Sword and the Script

MARCH 2, 2021

The first reason is to acquire a new piece of technology. The second reason is to acquire customers. For example, to gain a foothold in a new vertical market or geography. And it’s top of mind this month because the largest PR technology vendor is back to doing acquisitions. Check out our services.]. Did you know?

Company 148

Company Tools Technology Software 148

Cision

JULY 27, 2017

Usually, brand perception falls under the realm of your marketing team, but it’s important for you and other leaders to be tapped into how consumers view your business. Not knowing this, you give the okay to move in a direction to attract more customers rather than committing energy to doing crisis management.

Brand 231

Brand Branding Employee Data 231

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 6, 2016

A PR agency employee starting in the business today will be creating programs, telling stories, and reporting to clients in ways very different from just a few years ago, in part due to the rise of digital technology and the blurring of lines between paid, earned, and owned media. PR today is about SEO. Everything is measurable and measured.

SEO 204

SEO Analytics Measurement B2B 204

Shift Communications

AUGUST 28, 2017

Public relations, marketing, and communications aren’t known for their futurist perspectives. In the new era of intelligent machines, we marketers and communicators must learn to predict what will be. With these technologies, turning data into valuable insights is within everyone’s reach. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

Analytics 96

Analytics Software Technology Data 96

Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2016

The face of a nearly brand new iPhone 6s looked like a spider web. A cloud technology vendor told me that trade shows were the number one source of leads for his company. That sounds like sage advice for companies in the business-to-business market with a long sales cycle. Qualify hard, close easy,” he said.

Marketing 60

Marketing B2B Local Customer Service 60

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.

Marketing 87

Marketing Resources Technology Internal 87

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Avid podcast listeners consume an average of five a week – listening for four hours and 10 minutes (chart nearby used with permission by The Marketing Companion ). Not only is this a significant amount of time – but it’s quality time and so marketing has joined the crowd. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search.

Tools 60

Tools Pinterest Marketing Media 60

David PR Group

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If you think your reputation is just about your search results, then you’re turning over your company’s reputation to your search engine marketing team. Do you have your search engine marketing people in charge of this? It must be someone at the executive level or frontline customer service—not search engine marketing.

Reputation 40

Reputation Wikipedia Customer Service Engineering 40

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Other disciplines, notably marketing, have encroached on PR practice in areas that lead with paid media, such as influencer marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO). Influencer marketing is messy How we do it 9. In 2019 it has published papers on disinformation and influencer marketing. She always improves my work.

Government 103

Government Education Print Ethics 103

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 18, 2014

This week’s roundup features seven posts from around the web that focus on attitude. Marketing got us to the moon 45 years ago and marketing is required to get us to Mars in the future. Does Too Much Technology Make Us Bored? Why CEOs Shouldn’t Trust Marketing. Image: aussiegall via Flickr, CC 2.0.

Crisis Communications 75

Crisis Communications Software B2B Crisis 75

Beyond PR

JULY 28, 2017

Usually, brand perception falls under the realm of your marketing team, but it’s important for you and other leaders to be tapped into how consumers view your business. Not knowing this, you give the okay to move in a direction to attract more customers rather than committing energy to doing crisis management.

Employee 80

Employee Journalism Data Technology 80

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like nearly any other marketing or strategic discipline, public relations has changed in recent years. If PR is all about content, it stands to reason that PR and SEO must work together, and that PR professionals should have more than a passing familiarity with SEO and web analytics. billion over the next five years. .”

Trends 124

Trends SEO Leadership Print 124

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In each one, I aim to explain in jargon-free language, what is new with the vendors making technology that helps PR pros to do their jobs. The feature enables “enterprises to analyze customer conversations from owned data sources” and let the Talkwalker AI engine analyze it. See item #1 here for more.

Data 87

Data Enterprise Survey Instagram 87

Stuart Bruce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Oliver Smith, technology, media and telecoms reporter, City AM. The CEO’s office, public relations and corporate communications, human resources, marketing, legal and regulatory etc all need to be aware of and ‘owning’ their part of social media. Jon Sellors, RSA Group, UK head of media relations.

Social Media 150

Social Media Twitter Radio Sports 150

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 21, 2014

This week’s roundup features seven posts from around the web that focus on context. Valeria Maltoni explores the intersection of humanism and technology. Do you need an Email Marketing or Marketing Automation Tool? Why: Which is better for your business, email marketing or a marketing automation tool?

Community 78

Community Customer Service Resources Web 78

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.”.

Marketing 187

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 187

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The HubSpot Growth Stack aims to solve our number one setback as data-driven marketers: the “ elusive, fully-integrated marketing stack.” It creates a home base for all marketing, sales, service and CRM activity, enabling performance-driven , agile marketing. Marketing: To Attract Visitors ….

Marketing 40

Marketing Tools Data Report 40

Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

I call it the PR technology summary ( PR tech sum ) and here’s what I found over the last 30 days. The press release doesn’t spell out any specific technology initiatives, so it seems this is merely an agreement allowing each business to sell the others’ products. “Q4 Here we go…. The company has raised a total of $66.3

Trends 60

Trends Media Report Technology 60

MaccaPR

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Not too long ago, you , as a marketer, signed in to LinkedIn to check your messages , catch up on an old colleague, and maybe update your new profile picture. Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine. 1) Access to influential people.

LinkedIn 48

LinkedIn Content Marketing Marketing Engineering 48

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Every month when I go to write this PR technology summary, I’m surprised at just how many new tools and features are being brought to market. And now, here’s this month’s PR technology summary…. Talkwalker has introduced a new feature it’s calling Customer Data +. 1) Talkwalker lets you run your data through their AI.

