Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity , LLC.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Pitching media remains a challenge; Twitter is still a journalist favorite; PR dabbled with generative AI as businesses worried about misinformation Regular readers know I publish a weekly post every Tuesday. Many of the things I choose to write about are reports and surveys that give us a sense of what’s happening in the industry.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

Most PR pros today use some form of the PESO Model which includes owned, shared, paid and earned media. However, media pitching and media relations to secure earned media still dominate the industry. And it’s not just public relations. Wait, what is earned media?

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Sword and the Script

MAY 29, 2018

The question we asked was as follows: “What is one thing you wish you could get senior leaders or senior management to understand about communications that you don’t think they understand today?”. It’s not just about content, or search, or conferences, or advertising, or a webinar. How many can you identify with?

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The second season ended in thrilling fashion, with Kendall Roy, Logan’s son, double-crossing his father in a shocking press conference where he was supposed to take the fall for a company scandal, but instead implicated his father in the scandal and a host of cover-ups and illegal activity. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A successful communications strategy is the driving force behind building trust among all of your stakeholders, enhancing your corporate reputation and establishing your company as a leader in your industry. A strong agency will help you shape a communications plan that supports your corporate objectives.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. Cision moves to eliminate the HARO brand Cision is pressing forward with the elimination of the Help a Reporter Out (HARO) brand. Journalists were quite vocal about criticizing the company for selling their emails. Measurement templates.

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The Hoyt Organization

MAY 20, 2024

It is common knowledge that PR is a huge factor in corporations and enterprises. Public relations experts can advise you on how best to market your services, deal with the public, and handle challenges. Read on to learn more about the role of public relations for doctors. What are your goals?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Several posts on PR technology made the top 10 posts on Sword and the Script as measured by reader clicks. That’s about 24 more than were published in 2019. That’s a difficult goal and as the numbers suggest, I succeeded in getting two out about 50% of the time. 45-plus Places to Find Communications and Public Relations Jobs.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 11, 2016

We often say that public relations is more of an art than a science, and it’s true. Although what we do is more data-driven and more measurable than ever, like any good professional service, it also relies on intangibles like creativity, experience, and judgment. You’re relying on press releases. Your timing is off.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

How do you measure PR results? Ned Lundquist has published an email newsletter called Ned’s Job-of-the-Week (JOTW) for about 20 years. Each week he lists upwards of 60 jobs from across the communications profession – public relations, public affairs, marketing communications and more. Your input is needed!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 3, 2019

Senior executives who do not make themselves available for internal reviews, or who don’t participate as corporate spokespersons where needed are sending a message that the program isn’t important, which can hamstring the PR team’s efforts. No measure of success. And it shouldn’t always be about your brand. It’s underfunded .

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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.

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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”. How is public relations defined?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

When communications is too tied to marketing, it is more difficult to keep a pulse on the broader business,” wrote Tammy L. In the B2B technology world, which is the lenses through which I example things, I’ve found PR usually reports to marketing – but supports the whole business – when a company is small or young.

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode of EthicalVoices is Cheryll Forsatz , the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Relations for Ferrero USA. I am a corporate communications and brand strategist with more than 25 years of experience working with global consumer brands.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 16, 2019

Press releases are the PR industry’s favorite punching bag. Communications professions placed press releases near the bottom of a long list of priorities for the next 12 months, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey , a collaborative effort between Ned’s Job-of-the-Week and Sword and the Script Media. Click To Tweet.

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Survey Technology Corporate Financial 71

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

Corporate communications and PR can be a lonely business of sorts. A recent survey conducted by Ned Lundquist’s Job of the Week (JOTW) in partnership with Sword and the Script Media, LLC sought to find out the true status of our industry. Guest Post by Scott Kaminski. Or are we? Let’s hit it. Let’s Talk Money.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 16, 2019

There is a long-running joke in public relations (PR) circles, that it takes more time and effort to get press release through the approval process than it does to write one in the first place. About one third said (29%) indicated their work had about the same effect and the rest (7%) said their efforts were not successful.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 6, 2021

Then it analyzes those pitches, matches it against contacts in its database, and suggests media contacts for you to pitch that have written about related topics. In a marketing email, ResponseSource said it’s shutting down it’s curated list of media requests submitted on Twitter and tagged with the hashtag #journorequests.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. Improvements included: A thoughtful weekly roundup called Unscripted Marketing ; A re-invigorated Q&A series called Off Script ; and. Think press releases are dead?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2019

There isn’t a whole lot of coverage about PR technology. I got to thinking about it when putting together this piece – The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability – and decided I’m going to do something. Onclusive is developing new ways to measure PR including attribution. Learn more: press release , blog post.

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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 b) More pay-to-play opportunities to participate in national media relations opportunities.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. She always improves my work.

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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. With the advent of online reviews, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.,

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Some marketing and communications predictions suggest AI will change the world; others see a tailspin of noise and and see humanity as a path for differentiation Most marketing and PR professionals have formed strong viewpoints on AI. That much is apparent I compiled this year’s list of marketing and communications predictions.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. In my assessment, the first and fifth reason are closely related.

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Survey Media Relations Corporate Communications 103

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. Now, that doesn’t mean I haven’t written about seemingly ordinary folks. I still use that today.

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Transportation Meeting Report Media 91

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. But your standard press release isn’t going to do the trick.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Prezly saw that the “press release format was broken” and it got started building online newsrooms. He suggested embedding a CEO’s tweet about an announcement, which I thought was a creative idea. Agencies can manage the newsrooms for multiple clients with Prezly or corporate communications can opt for their own instance.

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PR Conversations

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As a PR practitioner, I’ve chosen to use this channel to invite your answers to questions about social media and public relations. When engaging with people on their own blogs, I think it is a matter of judgement whether to simply listen to what people are saying about you or the organization and when to intervene.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 8, 2017

It’s the media pitch met with silence. Even the best media relations pros – with well-researched pitches – face the dilemma of no response one time or another. This is where NewsAI , an emerging PR software platform, solves a big problem in the media relations process. Did the reporter get the email?

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Prohibition

JULY 19, 2018

Public relations (PR) is a technique used by savvy businesses across the globe to communicate with their customers. From giant global leaders, such as Coca-Cola , to smart start-ups looking to disrupt a new market, like Brewdog , PR can make the difference between getting noticed by your customers and falling by the wayside.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Public relations statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 3, 2015

Emily Stivers : Press releases. Scott Kaminski : Media advisories, holding statements and people complaining about media advisories and holding statements. Debra Bethard-Caplick : Marketing claiming that PR is a tool/subset/specialization of marketing. Zen Yinger : Press junkets. ” 16.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 20, 2016

If I asked you to list out which audiences are central to your PR and marketing efforts, I bet it’d be safe to surmise your current and prospective customers are at the top. Because of this, you can’t take the quantity of media coverage at face value. Scope of Media Pickup. is the earned media driving?

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Prohibition

JANUARY 14, 2022

A PR crisis is a negative story about your brand that threatens the reputation of your organisation, causes reputational damage, or negatively impacts sales or stock value. In today’s world, a negative story about your brand or organisation could go viral in an instant. What is a PR Crisis? Or it could be an act of terrorism.

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