Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

58% spending more time researching products before making purchasing decisions; social media has become increasingly important in B2B marketing The consumerization of business technology is probably one of the biggest driving forces in the development of B2B software. Using people’s names in marketing email (i.e.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

While generative AI is enjoying all the limelight recently there many different varieties of AI in use in PR software already. I reached out to a dozen or so PR software solution providers by email to ask for their perspective – and details some their answers below. Your marketing team will own the PR activities.”

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Software Pitching Analysis Community 131

Flack's Revenge

MARCH 9, 2021

Here is the third installment in my series about maximizing “secret sauce” in tech marketing. If your secret sauce is so special, and can really make your company a market beater, why not give it a name? Sure, it starts with great technology, of the proverbial disruptive variety. To Brand or Not to Brand.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 8, 2022

The PR software market has evolved to the point there are more considerations than just the features and functions. What I mean by that is most PR software tools on the market will do 80-90% of what you want. The best vendors in any market are continuously trying to improve the product first because that drives margins.

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Software Corporate Publicity Technology 81

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for a publicly-traded company that developed and sold software to the PR market. Did you know?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Prowly estimates (rival) PR software pricing; Access Intelligence acquires Isentia; Talkwalker acquires Reviewbox; plus mentions and content picks. Here’s the monthly PR Tech Sum rounding news and links from the world of PR technology. Estimating PR software pricing. And yet here we are. Labor Day is done. Content picks.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Onclusive adds features, becomes all-in-one PR software tool; Agility PR Solutions adds AI; Q4 releases IR event hosting tool; an odd rebrand by SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal; Intrado rebrands as Notified; Meltwater Q2 earnings. Here’s the monthly PR Tech Sum rounding news and links from the world of PR technology.

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Software Tools Print Technology 152

Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 13, 2021

New research from software marketplace G2 reveals signs of accelerated technology adoption, shorter buying cycles, and a shift away from traditional resources. The post New G2 study finds software buyers will spend more in 2022, with 86% turning to peer reviews appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 14, 2023

Former PR agency leader is a building software product focused on improving PR pitches with two different types of artificial intelligence I’ve started to use ChatGPT to rewrite and suggest alternate headlines. I kept thinking about this example as Aaron Kwittken demoed the software his company, PRophet , is developing.

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Cision

MARCH 10, 2021

How to make the case for investing in better PR technology.

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Critical Mention

MARCH 19, 2021

NEW YORK — Zack Jenkins, Senior Vice President of Sales and Account Management at Critical Mention—the leading all-in-one media monitoring and intelligence platform—has been named to The Software Report’s list of The Top 25 Software Sales Executives of 2021.

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Software Energy Technology Internal 78

Onclusive

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If you’ve ever evaluated PR agencies or communications technology providers, you have likely considered how their solutions compare to each other and how they fit your needs. Why technology ROI matters. But have you also looked at their potential Return on Investment, or ROI?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 11, 2023

PR software providers Notified (Globe Newswire), Propel, Muck Rack, Presspage and PRophet add generative AI to their platforms, joining Agility and Burrelles PR pros should keep an open mind about AI and how it can help them do their job. AI input optimization could evolve into a marketing specialization in the same way SEO did.

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Software Company Pitching Training 78

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While “Generative AI gets much attention” in PR circles, “reductive AI is more interesting and powerful” Stephen Waddington recently published a new book – #PRstack: AI tools for marketing, media and public relations – on the use of generative AI in public relations.

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Software Tools Ethics Privacy 140

Cision

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If you answered “no” to either question, you may be missing a media monitoring software in your communication strategy, or underutilizing your current platform. Does your media monitoring software do all of this? To accomplish these tasks you need media monitoring technology that delivers.

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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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Sword and the Script

JULY 7, 2020

A handful of companies that make software for public relations are staking a claim on the term. Managing customer relationships is a business process that’s virtually impossible to perform at scale without technology, even as the term CRM has become synonymous with the technology. Welcome to the second half of 2020!

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Technology Publicity Software Print 122

Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Last week, we reviewed the ROI rankings of the top media monitoring and PR analytics software solutions, including Onclusive, Meltwater, Cision and Muck Rack, based on the G2 Crowd 2021 report. Global Marketing Strategy, IFAW. The G2 Crowd Report for User Satisfaction Ratings is one of the most trusted voices in the industry.

