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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Agility PR Solutions

MAY 20, 2020

Most of us are working remotely these days, and that includes creatives and designers. According to new research from workflow software firm inMotionNow examining the COVID crisis’ impact on the creative community, these pros seem to be well-adapted to the move.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2022

For a creative services firm – like ad, PR or marketing agencies – differentiation is key. The implication is that its team is free to offer top creative and client-centered work. The implication is that its team is free to offer top creative and client-centered work. And it sometimes applies.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 25, 2022

The chances of marketing content going viral are slim. Marketing and PR are hard enough without the addition of a self-imposed restriction. I’ve long advised marketers to use a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons has several different licenses that can both meet your needs and clearly facilitate sharing.

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PRSay

MAY 9, 2023

However, now that public relations is overlapping with marketing, you’d think demonstrating a return on investment (ROI) would be getting easier. If there’s anything marketing has a lot of, then it’s metrics. However, most recently, EMV is used to evaluate ROI for influencer marketing campaigns. How Soulmates.ai

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Sword and the Script

JULY 21, 2018

Limited is the operative word, because while measurements are important, you can’t directly measure everything, like the impact of creativity, and yet we know these things have value. However, I think the marketing community has over-corrected and the more strategic marketers value both the art and science of marketing.

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Beyond PR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Analytics has opened up an entirely new world to marketers, sending many down the data rabbit hole. Overreliance on analytics overshadows creativity, which can hinder your chances to earn more media. Creative is a critical factor in the success of any marketing communications team. People drive a brand, not analytics.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Of course, the growth and speed of real artificial intelligence and its impact may well be overblown. Most experts doubt that neural net-powered artificial creativity can ever equal true human creativity. So, why aren’t we lucky creative services types taking advantage of this?

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Public relations vs marketing—what are the differences? Public relations (PR) and marketing are closely related, but few know the differences. Some organisations have Communications Departments for their public relations needs and some have Marketing Departments for their promotional needs.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The pendulum of marketing can only swing in one direction at a time, but at some point, the forces of gravity slow the swing and eventually take it back in the other direction. I sense we are reaching that point in marketing, with respect to data and creativity. For years marketing leaders have all heard data, data, data.

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wiredPRworks

APRIL 29, 2020

One of the fun things about being a creative is, well, you get to be creative! – that mapped out the best possible creative solutions? When you automate creativity, you discover the best options. Small changes in creative lead to big changes in performance. Marpipe is a multivariate creative testing platform.

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wiredPRworks

APRIL 29, 2020

One of the fun things about being a creative is, well, you get to be creative! – that mapped out the best possible creative solutions? When you automate creativity, you discover the best options. Small changes in creative lead to big changes in performance. Marpipe is a multivariate creative testing platform.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 19, 2022

Of course, the marketing community was all over this. In fact, this thread by Morning Brew’s Jack Appleby claims that 50 marketers in a recent Twitter chat thought the tweet thread was a complete joke, and irreparabaly harmed the social media industry by insinuating social media interns are completely inept. I get that.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The new model for content creation and marketing regarding social media has shifted from just pushing content for the sake of promoting yourself to become more personalized, interactive and focused on storytelling. The post A Crash Course in Social Media appeared first on Critical Mention - Media Monitoring. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 7, 2021

PR agency teams, like all creative services people, love to keep our clients happy. In PR, we of course want to get as many quality stories as possible, and we typically have a good idea of what will result when we’re managing a news announcement, for example. We can definitely generate XX earned media placements. Immediately?!

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Prohibition

AUGUST 4, 2023

social media marketing efforts, social media marketing campaigns, entire video, many brands, drive traffic In today’s digital age, social media video marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for businesses to engage with their target audience.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 23, 2021

As we turn the page on the year, it’s time to look at the trends that affect PR and marketing communications. Of course, the changes we see aren’t usually sudden. Purpose and values-based communications will become an essential part of the marketing toolbox. The talent market in many industries is tighter than ever.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s a digital marketing academy to support marketing professions in developing an integrated communications strategy from scratch. Do you think COVID-19 will have a long-term impact on marketing services? How has Unwritten managed the creative process during lockdown? Lisa launched Fabric during lockdown.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Today I share Deborah Weinstein’s answers to questions about the challenges confronting social media marketing and digital communications. Are the social media waters still safe for marketing? The thing about marketing is that to fill your net you have to fish where the fish are. Be Helpful.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is particularly true for marketing, and the same applies to brand and corporate communications. The future of event marketing will be in hybrid happenings that attract both physical and virtual participants and attendees. Marketing and corporate communications will overlap. It never went away, of course.

