Sword and the Script

APRIL 20, 2021

True thought leadership is hard to achieve, not because it’s hard, but because some in B2B just can’t get out of their own way. She works for a B2B tech company that “doesn’t believe marketing” but she knows they need it desperately. And I don’t think any competent marketing expert that’s being honest can. It’s bigger than that.

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Flack's Revenge

MARCH 9, 2021

Here is the third installment in my series about maximizing “secret sauce” in tech marketing. In the first post, I explored the meaning and history of the term, and shared examples. If your secret sauce is so special, and can really make your company a market beater, why not give it a name? To Brand or Not to Brand.

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

While many consider communications to be part of marketing, PR has fallen behind in being able to measure and prove its value to key stakeholders. This perspective can be helpful for communicators as they articulate the benefits of working together to their marketing colleagues. However, the integration process can be challenging.

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

While many consider communications to be part of marketing, PR has fallen behind in being able to measure and prove its value to key stakeholders. Integrating PR and marketing. This perspective can be helpful for communicators as they articulate the benefits of working together to their marketing colleagues.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 28, 2024

Most B2B tech companies aim to improve customer retention this year, putting a renewed focus on building sustainable customer marketing teams that contribute to retention, and more importantly, measurable growth; Years ago, a SaaS company I was working for hired a person at the vice president level to run customer marketing.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

To understand how analysts factor marketing into their assessment and valuation of the companies they cover. This is cited ahead of leadership quality (76%) and technological innovation (72%).” And a brand is bigger than marketing. In other words, it takes a good company and good marketing to build a valuable brand.

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Garrett Public Relations

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

This got me thinking about snowballs, or more to the point, the snowball effect of thought leadership. Let me give you an example. The post The Snowball Effect of Thought Leadership – and How to Get Started appeared first on PR Consultant Garrett Public Relations Columbus/Worthington OH. The Evolution of a […].

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Doctor Spin

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Thought leadership might be the right PR strategy for you. What does thought leadership entail? In this blog post, I’ll explore the principles of thought leadership as a PR strategy. As such, thought leadership could be considered a tall order. Lead by example. What does it take to become a thought leader?

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We define the ask as thought leadership strategy. While it may seem like a simple activity — where clients just tell us what their leaders want to talk about and we magically secure coverage around said topic — successful thought leadership is actually quite complex. Step 1: Beware thought leadership in disguise.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Among PR teams, LinkedIn is the go-to social media platform for B2B executives for driving positive visibility and thought leadership. How can executives get the most from their LinkedIn profile to convey leadership and be seen as an expert? . Go beyond a resume . Your LinkedIn profile is representative of your brand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 6, 2021

In B2B public relations , there’s a lot of talk about thought leadership. So, what’s magical about thought leadership? It was an economist, Joel Kurtzman, who is actually credited with popularizing “thought leadership” in business circles. We see it in first-mover companies as well.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For example, West acquired PR tech assets from NASDAQ including Globe Newswire and the remnants of MarketWire. This means they don’t use PR and comms and therefore don’t really understand the market. Cision shakes up C-suite again Cision has swapped out its leadership again. Do you need help with B2B tech marketing and PR?

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Stern + Associates

MAY 6, 2024

The best part of Brandon Pantano’s job is helping leaders, brands and businesses use the latest marketing best practices to improve their bottom lines. From shaping brands using integrated marketing strategy to business development to SEO, the role of a digital marketer has the power to transform.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In the public relations world, thought leadership is a big deal, but the term can start to feel old, fast. How do you infuse a thought leadership program with fresh ideas and get the most out of it for PR? Here are some essentials worth considering when looking to maximize a thought leadership program. Be strategic with bylines.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 11, 2024

Today we will focus on Leadership. But you just must convince the people that you are managing, leading, and guiding in your thoughts and that is inherent in leadership. Nowadays it's very important to make a distinction between management and leadership. But we have a market. However, there is leadership.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 2, 2022

In B2B PR , we’re always looking for ways to promote client stories, often through interviews with members of their senior leadership team. Podcasts are naturally part of that mix; they’re a great way to secure thought leadership opportunities, and they’re growing in popularity. In 2022, the number of monthly U.S.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 12, 2024

of boards have directors with marketing experience, but 100% have directors with finance experience Companies that have board members with marketing experience outperform companies that do not. That’s the high-level finding of an academic study titled, When and How Does Board-Level Marketing Experience Impact Firm Performance ?

