Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

October is typically a time of year with special urgency for many in marketing. To that end, I’ve poured over two surveys and re-visited a third to see what the wisdom the marketing crowds had to say about 2020 marketing budgets. 16% on marketing analytics. 16% on marketing analytics. “As of revenue to 10.5%

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 12, 2018

A well-researched speakers’ bureau can vault a little-known company into the media (and influencer) spotlight and help turn an established company into a market leader. Thought leader panels can yield a ton of useful content like white papers, videos, bylines, and blog posts. Seize the stage at conferences.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 26, 2016

Brand marketers often look to public relations to accomplish a great deal of “heavy lifting” in terms of creating awareness. Augmenting a sales and marketing effort. A good PR campaign is informed by and reflects messaging from marketing efforts but should never supplant those efforts.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2017

That’s my take on some of the data from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B lead gen report. Analysis: B2B marketing must develop its market. A different study that Chief Marketer reported found B2B organizations are slow to follow up with leads. As I say in the introduction above, marketing doesn’t work in isolation.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As new markets keep reaching out and needing PR representation, her team is ready to jump in. Having to switch gears so often was a great prelude to broader agency work where we work on various clients from 3D printing to beer. What are the most important PR and marketing tools for this kind of product? Simply: do they work?

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Cision

APRIL 28, 2015

It even issued full-page print ads showing how its salaries compared to average ones in the region. Try the outside-the-box content marketing ideas from our free white paper! The company followed its story with an aggressive PR campaign that invited employees to come back to the company. The public faced a trust issue.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

In my last post , I covered what for me was a particularly egregious misuse of marketing technology, when a bot promoted a white paper with “Fear and Loathing” in the title on the 10 th anniversary of the suicide of Hunter S. Most of all, for me, lazy marketing, is, at the end of the day, lazy PR. How very square.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 29, 2016

There is one commonality in business, regardless of your industry or market. It’s not surprising, then, that a new white paper from Outsell, Inc. shows the marketing methods rated most effective by B2B and B2C senior marketers are “pull” methods – methods that empower users to opt into their interactions with brands.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In their book, “Think Like a Freak,” Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt describe an group of marketers who assert that video advertising is four times as effective as their print advertising. The takeaway for communications and marketing professionals is that digital isn’t an end-all. Get our free white paper!

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If the world of SEO, inbound marketing, optimized content and landing pages thrills you as a marketer, then the following interview with Clint Danks is going to be your cup of Lipton. based Internet marketing agency that caught our eye with its savvy pay-per-click advertising management, Web development and digital design services.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Click here for our free content marketing white paper! . Horizon Trends: 3D printing, everyday use of drones, and strong artificial intelligence. Search engine optimization for content will become even more integral to media relations and PR and will emphasize metadata and schemas as much as the text and images.

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Polaris

MAY 19, 2015

A landing page is a webpage that encourages visitors to your site to download a digital offer (an eBook, tip sheet or white paper) or sign up for a free trial, a webinar or an e-newsletter—all in exchange for leaving their contact information. Stay up-to-date on the latest marketing news. 4: Keep the Form Short.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

The digital and content revolution has empowered customers to seize control of their path to purchase, forcing brands to retire their sledgehammer marketing tactics. Content Marketing is no Longer a Shiny New Object. Practiced by virtually all B2B and B2C organizations, content has quickly evolved into one of marketing’s staples.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). Marketing efforts are being automated, increasing the volume of messages and content being pushed out. Anything is Easy if You Try Hard Enough. “It Creative Commons CC0.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 20, 2016

If I asked you to list out which audiences are central to your PR and marketing efforts, I bet it’d be safe to surmise your current and prospective customers are at the top. Today’s PR and marketing teams are called on to quantify the quality of their pickup, and there are three key areas in which this can be done.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. His experience sitting on both sides of the table, and a conceivably comparable pressure for clicks, has given him a balanced and long-term perspective on business communications and marketing. 2) What hasn’t changed in marketing ? .

