PRSay

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

But one surefire way to stand out from your competition is with excellent video storytelling. I’ve spent more than 20 years honing video storytelling skills with my team at MediaSource. So when you’re considering video storytelling, here are four key steps, from strategy to assessment: 1. Evaluation.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 30, 2023

Over the years, I’ve observed a trend with startling regularity: Many B2B tech companies, regardless of their size or stature, don’t operate with a fixed marketing plan in place. Given this scenario, a common refrain from many PR firms is, “Give us your marketing plan, and we’ll provide you with a PR strategy.”

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Cision

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Over the past decade, the lines between PR and marketing have blurred. PR professionals aim to create more content and drive visibility beyond earned media, and marketers place more of an emphasis on earned and influencer coverage. Read on to learn how PR and marketing professionals can better blend the lines to drive better outcomes.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. They both are storytellers. Sherry, before your agency career, you worked as a reporter for trade publications as well as in local NYC TV news.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The Broadcast2World report says more B2B companies are pledging marketing budgets to animation videos with an entertainment and educational mix, as opposed to the previously dominant educational-only approach. Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories that you tell.” ~ Seth Godin. .

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Yet that’s the central responsibility of the creative marketer – to convert the uninteresting into something interesting. Even in B2B technology, marketers will find better success focusing on story in which the prospect sees themselves. And storytelling in B2B marketing is the theme for this weeks’ Unscripted Marketing links [UML].

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The Proactive Report

APRIL 27, 2015

Don’t miss tomorrow’s Proactive Report interview with David Berkowitz, AdAge columnist and CMO of MRY. Here’s a sneak peek – I’ll be asking him questions about storytelling and why brands should rather be doing what he calls story making with customers. REGISTER HERE. Follow me on Twitter.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2024

Dorothy Crenshaw expects to see new tools that go farther – into predictive intelligence, search, and training for PR and marketing teams. To engage younger audiences on these platforms, she expects B2B marketers will be taking lessons from their B2C peers. And he sees PR teams getting more involved in brand safety. One example?

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Landis PR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The 2019 Pew Research Center report on social media use in the United States showed that 72 percent of American adults use some form of social media. From brand storytelling to new commerce opportunities, social channels offer companies an unmatched opportunity to reach and engage consumers. Is it marketing? Communications?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 9, 2022

In B2B PR, you come across different audience segments, but the three main audience groups typically are: stakeholders, customers and reporters. A private company or startup wanting to catch investor attention has different objectives than a public company looking to increase their customer base and market share.

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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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Communications Conversations

JUNE 18, 2020

But, it’s also changed how social media marketing is working–in quite a big way. However, even with these big changes in the first half of 2020, many social media marketers seem to still be working from the 2015 social media playbook. It’s become much more one-way in the form of “content marketing.”

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 20, 2019

In most cases, marketers are creative sorts. We are communicators and storytellers, strategists and promoters. Yet here we are, marketing in the digital age, where everything we do is trackable and we are without want for performance data. 4 Ways to Automate Reporting. So what are we to do? Custom Alerts. Dashboards.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 23, 2024

All these years later, a new report by 6sense, penned largely by a former Forrester analyst, has come to the same conclusion: when buyers first contact a seller, they are “69% of the way through a buying cycle.” The report did not state a margin of error that I observed but it did say the report had a confidence interval of 95%.

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Barokas

MAY 22, 2019

To do this, we must remember that the storyteller is often just as important as the stories themselves. Customers are an amazing resource for this type of authentic storytelling. The concept of marketing customer success is heavily backed by data. The post Storytelling Isn’t Just for Kids.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Compelling storytelling is an incredibly powerful way to communicate with your target audience. Digital storytelling is at the top of the list of communication trends that PR executives believe will dominate in the next five years. Example: How Cotopaxi leveraged storytelling to sell its brand. Until next time! Critical Mention.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 9, 2022

Over six sessions from February to July we want to explore pitching, newsjacking, data storytelling, the relationship between owned and earned media, promoting coverage, integrated marketing, and reporting and measurement. Reporting on results and securing budget for future activity.

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Barokas

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The largest event of its kind in North America, Denver Startup Week unites the best in tech, design, DIY, marketing and leadership to inspire founders, developers, designers, marketers, makers and everyone in between. Today’s storytelling relies on data to validate a company, its products, or even an entire industry.