Internal 63

Internal International Data Media 63

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 18, 2014

This week’s roundup features seven posts from around the web that focus on attitude. Marketing got us to the moon 45 years ago and marketing is required to get us to Mars in the future. Does Too Much Technology Make Us Bored? Why CEOs Shouldn’t Trust Marketing. Image: aussiegall via Flickr, CC 2.0.

Crisis Communications 40

Crisis Communications Software B2B Crisis 40

wiredPRworks

AUGUST 5, 2017

To improve customer service. your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs). ; However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. To process transactions. Do we use cookies?

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Privacy Policies Customer Service System 40

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 7, 2020

All in all, I had access to the platform for about two months and several phone and email exchanges – questions and answers – with both marketing and support representatives. Cision kept the press release distribution service, while Innodata, then operating as MediaMiser, got the Agility media database and the media monitoring solution.

Tools 82

Tools Comparison Media System 82

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 16, 2021

This is particularly true for B2B PR and marketing teams. It remains the primary content distribution channel for marketers. In 2021, marketers should reassess how they use Facebook and make full use of the tools it offers. When to use Facebook for B2B marketing. New and useful Facebook features for B2B PR and marketing.

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B2B Facebook LinkedIn Small Business 344

Sword and the Script

JULY 11, 2017

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) published a piece describing the modern challenge for CMOs and why these marketing leaders tend to not last but a few years in such roles. The authors say many CMOs are “limited mostly to marketing communications” and have “limited influence over” products and pricing, among other business factors.

Marketing 66

Marketing Leadership B2B Survey 66

Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

AI Integration in Daily Tasks According to the latest annual McKinsey Global Survey on the State of AI , the most commonly reported uses of generative AI tools are in marketing and sales, product and service development and service operations. Offer exceptional and empathetic customer service.

Trends 105

Trends YouTube Video Social Media 105

5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

A media kit, also referred to as a press kit, is a pre-packaged set of marketing materials that promote a person, business, or cause. An Apple media kit from 1993 even included physical slides showcasing their newest technologies. By including sponsorship guidelines for influencers, etc., Lasting Impact of a Media Kit.

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How To Media Guidelines Pitching 176

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Muck Rack is a PR technology platform that helps PR find relevant media contacts, facilitates PR pitching and provides media monitoring The big players in PR technology have largely achieved their growth through mergers and acquisitions ( example ). It’s worth mentioning here, you can add custom information and contacts.

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Pitching Media System Tools 85

PR 20/20

MAY 23, 2017

We originally published a blog in 2015 listing 40+ inbound marketing resources. We’ve added even more to the list, so read below for an update with even more resources for marketers. As marketers, we spend hours researching the top trends and tactics to prove top-notch ROI and success. even a free marketing course).

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Resources Marketing SEO Engineering 53

Sword and the Script

MARCH 15, 2022

Truescope is a new media monitoring technology that’s launching in the U.S. This is a fairly crowded market already with startups, incumbents and reincarnations – and Truescope isn’t bringing anything new, per se. The company’s core thesis is that many of the products on the market today are result of being “cobbled together.”

Tools 157

Tools Media Software Analysis 157

Cision

APRIL 18, 2016

Analytics Improvements – Changes that give communication pros and marketers better information on Facebook interactions and customer segments. I hope that you can find a few features that you didn’t know about and that you can incorporate into your communication or marketing strategies. Content Improvements.

Facebook 0

Facebook Mobile Analytics Advertising 0

Mindful Marketing

JUNE 14, 2019

by David Hagenbuch , founder of Mindful Marketing & author of Honorable Influence Eric, a friend of mine who happens to be a CPA, realized he was running low on string for his grass trimmer, so he went shopping where he’d purchased the product before—Amazon. In the time period from 2014 to 2017, that average fell to 3.7

Retail 55

Retail Consumer Software Web 55

Stuart Bruce

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Web design and build is a huge growth area for PR agencies as service is increasingly combined with PR. The mean percentage of marketing budgets spent on digital/ social media remains at 16%, the same as last year. In-house respondents include directors of marketing/comms, heads of marketing/comms, head of press/PR.

Digital PR 60

Digital PR Training Report Social Media 60

PRSay

JUNE 26, 2016

You may hear about the challenges of technology (yes, they exist) but there are also tremendous benefits. Social media is about people, however, the technology helps to facilitate the great interactions we experience. We are in an age of PR Tech and data literacy.

Social Media 113

Social Media Media Infographics Community 113

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Image: betsyjean79 via Flickr , Creative Commons Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, Design, Digital, TV, Radio, Podcasts, Blogging, Social Networks, Newsfeeds, Affiliate Marketing, Web TV, SEO… Creative industries have evolved just as the environments, mediums, consumers and needs of our clients have evolved over time.

Travel 79

Travel Case Study Creativity Advertising 79

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2024

That’s true in any market – and public relations (PR) is notwithstanding. As a professional services leader, he says he struggled to find technology built around his team’s needs – especially those that would help his firm manage media relationships. Propel does not have its own bot crawling and indexing the web.

Software 136

Software Pitching System Analytics 136

Cision

MAY 21, 2015

But why is podcasting important to PR and marketing professionals? Welcome to The #AskGaryVee show, where I answer your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Tools, tips and tactics on everything marketing and social media related. SocialZoomFactor is a podcast created for business and marketing leaders.

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Social Media Marketing Pinterest Media 120