Shift Communications

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Offer to read them a white paper or press release, listen to a webinar, show them an infographic. If they manage to stay engaged for more than a minute, then you’ve clearly got the hang of good storytelling. If they’re immediately bored, then your storytelling isn’t compelling. Other great examples of this?

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In recent market estimates, digital online and ad spending is expected to grow at approximately 11% per year through 2021. 1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR? ” 4.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 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. Storytelling : Storytelling is becoming an increasingly important part of PR.

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Presspage

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ease of access and digestibility of multimedia content, including videos, infographics, and interactive visualizations, correlates with higher investor satisfaction and confidence in the information being conveyed. Take, for instance, a company using an infographic to break down its financial performance over the past fiscal year.

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Presspage

JANUARY 23, 2024

Storytelling is a powerful tool that can establish an emotional connection between a company and its investors. Moreover, communicating a long-term vision and strategy through storytelling provides investors with a roadmap, reinforcing a shared understanding of where the company is headed and how it plans to get there.

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Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses. What kind?

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The marketing sales funnel is both simple and confusing. When you map all of your content marketing to the funnel, things get trickier. Most content marketers, unlike sales reps, usually shy away from promotional ad copy that could scare their audience away. What is the content marketing sales funnel?

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5W PR

MAY 27, 2022

The global robotics market is constantly growing which gives plenty of businesses great opportunities for various public relations efforts. That means companies in the robotics industry have plenty of opportunities to promote their solutions to the target market. Storytelling.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s a vast amount of campaign types for your brand to use to grow online authority, everything from infographics to hero campaigns, to newsjacking campaigns. Here we look at the different types of digital PR campaigns, including some practical examples, to get you started. Examples of this include: Maps. Reactive digital PR.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2015

When it comes to storytelling, quality over quantity is a pretty standard rule of thumb. Compelling storytelling can expand your audience and strengthen the bond you have with your customer base. This week’s roundup is chock full of advice to spice up your storytelling. Pedal-powered Storytelling. ” 4.

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5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Here’s an overview of how Tech PR typically operates and can be implemented: Understanding the Tech Landscape: PR professionals begin by gaining a deep understanding of the tech industry, the specific market, and the target audience. Be ready to adjust strategies based on industry trends, market changes, and emerging technologies.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Use examples. If the business is acting differently than others, that can be a story, but even a different opinion about industry trends, the future of your business category, customer behavior, or the financial markets can help distinguish a business leader as an interesting thinker. Tap your inner contrarian. It pays to be different.

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Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Many different services fall under the umbrella of strategic communication — or public relations: media relations, community relations, internal communications, crisis communications, public affairs, content creation and marketing, social media — the list goes on. Strategic communications is part and parcel of public relations.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Content marketers today navigate a dynamic environment where the interplay of creativity and strategy profoundly shapes how brands engage with their audiences. Let’s uncover strategies and insights that empower content marketers to create unified messages throughout the buyer journey.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We get that annual planning is a beast, and marketers everywhere are wrought with expectation and reporting woes. You need an actionable, original marketing plan —driven by purposeful planning and backed by data—to truly gain executive buy-in. 7 Tips & Tools for Marketing Strategy & Performance. Marketing team.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This year’s sold-out Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit in downtown Minneapolis brought together 1,400 of our state’s brightest marketers, technologists and entrepreneurs to hear about new strategies to disrupt the status quo. Here’s a look inside some of the most memorable ideas that I walked away with.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Incorporating visual content into your content marketing strategy is about more than just grabbing eyeballs. Visual storytelling not only complements copy but can also provide an instant emotional connection that pulls prospective customers deeper into your brand. Storytelling: Visuals can tell a story instantly.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Specifically, the survey found storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership topped the list of more than 20 tactics or trends related to PR in terms of importance. 67% said thought leadership.

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Beyond PR

JANUARY 3, 2017

Storytelling. Content marketing may change its tactics as audiences tire of the existing ones, but telling a good company narrative will never go out of style. Content marketing is the perfect springboard for your storytelling and, in fact, these stories can make your brand all the more appealing. So what’s left?

Company 72

Company Storytelling Small Business eBook 72

Marketwired

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

When you can, offer high resolution photos, videos or infographics. A good example I always cite is Saucony’s #FindYourStrong campaign. It’s a prime example of a highly customer-focused, niche message, metric-centric campaign. Here’s an example. An example comes from B2B software, of all places.

