Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Annual marketing salary survey shows remote interviews and shorter hiring process have become the norm as a consequence of the pandemic The was a cartoon going around the business world a few weeks ago that asked “who led the digital transformation in your company?” The survey polled, 2,400 senior managers (U.S.) Try our services.

Survey 99

Survey Trends Marketing Creativity 99

Sword and the Script

APRIL 16, 2024

Those companies that are in the early stages of a startup building a product stand to gain “the greatest” valuation benefit from marketing About half (45%) of all B2B technology startups make no effort to market their products. B2B technology products tend to be complex. B2B technology products tend to be complex.

B2B 130

B2B Study Marketing Education 130

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve spent the past few weeks breaking down the survey results from The 5th Annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey for 2022 (see these posts covering the executive summary , top challenges , organizational trust in media and views on media bias ). So says a 2022 survey conducted by PRWeek for ICR.

Survey 81

Survey Corporate Communications Financial 81

Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2019

But a new survey out of the Center for Public Relations at USC Annenberg shows that isn’t happening among some PR pros and corporate communicators. The annual survey polled 210 CEOs, 1,583 PR professionals and 378 students with an eclectic mix of questions to develop the 2019 Global Communications Report.

Technology 125

Technology Study Communications Survey 125

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The “Brand Finance Investment Analyst Survey” polled more than 200 financial analysts who “cover publicly listed companies in the United States and United Kingdom.” The survey had three findings that stood out to me: 1. This is cited ahead of leadership quality (76%) and technological innovation (72%).” The purpose?

Financial 141

Financial Marketing Survey B2B 141

Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2021

Great content lies at the heart of everything communications does, including employee and leadership communications and PR. One of the sources of this information is media monitoring and social listening technology. Elizabeth Barrett. VP Research, Gartner. What type of content are they interested in, and what worked in the past?

Strategy 418

Strategy Survey Automotive Data 418

PRSay

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the journalism profession faces threats from artificial intelligence, misinformation and the collapse of business models that support journalism, the next generation of journalists nonetheless feels optimistic and wants to bring truth, justice and integrity to their work, a new survey suggests.

Journalism 158

Journalism Real Estate Survey Report 158

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 3, 2021

PR pros and comms teams should consider developments in relevant international regions as a way to expand thought leadership for company executives. It’s always great to generate coverage within top-tier technology publications like TechCrunch or VentureBeat. Don’t fear the vertical. Use data and assets — or create your own.

Retail 368

Retail Media B2B Pitching 368

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Technological Issues One of the foremost barriers to effective internal communications is the technological gap within organizations. Inadequate technology can impede internal comms through several avenues. Providing comprehensive user training and support ensures maximum adoption and proficiency with the chosen technology.

Internal 96

Internal International Communications Employee 96

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I noticed some as I was reviewing the data from the latest CMO Survey. The CMO Survey concluded the role of marketing has broadened in the last five years. Indeed, the senior marketers that took the survey said as much. It says that two-thirds of marketing shops have a leadership role in just one function: promotion.

Survey 96

Survey Marketing Product Launch Analytics 96

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

The 2018 State of the Media report by Cision is an annual survey of reporters that offers some insight. The company maintains and sells access to an online media contact database, which serves as the population from which the survey sample is drawn. The survey suggests reporter views of the top challenges they face is splintered.

Survey 101

Survey Report Media B2B 101

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I recently read an account by an executive summarizing his experience buying a marketing technology (martech) tool. Yet cybersecurity is emerging as a key point of differentiation according to a new survey by Treasure Data. The findings remind me of a trend I’ve seen in other technology sectors. 38% said budget.

Survey 111

Survey Software Technology Tools 111

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Moreover, three recent surveys of CMOs suggests it has practical applications as budgets, which on the whole have grown over the last few years, will continue to grow. Here are the cliff notes to each of those three surveys. The CMO Survey hasn’t reported growth of less than 5% since late 2015. of company revenues.

