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A PR Wish List For Holiday 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We typically interview the prospect and based on the outcome of the discussion, gauge the odds of winning the business, determine how to budget and staff for the pitch and roll the dice on a positive outcome. Innovative ways to work with ad, marketing, and SEO partners. Yet this isn’t always the case.

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Why Some B2B Tech Companies Fail at Marketing [guest post]

Sword and the Script

The buyer personas exercise helps you get into the minds of your buyers and understand their background, challenges, motivations and objections. To build a comprehensive profile of your buyer, talk to your sales team, interview current customers and research people on LinkedIn who match your ideal buyer. Conversion points.

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How to Use Multimedia For Better PR Campaigns

Cision

Furthermore, a 2016 interview with the Associated Press revealed most major news outlets will not run a text-only story. A helpful exercise is to put yourself in the shoes of a journalist. As consumers gravitate towards multimedia content — multimedia is also the driving force behind the content the media publishes.

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Create a Content Hub that Drives PR Results

Cision

It also increases your SEO and search rankings, which brings those prospects directly to you. If not, complete the following exercise: Write down all of the questions you are asked in new business—aka sales—meetings. You don’t need it for this exercise.). This may sound like a tall order to fill. I promise you can do it.

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Use This Venn Diagram to Determine Your Content Strategy Pillars

Contently - Strategy

Many marketers I’ve worked with struggle to come up with the right answer, and I’ve developed a dozen different exercises to help them figure it out. For Moz, it’s SEO. We supplement those with empathetic interviews to understand our audience at a deeper level. These are the reasons your brand exists.

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Research for PR Pros on B2B Messaging, Pitches and Clickbait [UML]

Sword and the Script

Messaging ought to be an exhausting mental exercise – and one that needs refreshing from time-to-time. Don’t miss these posts: How PR can Put the Search Back in SEO [UML]. The output is clarity of mission, vision, similarities and differences. Every action a business takes or communicates ought to trace back to those messages.

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A Three Week Check-In

Waxing UnLyrical

For me, this means making some form of exercise a regular part of my day, whatever shape that exercise takes, getting enough rest, and eating better food… which means I have to cook more, and cook regularly. Three weeks into 2011, how am I doing?