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Karen Freberg

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Influencer marketing has become one of the MAIN things many professionals working in social media are asked to do. As a professor, I know many of my fellow colleagues are actively teaching influencer marketing. As a professor, I know many of my fellow colleagues are actively teaching influencer marketing.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This piece originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelance Creative. When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. “What separates excellent content marketing from the mediocre, in part, is care and attention to detail. Why accuracy in content marketing is important.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 12, 2018

This was, of course, a very embarrassing. It’s one of two creative press releases examples that recently crossed my radar and I’m sharing here in this post. As PRWeek reported : “Of course, the ‘draft’ was intentionally sent to relevant media outlets to earn coverage of the limited time menu item. The edits were eccentric.

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Mindful Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2022

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing Millions of baseball fans were recently watching televised games when they were unexpectedly hit by a pitch! A veteran marketer and an up-and-coming rookie argue the call.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

AUGUST 29, 2023

Regrettably, advertising and marketing seem to remain a notable instance of this disparity. In advertising and marketing, however, this rich mixture has historically been depicted through the lens of Caucasian individuals. Brand marketing is a key arena where the call for inclusivity has grown louder and more resonant than ever before.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 27, 2022

Brands get creative on social channels. Media relationships, of course, are at the heart of PR plan execution. Email marketing connects the dots. One best practice for email marketing is to push out a newsletter at the same time as a press release is published and news is posted on social channels.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

While the rate has been trending down since 2010, it’s still largely been an employer’s market since the housing market popped a couple years before then. To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. 2) Think creatively: guerilla recruiting tactics. That changed in 2018.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Content marketing isn’t a panacea. More important, however, is that content marketing can hit diminishing returns very quickly, in a phenomenon first described by marketing expert Mark W. Our ROI on content marketing will go down. Bob Stone’s framework is elegantly simple: list, offer, creative.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Of the marketers who responded to Wyzowl’s State of Video Marketing 2023 report , 92% say video gives them a good return on their investment. And brands noticed.

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Landis PR

MAY 1, 2023

This frees up time for more strategic and creative endeavors, client engagement, and relationship development. While new AI resources for PR and marketing professionals are constantly being developed, we’ve compiled a list of those that have caught our attention for their usefulness, creativity, ingenuity, or expertise.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

It’s also common for specialized agencies to be hired on a project basis for repositioning or when market research is required. Give yourself a crash-course in PR measurement here or email info@airpr.com for more information on how we can help you measure your PR efforts. Event & Experiential Marketing. Speaking Engagements.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2017

Some say the goal of a great PR program should be to build brand reputation, while sales and marketing actually drive sales. The reality is that the lines between PR and marketing are getting blurrier all the time. The post 6 Ways To Use PR To Build Brand Marketing appeared first on Crenshaw Communications.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This requires a combination of creative thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to develop and execute against plan. This includes familiarity with social media management, content creation, and influencer marketing. Social media has also become a significant driver for news, business operations, sales cycles and marketing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As we close in on the year’s end, I looked back over these marketing and PR statistics in an effort to surface those points that in some way, shape or form, help to summarize 2018 as a year. Statistics about content marketing. The C-Suite views the top marketer as a publicly facing agent of trust. of revenue in marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 8, 2019

It already has, of course. Social listening and media monitoring is key for many programs, and PR pros have used email marketing for years, even for targeted media pitches. Voice marketing has the potential to transform what we do as profoundly as digital and social media did.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Creative PR, media and internal communicators are qualified to create campaigns based on acts of kindness; communications that go deeper into the human heart. Of course, a campaign built on inspiring kindness will look different for every company and industry. Such campaigns will lift eyebrows, turn heads and drop jaws.

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Mindful Marketing

MAY 3, 2024

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing New technology has enabled people to do previously unimaginable things: mass-produce books, illuminate homes, communicate across continents, fly through the air. Should businesses slow AI innovation?

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