Survey 85

Survey Marketing Exercises Study 85

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The CMO Survey: 9.2% of revenue invested in marketing The CMO Survey comes out twice a year in the spring and fall. Overall, the survey puts the average marketing budget at 9.2% About 40% of respondents (N = ~126) to this edition of the survey are from B2B product companies. Gartner: 9.1%

B2B 136

B2B Survey Marketing B2C 136

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 8, 2016

At SHIFT we are constantly digging into media and talking to reporters to understand general themes for all types of industries from technology to consumer products. That’s where a survey can come in. What can a survey do for your brand? Here’s a snapshot of the survey goals and outcomes. The story was grim for workers.

Survey 60

Survey Data Brand Branding 60

Sword and the Script

MARCH 7, 2017

Those are some of the conclusions drawn from the annual PRWeek 2017 Salary Survey which suggests salaries for skilled PR pros remain strong. The survey found the median salary for PR professionals was $91,000, which is a small drop compared to the median salary reported in 2016 survey of $92,125.* Technology: $124,500.

Survey 71

Survey Corporate Comparison Financial 71

NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

There is an opportunity for CEOs to lead on innovation Though the study is a long-term tracker in part, a significant portion of the survey is devoted to a topic of interest for the team, and this year that was innovation. This question informed much of their work in the second part of the survey. Source: Trust Barometer, p.35

Government 88

Government Survey Technology Ethics 88

Sword and the Script

JUNE 8, 2019

How many people think of technology when they hear the word innovation ? While technology can certainly change how we do marketing, it’s still reliant on creative inputs. Technology and innovation may be intertwined, but marketer leaders say their responsibility for both have grown. I’d imagine it most.

Creativity 78

Creativity Technology Marketing Web 78

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 23, 2024

If this report is to be believed, there are a whole lot of B2B technology vendors that losing deals they never even knew existed. Thought leadership influences the buying process Vendors have to influence the buying process sooner and further upstream. This is where good thought leadership can make a difference.

B2B 102

B2B Study Company Leadership 102

Sword and the Script

MAY 18, 2021

That’s according to a survey of 750 communicators tallied up in the 2021 Communications Benchmark Report by Ragan Communications. According to a survey, comms professionals gave themselves good grades. This mirrors the sentiment in a separate survey that quantified a self-assessment by CMOs. click image for higher resolution).

Study 164

Study Communications Survey Pitching 164

Sword and the Script

MAY 8, 2018

That’s according to the newest edition of The CMO Survey , a semiannual study spawned out of Duke University’s business school. It’s a survey I’ve followed for several years as I usually find the benchmarks, particularly around marketing budgets, useful. In the technology vertical, budget growth is expected to grow even more – to 12.4%

Survey 61

Survey B2B Marketing Mobile 61

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Business must now be the stabilizing force delivering tangible action and results on society’s most critical issues…Societal leadership is now a core function of business.”. Further, when you introduce concepts like quality, convenience, and price to the survey question, the grandiose idea of business as this purveyor of utopia evaporates.

B2B 110

B2B Government Ethics Survey 110

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

90% of comms pros surveyed say their work has changed some, and of those, 50% say communications work has changed significantly. That’s according to The 5th Annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey for 2022 , which polled 483 communications professionals – mostly in the US. in an open-ended follow-up question. Jack of all trades.

Communications 119

Communications Crisis Internal International 119

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

A recent survey conducted by Ned Lundquist’s Job of the Week (JOTW) in partnership with Sword and the Script Media, LLC sought to find out the true status of our industry. And 63% of survey respondents cited budget as their top challenge – even as business and employers expected them to do more with a rapidly increasing list of things to do.

Survey 74

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

Reputation Us

JUNE 15, 2022

Several studies conducted in the past few years have sought to identify what business issues are keeping CEOs up at night the most One group, Serenity in Leadership interviewed global business leaders across different business sectors earlier this year and found eleven general uncertainties concerning the C-suite. . Pervading uncertainty.

