reinsurance transactions and corporate governance. Oleh Shestakov.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 23, 2015

Janet Fouts , who founded Tatu Digital Media , read this post – Scale Content Marketing: Employees are the Secret – and invited me to a Google Hangout to discuss it (She previously produced The Friday Hangout , a regular weekly show with Steve Farnsworth and Adam Helweh ). How to Energize the Enterprise for Content Marketing.

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Mindful Marketing

MARCH 21, 2020

by David Hagenbuch , founder of Mindful Marketing & author of Honorable Influence Difficult times bring out the best and worst in individuals and organizations. Although it’s frightful to find our world battling a pandemic, it’s a healthy occasion to diagnose what is and isn’t Mindful Marketing. Could he be right?

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Viral Marketing Retail Transportation 75

Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Like fluffy yellow chicks marching in line after their mama, many companies are stuck in push marketing tactics of the past, favoring carefully crafted, conservative external messaging and expecting their executives to rigidly follow corporate directives when it comes to having (or not having) a digital voice.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 5, 2014

There’s an old saying in advertising that half of the budget is wasted, but marketers don’t know which half. Today, there are enough analytical tools today to avoid wasting half of the marketing spend. Eight-five percent of marketers said the pressure to demonstrate business value had increased this year over the previous year.

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Measurement Analytics Tools SEO 118

PRSay

MARCH 11, 2019

“[This] is the year of power to the people,” says Valerie Di Maria, principal of the communications and marketing firm. ” For the10company, this influence is directly tied to today’s heightened scrutiny of corporations and C-suite politics. Brands are beginning to over-rely on data and measurement.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Intrado was formerly known as West Corporation. The stock price jumps, and the bad actors sell the stock before the market realizes the news is fake. The company develops IR website products, virtual events solutions, a CRM-like tool for IR, and shareholder and market analytics tools. billion PR software market.

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Software Banking Technology Data 93

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2019

I asked co-founder and COO Jered Martin about pricing for the new model and here’s what he said: “We are launching our pricing plans starting in September and will offer four tiers: free, beginner, professional, and enterprise. There is little doubt Cision is the dominant player in the market today.

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