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2017

Marketing may be underestimating the impact of thought leadership on sales, according to a comprehensive study published in June 2017 by Edelman and LinkedIn. The study concluded thought leadership “attracts invitations to bid (RFPs), earns buyer preference by building trust, directly contributes to wins, and can even impact pricing.”.

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Landis PR

AUGUST 22, 2023

San Francisco Symphony Peninsula Open Space Trust Save the Redwoods League World Wildlife Fund Project Open Hand AIDS Walk San Francisco San Francisco LGBT Center The Trevor Project Zimbabwe AIDS Treatment Assistance Project The post Corporate Giving – Leading by Example appeared first on Landis PR.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the past few years, video marketing has become a dominant tool for captivating audiences and expanding brand awareness. Public relations (PR) can be one of the solutions available for marketers and business owners to support their video marketing campaigns. We’ll delve more in-depth into PR and marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Newsjacking is a powerful tactic for marketing and public relations. This presented a prime newsjacking opportunity for SOCi , a marketing platform for multi-location brands across online platforms. SOCi offered insights on Threads’ implications for social media marketing, showcasing their expertise and thought leadership.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 19, 2020

When done correctly, it can generate extensive media coverage and reinforce expertise or even leadership. . For example, when we saw reports that President Trump would sign an executive order to boost research and development for artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S., Branded content pays long-term dividends.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Otey Blunt, who believes in leading by example, pointed out “with a diverse team, you have diversity of thought. As Cho pointed out, oftentimes, leadership roles aren’t published, and those conversations most frequently happen within their own affinity groups, which is partly why the data around women in leadership are rather dismal.

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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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Reputation Us

APRIL 18, 2017

There’s another powerful tool in the PR toolbox — Thought Leadership. But, what is thought leadership and who constitutes being a leader of thought? Here are three quick tips to get your thought leadership marketing in motion. Time to put them to work for your marketing team.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 10, 2017

In a recent SHIFT blog , our VP of Marketing Tech, Chris Penn, answered the question ‘what is thought leadership?’. PR helps to communicate compelling stories to improve brand awareness, and by integrating thought leadership, it may help to generate qualified leads. Theresa Masnik. Account Manager.

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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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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Studies show the average email marketing campaign has a 20% open rate and 2% CTR. Top metrics for marcom and PR vary The top metric for marketing communication (marcom) leaders is leads generated while the top metric for PR is stories placed. Sword and the Script is a boutique B2B marketing, PR and communications consultancy.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2024

The roles being unveiled now have sales enablement or marketing operations bent. In other words, rather than a vehicle for upper management to stay in touch with employees, these roles are evolving into consultative positions that help other employees understand the market, the buyer and get the message right.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 30, 2024

With calls for recession waxing and waning, PR strategies like thought leadership become more and more important. Research shows that 44% of decision-makers become less receptive to sales calls and traditional marketing during economic downturns. Do we have access to your senior leadership?

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Onclusive

MAY 4, 2020

Marketing strategies are being altered and advertising budgets are being slashed. That is why PR is the one function within the marketing organization that is positioned to step up, take a leadership position and have the greatest impact on company reputation during this period.

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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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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Content marketing Creating high-quality, informative content that answers common voice search queries can position a company or their leader as an industry expert and increase its chances of being featured in voice search results. FAQ pages, for example, are very useful.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2024

The leadership team here at Crenshaw Communications, a Mod Op company, has taken the time to investigate the emerging trends to expect for 2024. Dorothy Crenshaw expects to see new tools that go farther – into predictive intelligence, search, and training for PR and marketing teams. One example?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 27, 2022

For example, if your brand just put out a report with interesting stats, the information can be turned into engaging graphics or charts to engage not only customers, but journalists. Brands can also use social media channels to share thought leadership insights. Email marketing connects the dots. Who says email is dead?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 30, 2022

C-level thought leadership, driven by major media and conference speaking opportunities for senior leaders, sends a compelling message to employees and prospective recruits. In a candidate-driven market, culture matters. Most tech PR campaigns, for example, focus on innovative products.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Last week, on Tuesday, I showed up to teach my social media/digital marketing class at the University of Minnesota. The post 90% of success is just showing up: 3 recent examples first appeared on Arik Hanson. Unfortunately, only 11 people showed up. There are 34 kids in the class.

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