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Media Comparison Software Enterprise 370

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The world of marketing and PR evolves rapidly. It’s critical to keep up with the latest trends, technologies, and methodologies so that your company doesn’t miss opportunities and get left behind. . Browse this curated list and then book tickets to kick off your best year of marketing and PR yet! Dates: Feb 25 – 26, 2020.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 9, 2021

Zach Cutler says he built a $1 million PR agency by age 28 and when he couldn’t find a PR software product for managing the work that he liked, he started developing one. The idea that PR software is like customer relationship management (CRM) for public relations has been around for a while.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 2, 2024

The content readers viewed the most were largely about the topics of generative AI in PR and marketing – with a touch of Twitter and a sprinkle of marketing budgets In 2008 I came home from a long deployment to find the PR and marketing world had changed. Blogs were raging. Social media was blossoming.

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Blogging Software B2B Survey 113

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

Talkwalker hired a new CEO and new CMO in late 2022 and appears to have done a round of layoffs in sales and marketing, according to multiple social media updates I’ve observed. In April, it acquired Klear , an Israeli influencer marketing platform for $17.8 Email tools will offer AI to help write emails.

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Software Case Study Technology Tools 78

Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The following is a post from Cision’s new Chief Marketing Officer, Chris Lynch. I hopped the proverbial fence from journalist to vendor to work in marketing. In the process, I became a software product nerd. Ok, so those were the personal reasons I came to lead Cision’s marketing team.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

In the rapidly evolving automotive and mobility industry, staying ahead of the curve is essential for success, especially for newer entrants in this space offering software-defined vehicle tech, V2X, connectivity, lidar and other sensor and processing technologies for ADAS, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, and shared vehicles.

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Automotive Mobile Technology Trade Shows 72

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 5, 2023

million seed round Twice in my career, I’ve worked for companies that acquired several software companies with the intent of mashing them together. In the PR software space, I think we have yet to see that – period. LLMs are at the heart of generative AI technology. Both companies had plans that looked good to go on paper.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2023

BuzzSumo edges into PR with journalist database for SMBs; Poppulo adds generative AI for internal comms; why don’t PR software vendors follow basic PR standard practices? I believe the generative AI is based on OpenAI technology, which makes ChatGPT. Why do vendors in PR skip this part? Onward with this month’s PR tech sum.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Marketing automation software is an integral component within an organization’s tech stack, as it supports core business goals, such as optimized marketing and sales alignment, improved lead-to-sale conversion and an enhanced customer experience. Technology Marketing Sales Alignment'

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Software Marketing Technology 78

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 28, 2020

The media contacts section works completely differently than any other solution that I’ve seen on the market. A search of several review sites – G2, Capterra, TrustRadius and Software Advice – did not produce any reviews at the time of this writing. PR technology trails, by a long shot, the technology capabilities offered to marketing.

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Software Tools Publicity System 113

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

SEO vendor that dabbles in PR technology buys an audience and adds an influencer to their team. It doesn’t happen often, but we’ve seen software companies in the PR space run this play before. In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Case in point?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The trends of electrified, connected, autonomous and shared vehicles are rapidly changing the game … not only for automakers but also for the entire vehicle technology supply chain ecosystem. Automakers are in it for the long haul, and they want suppliers that will be able to partner with them and to stand behind their technologies for years.

Automotive 68

Automotive Technology Engineering Trade Shows 68

Agility PR Solutions

APRIL 19, 2021

Much changed in 2020 about the way marketers worked, from the technology they used to the frequency with which they visited company offices. The post Digital marketers expect to double messaging volume by 2024 appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. B2C […]. B2C […].

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B2C Marketing Software Technology 86

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2023

Crenshaw Communications, an award-winning B2B PR firm representing high-growth technology companies and leading ad tech brands, recently welcomed former ad tech journalist Mez Ambachew and PR agency professional Elana Warshavsky to the team. Before Adweek, she served as a media technology analyst at Digitas North America.

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Agency Communications B2B Enterprise 156

PRSay

MAY 18, 2023

One year later, many of us are grappling with the implications of artificial intelligence technology that can search the internet, write text, edit images, create videos and speak in lifelike voices. Software platforms now providing these services include ChatGPT, GPT-4, Synthesia, ElevenLabs’ Prime Voice AI and BeFunky.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 30, 2019

Marketing technology (martech) is not marketing. Or consider these comparisons: Graphic design software is not creativity. So, where did this idea – that martech is marketing – originate. Because if martech is marketing, then businesses merely need to buy some technology. Martech is not marketing.

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Marketing Comparison Enterprise Technology 103

Shift Communications

MARCH 28, 2016

At the recent MarTech San Francisco conference, Scott Brinker revealed the marketing technology stacks of 41 different companies. Where does public relations fit into the marketing technology landscape? Everywhere and nowhere, because public relations is not a technology. Public relations isn’t a technology.

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Technology Publicity Marketing Software 60

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So we may ask, “What’s different about Typical Software Co.?” We represented a technology company that had almost closed after its preloaded audiobook business failed to catch on with readers. Not every sector is exciting or accessible, especially in B2B technology. Delve into market research data.

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