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Onclusive

MARCH 6, 2019

We have all been on the front lines of the convergence of marketing and communications, but the transformation has not been without challenges: cultural challenges, organizational design challenges and measurement challenges. We could do marketing mix optimizations and even ROI, but PR was always on the outside of that.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 28, 2023

The sales tech market is incredibly hot. Here are three main barriers to consider: A limited media universe There is a glaringly obvious shortage of traditional “sales-focused” reporters and publications for earned media. Then there are B2B tech sites like DemandGen Report which cover sales tech alongside other areas like martech.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

PR professionals should create thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engage with reporters on social media, send swag (when appropriate), maintain relevant media lists, and manage all follow-through with reporters and journalists. Media Measurement Reporting on established metrics isn’t enough today. Relationship building takes time.

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Masters in Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As Harrison Monarth writes in The Harvard Business Review : Storytelling evokes a strong neurological response. Here's why storytelling is such a powerful tool: The Power of Synchronicity. Storytelling creates a certain synchronicity between the teller and the listener. Storytelling is also a powerful tool for persuasion.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2019

What about conversions from website visits, or deals influenced by credible articles or analyst reports? Does good PR create more prospects at the top of the marketing funnel? ” Earned media doesn’t work as consistently as email marketing or paid media. Storytelling engages, influence persuades.

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The Proactive Report

APRIL 28, 2015

David Berkowitz, CMO of the digital agency MRY in New York City, has a different idea: he sees storytelling as just another broadcast activity, when in fact, the power of story lies in the response you evoke in the audience. Decentralized distribution: Brand storytelling often aims to contain the content where it can be controlled.

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 2, 2019

Our recent blog covering the relationship between SEO and PR shared the good news that content marketing remains a valid and successful method of supporting search engine ranking. With content ranging from blogs to podcasts to video, what qualifies as the most effective content marketing these days? And what about us?

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 23, 2019

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2019 report is a monster. Meeker has published her annual report on the state of the internet. The report is packed with insights on internet adoption, devices and platforms; the internet ad market; content formats; and observations on disruptive business models and markets.

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Cision

MAY 25, 2017

While the event covered a wide range of topics, one common theme was the shifting balance of the marketing mix between paid, earned and owned media. The study, The End of Advertising As We Know It , warned marketers that billions of dollars were going to be moved out of traditional advertising in 2017. Why is this?

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

PR professionals are expected to create thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engage with reporters on social media, send swag (when appropriate), maintain relevant media lists, and manage all follow-through with reporters and journalists. PR Reporting. Reporting on established metrics isn’t enough today. Media Measurement.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Storytelling: Telling a story that resonates with your target market is essential if you want to cut through the noise online. Reporters and media are looking for content and TikTok is providing it. So, it is no wonder that 89 percent of marketing professionals report using videos as a marketing tool.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Marketers need to] adapt. Marketing Land.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Another 20% said that they get their budget as part of the marketing budgeting process, and 15% review their PR metrics and results with the C-suite every quarter: In this blog post, we’ve covered the top five questions asked during our webinars. How do you use data and measurement to inform and shape your earned media strategy?

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The PR pro sends thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engages with reporters on social media, sends swag (when appropriate), maintains relevant media lists, and manages all follow-through with reporters and journalists. Reporting on established metrics isn’t enough today. Multimedia Development & Visual Storytelling.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

–the Future of Influencer Marketing.” ” I was curious, so I downloaded the full report and checked it out. After all, Traackr is a IRM (influencer relationship marketing) platform. But, the stats on who OWNS IM–that, to me, was the real nugget of the entire report. ” 16 percent. 16 PERCENT!

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Beyond PR

JUNE 29, 2017

While technology continues changing every industry I can think of, many communications and public relations professionals hold tight to the more poetic side of storytelling. There’s nothing wrong with holding on to the art of storytelling. The marketing department can be split into three types of media — paid, owned and earned.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 3, 2021

Historically, communicators have been focused on storytelling, media relations, crisis communications and other obvious aspects of the PR craft. Is your brand a startup or a new entrant that needs to establish itself in the marketplace, or is it focused on growing its market share in a mature market?

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Brand Branding Media Measurement 370

Stuart Bruce

MAY 29, 2015

Many PR professionals help companies and organisations to create annual reports, but despite improvements to make them more interesting they are still frequently just focused on financial data with everything else relegated to mere cosmetic additions. Attention and reputation boost from annual report. Annual report to customers.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 29, 2023

Now, in an emerging market, is the time for AI startups to kickstart a strategic AI-PR program, and mind the gap between industry and consumer awareness From mainstream media to trade press and corporate blogs, artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (genAI), in particular, seems to be everywhere. In fact, it is.

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