Reputation 146

Reputation Crisis Nonprofit Training 146

PRSay

JANUARY 29, 2018

We are in an age with exogenous challenges, such as social and political complexity, forceful and rapid shifts in the dynamics of business and economics, technological and media disruption, and financial constraints. Yet as we look at 2018 — and the years to come — there is much that remains to be done.

Survey 104

Survey Ethics Leadership Financial 104

Wadds Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The public relations profession will continue to need human skills such as emotional intelligence, ethical reasoning and strategic judgement that technology cannot replicate. The public relations profession is slowly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools which have the potential to work smarter and more effectively.

Publicity 126

Publicity Ethics Government Policies 126

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 7, 2021

This was not new technology and the name was virtually unknown in the States. We recognized that the launch alone was not going to make much of a splash, so we created a survey around retailers and their fear of being outpriced by Amazon. The data was the perfect companion to the launch story! How do PR pros do this?

Agency 353

Agency Interviews Pitching Retail 353

Sword and the Script

MAY 17, 2022

That analysis is how the research firm sets up a paper that compares the results of several surveys over time. Forrester conducted a “buyer’s survey” in the years 2017, 2019 and 2021. Each survey polled at least 800 people making B2B purchases. The comparison over time illustrates how the buying process in B2B is changing.

B2B 111

B2B Study Survey Comparison 111

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 8, 2023

SaaS companies have an average of 38 active cases studies that are between 500-1,000 words in both HTML and PDF format; here’s how they incentives customers, sales and customer success to solicit new case studies Case studies are a pillar of B2B marketing, particularly in technology circles like software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Case Study 120

Case Study Study Company B2B 120

PRSay

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As technology has evolved and offered us as practitioners in the PR profession new ways of doing our work, communications should be getting easier and more engaging. In partnership with PRSA, APPrise Mobile recently conducted research and published a report regarding the use of technology in the PR and communications industry.

Technology 66

Technology Communications Mobile Internal 66

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Business and tech media in particular have an ongoing appetite for research, studies and surveys. For leading data management platform Lotame , for example, their data and third-party surveys are both important, and they often work together. It’s pull marketing to promote a sense of thought leadership. This is a mistake.

B2B 147

B2B Data Retail Survey 147

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 18, 2021

Over the past several years, the medium has grown in popularity along with the acceleration of mobile technology. Thought leadership events keep on giving. The most popular alternative to the “traditional” media placement is unquestionably the podcast. That’s why podcasts should be on every media pitch list.

Case Study 390

Case Study B2B Study Interviews 390

Landis PR

JANUARY 30, 2024

With calls for recession waxing and waning, PR strategies like thought leadership become more and more important. Instead, proactive marketers turn to thought leadership to drive revenue and acquire new business. That example is less quantifiable, but brand recognition also can be measured through polling and surveys.

Leadership 105

Leadership SEO Measurement Reputation 105

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 2, 2023

A recent Harris survey found that 40% of workers familiar with ChatGPT are concerned that the AI-powered chatbot will replace them. Input text-to-video technology – artificial intelligence that creates videos automatically from written or typed text. Video content is often more engaging and memorable than text or images alone.

Retail 156

Retail Video Pitching Technology 156

PRSay

AUGUST 8, 2023

Marketing and communications professionals have been embracing and experimenting with artificial intelligence to generate content, a new survey by The Conference Board and Ragan Communications finds. Among marketers and communicators surveyed, 82% expect their productivity to improve as they adopt AI further.

Study 78

Study Communications Conference Survey 78

Sword and the Script

JUNE 27, 2020

Several surveys offer a glimpse into the collective thinking of the public relations community – and that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links (UML). About: The survey results were first published in mid-March 2020 – just a few days before the WHO declared the Coronavirus a pandemic. Give our services a try.

Study 131

Study Publicity Survey Internal 131