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Beyond PR

APRIL 5, 2016

If your PR and marketing strategy is going to deliver results, you have to answer questions like: Who is talking about our brand? In the white paper Justifying a Media Monitoring Service , we delve into all of the ways a comprehensive monitoring service can benefit your brand. What trends are impacting our industry?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 6, 2021

We know the power that social media campaigns can wield – from amplifying earned media that PR generates to marketing products. The splashiest influencer marketing campaigns tend to be in beauty, fashion, and other lifestyle sectors, but don’t count it out for B2B PR. Influencer marketing creates trust.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Offer to read them a white paper or press release, listen to a webinar, show them an infographic. Oh, and the storytelling graphic above is available in poster-size , if you’d like to print it out and hang it in your office as a reminder. Vice President, Marketing Technology. What do they want you to read?

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Cision

AUGUST 4, 2015

Cision tracked all the related social and electronic print media over a four-month period (January – April 2015) to uncover the focus, themes and perspectives on the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MRR) vaccine. Get the free “Social Media and the MMR Vaccine: Conversations and Controversy” white paper today!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

Actually the term originates with metal printing plates of prepared text that were distributed to local newspapers. In the weeds – Particularly in the world of high-tech PR, it is easy to get trapped deep in the details when writing PR content like a byline, white paper, or a media pitch.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 8, 2016

A terrific review, feature, or interview can be marketed affordably through social media channels – think sponsored Tweets, targeted Facebook ads, and even influential industry bloggers. Extract the single greatest insight from the talk and offer it to a key media outlet as an interview, bylined article or white paper.

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Cision

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Download our white paper. Sales leadership and marketing will have direct business outcomes information such as leads, opportunities and contract information. IT or marketing will have access to website data, including goal completions on landing pages and time-on-page. Effective PR Tracking Requires The Following.

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

How to Balance Ethics and Reality in #Influencer #Marketing [link] pic.twitter.com/BWn4QG8m0s. — Branding, Social Media, Marketing, PR & Professional Coach. 68% Of Marketers Want To Know How To Create Better Visual Content [link]. Content marketing influencer, social media marketing strategist & speaker.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We also know the flip side all too well where someone (perhaps a client or colleague) says too much and suffers the consequences in print. Download Cision’s white paper Brand Stewards Unite: Best Practices for Showcasing & Protecting Your Brand. .

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Journalistics

JULY 3, 2013

Most magazines (print and online) publish an editorial calendar – a detailed summary of the cover story, feature stories, or overall focus of each issue. Today, you most likely have email newsletters, white papers, a company blog, and a half dozen social media accounts that need content on a regular basis.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. In that rush of adrenaline to immediately promote your new e-book or video ASAP, content marketers risk the opportunity to be creative with promotion. Here's how: 33 Content Marketing Promotion Ideas.

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Presspage

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Though it should be obvious your PR practices play a vital role in promoting your organization and its products and services, you probably have a significantly harder time determining the actual value than your colleagues at the marketing and sales departments do. Number of downloads for offered white papers, videos, infographics etc.

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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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Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

A professional association in the online industry sent me a white paper -- via postal mail. It’s a printed piece (thick stock with an even thicker cover stock). What was the white paper about? To be clear, I don’t begrudge anyone from creating, and mailing, a printed piece. Reflex Marketing.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 2, 2017

Where can public relations and marketing pros like you learn the best and worst times and days of the week to post branded content to Facebook or Twitter? RazorSocial – This Ireland-based social media tool site masterminded by marketing superstar Ian Cleary, is nothing short of exceptional. 46 Marketing Tools to Consider For 2017 ”.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 7, 2016

When your brand is mapping its media outreach strategy, it’s easy to get hung up on the usual suspects: public relations, paid advertising, social media and content marketing. According to statistics from the American Society of News Editors, print news staffing fell by 65 percent from 2005-2015. Exhibit B: Also Starbucks.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This new trend some were calling content marketing had the hallmarks of a soft and subtle pitch. Media Changes mean PR needs Content Marketing. Credibility: Why Content Marketing also needs PR . The same is true in print. This means content marketing, should be at the center of all external communication.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The report is drawn from tracking four months’ worth of social and electronic print media related to the topic, from January to April 2015. Obviously you want your brand to be aligned with key influencers in your market. They have larger networks and more social media followers than most of us.

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