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Journalistics

JULY 6, 2013

When David Meerman Scott was kind enough to let me review his first pass at Real-Time Marketing & PR a few years ago, I remember thinking how amazing some of the stories were in the book. How ready are you to deal with a real-time marketing & PR event? Let’s take a look at your brand (or your clients for your agency readers).

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Developing your brand’s story is an essential part of your marketing strategy, so we’re going to be exploring eight effective ways to you tell your brand’s story on social media: 1. A classic example comes from Sarah Farrow, a content marketer for Big Assignments. Use people, not logos. Involve your customers. Use video formats.

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Marketwired

JANUARY 5, 2016

According to our content marketing survey, 64% of PR pros are planning to increase their time, resources, and efforts spent on content marketing in 2016. If you’re not taking it to task in your content marketing, you’re content won’t perform near as effectively as it could. Be a storyteller – a smart one.

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Mobile Content Marketing Survey Infographics 100

ReimaginePR

JUNE 27, 2016

Your content must provide some sort of value to your potential customer—through email courses, e-guides, or opt-ins for example—before they’ll even consider becoming an actual customer (i.e. But when you compare them to modern storytelling, there’s just no redeeming qualities to them anymore. Press Releases Are Old News.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 17, 2015

Now, they have the luxury of reaching out to their audiences directly… through content storytelling. Content storytelling is all about creating attractive, valuable and interesting information your customers are passionate about , so they actually pay attention and engage with the brand. But how do they do this effectively?

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. We also identified common challenges while explaining ways healthcare marketers could overcome them. But if you work in healthcare marketing, life might not look all that different.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 16, 2016

The next time you’re sending a press release, look to these six formatting practices to improve your storytelling. Get creative with infographics, product demos, animation and other visuals to connect emotionally with readers. Varied Sentence/Paragraph Structure. Boilerplates.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. We also identified common challenges while explaining ways healthcare marketers could overcome them. But if you work in healthcare marketing, life might not look all that different.

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PR Conversations

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Wells Fargo not only publishes great content on its Wells Fargo Stories site, but when I toured their offices, I discovered they are doing some really neat things in terms of storytelling, especially with their internal communications. MasterCard has some great programs, including publishing some industry research.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 4, 2019

1) PR software market estimated at $4 billion. Consulting firm Burton-Taylor published a report that benchmarks market size and market share for a category of technology the company describes as “Media Intelligence and PR Software.” Gartner says about one-third of the CMO budget goes to marketing technology. Here we go….

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NewsWhip

MAY 27, 2021

The future of storytelling in healthcare communications. Real Chemistry’s Practice Leader of Media & Engagement Becky Vonsiatsky joins NewsWhip’s CEO Paul Quigley to discuss how healthcare storytelling will continue to connect authentically with key audiences, wherever they are. May 21, 2021 | 11:30am EST / 4:30pm GMT.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Officer, Content Marketing Institute. 59% od companies surveyed late last year say hiring of content marketing is imminent. 34% of companies say they can’t find people with digital content marketing skills to hire. There are many examples similar to Rosetta Stone.

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MaccaPR

JULY 23, 2014

Welcome to the age of infobesity in which marketers struggle to separate themselves from online information overload and draw meaningful interest from current and potential customers. In your upcoming marketing content, consider incorporating more visuals to get noticed. One example is the Oreo brand Super Bowl tweet image.

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Pinterest Storytelling Infographics Social Media 91

Beyond PR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. Cision® asked hundreds of senior marketers and 81 percent agreed earned media is more effective than paid media. Infographics.

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ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This means photos, infographics and other graphic elements that break up large chunks of text. For example, you can add: Behind the Scenes. Infographics. Use Imagery. Words are beautiful and amazing, but they can only take you so far. You need to include imagery. Imagery adds greater context and clarity to your words.

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ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

It’s called visual storytelling, and very few brands know how to effectively use visual content to communicate with their audience. There’s nothing quite as visceral, captivating, immersive or spellbinding as visual storytelling. You can effectively use visual content to market your brand, and we’ll discuss how below.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

In the marketing world, professionals tend to glom onto useful marketing buzzwords as a shared language, and those terms can actually prove useful to professionals in adjacent industries. As the marketing and media industries continue to look more and more alike, their lexicons overlap too.

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